After some battles early this season, I finally was able to put down a few full and semi-full passes at MAPerformance's race in Brainerd this past weekend. We had a fantastic time and the facilities were great along with a bunch of friendly people at and around the track. It was a long drive, but beautiful countryside up in northern Minnesota. We ended up scrambling to make some IHRA->NHRA transfer licensing passes and winning Q16 at the end of the day.

The Q16 class was a little thin, but there was an 8.0sec supra and an 8.2sec ford probe converted to RWD with a supra engine. Those were the boostwerx cars, we pitted next to them and they were a couple very cool guys. Unfortunately for them, their cages were only certified to 8.50's and the officials weren't bending on that rule. They both just tried to set their cars up to run 8.50's. I was the only car in the class legal to run down to 7.50's.

First qualifying pass was a 'moderate' licensing pass. I had a decent launch at 1.376, then a 5.556 1/8th at a new best 134.97mph, lifted at the 1000' and coasted to 8.608 at 144.60mph.

Second qualifying pass was next to the Probe. It was actually a damn good race! I cut a 0.196 light to his 0.308 and the rest of the timeslip read:
1.350 60'
3.655 330'
5.522 @ 136.14 1/8th
7.110 1000'
8.456 @ 166.60 1/4
He ran 8.598 at 161.32mph, we were within a couple car lengths through the traps.

Third qualifying I let off after I heard a funny noise just past the 1/8th. It turned out the inlet pipe to the turbo came off.
1.372 60'
3.680 330'
5.540 @ 136.33 1/8th
coasted to 9.232 @ 115mph

First eliminations pass I got to run the 8.5's-today Supra. It was a hell of a fun race. He wheelied badly, lifted, wheelied again and rode it out.
Supra----Me----Marker
0.104---0.206---R/T - he tree'd me
1.239---1.346---60' - his was on the rear tires
3.669---3.638---330' - new best for me
5.634---5.499---1/8th - new best for me
126.02--136.17--1/8th mph
7.313---7.080---1000' - new best for me
8.797---8.424---1/4 - new FWD gas, FWD mitsu, and DSM gas record
143.02--166.52--1/4 mph
MOV 0.2713

He drove the hell out of it and I was just watching him for both of the wheelies deciding if I wanted to stay in it or not depending on how straight he was going. He kept it damn straight, so I didn't lift. This was a hell of a fun pass.

Next pass was a bye, then the finals was against a high 9-sec GM-powered Porsche 928. I spun the tires a little harder through 2nd and ran 8.478 at 167.07mph on a 1.385 60'

The first few passes were at ~40psi and the last couple at ~42psi. I think I have a good bit more power on the table with a couple other changes that we will hopefully get a chance to test next weekend. Brainerd hooked decent, but with all the radials running all day it wasn't anywhere near as good as a track that is being prepped on a day where everybody is running slicks. I was spinning the tires badly and I know some more ET is still hiding there. I couldn't be happier with the consistency though!

I'm also now revving the stroker to 9200rpm. It is at or a little over 9100rpm through the traps, but I was having trouble keeping it from bumping the revlimiter at least once in 1st gear. That shift is by feel and it is really making some steam up there now, so combined with the mediocre track conditions keeping it off the limiter was a little tricky.

Have to thank the guys that have been helping me out:
FP and their killer cams - Forced Performance
Wiseco Pistons - Wiseco Pistons
Precision Industries Torque Converter - Precision Industries
Borg Warner/Airwerks 74mm S400SX3 74/83 turbo - Airwerks
Monkeywrench Racing - Monkeywrench Racing

There are a couple videos on youtube and I'll hopefully get some other videos from people at the track to make my own compilation of the event.

For now, here is the run against the Supra in first round eliminations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByUcmcMkLc

And the finals against the 928:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aS5sMbQD9g


Thanks for reading,

Kevin

 

Nice, real nice.

 

great passes man. that supra looks like it's about to go airborne, lol.

 

Is that car set-up for hot rod or ProFWD? Nice Job

 

Hot Rod, and well overweight for one power adder and all OEM driveline components at nearly 2200lbs.

 

nice. do you have any pictures of your car and setup

 

that must have been scary yet hell of a rush when you saw that Supra lift and you didnt know if to keep your foot to the floor or bail!!??? hahha PROPS for having the ***** to hold through it!

Bad *** times!

 

Congrats, that's moving

 

nice job Kevin. I was there watching you, and I also won my class FRO. I ran the black civic hatch with a best pass of 11.2@125.

Hopefully this event will happen next year and the people will start showing, cant beat the track and layout.

Congrats again, your car is badass.

 

Car ran very smooth, nice work!

 

Nice job man.

 

nice job guys. wish i could have been there

 

great times man

look forward to hearing more about the car

 

good job Kevin... thats movin!

BTW, that supra is pretty bad-*** as well

 

Car Looks very smooth. Good Job.....any pics of the car and motor?

 

Very nice job! Bet it feels good to get some good passes under your belt.

 

Congrats on the record man, very nice.

 

Yeah your car was fun to watch and I think I have video from up on top of the tower. Congrats on the records and your right about some of the nicest people being there, by far the best environment I have been around at a race.

 

Badass! pics of car and setup please

 

Bad *** Kevin, stoked to see you still out there holding it down for Michigan.



Ps the car is in silver now? i liked the white

 

Awesome Kevin-- great to see the car making passes and getting quicker. I just read the article in Race Tech International the other night-- good stuff.

 

Awesome! I've always like watching your car. Runs really good, and consistent!

 

Good job man, you got that car moving out!!!!

 

X2. Congrats on the new records! Hope to see you at Milan at the Mopar event this fall..

 

New video:

http://kigglyracing.com/media/Kiggly...ew Records.wmv