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Domination? You Decide. NHRA Pro-Stock is really the cream of the
crop when it comes to maximum dollar spent in the production of
horsepower. 7 digit budgets are the norm in this class so needless to say its where the cream of the crop
in tuning talent and only the best builders and designers
get near these cars. So obviously we're pretty
thrilled that we not only had one car in the final
round of competition but we had BOTH cars in the final
round of competition at this weeks NHRA event held
in Ennis Texas.
The first of those two racers is Tom
Hammonds. Tom has
been having a great season for an independent. So good
of a season in fact that he gave up his day job as
a Timberwolf basketball player to race NHRA Pro-Stock
full time. Well only two weeks have passed since
he made that move and he already finds himself in
the final round. WOW! The carburetor design that's being used by
Tom Hammonds car
is a collaboration between Pro-Systems and Billy Glidden
(Glidden Racing Engines 317.535.5225). To quote Hammonds crew chief Donnie Gardner. The PRO-SYSTEMS/GLIDDEN
collaboration has yielded us the fastest
carburetors we've ever tried or owned and we've
done a lot of both.
In the other lane is a man we call V. Gaines. Checkout this photo of his WILD rig:
This guy and his talented team are consistent qualifiers and are always a
threat when they pull to the line.
We started working
with Clyde at Western Motorsports in January of
last year and its been a great relationship. Congrats
to both teams for their final round berth, to V.
Gaines for his well deserved win and from all of us at
Pro-Systems, "its nice working with you guys".
What a ride in Reading! Troy and Jeg Coughlin continued their
dominating ways in NHRA Pro-Stock.
Jeg Coughlin setting the E.T. record at 6.750
and brother Troy (see photo) grabs
the win.
Jegs may
know mail-order, but they also know drag racing (www.jegs.com).
The Jegs team uses some of our very custom
built dominators to enhance their program.
Dennis Kline of Livernois
Motorsports (313.561.5500) has
one very quick single carb Top Dragster.
The Livernois
built entry uses one only a single carb (one of
our Nitrous Pro-IV designs) to go in the 6.6 second zone
at over 202 mph. Dennis is the recent winner at the
IHRA Autumn Nationals. Great job Dennis and all the
guys at Livernois for building a very solid and consistent
powerplant.
Ross Stomp switched to Nostalgia
Pro-Street for 2001. His
Midwest Engine Tech (815.464.9490) powered machine was
pretty much unbeatable all year long.
Scott at Midwest
Engine Tech developed a program that really hauled
the mail for Ross this year. Ross' car also equipped
with a Nitrous Pro-IV design, cleaned house at
the last event with yet another number one qualifying
position, Class record, Win and ultimately claimed
the Championship racing with the fan favorite National
Street Car Association (www.nscaracing.com).
Photo credits: Michael Ray of headsupreview.com - the ultimate source for street car
info on the net!
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Great job to all. We're still waiting for information from
all of you racers out there that keep promising clear jpegs and brief
paragraphs. Get them to us and we will get them in the next installment.
Thanks for the photos and updates.
Send your email and pictures to inthenews@pro-system.com . We'd love to hear from you.
Thanks for stopping in and
thanks for the making us your builder.
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