Still running on the 4000# wheel
I tried to post to the earlier thread but could not get thru.
No I am not ptodd in WV, he sounds like he is trying to help out start up crate racers, after all I thought this was a forum to post that information on. Anybody wanting to contact or reach me can do so easily via my PM on here. I have not seen a whole lot of new stuff to post to or answer.
Just wanted to thank all the folks that ran my stuff again last year and man did we have some great success. We still treat GM springs, retainers and locks and have not had a failure in almost 9 years and 5000+ sets, and yes my customers turn over 6800 regularly. During the summer we went up to Willy's Chassis dyno for a couplw days, and ran past 7500rpm, pretty easily. Once you eliminate valvetrain harmonics you would be amazed at what a 604 can do. Our oil filters are still a cheap and easy couple HP. As far as differences in the dyno's his was inertia loaded and once we got the thing loaded up pretty good the numbers were in the same ballpark as mine.
Anybody that wants to contact me direct can reach me at: mancinelli@att.net , been busy working on my inertia engine dyno, developing some new crate stuff for 2010 and working on some new drag race stuff. Hoping to get the site updated but my guy has gotten kidney failure and lost eyesight in one eye, Shoot out a prayer for "Wild Bill".
As far as crates at Dixie being competitive, I am sure some will be when the track allows for cars having 100 less HP being competitive with hi-HP limteds.
Bobby Dauderman won a SLM race with his crate last year and I am sure the conditions were right for it.