Cody Mallory/ Kyle Strickler

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Poor ole flyboy: he just can’t comprehend/read. Cody is helping Lanigan at Farmer City - not Strickler!

[T-MAC 39 FAN]

He tryn. Lets give a hand for ol flyboy 👏

[Rajflyboy]

What’s that have to do with Kyle trying to improve his program? 😀

[RapidRuss]

Fox, Scott ran Vic Hill for years. I dont think Cody was involved in any of those years though.

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RapidRuss

What years or time frame would that have been?
I could very well be wrong- just can’t remember that pairing. Danny Myers/Tommy Hicks era as crew chief-might be my memory going bad with age?

[Barbecueboy]

He tryn. Lets give a hand for ol flyboy 

Sounds like a bad 80s song....

[klemmabyna]

is it just me or does the pairing of lanigan and mallory seem like an extreme odd couple?

[zyoung25]

Fox, I know he ran Vic Hill power in the mid 00's. I can't remember what year it was he tried to run coil packs at a SAS race, I know that was a Hill engine too. I feel like he ran them up until about 12 or 13 when Roush Yates came in.

[dirtcrazy4u]

Cody and Lanigan won't last much longer than the BP deal. Suitcase Cody. I think the guy helps any team he has been with. He is who he is. Everybody up and down pit understands that. So the question becomes, you want to be running for wins or do you want to keep scratching your a** saying well I was fast 5 yrs ago. There is 1 team that should look at Cody for help. Big LUCAS decal across the front of the car. EPJ needs to tell stuckley we need his help.

[RapidRuss]

Fox, he was with Vic in early 2000's. Green and white cars. He was with Vic 4 or 5 good years before Roush made him the deal to go to the Roush/Yates program. Yes end of Myers, first of Hicks eras.

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Rapid and Zy

Thanks guys! I guess the part that’s confusing me is Vic opened his bussiness in 2000. He worked for Custom Race Engines prior to then (after leaving NASCAR) doing the heads. Scott ran Custom motors for many many years. The Jack Rousch Ford deal that I was referring to was not the Andy Durham gig.
It was a very long time ago when basically nobody ran Ford stuff in a dirt late model. Scott signed a 5 year contract with Ford and Rousch supplied some of the parts to Cornett Race Engines (Somerset, Ky) for assembly. After that deal ended-he went back to Custom for Ford engines. I remember at Kentucky Lake Speedway at a Hav-A-Tampa race, Larry Clark who owns Custom told me he could get more horsepower out of a Ford- but it cost a lot more money to do it. Nowadays most all builders do both Ford & Chevy.

[grt74]

Owens switched to Ohlins shocks along with switching to Vic Hill engines.

i always laugh at this one, no disrespect here either, the name of the shock doesn't matter, its whats in the shock that matters, and the support that comes with it from said company

[Necrosis]

If Vic's stuff was so good, Scott would've continued to run it. When you have a custom trophy made that says "The Hick Ville Engine Swap Champion- Tommy Hicks", that should tell you everything lol. To hear other people tell it, it's that Scott wanted free engines and Vic wouldn't oblige. That's false.Let's say a dog breeder sells 113 dogs in one year. If 81 of those dogs died in that first year, what would the public opinion of that breeder look like?As far as Cody goes... Yep, he's wicked good at making sheit go fast. What he fails to realize, is that the whole "tough guy a-hole" persona isn't being bought by anyone. All it does is show weakness; that he's obviously has a ton of trauma (self inflicted or otherwise) in his life, and that he's not able to man up and overcome that. It's like a toddler constantly throwing a fit, trying to compensate for blows to the ego, which just furthers that behavior. It doesn't make you look tough, it makes you look like an emotional wreck.

[LeafMaster41]

According to 10 things worth mentioning at the end of DOD article about Billy Franklin: Cody will be at Farmer City this weekend helping Viper Motorsports driver Darrel Lanigan. Team owner said if things go well- it could extend beyond Farmer City.

Nothing can help DL, he hasn't been much of a threat anywhere since the outlawing of gadgets and split birdcages.

[Crossbones]

Bloomquist ran Vic Hill engines for a good 7/8 years from early 2000s to about 2010.