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Blackbird’s Florida adventure comes to an early end.

After loaning the dyno tested bullet that we intended for Gainesville to teammates down Bradenton last weekend, we discovered, having beaten the motor in the car for 20+ passes, we needed another.

The crew at BES burned the midnight oil to ship us a ‘frankenstein’ motor but we had no time to do our normal dyno tests. With lots of help from the great people and equipment of DSR, we installed it before Q1. The Q1 8.09 @ 168.66 was a ‘break in’, soft hit pass (1.24 60’, just 1.4 mph off 7.99 run). Sadly, Frankenstein’s life was short as the hodge podge of parts didn’t like the Q2 tune up.

The great news for the Mopar fans is that Leah should have a pretty fast ride Q3 and hopefully deep into the rounds through Sunday.

Time will tell and either way it goes, it certainly won’t be from any lack of trying or from any nefarious activity.

Should be an excellent Factory Stock Shootout with lots of strong players !

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Are all of the factory shootout cars slush boxes????

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Yes...or almost all.

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Bones
I have 2 feet of Pure Sunshine my man.
Do not miss the white stuff, trust me

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Any schedule for today ??

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Good morning all, they should be calling Stock to the lanes shortly. Its about 55 this morning, not as cold as it has been.

John DiBartolomeo from Drag Racing Edge Magazine www.dragracingedge.com sent us some cool actions shots.

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Ken has a better parking spot than me and didn't get the cool temperatures last night because of all the asphalt he is parked by. Its 48 degrees back here in the swamp, about 20 minutes ago some fog rolled in and they still haven't called us yet.

48 deg
92.9 % humidity
-72. DA
88. AA
47 GOW
.32 VP

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Nice light this morning James!

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Thanks Gump now I got to run your car and Chip. Like I told him it just means one of us will be racing on Sunday. That being said we might both be racing on Sunday, just got the notification that Stock is being pushed back till 6:30 today, we'll see.....