Live from the Auto Meter Northern Class Nationals II
 

Good morning. Time to start the "Live From" reporting thread to cover what will be a great weekend of Class Racing. The weather could not be better - clear skies forecasted for the entire weekend and cooler than normal temps. Be back soon as racing on Friday begins.

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Q1 for Stock and S/S is done - in fact -all 3 categories will be done by 10::30. Class racing is up next. I'll search out the sheets soon and do my best to correctly post them.

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Promoter Mike B was busily running around early this morning.

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A number of cool N/SS cars join us this year. Lots of Mopars
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Craig Dawson made the trip from Illinois to watch. Craig has run a number of class cars in the past including Ben Morgan's Max Wedge at the 93 Springnationals.

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I know there are still more to come, but was curious as to the car count.
Thanks.

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Round 1 of stock is complete - the sheets from round 1 are here. 39 S/S and 75 Stockers. But plenty of cars are still coming in.

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Mike,
How many NSS cars are on the premises?

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Round 1 of Stock and S/S are done as the schedule is moving quick today. With the number of cars that have come in this morning, they just called a clean up run. Hey. That sounds like a good Idea !

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Everybody's favorite D1 Tech Man Dave Ley is here

They just called round 2 of Stock class. Be back soon.

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The event shirts are hot sellers - XXXL already sold out

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This is the Plymouth S/S car that was stolen in Ohio recently and recovered.

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AH Adkins has been hot lately winning the IHRA National Events at US131 and Grand Bend.

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Final sheets after class.

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And now for today's Mopar Trivia audience participation question. Take a close look at the intake on this N/SS car. What is unique and what was it called?

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Mark - about 20 N/SS cars.

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Any videos or pics of class ?

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Post a picture of the event T-shirts,, we bought a bunch back there last year, and I'd like to see what I missed by staying home. Thanks, Mike.
Danny Durham

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I think the intake is called a sidewinder

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Thats the intake on the 235 hp 383 motor..just kidding....Long Ram......everything is unique, including the reverse air intake into the driver compartment.

Truly unique. What a piece.

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Eric - that's what I thought too. Not exactly correct. Look closer. Only about 50 of these were ever produced.

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That intake was called a sonoramic, my father had a 1960 plymouth fury 383 with that intake

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Those are short rams. They don't have the valley casting separating the ports all the way to the carb. Only the long rams had that.

Those appear to be the water heated version?

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We got winners. It's a short ram. Note how the individual runners at the head merge into a single runner half way to the carb. And that name is correct too.

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Back to the action at the track. The Quick 16 worked down to Garrett Ghezzi in his AMX vs Decker. In stock it's Chuck Beach vs Marthy Buth in his Turbo Mustang. Watching Buth run, it looks like he can run as far under as he wants. For the overall title its Buth vs Decker.

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The Quick 16 Stock Finalists were Marty Buth and Chuck Beach - with Buth advancing to race Ricky Decker. Garrett Ghezzi was the other S/S finalist. Buth seemed to be Ble to run as far under as he wanted.

Racing was stopped during the SS Quick 16 to scrape the track to be sure the bite was there.

A $50 Gamblers race was added this afternoon with 100% payback. The N/SS cars ran a gamblers race that was planned. About 30 cars ran the Gambers race.

Several people mentioned that the entire Saturday and Sunday program could be run to completion tomorrow. Have hot heard of any plans to do so

There doesn't seem to be the same support from non D3 racers like last years race.

George Yago's COPO was impressive and sporting a Ray Barton Engines decal.

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Wheres the coverage ?

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The video coverage is not live. It is being recorded and will be edited down and produced as RobzNeed4Speed always does. Good things come to those who wait!

I greatly appreciate Mike's updates here. We have been wide-open operating the event and taking care of our customers first and foremost. Just got home, slightly before 10pm.

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Comp Cams Dave Layer Memorial Quick 32
presented by Legacy HVAC and Derby City Covers
WIN Ricky Decker SS/IA '94 Camaro .020 9.438 (10.74) 138.13
R/U Marty Buth P/SA '84 Mustang .119 11.586 (12.95) 111.40
SEMIS Chuck Beach, Garrett Ghezzi

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RacingBlogz.com / Live Develop / Buckeye S/SS Series JUNIOR STOCK
WIN PJ North L/SA '88 Cutlass .025 12.566 (12.50) 103.95
R/U Tom Reese M/SA '91 Camaro 305 12.446 (12.51) 105.48
SEMIS: Randall Campbell, Eric Campolito

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N/SS Gamblers
WIN Casey Fauss-Johnson C/FX '65 Coronet .038 10.445 (9.75) 92.94
R/U Jamie Guy B/NSS '64 Savoy -.070 10.489 (10.50) 127.37
SEMIS: Doug Duell, Mick Allies

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S/SS Gamblers
WIN Aaron Allison GT/DA '98 Grand Am .030 10.098 (10.07) 129.03
R/U George Wright FGT/G '90 Probe .070 10.325 (10.30) 131.20
SEMIS: Dan Sayres, John Frech

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Quick update on the schedule. The main events scheduled for Sunday will be run first today. The combo will follow. Stay tuned for more. Time for Q3 right now.

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Stock is in the lanes and ready to start the day... 60 degrees and sunshine.. Forecast is low 80's and sun all day.. Will be a great day..

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Exactly. This was Chrysler's work at ram induction for racing in 1960-61 prior to the familiar one piece ram RB manifold introduced in 1962. The 'Sonoramic" engines were first introduced with 30" intake runners which gave a boost in torque and horsepower between 1800 and 3600 rpm and was effective on the street. The long runners inhibited engine breathing in higher rpm levels much like the Chevy TPI engines experience with their long intake runners, so the manifold were modified to remove the wall between the adjacent ports and reduce the port length to 15". These "short ram" manifolds were used in some 1961 engines and the NHRA tech bulletin for 1961 identifies the difference between the ram manifolds (30" runners) and short ram manifolds (15" runners) in the inductions description. Interestingly, both sets of manifolds were produced with the same casting numbers, so the tech people would have to know the visual difference.

Here is a write up about the history and development of the early ram engines. Long and wordy, but interesting history. http://www.allpar.com/mopar/sonoramic.html

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Schedule update: Run order change to STK, N/SS, SS to alleviate congestion at scales/fuel check.

The Main Events will be run to completion today to allow people to get an early start on travel tomorrow. Thank you so much for all those racers and sponsors who put their heart and soul into this event. If there is enough interest, we can run the Combo race after 2nd or 3rd of the main event, and run it concurrent with the Main Event.

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Jack McCarthy is always whining about being at such a disadvantage in U/SA against "the Cadillac" and others, but it looks like his -1.443 qualifying shot was better than what "the Cadillac" did at Brainerd at -1.414. What's the deal, Jack? Sounds like a Brer Rabbit whine to me. . .


Just sayin'.

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The Cadillac was 1.71 under the IHRA index.

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It's so cool that old Stockers never die. You D1 veterans will remember Richie DiCola Chevelle that was passed on to "Pittsburgh Jim" Henderson after being raced by Dave McConnell
. This is Jims son Scott who is now driving the car.

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Those that I spoke with like idea of getting the racing done today. Hats off to Michael and his Loose Rocker Team for thinking of your customer.

Another one of my Milan Dragway Class Racer colleagues Bill Foder - aka The Crow (note the arms) and also the Professor.

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I know; I was just stirring the pot for a little fun!

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Who doesn't love 66-67 Novas? There a a number of Stockers here starting with Craig Sauerbaugh's Crate Motor Stick car from western Michigan

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Along with his U.S. Nationals Winning Camaro. Dave Walther "plays" with this F/S Nova that is a joy to watch go down the track.

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Bill Sempsrott has his 283 Stick Nova here.

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And the lone auto Nova belongs to Dick Kincade
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We are on track to start eliminations between noon and 1:00. I have heard that you can monitor the action on 1320go.

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BREAKING NEWS JUST IN - CHEVY BREAKS FORD REAR.

Jim Boburka knocked a few teeth off the ring gear on his COPO. Looks like it will be fixed for first round

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A short bit of downtime to clean up the oil from a hurt SS engine.

And there are more cars that came in this morning.

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Gloria Ley -Dave's wife - is here running the scales. These two have what I think to be the perfect retirement gig going. They both work NHRA national and D1 races together. Dave told me that they have been gone just about every weekend since Pomona. What a lucky and happy couple. And better yet they are from the Garden State like me.

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Left side of the ladder has been called.

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Yesterday in NSS.

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#1 qualifier George Yago.

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Track prep during Stock R1

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I WON!!!!

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Congrats Mike!

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quess you just get better with age !!

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Expert videographer "Robz" in action. His videos are outstanding!

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Photographer Chris Mohring shoots amazing Stock and SS photos. Check out his photos on the Facebook Stock & Superstock Drag Racing group.

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Tony Scopa, his daughter Marrissa and Mike Allain made the 13 hour tow from Massachusetts. Tony is a hardcore Mopar SS racer - that's a HEMI STICK SHIFT! Tony was here last year and broke his trans. Racers like Tony and cars like this make the Northern Class Nationals so cool.

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