Challenger Drag Pak Owners

[MANSRACING]

As of right now there are five cars in the mpls. area.Car #22 belongs to Chuck Lofgren,# 26 belongs to Larry Curtis & # 11 belongs to Fred Hanson all have 6.1 motors.I was also told that none of the Drag Pak motors have pistons in them that have been approved by NHRA.The pistons do not have a part # on top of them.Bruce From NHRA is working with Diamond pistons & the engine builder on this problem.I would hold off on bolting that oil pan on.

Randy

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Thanks , Ill give him a call on this tommorow.

Thanks for the 3, Weve not got 20 of the 50 listed.....

Please let me know of anyone else.

Chris

Originally Posted by MANSRACING

As of right now there are five cars in the mpls. area.Car #22 belongs to Chuck Lofgren,# 26 belongs to Larry Curtis & # 11 belongs to Fred Hanson all have 6.1 motors.I was also told that none of the Drag Pak motors have pistons in them that have been approved by NHRA.The pistons do not have a part # on top of them.Bruce From NHRA is working with Diamond pistons & the engine builder on this problem.I would hold off on bolting that oil pan on.

Randy

[Irv Johns]

Randy, when did you hear this about the pistons? Jeff Teuton has one apart I guess he can ck that out. Also Jeggies car is going to be a automatic I heard.

Irv

[Jeff Teuton]

The number is on the bottom of the skirt. I'll look at it tomorrow. It is still apart. Those motors are all standard bore and stroke. I think it would be hard to find a place to put it on the top, but I'll see tomorrow. Got me interested now.

[MANSRACING]

Irv I have been talking with Chuck Lofgren (Lofgren Automotive) for the past couple weeks about this problem and how NHRA is going to meas. dome height and deck height.He has been in contact with Bruce and hopefully this can be resolved by the end of the PRI show.Will all these pistons have to be returned to diamond for a stamped ID # As per the stock rules ?

Randy

[Jeff Teuton]

I would think it would be done the same as the 426 has been for many years. Same concept Drop the piston down a specified amount and cc the cyl.

[rx dealer]

I think about the only way Paul Mercure and Mike Keener would race a Challenger is if someone give them a "race ready" car for free and it better be a S T I C K. Park the 68 camaro for the challenger ya right. If that happens then I know Keener & Mercure must have broke into my pharmacy and took more than a handful of vicodin, xanax, and maybe some anti-psychotic drugs lol...Luke

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by MANSRACING

Irv I have been talking with Chuck Lofgren (Lofgren Automotive) for the past couple weeks about this problem and how NHRA is going to meas. dome height and deck height.He has been in contact with Bruce and hopefully this can be resolved by the end of the PRI show.Will all these pistons have to be returned to diamond for a stamped ID # As per the stock rules ?

Randy

I talked to Bruce today and was told its a "non-issue" things were supposed to be different, but they arent, I asked about pullig and having the the ID'ing done by diamond, and was told by Bruce , NO I didnt have to do that. Apparenty there was confusion on what he , rightfully wanted for the other techs, and they will from now on but it dosent make ours illegal, its just going to be tougher for them to check. And well.....thats that.......at least from my perspective. But I had to make a call to him anyway so it worked out well.