Mooresville, North Carolina -- When I stand back and look at the make up of a modern drag car, I'm amazed that these things run at all let alone run well. Engines and driveline components are assembled to the thousandth of an inch with miles of hose and endless webs of wiring extending to and from several little blinking boxes. Suspension installations are measured to such a fine line that the difference between a good or bad set up can be as little as 1/12th of a twist in rotation on just a single bar.

To the more casual observer, quickly running a straight line with one of these cars should be easy. Heck, looking at our car, flying it to the Moon should be easy! And even though none of this fancy stuff tells you how to make the car go fast, it's very good about telling you that you've messed up and in some cases it'll question if you even know what the heck you're doing all together. With so many options for parameters, diameters, lengths, widths, heights and angles, how in the world does anyone get these things to go anywhere? That's where Jeff Prock of Applied Nitrous Technology comes in. He knows. [ Read More >> ]

	T-minus and counting… When we last left you, our nitrous injected Super Street engine had just returned from Chris Holbrook's engine dyno. Along with it came several great dyno sheets and reams of data for us to review from our FAST XFI, MSD Ignition, and Racepak electronic systems. Dyno-mite! Our recent dyno session at Chris Holbrook’s wasn’t the first time we tried testing our engine. Back in October, we made an attempt that ended miserably when three brand new cylinder sleeves sunk in our aluminum block. This wasn’t the first time we had sunk sleeves but I was going to make darn sure it would be the last! We had hit rock bottom. Shine on you Crazy Diamond… When we last left you, I had just returned our Zircon mock up piston to the good folks at Diamond Racing Products and they were in the process of finalizing the design and manufacturing of our actual pistons. After verifying a few details, such as valve location, the Diamond Racing Engineering Department got to work.