Hot Rods Speed Merchant's Top Fuel gets into the FIVES

The Speed Merchants Nostalgia Top Fuel front engined dragster has achieved their team goal, testing at the Texas Motorplex, this weekend. Hamber David Pace (Crowerglide) drove the blown, Nitromethane-injected early Hemi down the stip in 5.998 seconds, at 232 miles per hour. Everybody was stoked man. It's hard to describe the feeling as a team member. We all knew we had a hand in making everything work out.

Congrats to team owner and Hamber Brad Green (Recycler) has wanted this for several years. Congrats to Dave Pace who said, "That's the fastest I've been in thirty years". Our newest team member said, "Dayam, that guy has balls of steel!" When I downloaded the data, I said "Christ almighty, almost 10,000 RPM!"

It was a good day. We're ready for Indy in June.

 

Wow!
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Now your talkin'...........good job everybody!

 

Very cool!

 

A lot of credit goes to our Crew Chief John Dearmore. The tune-up is really coming together. Here's a photo of the trickest early Hemi rocker system on the planet, designed and manufactured by DRE (Dearmore Race Engineering) Racing.

 

Congrats! 5.99's a nice number.

 

Indy in June,,,,,,,,surely you mean Bowling Green...

 

Wow! congrats....

 

BG may not happen for us this year. We'll have to get Brad on here to confirm the schedule, but this is what I'm talking about:

21st Hot Rod Nationals
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O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis — Indianapolis, IN
June 12, 13 & 14, 2009

Brad has started a new job this year, so it's hard to get the time off when it's really needed for more important things like racing.

 

I guess it was bound to happen. Two nostalgia shows the same weekend within a few hundred miles of each other.


PPrather is correct. This Old Fart needs a bigger calender.

 

The Hot Rod Reunion at Bowling Green is the weekend after GG Indy

 

Man, thats hooked up. Congrats

 

Wow that is fantastic! Whose heads are you running . . . I don't recognize them? I'm running Donovan 417 heads on mine - but it is just a street engine. Maybe I'll come see you guys run at BG.

 

He got a new set of billet CNC heads this year. I forgot the brand name. They are BMT or something like that. What you see in the photo, is the DRE rocker system, that can be bolted onto any early Hemi head. It acts as a girdle to hold the head on, and position the individual shaft rocker arms. All of the offsets and angles have been corrected. Nothing else like it.

 

WOW thats great our guys are yet to dip into the fives but hey they aint far way 6.0,s from memory

Good on yall

QQ

 

Hi Brad and Randy, that was quite a run, my congrat's, those are great looking rockers. Hope to see you in Tulsa. I see Brad was not driving, sometimes it's too hard to see past your grin to drive. Joe

 

You mean these guys?

 

This David Pace??

 

NICE! Hope to see the same in Indy.

 

congrats on a great weekend, hope to see it run on the west coast sometime.

 

These guys have worked like hell to make this deal happen, this is a car and team to watch. congrats guys, it's well deserved. Best wishes from Ks. See ya soon. Lippy

 

Congrats you guys! Talk about your milestones - now that you're in the fives, what's the next carrot on your stick?



Scotty

 

jangleguy That carrot is now 5.80s ,what else!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We had a good day, for sure. Definitely a team effort. No big egos here; we're all just havin' fun together. Thanks, Randy!

 

QQ,

I keep up with Longfield's deal. I've got an inside connection down there, LOL.

 

At least you got my good side, Lippy.

Thanks for the kind words, everybody. We're hoping to continue to improve at Goodguys/Indy.

 

Here's a shot of the run.

 

Norms on a Mission wont be long now

QQ

 

nice

 

The heads were made by Webster.