Updates Underway at Stanley & Weiss for the 2011 ADRL Season

By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 11/21/2010

Hagerstown, MD – We are well on the way with all of our planned updates and changes to the ADRL Pro Extreme Camaro known as “Appalachia on Steroids”. The best thing we can say about this would be the fact that we sure are glad the 2010 season is over!!! All those that follow the trials and tribulations of our team know that we have just come off of the year from Hades!

If you can think of something dumb happening believe you me, it happened to us this year! Dumb, stupid stuff with the car. Dumb, stupid stuff with poor ole Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Dumb stupid stuff with our trailer. AND don’t even ask me about tires!!! The only good thing going for us in the tire department was our beloved Mickey Thompsons on the race car. They did their job very well all year, thank you very much. But the 2010 season has been completed and through all these dilemmas we persevered. The checkbooks got real thin at the end but we made it through. We are very proud of our TENTH place ranking in the ADRL Pro Extreme class we secured at years end. To finish this high out of EIGHTY-FIVE cars in the baddest class of doorslammers on the planet says lots about our determination and perseverance in our eyes. AND we don’t even have a hemi!

So enough of Whiner 101 from us! The year 2010 is done and it is on to 2011. We have decided to join the ranks of the torque converter race cars in 2011 and are now in the process of the changeover. Not being a big believer of the two step process we have opted to go the air throttle controller route. This new piece has been sourced from my goombah, Andrew Parise “Parise Racing” since they are going the opposite way to a clutch in both Dina’s and his own car. Thanks Hero!

Our new big tube step headers are about 60% finished. Now John will able to create a cool light show when he stages the car just like Bubba Stanton does. We can’t have Roger Henson get one over on us! We are also taking a good hard look, as does everyone else at where and how to get weight out of our race car. We cannot afford all the titanium pieces needed to really make a dent in this process so we must look elsewhere. We went the titanium route last year and gained a bit of weight savings but our $3000 budget wasn’t near enough. K & K Advanced Door Car Technology did the best they could for us, way above the norm or we would not have seen the gains we got.

And then the poor tired screw will go back to JanCen engines in Buffalo, NY for a long overdue freshen up.

We shall do our best to keep you informed of our progress throughout the next several months.

Email us any extra dollars you may have lying around. We sure could use them!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY to one and all. Please remember why we celebrate this day!