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Finishing Off The Pro Mod Racing Season

Written By Camp Stanley
Photos Courtesy Of Axle Weiss

Hagerstown, MD – As I told all of our readers in the last update we went into what was going to be our last ADRL race of 2012 in Norwalk, Ohio. We had been chasing our tails for way to long, fooling around with different transmission / torque converter combinations that showed promise until we got to an ADRL prepped race track.

So with our revamped converter in place we decided to make one hit with it and if it didn’t show promise, out it would come and in would go the one we had ran earlier but with some changes inside. On the first qualifier John left the line well for about twenty feet and then the Camaro went into instant tire smoke. So what did we do? Not what we said we were going to do! Imagine that, a drag racer not sticking to the game plan!

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Stanley And Weiss Racing Camaro Pro Mod Year Ends With Pro Mod Record

Written By Camp Stanley
Photos Courtesy Of goDragRacing.org

Hagerstown MD – A lot of you must be wondering where we our website updates have been for the last month. There is a valid reason for this that has to attributed to the year that we suffered through once again! We went to the next to the last ADRL race in Norwalk, Ohio with the mental outlook that we would use it strictly as a test session! We had come to the realization that our combination was just not working with our torque converter/transmission decisions.

I shall over the next short while give all of you a full recount of each of the last three races. But we thought it only fitting that all of our loyal readers know that after all the strife we have had in 2012 that ALMOST matched our 2011 season we have ended the 2012 season on a high note and are very confident that once again we have a race car in our pit area that can contend for round wins against the baddest pro mod race cars on the planet, ADRL Pro Extreme!

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A Fitting End To A Terrible Drag Racing Season

Written by Camp Stanley
Photo by Roger Richards

Hagerstown, MD – This 2011 season have seen things go from bad to worse to what we thought were great and then back to bad yet again. After we left the next to the last ADRL Norwalk, Ohio we were pretty sure we finally figured out what had been ailing our race car since the Topeka race in June. And FINALLY we got it right!

So off to the last ADRL race of the year in Dallas, Texas we went, sincere in our beliefs that all was once again well with the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro. We really had no desire to put the car away for the winter not knowing if we had truly solved our issues. We consciously decided to use the last race of the season as a test session and could help justify the expense by dropping the car off at Garret Race Cars in Marble Hill, Missouri after the race. We had scheduled the car into Garret’s after the Maple Grove race for some needed updates and some chassis work that could only be done on a chassis shop jig.

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The Hemi Powered Camaro Pro Mod At 2011 Yellow Bullet Nationals

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown MD, – After fitting the new Hemi power plant into the Appalachia on Steroids Pro Modified Camaro it was time to see what the newest addition to our armory could do for us!

After checking around to see what would best serve our purpose we settled on a two day test at Royce Miller’s Maryland International Raceway, BUT Mother Nature had other plans for us on that weekend! She dropped a nasty hurricane named Irene right on top of our plans! This “stuff” happens is really getting old! .

So we put our fall back plan into effect and headed to the 2011 YellowBullet.com Nationals at Cecil County Dragway just north of Baltimore, Maryland. They were having an open test session on Friday so that fit our plans perfectly.

We rolled the Camaro out of the trailer and prepared to see what would happen when John Robert Stanley left loose of the trans brake button to the Lencodrive.

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Stanley & Weiss Racing, The Newest Addition To Our Team

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown, MD – When last the Stanley & Weiss Racing team visited you we were all bummed out and financially distressed to say the least. But being the never say QUIT, never say ENOUGH we hid out up here on The Hill and worked on our latest endeavor to bring us back in among the elite of the ADRL.

We finally did it! We had no choice if we want to be competitive! We went over to The Dark Side, but never fear Obi-Wan is still among us! We fitted a hemi between the frame rails of the Appalachia on Steroids Camaro in an attempt to make us competitive once again. This was done by selling off our primary AJ Olds and some of our spare bits and pieces for enough funding to make this drastic move. A “Road Trip” was planned to fill our coffers with bits to make this new project happen. The first call was to Jeff Burnett of Composite Specialties to see about purchasing the short block that we knew he had stashed under a bench in his workshop. That proved to be a very successful trip to Brownsburg, Indiana because as we always do we wheeled and dealed and I left there with lots of extra frugal and some freebie bits that would come in very handy.

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Stanley & Weiss Racing Take Short Sabbatical

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown, MD – Dictionary.com describes a sabbatical as: “any extended period of leave to acquire new skills or training, etc.” This, to all of our faithful followers is what we have been forced to take part in.

A run of three DNQ’s has forced us to face reality! Although we finally figured out what has been causing our issues this year it all came “to little, to late”.

After evaluating our fastly deteriorating checkbook balance with my assistant financier and friend Mr. Axle Weiss and the rest of our very close knit team, we decided it would best to take one of these forced sabbaticals to pump some new lifeblood into said checkbook!

Our plan is to sit out one more race, the ADRL Speedtech U.S. Drags IV in Richmond, Virginia. I have been telling lots of people that, “instead of spending money in Richmond, I will go to the FIA round in Germany that very same weekend and make a little money!!!”

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ADRL Topeka And The Yellow Brick Road

By Camp Stanley

Hagerstown, MD – What else can we say about Topeka except that we should have stayed home like we threatened to do a few updates ago. Between the bad (REALLY ROTTEN, ROTTEN) luck and the weather, Topeka was nothing short of a disaster for us. We started the trip off with a stopover at National Trail Raceway in Columbus, Ohio and Friday night and Saturday morning should have told us something! Massive thunderboomers Friday night and Saturday morning cancelled the racing and our testing on Saturday.

But Sunday dawned a beautiful day and the National Trail Raceway track personnel gave us a track that was as good as they get. We left there, me on to Topeka and John, Scottie and Jimmy back home with a plan to change motors in Topeka since we decided that the experimental cam installed in the motor over the winter was a major culprit in our lack of performance.

I met up with Andreas Howald, better known as Andy who is one of the crew on Marcus Hilt’s Swiss Pro Mod in Topeka and put him right to work I did! Andy and I removed the primary engine from the Camaro and put the spare from under the bench between the chassis rails. We got it done with a lot of help from help from our friend, Mr “I only have duallie” John DeCerbo and one of his crew guys. And when John Stanley and crew arrived we finished it up and were ready to have at it! So we thought…

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Does It Ever Not Rain On The Main Event?

Written By Camp Stanley
Photo By Ivan Samson

Santa Pod Raceway, UK – Memorial Day weekend saw me once again winging my way across the Atlantic Ocean one more time bound for England to help my Swiss friend Marcus Hilt with his Corvette.

I just knew it wasn’t going to rain n me this time…. But was I mistaken! I have been to Santa Pod Raceway in England FOUR times and I have been rained on FOUR times!

For those of you who may be interested if you follow this link to our video theater: “Camp Stanley reporting from Santa Pod for 1320TV” you will be able to view my first trip to Santa Pod.

And this trip was no different. There was a test day scheduled for Thursday that we were to participate in but of course that was a complete washout! And as Friday was a day for the Sportsman classes only to qualify there was nothing on for me except for visiting with people. And that I do love to do!

Saturday dawned COLD and WINDY and just a little bit of rain intermittently. We got our two qualifiers in all the while having race car 101 schooling. After weighing the car at the end of the run I realized the TMRC Corvette was 150 pounds OVERWEIGHT for the class.

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Wayne Keys and Mike Evans. Caramel slice, good friends and RAIN

By Camp Stanley
Photos By Grant Stephens dragnews.com.au

Hagerstown, MD – The Nitro Champs at the stunning Sydney Dragway is the race to attend if you enjoy Australian drag racing. This is the next to the last round for the warriors of the quarter mile that reside all the way round the bottom side of the Earth as we know it. But it is also a race to attend if you are plying your wares in that very same drag racing industry.

And I got to attend at the request of two teams who I have been assisting for awhile. Over the course of time we have become very good friends, these entire teams and I. Those of you who follow the trials and tribulations of my world travels via this website will recognize the names of Wayne Keys from Perth and Mike Evans from Tasmania. I was off once again to see how well we could do against the best the country had to offer.

We did not have the good luck with the The Keys Family Racing Commodore as we did in Perth. The rains came both times we were in the lanes for qualifying and the track got cold which is something that this race car does not like at all. But the first round of eliminations brought a well deserved win and great incrementals on Wayne’s shutoff, save the index run. But the next round was not so kind to them.

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Gosh Darned Ole Fluid Couplers…

Written by Camp Stanley
Photos by Axle Weiss

Hagerstown, MD – So how has it been going with the installation of the torque converter (read fluid coupler) in the “Appalachia on Steroids” Camaro you may be wondering? We made the conscious decision to make that leap at the end of last year but as in all things new, some things are not really all that easy!

We headed down to Mooresville, NC to test the new parts and pieces to be sure all would be in the ready for the first ADRL race in Houston, Texas. Before we left I scoured the web for all the war stories on what NOT to do when you put a torque converter in a high horsepower car.

I put all of this profound knowledge I garnered into a little cheat sheet/booklet so we could try our best not to make those same errors. More on that later!

Upon arrival on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon we unloaded the car and proceeded into our new year start up of the engine and filling and checking the new LencoDrive transmission.

The transmission part went well but the motor part was way, way downhill after that. After setting the timing with the MSD mag 44, next up was to phase the crank trigger to the mag. In our case this takes several start the car, shut it off, adjust and then do it all over again.

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