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.
With the assistance of Garret Livingston of Garret Race Cars who we had convinced to come and help us make sure the chassis was doing what it should we went over all the chassis components to be sure all was to his liking. And then it was time to go make some noise. John was to do a burnout, leave the line, shift into second and click it to see where we were with the fuel, timing, chassis and all the other various sundry items required to make this happen.
And the short times told us we had one bad-azz race car in our pits now! A .943 60 foot coupled with a 2.54 330 on the very first hit was great! That is till we found out John had left a trail of oil all the way down Jim Halsey’s shutdown area!!! UH-OH! GOSH-DARN-IT! And other unprintable words were the theme of the day till we learned the oil pan had cracked a weld and that was where all the oil had come from.
Garret welded the crack shut thanks to the crew at Tim McAmis Race Cars who had the big shiny Pete support trailer on the grounds!
The leak being fixed and some chassis tweaks in place we were ready to have at it again. The plan was to run it through if all felt good to our top line steering wheel technician. But if all was not well, just click it.
When it was our turn the Camaro left the line wheels up and hauling the proverbial mail!!! But it drifted to the center line under power (sound familiar to our fans that keep track of what goes on?) and John just clicked it off as there was to be gained by running it out. And that run netted us our fastest 60 foot ever, a .938!!!
We attempted one more hit at 9:30pm thanks to Jim Halsey and his crew but it was to no avail as the dew had settled in and the track was having no parts of the hemi’s power quotient!
We figured we had a really good baseline and were ready to go and revisit our ADRL compadres in Rockinghham, North Carolina.
And that shall be the next installment shortly in the trials and tribulations of the team from the Hills. Stay tuned……
