Sports Nationals Columbus Ohio September 21-23

The Sports Nationals is always a great event. And with the exception of potential rain, at this time of the year, the temps are usually good and the track is usually fast.

As it turns out, Saturday was pretty much lost to the rainy weather. But that is Columbus In September in Ohio.

Back to racing. So why wouldn't the Mega Maniac be registered to run A/SA in Columbus, this year?

Keith decided to run his Camaro in A/SA, and you can't run two cars in the Stock. But that doesn't mean that the Mega Maniac won't run at all in Columbus? No!

It just means that we will not it in Stock.

What other class, can the Mega Maniac run, you ask.  How about Super Stock!

Reasons why running a stocker in Super Stock doesn't make sense:

1: You can have wider tires in Super Stock

2. You can have additional work on your heads

3. You can have a much more aggressive Cam

4. You are allowed to have a Trans Brake

There are more reasons, but these are the big issues. Wider tires would give us better traction on the starter line. Additional work on the heads would five us better air/fuel flow and more horsepower. An bigger cam would increase our horsepower too. And the Trans Brake would give us a more more positive initial launch, as you just hit a button and off you go.

So, other cars can have some pretty significant advantages on us, if we are running in Super Stock.

But there is one significant edge that we do have is the horsepower rating for my car that is back to where we started in stock; In Super Stock, it is 305 Horsepower. That is where we started in Stock before an illegal car stole some class wins from us, and got us a bunch of horsepower before he was finally torn down and found to be illegal. But since the NHRA won't bother to correct that obvious error, we will just go where water hasn't been poisoned.

We had run Super Stock in a the Nationals last year in Las Vegas. We then stayed the week to run A/SA at the divisional in Las Vegas where set the A/SA Stock National record. We did OK ub the Class in the Nationals, and it was the first time we had actually run Super Stock with Mega Maniac and although we were competitive, we didn't win it. But Keith has won two World Championships in Super Stock, so he knows what is involved and we weren't terribly disappointed.

And so far, in Columbus, we have done OK.

We qualified number five out nearly 100 cars in Super Stock, and we won out class; SS/JA

Eliminations are going on right now. And it may run into Monday, So I will keep you posted as to how we do,


God Bless, and Safe Racing

David