JP1738's Stocker and S/G car

[doglover44]

How's the Stocker coming along ?

[JP1738]

Another great weekend in the PAR Racing Engines, House of Payne Performance, Pauley Racing Mazda RX7. Managed a win in the "Hot Street" class at Carolina Cashdays No Prep at Shadyside Dragway presented by Motion Raceworks. This class was a challenge as it was a minimally prepped track and the class is limited to a 28/10.5 slick on a 5.70 index. I showed up on some gently used M/T slicks I had never run before and went to town. Made some excellent laps and put the car in the winner's circle once again! I essentially had to spray the car from one end of the track to the other along with a few ballast and starting line timing changes that seem to have payed off massively. The car was absolutely on rails all night long and my little old small block survived the heavy dose of laughing gas thrown at it pass after pass. Looking forward to the next small tire race with it already. Now, to stick the big tires back on it and prepare for some bracket and index racing in the next couple of weeks!

[JP1738]

More really good seat time week before last in my wagon, took it out to Union County Dragway to run Footbrake and Sportsman. At this point in the year and the weather conditions, the thing really wants for some HP, only dialing 8.20 against my 8.26 NHRA Index, but obviously none of that mattered that weekend. Getting better at hitting the tree every time I make it to the track!

[JP1738]

Two for one! Picked up the 6.0 index win in a tough field of 14 cars at Roxboro Motorsports Park along with the win in the 9 round bracket race the same day! 16 passes and a whole lot of win lights!!! Easily my best day at the track fun wise, financially, and confidence building! The car was on rails and I was turning loose good when I needed to and good enough when I didn't. Thanks to all the folks out there that make it possible for me to go out weekend after weekend to do what I love!

Even got to take on my dad in the final of the index race who of course is always extremely tough. I was lucky enough to come out on the winning side despite leaving second!

[doglover44]

Are you going up to Indy ?

[JP1738]

Originally Posted by doglover44

Are you going up to Indy ?

Hell nah, can't qualify there

[Keith 944]

9 rounds to win top? 6 rounds to win 6.0. Man you guys must have a lot of cars or lots of bye backs

[Eman]

Originally Posted by JP1738

Two for one! Picked up the 6.0 index win in a tough field of 14 cars at Roxboro Motorsports Park along with the win in the 9 round bracket race the same day! 16 passes and a whole lot of win lights!!! Easily my best day at the track fun wise, financially, and confidence building! The car was on rails and I was turning loose good when I needed to and good enough when I didn't. Thanks to all the folks out there that make it possible for me to go out weekend after weekend to do what I love!

Even got to take on my dad in the final of the index race who of course is always extremely tough. I was lucky enough to come out on the winning side despite leaving second!

I think I've known a few owners of that Vega in TN and NC.

[JP1738]

Last couple weekends for me has been humbling. After my relatively poor showing at the Shadyside Dragway double 6.0 and bracket race weekend, I made my way to Zmax Dragway in Charlotte for the national event to run Stock and S/G. Unfortunately I had issues with my station wagon which caused me to qualify particularly poorly and not have a dial in Friday morning for first round. All in all I made a decent lap first round in Stock, hitting the tree .049 (not great but not terrible) and taking .011 stripe but losing in a double breakout to the eventual runner-up Kenny Anderson. Super Gas was basically the exact opposite. I made two great qualifying hits and had a really great handle on the car. Unfortunately my delay-box malfunctioned first round Friday morning and did not activate my throttle-stop. I did my best to get the car whoahed up at the finish line but still broke out by a wide margin going 9.79 at 104 as opposed to my normal 9.90 vicinity at 139.

Incredibly disappointing and essentially as bad as the weekend could have gone. I ended up going golfing with a friend on Saturday just to salvage the weekend, lol. Shot 84 though so that's pretty good

I'm really upset with the performance, and even more so with myself as both scenarios were completely avoidable if I'd been more careful. Devastating. I will regroup and try to be at the Carolina double national open next week with at least one of the cars. It's really hard for me financially to bring both cars to the track and double enter both days, so I may be only bringing one, especially after doubling and failing to get any round money at all from Charlotte.

[JP1738]

Haven't updated in a while, and I figured I'd blast a couple photos up here on a slow Monday.

The day before I showed up at the Rockingham D2 National open race on Sunday, I was at Shadyside Dragway once again for some bracket and 6.0 action. Ended up winning the 6.0 class and getting to 3 cars in the bracket race. An awesome day of racing with 11 round wins and a nice $800 payday at the end!


Got a new sway bar mounted on my stocker after the stock one broke and fell off somehow. This is an aftermarket beefy-er one I found on Summit and it seems to be working really great. Much stiffer than the stock one and chased a lot of the old body roll out of the car. Very pleased with it.


After the weekend, it was time for repairs. At some point while I was at Rockingham, I blew another wheel cylinder in my Malibu Wagon stocker which received a new one this past week.



Always busy at my shop learning and growing! One more race for me this year then both motors in both cars are coming out for upgrades and freshen ups! Taking donations now!!!