[Larry Hill]

I have a red wagon full of shocks both front and rear, two junk "K" members (Newsome has four), two weight boxes in back, an adjustable weight bar in front, several different sets of travel limiters, four wheel scales, adjustable chip for the starting line, and an October 2002 picture of my car on one wheel on DRC. If the wind changes direction or speed to a head wind a high torque car is doomed if it gets "up", because hydraulic pressure will not let it down without wrecking something.

Gosh I hate getting old. I forgot to mention oil pans, four bent 15X4 wheels, and one firewall that got compression bent when I aborted a run. Most of the damage to my car was done without wheelie bars, but some was done learning how to run with bars.

My car makes in the high 5's for power but makes in the 6's for torque just below the flash of the converter.

Is this a manufactures rule for Factory Showdown? The drive by wire cars do not need wheelie bars but the cable cars do?

I will fix my rear panel before the Chicago race and let the bars starting hitting the paint and bending the sheet metal.