|
| |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Summer 2004 Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Report
Yeeeeee Haaaaaah!
Today's Date -- June 25 - 26, 2004
MANY thanks to Bob Palma, Team One
member.....
Studebaker Performance Team One
returned from Stanton MI with their most successful mission completed! Here’s
the low-down on them and the other Studebaker cars that competed.
Five Studebakers competed:
The Plain Brown Wrapper R3 1964 Challenger: Ted Harbit, driver
1963 R2/Powershift Avanti: Peter Sant
1963 R1/HD automatic Lark Regal 2-door: John Raab
1963 R2/Powershift GT Hawk: Doug Tjapkes
1963 R1/4-speed Lark Custom 2-door: Richard Poe
Many Stude friends on hand; at least 50, maybe more. 72 cars registered to
compete. Crowd not as big as the traditional fall event; to be expected.
A fellow named Steve Clay owned a portable dynamometer on the premises and was
charging to have your car rear-wheel "dyno’d" if you wanted...but he
was so taken with The R3 Plain Brown Wrapper that he asked us to bring it back
and he would "dyno" it for free! The whole procedure and readout are
more complicated than it would appear.
The R3 really strained at the Plain Brown Wrapper's tethers [to the dyno] and
produced 365.1 HP MEASURED AT THE REAR WHEELS with a fully "loaded"
drivetrain at 5830 RPM! Mind you, this is for an engine that Studebaker rated at
335 HP @5300 RPM on the test stand. (I don't think all the sandbags in the
northern part of Indiana are in The Indiana Dunes State Park on Lake
Michigan...some must have made their way over to South Bend to the Engine Data
Recording Center in Studebaker Engineering...or Santa Monica CA at Paxton
Products.)
Peter Sant and Doug Tjapkes finally got their cars into the 14-second bracket.
John Raab posted his best ET ever. Richard Poe came whisker-close to finally
getting into the 14s, posting a 15.055. He'll get there as soon as he replaces
that 3.73 rear axle with a 4.09.
Plain Brown Wrapper performed flawlessly; absolutely no belt slip, breakage, or
traction problems other than a little wheel spin, depending on how Ted launched.
PBW also set two new quarter-mile records for itself: 111.35 MPH and 12.85X ET.
I'll post the exact ET tomorrow as I don't have the timing slips in front of me.
Excellent weather, save a little headwind.
Best of all, Ted and The PBW WON their 2-out-of-3 shootout in the first two
runs, beating a dead sharp, 1969 396/4-speed Nova Coupe that is Certified Stock.
The Nova has run as fast as 12.47 at this event...but not today, and not against
The PBW. No need for a third run; the PBW scored the win in the first two! Wild
times in the grandstands, (from the spectators), as usual.
Here's more data and the official mortality list as released by Michigan's
Montcalm County Coroner for The Plain Brown Wrapper's competitors at The 2004
Summer PSMCDR June 25 and 26.
The Plain Brown Wrapper ran ten races (including the shootout) AND IT WON ALL
TEN RACES. Two races were won on red lights (the competitors red-lighted).
In one of those two races, even if the competitor had NOT red-lighted and
had had a perfect .500 reaction time, Ted would have beat him anyway.
The Plain Brown Wrapper's best ET was 12.852 and the best speed was 11.35,
as posted last night. These were the R3's best figures ever at Stanton, but
it has done microscopically better at The Muncie Dragway during evening
practice in dense night air.
At Stanton last Friday and Saturday, then, here's what happened during the 1964
R3 Challenger's ten runs. Most runs were against a modest headwind.
Run # 1: 13.110 ET. Competitor: 14.176 (1971 Pontiac LeMans 455/300HP)
2: 13.157 ET.
Competitor: 15.029 (1970 Malibu SS454/450HP) (Malibu's terminal speed was
64.12 MPH, so he either had trouble or shut down early. We don't know.)
3: 13.083 ET.
Competitor: 14.905 (1972 Buick GSX 350/190HP)
4: 13.117 ET.
Competitor: 14.599 (1970 Ford Torino 429 Cobra Jet)
5: 13.138 ET.
Competitor: 13.190 (1970 Olds 442 455/370HP)
6: 13.087 ET.
Competitor: 14.385 (1969 Rambler Scrambler 390)
7: 12.857 ET.
Competitor: 12.574 (1969 Super Bee 440/390 6-Pack) (Super Bee lost by red-lighting)
8. 12.857 ET.
Competitor: 14.255 (1970 Dodge Challenger 440 6-pack)
Shootout:
9. 12.971 ET. Competitor: 13.051 (1969 Nova 396/375HP, 4-speed.)
10. 12.852 ET. Competitor: 12.832 (same; second race of shootout)
Notes:
Yes, the R3's ET was identical on Runs #7 and #8.
Ted won Shootout Race #2 by having a better reaction time. Even though the Nova
had a lower ET, he left the line .126 second behind Ted and could not make up
the difference. Indeed, in Shootout Race #2, the R3's terminal speed was 110.83,
whereas the Nova's was 108.93...so, not only did Ted get to the finish line
first, he was going faster than the Nova when they got there.
Thanks are tendered to Nelson Bove and Nemish Solanki for
blower belt advice and research. And, of course, to Bob Boden and Dan Jensen for
providing this.
Pure Stock is The Way to Rock! BP
For More Information Contact:
anything@racingstudebakers.com:
|
![[Company Logo Image]](_borders/RSlogo01.jpg)
