Corvette Concepts Racing
Breathless said:
Sorry Tom you made a mistake we talked to Delaneys son after the quick times were posted and than told us that they have a head and cam package in that car. They had first told us the car did not have the head and cam done so we than placed them in the modified category but after finding this out they should of be disqualified but was changed to Super Modified.
To recap Jake Delaney is running a Head and Cam Package.
I wanted to thank everyone for going out and having a great time. We wanted it to be a get together for forum and C5 registry members. We will be planning on doing it again and taking input from the racers on making it even better.
As for our car we broke another rear output shaft due to too much torque and the ones we are building will not be ready for 3 weeks.
Watch for the Corvette Fever report on this.
At the end congrats to the C3 driver Jeremy Mounts.
Thank You
Ernie
BreathlessPerformance.com
Hello Ernie and All,
I will review this situation again for all. When Brian went through tech he was asked if we have a head and cam package on the car. He replied that we did not, which is the truth. A short while later, Brian asked me my opinion of our standing. This week we installed polished heads on our 99 FRC. No valve work, springs rockers, lifters, etc., just polishing and cleaning which has not shown to be that much of a gain. I actually regret even doing the work,which was completed on Thursday for test and tune at the Drag strip. I suggested that Brian return to tech and inform them that the heads had been polished and no other work had been done. We were then placed into the head and cam class. This was all done during the test and tune portion of the event, or so we thought. The events of the afternoon proved me wrong.
Our Pewter FRC has dynoed on Ernie's equipment at 419 HP in the past. We have a very strong car and Ernie and his gang have questioned both our car and our integrity on several occasions on this matter. Any competent tuner or racer can tell a stock block car without a cam from one with a cam. I will offer Ernie or anyone else a tear down of my motor for the cost of labor and parts by a neutral company with the condition that if the motor has had more than we claim we will present Ernie with a check in the amount of $5000.00. If no internal changes have been made on our car I will expect Ernie to do the same with us for our trouble. I don't like being slammed from someone who is supposed to be such a hot tuner. If you are so hot why is it that every time we see your car the hood is up, the heads are off or the things on the trailer? Our cars, customer's car included, run clean and strong without constant tinkering. When we went to the track on Sunday for the Shootout, we brought the car, a tire gauge, and a cooler of cold drinks. We don't even carry a screwdriver. To me this is the best part of our performance packages.....reliability and dependability...not to mention the cost. Our car ran 12.401 without the heads being polished...it ran 12.385 at the shootout. We were as fast as the fastest Viper, faster than all the stock block Corvettes, and faster than ALL the head and cam Corvettes not running nitrous. I'm sure we even beat many nitrous cars during the day. Not bad for a car with less than $7000.00 in performance work done.
Now let's discuss the Breathless Shootout. We expected to be running head to head in a shoot out...we were called to a driver's meeting about 3:30 after most of us retired to cool our car's for the final shootout at around 12:30 or so. We were surprised to see just a few cars, all Breathless built I believe, to continue to run after virtually everyone else stopped. Now we know why...At the driver's meeting we were told that they were using the test runs to award the trophies...the crowd murmured in disbelief. We had all expected to run again for the trophies. None of the spectators were even at the driver's meeting after waiting all day to see the racing. Was this a lack of planning? We were also surprised when Brian was matched in the King of the Hill bracket race against a 10 second C4 drag car sponsored by Breathless that was trailered in for the event. The real surprise was when Brian inched out the dragster at the finish line for the win! We did have a good time at the Shoot out and we'll sponsor one ourselves in the near future. Congrats to all the super fast Corvettes! Marc's Bat Out of Hell looked good and ran a strong 12.44!
So to recap, Jake Delaney is NOT running a head and cam package, but he is running one heck of a fast C5 that came away from the Shootout looking pretty special.
Although we hadn't planned on bringing our 99 Pewter car to Eckler's next Saturday, we will.....this way everyone can look at the car and hear it run....we'll even put it on Breathless' dyno to check out the horsepower.....don't worry Ernie, we'll pay for the dyno run, or would you rather just deduct it from the $5000.00 check?!
