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Yeah a lot of the guys he's running against are running billet blocks. He does a lot with a little.
I believe in the most recent video he said he trapped higher than he ever had with the Procharger, over 196.
That is what I remember him saying as well. I don't remember if he ever said what he was trapping with the turbo/big block combo, but I also seem to remember his ET being faster with the procharger due to a better front half. So from what I've seen from him his ET's in order from fastest to slowest are CAS, Procharger, then Turbo.
Five years ago I didn't think we would be seeing toter homes hauling in race cars with billet screw blown hemi's and having brand new noonan and proline billet motors sitting ready as backups rolling into these podunk 1/8th mile tracks, but here we are.
Basically this type of racing got so popular the purses grew so the big money guys decided they wanted to play in the small tire game also.
What used to be a budget heads up deal is now a big money game. I still love it as a fan, but locally it has killed car counts since a lot of guys have given up on it.
He also said in a recent video he had made a rear gear change, I got the sense it hurt the front half. He was saying he needs to spin the engine higher too.
Fun to watch these guys take this CAS tech and do so well in just a couple months.
He is into the 3rd round at war in the woods they are going to resume this morning. Not that the guys there don't have money in this, but the TV show level money didn't show up due to the sketchy track and lower payout.
There was at least one pretty bad wreck I saw on the live stream. Guy went across the track into the opposite side guard rail nearly head on. He busted up the guard rail pretty bad then into the section where it turns into concrete wall and caught on fire. He got out of the car pretty damn quick but then laid on the track for a long time and they took him to the hospital. Haven't heard about his condition. That was in one of the "slower" classes too before they started small tire. I think they had... true street, hard tire, stick shift, 26" gangstas, big tire, and small tire classes. Small tire had something like 48 entries, and the place was packed.
Several live streams on youtube if you want to watch.
It's crazy how often he changes the combo but even crazier how many races he hits across the country. It seems like he is making long distance trips every week. Alot of the top small tire guys around here don't really travel further than one state away or race as often as Ryan does, amazing level of dedication to the sport.
My favorite live stream for WitW is Pro Tree Videos, he moves around and keeps it interesting.
Congrats to Ryan and crew on the W.
I hope to attend the fall one even if it's just for a day.
I bounced around among several live streams on Saturday. On Sunday I don't think as many were still streaming, and I pretty much just had Pro Tree Videos on all day while I was working in the garage.
Billy looked really fast in the falcon winning 26” gangstas with the Mike lough built LS. He might have given Ryan a run for the money in small tire. As it was Ryan covered small tire relatively easily with the 427 LS 4 bolt head combo obviously with the CAS.
I was watching the live stream when this happened. Scary wreck and he laid on the track for a long time before they took him to the hospital. I haven’t heard how he is doing.
I heard the one on fire was okay just banged up. Could be wrong as I heard it through the grape vines on social media..
Jon maybe we will see you down there in the fall! We are going for the weekend.
Went last spring and can easily say one of if not the best events we have ever been to. Especially if you are into no prep!
It looks promising for drag racing. But not for a streetcar..
Saying a car is not a streetcar at a no prep race is fighting words. :-) LOL
I'm curious if this is nearly as easy as Ryan makes it look. Obviously, he's a smart dude and has been doing this type of racing a very long time. I wouldn't expect just anyone to switch to CAS and have immediate success like this, but it does seem amazing for 1/8th mile blasts at a time.
I like the idea of air quality not making any difference. This would be a huge advantage at high altitudes.
The Peirce family put the entry level kit on a mild SBE LS 5.3 long block for their 16 y/o daughter. It went 8.63 @ 147 on only 8lbs.
For comparison I’m assuming I am much lighter at 2400lb race weight. Gate pressure for me was 7psi creeping to 8. I went 10.0x (crap 1.5 60’) @ 138 on cam only SBE 5.3.
You’d get a few pulls on low boost if you had the 200cu ft bottles. Esp 1/8th mile.
Saying a car is not a streetcar at a no prep race is fighting words. :-) LOL
I think he's saying that with this system you aren't going out on a Saturday night and driving around on the streets making a bunch of runs back to back against people. For a race car at a race track that makes a single run at a time, sure no problem you've got plenty of time to swap tanks, etc.
Video I watched shows the bottles pretty much say in the cars permanently. Single hose refills between rounds from a few much bigger “mother bottles” in the trailer. A big honkn pump keeps the the mother bottles topped off.
They just need to quick fab up a mechanical air pump on the diff that tops the bottles off @ 3000psi as you cruise. Easy peasy...
Video I watched shows the bottles pretty much say in the cars permanently. Single hose refills between rounds from a few much bigger “mother bottles” in the trailer. A big honkn pump keeps the the mother bottles topped off.
They just need to quick fab up a mechanical air pump on the diff that tops the bottles off @ 3000psi as you cruise. Easy peasy...
Or a Mad Max style clutch on a compressor on the engine, then you can shut the compressor off when making a pass.
Video I watched shows the bottles pretty much say in the cars permanently. Single hose refills between rounds from a few much bigger “mother bottles” in the trailer. A big honkn pump keeps the the mother bottles topped off.
Yes, at the track with a truck and trailer.
Originally Posted by Forcefed86
They just need to quick fab up a mechanical air pump on the diff that tops the bottles off @ 3000psi as you cruise. Easy peasy...
That would be interesting, probably not worth it though with the size of the pump required to fill that tank and how long it would take even with a decent sized compressor that could actually fit in a car.
I think he's saying that with this system you aren't going out on a Saturday night and driving around on the streets making a bunch of runs back to back against people. For a race car at a race track that makes a single run at a time, sure no problem you've got plenty of time to swap tanks, etc.
ya I understand what he meant and I thought it was obvious this wasn’t an ideal setup for a daily driver. My comment was just my poor attempt at being funny.
Would be similar to electric superchargers that slowly charge the bats as you drive. Drive 4 hours to get 20 seconds worth of boost kinda thing.
Would be a costly R&D nightmare for sure. Cleanliness is super critical too. Any sort of contaminants or water will ruin things quick. One of the reasons the scuba air pumps are so massive. Doubt there's an economical way to get an compact reasonable onboard pump to charge the tanks. Sure would be cool though!
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