Competition Diesel Thunder in Spokane

[HOSS]

Nathan just a ran 12. 03 @ 114. 8 MPH. Diesel Only of course!!





Run before that was 12. 10 @ 113 MPH with 300 pounds of tool boxs, wrenches, etc in the bed.



714 HP Opie

657 HP Nate

596 HP Heber

513 HP Jason B ( is trying some other injectors to better that number )



Nathan better start thinking about a roll bar!!



Way to kill the dyno Opie

 

[willyslover]

whole lot of good thing happening up there right now !!!



CONGRAT'S to all !!!

 

[Rhondasway]

track times

Okay, so Diesel Thunder was a well-run, fun event as always! It was great to see John Treibel back on the road with his fabulous, upgraded (again) "Blackout"!! Last win before retirement, I guess...

The racing was interesting... We got there too late to run brackets { , I love bracket racing! ), so ran for Times Only.

My first run was, of course, against Nathan (gulp, I hate losing) and went as follows: My 60': 1. 779, his: 1. 891; my 1/8 ET: 81. 67, his: 90. 74; My 1/4 ET: 13. 089 at 102. 52!! (on #2 only, of course! ), his: 12. 259 at 113. 46!! Now, my previous best was at Woodburn with a 13. 29 at 99+ mph...

My next run netted me a 12. 866 at 101. 97mph against Heberam who ran a 9. 445 at 91. 07. Uh, could there be a problem with the lights there? Could it be from too much tire and exhaust smoke? I do enjoy a nice little burnoff...

My last run was 8. 292 at 101. 09 mph, this with a 3. 392 60' against Jason who turned a 14. 703 at 102. 24.

I'm not sure I'm going to rely on the results from that track, but if I'm running even that 13. 089 at 102 I'm one happy little camper!



Big Thanks to Big Bob and Kathy for their hospitality! It was really nice to see some of my old friends and make some new ones as well. Jason's numbers were off (I've seen him run 690+ ), but as always he was an excellent sport about it. Wonder if he got all that soot off his arms and face... ?

 

[HeberRam]

Rhonda kick my butt!

Rhonda has a nice way of saying she kicked poor old tired Heber's butt at the drags. . What she didn't tell you was I had a 8. 25 reaction time and still did a 9. 445 quarter. . As we stagged, the old Heber was ready to launch... to launch... to launch... to launch, total smoke black-out in my lane from Rhonda's "boosting", couldn't see the tree, smoke cleared... Rhonda's halfway down the track, I now can see the green lite. . Ooooops. That's "ok", just give the old Heber another 1/8th mile of track and it would be all over...



Had a blast anyway... . The best racing was when we all took off to the track from the Dyno and leaving the track racing ( about 8-10 trucks) down I-90 in Spokane 12:00 PM at nite. I can honestly say, there are no longer any killer bees or West Nile virus in the Spokane area today... ,



Steve

 

[HOSS]

#'s as they came off the board



Most Hp Unlimited class #2 + Drugs



1. Steve (Opie) Opecensky 714 hp

2. Steve (Heberam) Covalt 594. 7 hp/1200+



Bombed over 400hp #2 only



1. Nathan Wright 657hp /1200+

2. Jason Burton 571. 7hp

3. Josh Ulrich 454. 5hp /900. 7

4. Cliff Wilson 453. 8hp

5. Mike Ramos 452

6. Rhonda Kelly 448hp / 867. 6

7. Big Bob 443hp/ 996

8. Carter Dillon 437. 6hp / 958. 9

9. Rob Milosh 436hp 871

10. Paul Morgan 428hp

11. Jonathan Eaton 408hp 923. 6 (Duramax)

12. Eric Wagner 407. 2hp / 923. 6



Most under 400hp #2 only



1. Kris Doran 393. 9hp/ 964

2. Randy Smith 384. 9hp 848. 6

3. Bob Mills (72 chevy w/ cummins) 353. 6hp / 646. 7

4. Nathan Black 344. 5hp / 738. 4

5. Jess Page 344. 5hp / 667. 9

6. Vaughn Mackenzie 331hp / 629. 6

7. Darin Honodel 330. 8hp / 755. 3

8. Bob Beauchaine (93) 330. 1hp / 720. 5

9. Brian Brownlow (03) 293. 7hp / 549. 1

10. Charlie Rothmund 293. 6hp / 604. 9

11. Wesley Oller 263. 2hp/ 719. 6

12. Stacy Nesbit (Ford) 201. 4



Stock



1. Dave Hirtle (03) 272. 7hp / 501. 6

2. Skip Caldwell (03) 266hp / 494

3. Dale witter (03) 261. 6hp / 484. 1

4. Mike Jack 253. 4hp / 513. 6

5. Steve Clyde 210. 7hp / 420. 2

6. Mike Pentland 197. 2hp / 387. 9

7. Glen Ulrich (chevy 6. 5) 162. 8hp/ 319







A big thanks to all the participants with out them Diesel Thunder 03 would not have been possible

 

[HOSS]

Top performer and the Trophy winner of the 2nd Diesel Thunder Drag Race was Nathan Wright with at time of 12. 03 at 114. 56 MPH.



The other results are as follows:



Rhonda Kelly 13. 08 at 102 MPH



Jonathan Eaton 14. 18 at 95 MPH



Jason Burton 14. 4 at 104. 7 MPH



Mike Ramos 15. 10 at 96 MPH



Paul Morgan 15. 41 at 95 MPH



Vaughn MacKenzie (don't know, Vaughn fill us in!)



Steve Covalt perferred to state his dyno numbers!

 

[Rhondasway]

back to reality

Well, I hit Pacific Raceways Wed. night for testntune... I was back to what I consider normal times: 13. 41-13. 44. That track is always slow, but at least my truck is very consistent, as usual!! I did beat a bike in the first round of brackets, but gave myself a red light in the second round...

Mr. Fletcher had his little 2WD PDR twin-driven truck there, and he's getting dangerously close to the 11's!! Oo. Still seems to be having traction issues (the biggest problem with running a 2WD, and an issue I personally don't have... )



I'll be at Mission this weekend hoping to get back down into the low 13. 3's (and wishing for a repeat of the 13. 2's ! ).

 

[Diesel Freak]

Diesel Thunder was sure fun this year.



I decided to watch the races fron the sidelines this time. I wanted to see the smoke from the stands... . Rhonda can sure black out the lights... . ya gotta love those 9 second dark runs!



I think Running the **** out of my truck from portland to Idaho cleaned things out a bit. It sure ran great the next day.



I never would have thought I would see anything close to 453. 8 HP with a stock ETH Pump!

 

[Bob Wagner]

Originally posted by Diesel Freak





I never would have thought I would see anything close to 453. 8 HP with a stock ETH Pump!

Is this a record?

 

[Diesel Freak]

Originally posted by Bob Wagner

Is this a record?

A personal one