ORSCA/HorsePower Finals

Hey, welcome to a special edition of Horsepower from the famed House of Hook in South Carolina.

It's the Orsa

Horsepower Fall shootout. Glad to have you trackside.

The season was launched in typical frantic fashion with the usual grills and big power from the 10 5 class

A class dominated by Southern outlaws. This season opener, drew some new blood to the full like the 67 big block bow tie from Houston with three stages of Nitrous.

Then there was the

MLI team of Camaros from Maryland,

Richard Sexton's beautiful gray and white car and teammate Chuck Elsa's.

That was beautiful before a little fire

veteran, Steve Kirk would grab the top qualifying spot with a 454.

But in eliminations, Sexton fought his way through one of the toughest deals of outlaws ever.

And in the final beat Texan Todd Moyer to take the first season win.

Race two was a Carolina dragway where Turbo Tim Lynch might have had dreams of history repeating itself.

You see it was here in finals of the last race of the 2006 season when he shattered all records with a 4, 36

Rainford

eliminations to a month later, makeup race in Huntsville where Lynch would face Ken Rain

finally settling the

score.

Oh, yes, Tim Lynch takes the win and the Carolina Makeup race is finally in the books

as part of the annual year one experience,

Orsa outlaws the extra invaded Atlanta drag.

Now this is where Mike, the Hitman Hill came to beat the curse that kept him from winning here for two seasons

with this win over Chuck Os.

The curse was officially,

we struggled here, both, both races here last year and we, we were trying to get that, that off our back. We want to win this one and, and really get that monkey off our back this time.

Next stop Montgomery, Alabama, where racers who could fight the heat should battle their way into eliminations.

The outlaw 10 5

Mogli team from Maryland now have 3, 10, 5 cars in the running. Richard Sexton and his new GTO son, Keith and his old command

and

Chuck

Os

who battled his way to the spot in the finals

and here he grabs his first horse

to win, beating Todd Moyer

with a 474 at 176 miles an hour.

Almost been there a couple of times. My first horse

race a couple of years ago, I actually lost in the final there too.

And then we started running horse

this year. So

it worked. I mean, it is nice. I really needed

a win

mid

the Osco

racers came to Atlanta drag away for a weekend of competition under a hot Georgia Sun.

Richard Sexton's 450 was enough to give him top 10, 5 qualifying honors. But in eliminations, he breaks at the line giving a win to Chuck

in semis. Jimmy Blackman fights off Samuel for a win while last year's champ Steve Kirk beats Bobby Cole in this close semi.

Then it's Kirk over Blackman in the final race. The former champs first win of the year.

We needed this race right here, man. We needed every point we could get

at the annual fall shootout back in Huntsville, 26 cars showed up to compete in the 10 5 class, a few newcomers, some old pros and this Turbo charged Corvette that struggled all season up until this weekend.

Shannon Ragsdale picked his way through elimination

to face off with Warrior who ran well but not well enough to catch Ragsdale with his 467. A

winning et it's got to be a good feeling. Getting your first real legitimate outlaw 25 win ever.

Yeah, any win is good, but this is big. This is a, this is a big event

and this event is going to be even bigger. Let's see who qualifies first at this weekend's showdown.

The weather

conditions that couldn't have been better for the Saturday's qualifying,

the kind of conditions where speed records fall like they did when Tim Lynch run a 432

at 100 78 miles an hour beating his old mark from here last year.

We felt good. We knew we had it in the car and uh Jeff has his track as tight as it can get and

everything. Clicks, racers and other heads of glasses reach new heights during qualifying

when we come back.

Welcome back to the Orzo

Horsepower showdown. Now when it comes to the true 10 5 class Limited Street, you can sum up the season success story. In two words,

Diren Oy

Darren's driven his red Camaro to four wins so far with solid consistency. He's the runaway points leader.

So what's this guy's secret besides the most nitrous allow Fulton 632. Uh

I've been running this motor for three or four years.

Had really good luck with it. Won a lot of races

to get consistent runs like oil though. You gotta have the right computer on board

and you can, uh you can kill the power out of the hole, put it back in down the track and it's just a, it's just a really good piece of equipment.

Hey, if you're a fan of outlaw heads up drag racing, you may think, you know this car

the same one driven by world record holder David Reese and easy street, same drag radial tires required in the glass, same black paint, same big block Ford with the pro Charger,

but it's not the same car. What it is is part of one of the biggest comeback stories in drag racing this year.

The easy street points leader had a remarkable season too, but it wasn't as easy as the name implies.

Reese set a new ET record at the season opener working his way to the finals against Shane Stack

when he accidentally left the line before the tree fell

about that time, he just blasted off and it was just like,

all right.

That's all right

after that though. It was all recent, easy street taking three wins in a row shattering records for ET and mile per hour. Always winning with modesty and this kind of restrained excitement. We're just, uh, trying to

kind of raise the point system, try to get our points at every race and

try to work toward the championship more so than the wins.

And, uh, we figured, uh, we get the points, then the wins will come at

the height of his surge toward an Ostra championship recently to a non

series race in Phoenix City, Alabama where after his customary burnout,

something happened

when I got down the track, I got probably a

455 100 ft and made the gear change.

And I just felt to get a little bit loose.

I got them just right out of it and the car turned to the left, hard left and once it started to slide there was,

I just couldn't do nothing. Just hold on.

I remember, uh, hitting, hitting the embankment

and then, uh,

Shane Stack opening the door and grabbing a hold of my

jacket, pulling on me, telling me to get out.

The car was a near total loss. Reese had two fractured vertebrae and doctor's orders to sit out the rest of the season.

But thanks to friends, fellow racers and personal fortitude,

an incredible rally was sooner than make.

He was able to build an almost identical mustang

in time for this second Huntsville race and the rest of the season,

you know, I thought I had a bunch of enemies when I was racing. Everybody disliked me. You know, maybe because I was winning. But

I tell you what, when I got hurt, it's those guys that was, uh, right there with me,

but happy for him,

he, um, has something he loves and I gotta support him

and

yeah, I

love him.

Reese lost to old rival, Shane Stack in eliminations.

But the amazing comeback had no doubt rescued his first easy street championship

other than out all 10 5, the closest points races in the new modified street class. The best thing to happen to or

this year,

but still heads up that way. You ain't gotta worry about breaking out, run his fashion run.

Yeah. Heads up racing with rules that keep it cool and cost effective for the little guy. Some of the bigger classes, the more money you got, the faster you go, the more you're gonna win.

This class keeps its, you know, everybody's got to run a small block. Everybody's gotta run a single plate yet.

Everybody's gotta run the same size tire.

Now, let's see who's top qualifier and modified street

street and limit the street at this weekend's shootout

in the right lane. Modified street racer. Sturgeon Atkins hops his way to a qualifying run.

Points leader. Ryan Rsw

managed to qualify fourth with a 549.

It was a close field and full of hooking up too much fun runs for the,

the limited street guys ran some remarkable runs like Carlton Thompson's almost record run of 478.

I say almost because Darren Hoyle would eventually d

it Camaro's

clutch to fly to a 475 beating his own old record.

Uh Joe

felt great, uh went out there the round before and did the wheel stand and came back and I was a little, a little worried and didn't know really what to do, but uh things came together for us

in the so called easy street flash. Some racers got high on testing their power potential on this fast track.

David Reese locked up his first championship by beating his own world record of 484.

A huge milestone in this incredibly eventful season.

Well, when we roll into eliminations, it's going to be a very eventful Sunday here at the second annual

Orsa Horsepower Finals.

Hey, welcome back right now, Roy, one of the track officials is dragging the track.

Those pieces of rubber back there are spreading out the glue. So the house of foot lives up to its name during elimination.

Here we go

in modified street rake straw's consistent mid five runs earned him a spot in the semifinals.

That's where he met Richard Reagan in this close race where Reagan won by 6/1000 of a second.

Great action on the other side of the ladder too.

Ke Banks grabbed that semi final spot facing Rob Roberts running 553.

Now easy streak where the champ Reese continued running good through two rounds.

Then he breaks in semi finals against Nick

Tommy Brewer's

steady 490 runs. Put him in the semi finals with hopes of a first season win

in limited street. Aaron Hoyle is unstoppable on the way to the semis.

That's where he beats Keith Sabo

who has problems and Hoy

off to the final showdown.

But so is his old fool, Carlton Thompson in his pumpkin colored mustang.

He beats Kevin Scott by a little over 1/1000 of a second.

Now in outlaw 10 5, Lynch's luck runs out at round two when he puts too much power to the pavement against John Cho.

Meanwhile look out for the new guys from Texas like Rick Thornton

in the 66 back

and Grant mccrary in the Mustang who came to challenge the Deep South stalwarts all the way to the semifinals.

First, Thornton takes down Richard Sexton with a 446

Dennis mccrary in a tight race over Jimmy Blackman.

So from a few 100 to only two each in four heads up classes,

the big finishes are just ahead.

Ok, we're back and our guy Rocky setting up the finish line camera, which means only one thing. We're down to two cars in each class of the Orsa horsepower shootout

in modified streak. Rob Roberts got his first Oscar win up against Richard Reagan who broke

his winning et 557.

Cheesy Street's record breaking weekend ended with Brewer and his pro charged 02. Trans

Am running a 493 over Garber's 516.

I'm almost speechless. We finally got us a horse to win this weekend. We just kept lap after lap. The car just kept running nineties and

stuck to our plan, taking it 11 round at a time.

Then there's darn Hoyle with a new world record, a new baby boy on his crew

and another championship as he powers past Thompson with a 479.

I just came out and wanted to, I wanted to do good so I could win the points championship and things were going great for us. So we, uh I kept stepping it up and going a little faster and a little faster and, uh,

uh I just couldn't ask for a better weekend. It turned out great.

Now it's down to the big dogs of outlaw 1052. Texans

line up

and both red light, but Thornton's the first defender. So mccreary claims the win got on to something late Friday night,

um ended up turning it up for this, uh last qualifier one of 42.

And, um,

you know, woke up this morning,

planned it out to just run that the whole finals and not change a car in any round. And it, you know, I got one lucky round and that happened to be in the final when Rick went red,

a finale for Horsepower's coverage of the outlaw racing street car Association season

three new World Records and three classes of eight mile heads up races.

Hey, welcome back to the shop where horsepower is our name and our aim in most of our build ups. Now, of course, that involves a bunch of different things including the handling of heat underneath their hood. Chances are you've heard of an old racer's trick of painting the underside of an intake manifold white to keep it cooler for the incoming air. We don't know of any scientific tests that proved if it worked or not, but if it did, it may have been that the coating helped prevent heat from sinking into the metal and of course, the color white

heat.

So who knows? Maybe that was a factor too. We've read up on this quite a bit on the internet recently and it seems a lot of you guys are coating the underside of your intake with various coatings. And right now, we've got a trick that combines a little bit of the old and new. Best part is it only cost you the price of a can of duplicate

white ceramic engine paint.

After some masking, we apply two light coats

followed by a medium coat allowing 10 minutes in between each one.

All the coats have to be applied within an hour. Now, if you want to lay an extra one down for good measure after that plan on waiting about seven days. See, it's the ceramic resins in the paint that actually dissipate the heat. Now, the can of duple color enamel I use has been

dyno tested up to 500 degrees. They also have their high heat version, which they claim is good up to 1200. While on the internet, we discovered that some hot

are taking this a step further by painting the outside of their intake manifolds with black paint preferably with a matte finish since black dissipates heat more evenly and quickly.

Well, I guess anything's worth the try if it helps in the management of heat exchange. Oh, here's a little fun fact though that relates to the rest of your motor. A

chromed out engine looks impressive parked in the weeds at a car show.

However, in theory that reflective chrome makes it harder to transfer heat through the motor and on out

that would seem to especially apply in a street ride with a motor that's mostly exposed. So in theory, at least a motor painted all black like this will be a lot more efficient and cooler

even if it doesn't look so cool. Well, speaking of paint time for this week's horsepower, hot parts,

if you wanna save money restoring your interior, don't buy a new dash or door panels. Go ahead and spray them with duple colors, new vinyl and fabric coating. It sprays on easy and makes everything look brand new. In fact, it works so good. We're gonna use it on our 79 Malibu project

with it prepped. You just spray it on evenly like paint and it dries quickly with a finish that really looks like new.

Well, what do you think? Pretty big difference? Huh?

Now, you can use this stuff on seats and carpet as well. It's available in a variety of different colors and the best part you can pick it up at your local auto parts store for about 650 A can. Here's an upgrade from March that will improve the performance and looks of your big block Mopar

Summit racing. Now offers this complete serpentine conversion kit that replaces the old V belt pulleys,

the one inch wide belt dry, this eliminates thrown belts and helps cool your engine. Plus here's something cool. Each piece is CNC machine from solid billet, then polished and clear coated for a maintenance free finish.

How many bucks for all this cool billet. Well, right at one grand. Well, we're going to clean up the tools and turn out the lights. Make sure you join us next week for another half hour horsepower.