Agrinova
One of the most ingenious ways we saw to combat the heat of idling a l.OOOhp bullet down country roads in traffic came from Mount Joliet, Tennessee, racer Shannon Carnathan and his engine builder, Daryl White. To keep the twin-turbo and fuel-injected 555ci Chevy cool, the duo first ditched the '71 Nova's hood and then made a chin spoiler out of cardboard and aluminum foil. Finally, the guys stopped at Home Depot and bought flexible plastic hose and a fertilizer hand pump and used that to douse the front of the radiator with water as they drove. Shannon says they went through about 15 gallons of water the first day. Imagine how tired Daryl was after pumping that thing for six hours. The Nova took Second Place in Big-Block Power-Adder with a 9.004 average.
"Ifwe're gonna make it, we are gonna have to get creative. It's just time and moneu."—Shannon Carnatnan
THANKS TO THE DRAG WEEK™ SPONSORS
Drag Week™ simply would not happen without our crew of enthusiastic sponsors. From MSD hosting lunch at the kickoff, to Lunati and NOS sending reps to help the racers, to Jack Day from Rockett Brand cruising with us every year, to Amsoil in its second year as the official oil, and Mickey Thompson always supporting us as the official tire of Drag Week™, these companies get it. Perhaps none more so than title sponsor Rick Johnson of Gear Vendors, who could not love Drag Week™ more. He swears he's sponsoring it till the grave, since these racers are exactly the type of people who need an overdrive unit that can survive 2,000 hp and many road miles.
Also, we can never send enough thanks to our friends Tonya and Keith Turk for all their help running the event and the same to our own Jenny Schmitz and Michelle Turczyn for doing all the stuff we don't want to.
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