The Spaghetti Menders Pro Car wiring system in Tony Nesbitt's Super Street Corvette.

The Team Midnight clan of drivers Tony Nesbitt, Barbara Nesbitt, and Phil Smith all enjoyed considerable success at the recent NMRA/NMCA All Star Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord, NC utilizing new Spaghetti Menders wiring and nitrous oxide controllers in each of the three cars.

Tony Nesbitt, behind the wheel of his sharp ’02 C5 Corvette, qualified in the fourth slot in Super Street 10.5W with a 7.054 at 197.62 MPH, and opened eliminations with a defeat of Mikey Rees’ Camaro, 6.972 at 199.94 to Rees’ slowing 15.87 following a redlight start. Nesbitt looked poised to go toe-to-toe with remaining combatants Bill Lutz and Frank Mewshaw in the semifinals, but was forced to leave the track following mother Barbara’s unfortunate on-track incident in the second round. Nesbitt’s Corvette was sporting the new eight-stage, Quick Set Nitrous Controller that DRAGZINE featured in a recent tech article, along with the new Pro Car wiring system, and the results are already beginning to show, with 60-foot clockings bettered by .05-.06 of a second over their previous performance.

Said Team Midnight’s Billy Adams, “It’s much easier to tune it. I can tune it in the hundredths and even thousandths of a second, whereas before I was limited to what I could do. I can set the timers where I really want them: bring them in closer, faster, and actually stretch the systems out where it leaves the line and comes on at .6-seconds and another stage at .8-seconds, for example. There’s just a lot more I can do in terms of turning systems on and off.”

Nesbitt’s car, while carrying the eight-stage controller, has only been run utilizing the first four stages thus far, but the team plans to further test the extra stages. “We’ve seen a lot of performance advantage leaving the starting line, because now I can turn the nitrous on a lot quicker, whereas before we didn’t have that flexibility.”

Barbara Nesbitt qualified her new ’69 Camaro sixth in the increasingly competitive Nostalgia Pro Street category with a 7.507 at 182.95 MPH with a new two-stage nitrous controller from Spaghetti Menders on board. The popular driver advanced through the first round when opponent Jim Jarrett fouled out, running it out to a slowing 8.10-second lap. She then benefited from a second round bye run, powering to a 7.637 at 183.42 before a top end mechanical failure took her out of competition.

Meanwhile Xtreme Street teammate Phil Smith drove his ’85 Firebird to the ninth spot in qualifying at 8.684 before falling to Steve Cagle in the opening round, 8.59 to 9.10. Smith’s Firebird also sports the same two-stage Spaghetti Menders nitrous controller found in Barbara’s Camaro.