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For the 23rd year, racers from across the South and the rest of the nation are converging upon the Orlando Speed World Dragway in Florida for the traditional Real World Street Nationals, one of the most prestigious heads-up drag races anywhere in the world. As always, and with the support of the folks at Fuel Air Spark Technology, Dragzine will be in the house to bring you all the action, the news, notes, results, and photos!
We are rockin and rolling here in Orlando thisafternoon with qualifying set to run at four, we are just waiting for the cars testing to run out the lanes. Here Ari Birchfield rides out a wheelie in Enrique Perez’ Ultra Street Mustang.
Outlaw 632 racer Mike Oldhan runs this 37 Ford built from Suncoast Race Cars in the class with a Voss Engineering 632 big Chevy. The car sees occasional street duty and is equipped with dual funny car cages for that extra layer of passenger safety.
Jeff Lutz in the house with the Evil Twin Worlds Fastest Street Car scoring a 5.87 at 251 MPH in last nights test session.
Jerico Balduff ran well in testing with a 5.89 in his Janis powered Willy’s.
Jordan Perofrmance owner Justin Jordan scored a personal best last night with a 7.60 at 184 MPH and is running Heavy Street this weekend. Justin is fresh off an NMRA Turbo Coyote and FL2K Street Car Shootout wins with his MBRP sponsored ride. He runs an MPR built Coyote engine with a Hellion Twin Turbo Kit and runs out of the Pro Fab Performance Plus shop in Port Richey, Florida.
We stopped by John Carinci's pits and spoke with tuner Jason Lee from PTP. Carinci had quite the backfire last night blowing the the intake manifold apart and a hole right through the hood in the process. Teardown found a folded over top ring in the engine but no serious damage. A new piston for that cylinder and new rings all around will have the engine fixed right up. A big thanks to Jeff Lutz for making the repairs to the intake.
Kevin Fiscus will be driving the FKR Pro Mod this weekend with Josh Klugger in their record setting Drag Radial Mustang. The Team FKR Radial Mustang is the world record holder with a string of 5.9X passes and a win at the Import vs Domestic World Cup Finals at MIR. The Radial vs 10.5 class will be one to watch this weekend. The cars will run separately depending on tire till the finals where the top two will face off against each other for 10K.
Billy Glidden is here this weekend as usual. He finished tenth on the year in NHRA Pro Mod running driving some events early in the season in Harry Hruska’s Precision Turbo Pro Mod Camaro.
Round One Qualifying Results
Kevin "Flash" Fiscus took back the Pro Mod Track Record from Tricky Rickie Smith which was set at the 2015 OWSN running a 7.727 at 160.46 MPH for both ends of the record.
Adam Flamholc landed third in Pro Mod behind Mike Janis with a 5.88 at 242 MPH. His team mate Kristian Nystrom sits ninth in the field with an easy 6.41 at 204.
Gino Bia put his 72 Cuda in second position in Heavy Street running a 7.80 at 165 MPH behind Joseph Hatfill’s Orlando based 1790 Camaro.
Lil Bull is mid pack in Heavy Street with his Pumkin orange blown Camaro, a long time crowd favorite here at Orlando.
Mike Pruss earned number one qualifier in Top Sportsman with a 4.39 at 158. That number will likely drop tomorrow for the top cars. The class runs on a dial so that’s not a significant advantage in once in eliminations.
Some good cars are entered in Limited Drag Radial but no one got down the track in this session. Frank Meshaw is first with a 5.76.
Limited Drag Radial racer Scott Husted had a close call after getting lose on his attempt. Looked like the rear tires were skipping some, not quite into shake and kicked the rear to the left. he got into a slide and spun nearly 180 degrees before tapping the wall with the edge on the nose. That’ll buff out.
Right after Husted’s incident Ev Bernardo broke something putting a line of fluid from just past the 330 down track.
Chris Lancaster put his Panhandle Performance 93 Fox on the pole in Ultra Street with a 4.81 at 148 MPH.
Brian Keep was paired up with ODRC class winner Mike Freeman in Ultra Street qualifying. He rode out this whee lstand dragging sparks near 200 feet before setting it down. He landed tenth with Freeman running a 4,86 at 145 for third place.
Erik Kenward, 2016 NMCA Xtreme Street Champion is here running Street Outlaw this weekend which uses the NMCA/NMRA rules package here at the OWSN. He run a single turbo small block Chevy from TNT Race Engines. He landed third in class with a 4.87 at 145. Charles Hull leads with a 4.39 with Dean Vallese in second with the Zombie Wagon.
ODRC winner Troy Blake leads Outlaw 632 with a 4.42 at 164 after one session with twenty-two cars attempting to qualify.
Jeff Ennslin got the better of Mike Oldham in an all 37 coupe OL 632 battle running a 4.659, good for sixth. Oldham is down in tenth with a 4.90.
Barry Mitchell leads the Outlaw 10.5 vs Pro Radial class with a 3.91 at 192. He pedaled the car once early on the run.
Ziff Hudson put his single turbo 90 Mustang in the threes scoring a personal best and single turbo record 3.965 at 193.38.
Stratford Ontario Based Spencer Hyde is the top qualified OL 10.5 car and is based out of Stratford Ontario, Canada. Hyde has campaigned the car on 10.5 for about a year with this 4.15 at 179 being a personal best ET.
Chad Opaleski is sporting a new three speed TH 400 from Steve Cannizio at CRT Transmissions. He landed fourth with a 4.12, his first full A to B hit since the installation. What amounts to like four attempts.
