John Mihovetz did not have a fun night last night, after discovering a spun rear main bearing and damaged crankshaft. The ‘Modular Master’ had a crankshaft delivered from his Accufab shop in California, the team pulled the engine, and everything is repaired. We walked by this morning and they were putting the finishing touches on, and Mihovetz feels that if the car will get through second gear cleanly, the five-second zone is only a timeslip away.

True Ten 5/XDR racer Lucas Mlinar was strapping on a fresh set of Mickey Thompson ET Street Radial Pro tires this morning. The Winnipeg-based racer (31 hours away!) is looking to go 6’s for the first time today, and he’s up against racers using the 315 tire in the process. He made his first 200 MPH pass in the 540-cube turbocharged ’01 Firebird and sits in the seventh spot out of 28 cars.

After his monster wheelstand last night (see yesterday’s coverage for a great photo), Armen Maghdessian was conferring with Matt Mungall from Racecraft Inc. this morning in the pits, trying to get his machine down the track cleanly in Wild Street. Earlier this week, he was spinning on every hit, now he’s reaching for the sky each time he’s looking for a solid middle ground.

Saskatchewan-based Dan Vogt was making clutch changes this morning in his Pro Mod Corvette. The team reviewed the computer data and was in the process of adding more counterweight to help get the car moving efficiently. He’s solidly tenth with a 6.29 at 223 MPH in the field of 20 cars.

Outlaw 8.5 racer George Raygoza was warming the car up this morning when we stopped by. ‘I stood the car up, which I have never done on these tires, so we’re trying to get the car figured out for eliminations tomorrow,’ he said. Even so, he’s working his magic on the AES Racing Engines-built, Induction Solutions-nitroused 532 big-block Chevy.

Priddis, Alberta, Canada’s Glen Kerunsky made a huge jump up in the Turbo Pro Mod class, going from 17th to sixth with a strong 6.124 at 232MPH.

Troy Coughlin and the JEGS team also stepped up in this morning’s third Outlaw Pro Mod session, gaining three hundredths and solidifying their third qualifier position.

Tyler Clark of Wicked Graffixx is here working as a crewmember for John and Camp Stanley. He told us he’s having the time of his life working on the record-setting Pro Mod.

Yesterday we told you about AJ Kephart’s dad Chris and his wild ride in XDR/TT5. Chris had to pedal the car in today’s first session and didn’t improve on yesterday’s qualifying effort, but it was the smile on AJ’s face that stood out to us. Now that’s the look of someone who’s happy to be here!

Toaster continued his roll in Outlaw 8.5. If you can believe it, he improved on his qualifying time and set the mark in 8.5 down to a stunning 5.006 at 147.50. He’s got that machine figured out!

Krusty Ramsey leapfrogged over George Raygoza in this morning’s Outlaw 8.5 session. He put a huge 5.10 up on the board to make a statement.

For those of you who are Street Outlaws fans, the Sonoma is here making test passes – no time passes, of course.

Tony Aneian has been chipping away at his 510-cube Hot Street combination all weekend, battling back and forth with Mike DeMayo Jr. for supremacy in the all-motor class. In the fourth qualifying session this morning, Aneian tripped the timers with an 8.119 to edge ahead of DeMayo’s best 8.124 pass.

Rod DeWild also moved up in Hot Street, improving his elapsed time to an 8.305 at 160 MPH.He moved up yo third over Victor Brum and Matt Funkhouser.

That’s the look of pure satisfaction – Krusty Ramsey (right) busted into the four-second zone in Outlaw 8.5, becoming the first-ever nitrous racer to do so. We caught up with him not long after the pass, and he had thanks for everyone – his wife, his engine builder,Tony Bischoff of Bischoff Engine Services, even the fans sitting in the stands watching. In the process Ramsey topped Ryan Jones and George Raygoza to take the top spot entering eliminations. An awesome pass – congratulations, Krusty!

Turbo Todd Moyer was hard at work in the pits tonight diagnosing some issues – from what we understand, the head gasket let loose between two cylinders, knocking the compression out of that section of the engine. Looks like it’s going to be a long night ahead for his crew.

In today’s first session, Texas Wild Street racer Terry Thompson had his hood decide to make a quick exit around the 800-foot mark. ‘One minute everything was fine, the next I found myself looking at the sky and my hood up there,’ he says. It was a windshield-fit hood and wasn’t allowing air to escape, which caused it to lift off. The team made the necessary repairs to get him ready for the last round of qualifying. The ’67 Chevy II has a Reher-Morrison 572 and Induction Solutions fogger on board, and is 17th heading into tomorrow’s eliminations.

This is not the news we wanted to report, but in the interest of full disclosure we have to explain that Chris Kephart’s weekend is over. “I was on a pass – the car was going straight and true, and then all of a sudden I was looking at the wall,’ he told us. He vows to rebuild with the assistance of son AJ and his ‘second wife’, Joel Orme of Orme Brothers. Despite the damage to the car, he was upbeat in the pits, explaining that he was more upset about hurting AJ’s car than anything else.

Tony Aneian captured the top spot in Hot Street despite earning the exact same elapsed time as Mike DeMayo, Jr. down to the thousandth of a second – 8.119. Aneian gets the nod thanks to his higher top speed through the traps – tomorrow should be a dogfight in this class.

Mike Maggio’s Hemi-powered machine is easily one of the loudest Pro Mods we’ve ever heard. All of that incredible sound translated into a number-four qualifier spot just behind the trio of Stanley, Dillard, and Coughlin, with a 5.76 at 257-plus.

Vic Brum took the third spot in Hot Street back thanks to a strong 8.28 at 162 MPH in tonight’s final session. He’ll face Joe Keurjikian tomorrow in the first round.

John Mihovetz’ Modular engine is the smallest in the Outlaw Pro Mod class by 132 cubic inches, but his performance on the track has him sitting in the seventh qualified spot with a 6.089 at 244 MPH. We’d have to say that the overnight crankshaft replacement worked out just fine.