Well, the Second Annual N.C. Dyno and Drag Race was a great
event! I know that I certainly had a good time and it was great
to see everyone again and to meet some of the new faces!!
I want to sincerely thank everyone who attended the event
this year and most of all to the guys and gals that came from
out of state, like our fellow DTR group from Virginia!! My thanks
to Wayne Murphy @ "Waynes Dyno and Performance" for
hosting the dyno event and putting up with all the black
smoke,.......ESPECIALLY from our own Tim Barber (Timinva)
who singlehandedly COMPLETELY "blacked out" Waynes
garage with his DonM "Mach 7" EDM Injectors!!! It looked
like the building was on fire!!! Thanks also to "Coastal Plains
Raceway" for sponsoring our drag race event today.

Listed are other sponsors and individuals who really helped
make our event a success:

My "partner" Chris Dubie (Thanks Chris for all your help!)
Jess Spruill/Steve Swain (For expenses of trophies)
Robby Yates @ "National Dodge" (For expenses of trophies)
Sanders Ford
Wayne Murphy (Waynes Dyno and Performance)
Coastal Plains Dragway
Tom Goodall (For all the help in recording the dyno numbers)
Thanks Tom!!

Trophies were awarded for high H.P. (dyno) in the following
classes:

STOCK: Rick Dusch 2004 Dodge CTD CR 262 HP/486 TQ

MODIFIED: Buck Spruill 2003 Chevy Duramax 477HP/931 TQ

COMPETITION: Tim Barber 00' Dodge CTD 588HP/1056TQ

UNLIMITED: Buck Spruill 2003 Chevy Duramax 711HP/1238TQ

Congratulations to all the high H.P. dyno winners!
To "break this up" I will post all the dyno numbers on another
post.

Today, we awarded "Lowest E.T. Awards" and "Bracket Racing
Champ" to the following members:

1.) Lowest E.T.-Ford Powerstroke: Jess Spruill
2.) Lowest E.T.-Chevy Duramax: Buck Spruill (11.58@ 118 MPH)
3.) Lowest E.T.-Dodge Cummins Diesel: Tim Barber (13.1 @ 90MPH) Note: Tim let off the gas before he reached the traps!
4.) Bracket Racing Champ-Geoffery Dubie

My congratulations to all these winners! I did not get all the
times here, so if you guys can post your times that would be
great.

Again, thanks to everyone! One last note,...........we all missed
Chris Dubies' wife (Leigh) very much this year! As most of you
know she is in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps and our thoughts
and prayers are with you Leigh!! Our thanks to you and ALL the
troops who are doing an excellent job over there!! See you
soon Leigh!!

If I forgot anybody or missed anything I apologize!

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John_P

 

Here is a list of all the dyno numbers from "Waynes Dyno
and Performance" on Saturday December 4, 2004:
(I posted the highest numbers recorded.)

NAME TRUCK H.P./TORQUE

1. Tom Goodall (Goodys1Ton) 03' Dodge CTDCR 278/493
2. Tom Wheeler 03' Dodge (Hemi) 285/334
3. J. Porterfield, Jr. (banshee) 04' Dodge CTDCR 554/982
4. Buck Spruill 03' Chevy Duramax 711/1238
5. Jess Spruill 04' Ford PSD 401/697
6. C. Sonnichsen (masonicdodge)95' Dodge CTD 288/669
7. Leigh Dubies Truck 04' Dodge CTD CR 283/586
8. Geoffrey Dubie 91' Ford Ranger (Gas) 73/111
9. Chris Dubie (Papa Smurf) 01' Dodge CTD 427/927
10. Tim Barber (Timinva) 00' Dodge CTD 606/1072
11. Roy King 86' Ford F-150 (Gas) 311/435
12. Brian Buchanan (bbuchanan)01' Dodge CTD 354/688
13. Rick Dusch (Rickd) 04' Dodge CTDCR 403/806
14. Dennis Tway (RATTLINRAM) 99' Dodge CTD 296/618

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John_P

 

I think a great big thanks should go out to John Porterfield for his efforts as well

I enjoyed working on this with you, now we need to work on making next year even better. Let's see here how the weekend went.
Hooters on Friday with much BS ing with the fellas.
Dyno runs on Sat with even more BS ing.
Racing on Sun with even more BS ing ( the fields around the drag strip should grow like crazy next year)

I second all of what John said above. I think everyone had a great time, the temps where in the 60/70s so it was great.

I think RickD has a 05 vice a 04 truck.

We had the fastest running Duramaxes on the EAST coast run at this event. Let me set the stage
Ford lighting running mid and lower 13 all day.
Buck ( The Duramax) dials the same time as the lighting. They both take off, the lighting looked slow. He did not even come close to keeping up with the Chevy. The Duramax ran a 11.58 . I have seen this truck run a few time before and knew it was fast, so I enjoyed listening to the fans standing around that could not believe that a "smelly noisey Diesel beat a lighting that bad.
Thanks everyone I hope you had as good a time as I did. Of Course watching my son doing burn outs in the water trap with his Mommies dualie and then going on to the finals had alot to do with it.
Dennis
Are you still smiling?? how did the DDIIs do on the pull home?
See Ya
Chris

 

This event went very well thanks to John and Chris and the many others who helped out. I was very pleased with the dyno event, the first time I was on a dyno, Dec 2003, with stock set up I showed 152 and the rear wheels. After a reflash on the software, I ended up with a 196. Not to bad for an SO truck.
It is amazing what you learn at one of these get togethers, plus seeing the trucks put the numbers up makes one want to bomb some more and hanging out with the Porterfields and the Dubies makes one want to make their trucks smoke, but not like Tim's. I think I still have the smell in my nose, but what a site. You couldn't see day light through the cloud of soot. I just wish I would have had a camera.

Again thanks for putting on one heck of an event, I know the locals like seeing the "Big Trucks" run off the loud imports at the track.

 

hey john thanks for all you did as well as PapaS .the lowest et on the dmax came during time trials ,it was an 11.48 at 118mph,the 8th was a 7.37 at 95.73.as far as i know i think this just raised(or lowered really) the bar on dmax racing



...it was fun

and on a side note congrats on jeff dubbie for being the last diesel in the field

 

I forgot to thank Jerry Cummings from "Eagle Star Photography"
who came out and took some EXCELLENT photographs of our
trucks at the drag strip, including mine! Thanks Jerry!
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Jess:

Sorry for the error on the time for Bucks' Truck and thanks
for correcting it.

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John_P

 

How about those Chevy's? YEAH!!!!!!!!!

 

John, Johnner, Chris, Jess, Tome, Wayne, ect...

Thanks to everyone for putting on such a great event. We were blessed with good weather this year. Remember last year? I think a good time was had by all. Heck, I even bettered my best time last year by 3/10ths of a second, even with the clutch slipping and the extra 1000 lbs. on the back end. Maybe by next year I'll have a new clutch and hopefull sneak another mod past the wife and get under 17 seconds. Well, maybe not, but it doesn't hurt to dream.

After Christmas and New Years, how does everyone feel about a get together in Smithfield to eat and BS while the wives shop till they drop?

Had a great time and look forward to doing it again next year.

David

 

Had a great time at the event. Thanks to everyone who put it together.

I was lucky enough to line up against John for one race, it was fun to watch him cross to the finish line, it's an amazing view from down near the 1/8th mile marker! If my truck had I tail I know where it would have been.

The DMAX was beyond words... Seeing a truck with racing slicks on all fours do an 11 something run was awesome.

Thanks also to David and Kim for putting me up for the night.

 

David:

Thanks for coming down for the event! Your idea of meeting
in Smithfield after the holidays to get our NCDTR Chapter
rolling again sounds good!

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Mike:

I want to thank you for coming down too! You are giving
me too much credit on the drag strip though. Heck, if you
installed a TST PM 3, bigger injectors, and an HX-40 you
would have been right with me buddy!

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Jared:

What the heck happened to you guys from Kentucky???

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John_P

 

What's up with all of those slow underpowered Dodges???

 

I want to say THANK YOU to all that came out and dynoed your trucks, even you Tim I will be cleaning the walls for a month.

Last year when we did this I thought it was a one time event, but dang if you didn't come back I hope you will come here again next year and I promise to have a better ventalation system.

Buck, a 11.48

If anyone has digital pictures or video please e-mail them to me.
wanyesdyno@yahoo.com I want to put them on my website.

Again THANK YOU

 

I want to thank everyone who was at Wayne's and the dragstrip, this was my first event with all of you and you made me feel like I was part of your FAMILY I have never been welcomed in like all of you did for me. Its great to be able to put faces with all those names that I've been talking to over the computer for such a long time. I learned so much this weekend from all of you and you better believe I will never miss an event in the future.

Thanks again for taking me in to your DIESEL family.

CRIS

 

We had a great time. Finally got home around 9pm last night. Interesting trip back though. My external wastegate started working fine about 10 miles outside Jacksonville but I forgot I had a zip tie holding the boot on the air horn. So I went out to pass some one and at 30 lbs of boost the zip tie broke, that will wake you up from a slumber. Then about a hour from home one of my converter bolts came loose causing a god awfull noise. But all is fixed now. Looking forward to next year already. That 13.1 run was at only 80 mph as I was on the brakes looking for the turn off. I will know next time. I actually was going 85 mph in the 1/8 mile point and only 80 at the 1/4 mile mark so you do the math. Plus the comp was on 3/3 not 5/5. Will be low 12s or better next time I try. It was good to see eveyone again and Wayne sorry about your shop. Tim

 

Finally found time to sit down on the puter for a minute. Left Jacksonville at about 10:30 this morning,,,,, Backed the rig into the driveway at 3:30 and jumped in the Camaro to high-tail it to work for the 4-12 shift. No problems,,,,, just hard to get in a hurry going home. Truck pulled the 5er like a dream and I didn't see any more smoke out of it with the DDII's than I did before.,,,,,,, well,,,,, I didn't look that close. (Big THANKS to Tim and Johnner for doing the install. The only help they needed from me was to stay out of the way!) Thanks Chris, for giving me a chance to try em out. ,,,,now will ya stop pawning this stuff off on me before I get in trouble. Thanks to masonic-dodge for the BHAF heat shield also. And a REAL BIG THANKS to all you guys that help get this event together. Hopefully Wayne and Coastal Plains will want us back and we can bring even more folks than we had this year.

I'll create a Gallery for posting pics of the event and I'll put the ones I took in there when I get home,,,,,, (they're still in the camera,,, in the truck,,,,,, in the driveway,,,, at home)

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