I know many of you heard rumors that the DV car family was invited to Michigan, May 14/16th to compete in Car & Drivers annual Decathalon. The fastest, "true" street cars in America.
Well, it's true. A life long dream for me.
I must tell you when we were contacted April 2nd by Larry Webster of Car & Driver I was quite taken back. (Had he called the day before, April 1st. I probably would have hung up on him!)
This years competitors are a "who's who" of custom and fast cars;
Linkafeltor, Hennessey, TNT Vipers, Mallott, McClaren, etc. I think the total cars competeing are around 15.
We of course accepted their offer to attend. New racing suits had to be ordered, seat belts updated, geezz, even my helmet was to old! New tires from Tire rack had to be ordered. I don't even have 20 miles on the new re build on my DV!
For three days it was utter bliss and chaos at the same time. Hey, I had nothing better to do with my spare time, between now and the fling!
I assure you the latest and newest DV II was being prepped the same way. New pads, cooling system installed for the brakes, different gears, etc. etc.
Now a quick side note:
Motorola / Dodge Division, maker of the PCM's for the Vipers also called me last week. Seems they have sent out the wrong PCM with every crate motor sold! We always suspected the DV II may not be as quick in the 1/8 th. as the DV. We just wrote it off to the massive throttle body's, cam, etc. Taking just a little longer to get into the power band. As awesome as the DV II runs, it's been running on a V-10 TRUCK PCM ! Expected true horsepower gains are in the 40 to 80 hp range and the torque should easily go another 100 ft. lbs!
Wow, everything is / was looking fantastic.
Then the 3rd phone call came in. Nick, the owner of the DV II called with some very disheartening news. I can't and wont go into it, everyone and everything is fine, but it will be impossible for him to attend, thus nixing our chances of competeing.
For those that called and or wrote, thank you for your support. It means a lot! In fact, just getting asked to the big dance means a lot to a little guy like myself. Maybe we can make it next year...if asked.
DV
300 Cobras is NOT enough!
Well, it's true. A life long dream for me.
I must tell you when we were contacted April 2nd by Larry Webster of Car & Driver I was quite taken back. (Had he called the day before, April 1st. I probably would have hung up on him!)
This years competitors are a "who's who" of custom and fast cars;
Linkafeltor, Hennessey, TNT Vipers, Mallott, McClaren, etc. I think the total cars competeing are around 15.
We of course accepted their offer to attend. New racing suits had to be ordered, seat belts updated, geezz, even my helmet was to old! New tires from Tire rack had to be ordered. I don't even have 20 miles on the new re build on my DV!
For three days it was utter bliss and chaos at the same time. Hey, I had nothing better to do with my spare time, between now and the fling!
I assure you the latest and newest DV II was being prepped the same way. New pads, cooling system installed for the brakes, different gears, etc. etc.
Now a quick side note:
Motorola / Dodge Division, maker of the PCM's for the Vipers also called me last week. Seems they have sent out the wrong PCM with every crate motor sold! We always suspected the DV II may not be as quick in the 1/8 th. as the DV. We just wrote it off to the massive throttle body's, cam, etc. Taking just a little longer to get into the power band. As awesome as the DV II runs, it's been running on a V-10 TRUCK PCM ! Expected true horsepower gains are in the 40 to 80 hp range and the torque should easily go another 100 ft. lbs!
Wow, everything is / was looking fantastic.
Then the 3rd phone call came in. Nick, the owner of the DV II called with some very disheartening news. I can't and wont go into it, everyone and everything is fine, but it will be impossible for him to attend, thus nixing our chances of competeing.
For those that called and or wrote, thank you for your support. It means a lot! In fact, just getting asked to the big dance means a lot to a little guy like myself. Maybe we can make it next year...if asked.
DV
300 Cobras is NOT enough!