How are you feeling man?
Man, that's tough.
How did it go last night man?
Great, we had a blast, we really did.
How did the car do?
Man the car did great, couldn't be happier with the car and I had a lot of fun.
You looked great out there dude.
I've been coming to LS Fest for 5 or 6 years and we really enjoy it, my background with
LS Fest is basically drag racing, so when I saw drifting out here, I mean I was hooked
like I've got to do that.
Man, it just looked like, golly, those guys have a lot going on in those cars, in my mind,
I just hope that I can do it you know but I've got to try.
I had a 2000 Camaro that I've had since I was 17-18 years old and so I had that for
years and I always carried it to LS Fest and it's been a long road, sold the Camaro and
bought this, been doing all this fab work and getting everything ready so the ultimate
goal has been drifting and we're finally here, the car is here, I've only got a couple of
events under my belt at the moment so I'm not really at the competitive level yet but
that's the goal.
So is this going to be your debut drifting at LS Fest?
Yes, sir, so yeah I'm excited, I'm nervous, I'm just glad they're giving me the opportunity
to get out there and try, you know.
It was basically a roller, no motor transmission, they had started gutting the car and things
like that, it was a good start basically and just had to go in and finish the roll cage
and get it up to spec, put a fuel cell in it, build a rear firewall and I built a motor,
I had a 6 liter iron block that I had and that I rebuilt, freshened up, put some heads
on it, intake and exhaust and I bought a swap kit and everything to put it in there and
just taking a little time and a little money and I finally got it completed.
Yeah the whole family comes out here, LS Fest of 2015 my wife was actually pregnant and
we were dedicated to still coming out here and go and we ended up having our baby 5 days
later so that's how close we were cutting it there.
You fixing it?
And then the year after that, we came out here and he was about one year old then and
he tripped and fell getting on the pit bike, cut his lip, so we had to go to the emergency
center and get that looked at, got back over here and we went to go buy some T-shirts and
we had some onesies made.
We were over there and we talked with Angel I believe, and she saw that he had blood all
over this onesie that we had made that had "my first Holley LS Fest" on it.
So anyways we are dedicated, we make a little mini-vacation out of this.
Just glad to be able to come out here and participate and be a part of LS Fest.
My dad, he circle track raced, he did a little drag racing and he circle track raced so since
I was in diapers I've been helping out with the race car somehow someway and when I was
8 years old we started gocart racing.
So I gocart raced on dirt for years, so I did that for a while and then I ran some circle
track cars on asphalt, did that for a couple of years and then I just kind of played with
streetcars LS motors and I did some drag racing.
So now we're going to try drifting.
Tires are a big deal, as of right now that's my biggest expense running the car is trying
to keep tires on the back of it and you've got that factor of trying to keep it off the
wall or getting it to another car so grabbing a hydro, banging gears, and flipping the steering
wheel, here's a wall here, there's cones there, there's another car.
You're just trying to keep it all in check, that's what makes it a lot of fun for me anyways.
It is just so much fun, I just can't thank yall enough for putting this event on, it
gives people like me a chance to come out here and do stuff like this.