scott boda here with steeda auto sports today we're going to show you behind the scenes video
of the true street cruise with me and edelbrock's david page that we did in our seat of silver
bullet now as you know we headed down to the nmra spring break shootout for the season opener event
and our silver bullet was ready to party a little too hard ended up getting disqualified but during
this cruise you're going to see what we did leading up to the event to try to make the
event happen which we ultimately did and all of our great supporters that helped make it happen
all right now that we're on the road so tell me a little bit about what
you guys have been through with the car and the whole trip for the last 48 hours getting
to the racetrack and making a pass today wow uh last 48 hours have been crazy right so
after our awesome win in my nationals and true street that you guys came out to uh who said how
do we turn it up how do we get the program better and that was to go with a better set of rotating
assembly right stronger rotating assembly turn the boost up add a little more timing and fuel to it
and uh it was a mad scramble like everything not everything works out like you think it's going to
of course and the last 48 hours we got the blower case in uh it was freshly boarded from
brett barber out of airflow solutions and uh then poor jamie our tech gets sick right goes home sick
uh comes back the next day goes throws it together oh we have no supercharged oil oh my goodness
owner supercharger oil it comes in a day later gosh this is longer than 48 hours anyway it's
been a hectic hectic week but so that comes in a day late we get it together on thursday
and it sounds like an old school vortech s-trip it's howling like the bearings are bad everywhere
and it's like how could this be uh first thing i do i reach out to you you put me in contact with
your guy out there in california it was a great help he's like anytime somebody's like okay give
me three things it's like oh okay we're gonna dial this in pretty quick it could be this nope we got
the right amount of oil we got four ounces not six okay what about this nope that's like that okay
well did you do this yeah we did that oh shoot okay the rotors are out of balance so basically
the bolts that hold the rotors together which are spinning creating all the boost jamie r
tech during the disassembly process he loosened those up not knowing if those had to be undone
he said eden's real tight lipped on the torque spec they got a fixture you name it there's no
way you can fix it he goes there's a chance you can run it for a couple days and it'll be
fine but when you got a brand new short block yeah and we were supposed to be racing in 24 hours we
ain't got a couple days so this all happened just uh that was on thursday this was thursday this is
saturday saturday yeah just two days ago so he says you need a new rotor uh what's it a rotor
pack yeah the rotor pack so reach out to you you uh once again come through and it's why i posted
the way i did on my facebook post like that it's the people you surround yourself with you know
when adversity happens how do they respond how do they come up with you know we're warranting
an item or a control arm what do we do to get that racer back on the road right away so same
thing you said scott don't worry about it we got one in california where do you need it delivered
it was to valdosta and you sent me the tracking number i was outside i think with my dogs at the
time uh sometime thursday night and sure enough i was tracking it it was in south georgia by like
five something in the morning no lie it was at our facility at 8 57 uh from via ups um we had it
together basically uh just before noon and i loved your post uh you know you had four images at uh
uh 8 59. the edelbrock box is sitting there with the rotor pack at like 10 17 the floor is back
on the engine yeah at like 11 40 you're on the dyno making dino pools yeah i've been in that
situation before so i knew what was going on you guys were getting everything you could possibly do
to be prepared so the moment the part showed up yes boom yes i already know i wasn't even
there but i already know the tools were laid out nope everything you needed every hose belt
fluid was right there ready to go basically we had a couple hours on thursday to say what are
all the little things we need to do okay we got to get the mufflers on the carpet true street
let's balance the rear wheels we just picked up a new set of mickey thompson let's get that get
him on the car do this do that all the little things we're ready to go got on the dyno and uh
kudos to john lund and and his tuning ability like i sent him an idol log right as jamie's checking
the transmission fluid and then free revving it and john's like oh it looks pretty spot on he goes
put on the dyno do a slow rev and then go wide open to five grand he makes one one tweak to it
take it eight thousand uh it was at that point pretty confident yeah he's unbelievable it's crazy
you know here we are with a kind of a unique combination we had our stroker crank and good
rods in it from the na motor with some lower compression pistons with your e4 supported and uh
yeah but then he goes to me he's like it looks like you might have some belt slip he goes power
fell off at 7 000 rpms do another pull i'll be darned if the next pull we didn't have belt
stratton though going all across the dining room the dreaded shredded belt shredded belt so
he said hey took off that smaller bullet put on the 275 put on the 275 and uh it
made within one horsepower nine uh 956 i think it was like 870 foot pounds of torque
which is absurd and we said all right we're already behind schedule let's load up and uh
head on down south to bradenton which then we had multiple blowouts and
had to have employees send other wheels and tires and drive an hour and a half south i mean
it was nuts just the fact that we're here i mean it was just usually something good happens
when you have to go through so much adversity and you still find a way to push forward and
that's right get the job done well scott let's back up for a second so what what supercharger
pulley did you have on it at south georgia at the mod nationals at my nationals we had the 3-1 on
there okay and that made about 16 pounds of boost we went the uh 869 with a slipping transmission
um and what kind of mileage one 150 157 150 157 uh pulled the transmission out sent it to uh
manuel out there at midnight performance in houston texas he sent it back to us we
went out there for one test session in between that was still the completely 100 stock block
and uh we went an identical 869 but we picked up four mile an hour it went 161 out the back door
so that was really cool that it went that fast out the back door so then your first dyno pulls um
with the updated blower and the updated short block you had the
two point six two five two and five eights bully yep had belt issues just to make sure you got
beyond that you backed it up to the two point seven five five yep and that's what's on there
now correct so how much boost did it make with the 275 pulley even with the 275 it gets to 20
and kind of starts fluttering a little bit so that's why lund still thinks that there's still
a little bit of belt slip okay we just hope it lasts these three passes coming up here and um
yeah but we're going to probably source out a grip tech pulley for it make sure we can hold all the
boost we're going to throw at it and see how deep into the eights we can get this so talk about your
first pass today when you guys showed up the track so you got in here last night i'm sure
you guys were exhausted from just a a a rugged day of making it to the racetrack two two rounds
of qualifying in your class were gone you you missed tell me about the first pass this morning
first pass uh rolled up did the burnout knock the stickers off the back tires and uh
kind of got on it easy on the foot break i didn't really know what to expect i mean
a whole new combination right and uh it went really well it went up 123.5 60 foot
which is easily our best 60 foot ever the previous best at my nationals was a 1-3-0 so we cut seven
hundredths off to 60 foot which is crazy those were much better conditions back in november oh
yeah than what we have here uh in the spring and arguably the best track in the country sgmp so it
was uh it was awesome that it responded like that of course we're fighting a headwind here today
right so the car was dancing a little bit at the top of the track but uh responded with a 850 what
was it 855 yeah at uh 160 miles an hour it changed so the amount hour i was a little concerned about
why was it down mile an hour then again at the time i think we had three miles on the motor so
you know not many miles on the short block still breaking in still breaking it in the right way so
then for the second pass i want to lean on the converter a little bit harder the guy in front
of me had just spun so i kind of got out of the groove a little bit um sometimes the mickey's
gonna be very forgiving yeah and uh leaned on the foot break i think i saw about 2 900 rpms
and uh it went wheels up on that first pass but i know you've seen pictures but i wish you could
have seen it from my vantage point it was the most beautiful wheelie they just carried them it just
hung the front tires carried them out set them down nice and easy you stayed in it like you're
supposed to do yeah and uh and then what was the et on that bass that was an eight uh which was 846
had 162 in change and it packed up the 123 but it went a 123.4 but on the back tire it was uh
it was super cool um i think it probably made the gear change as soon as uh it came down but uh
that that was awesome i mean you you just you know you could tighten up the front suspension i know
to go quicker we'll try that tomorrow morning um in our test hit i'll get the front nice and
tight on it we'll try to go into the one teens to 60 feet um and uh yeah see we can go a little
quicker try and reset that rock record well i know that uh after a difficult few days uh physically
mentally and emotionally stressful it's good to shake that monkey off your back and get those
first two passes down and have the performance be just you know frankly better than we could
have expected for the first couple of passes off the trailer so congratulations to your team hey
appreciate the support from you guys we couldn't do it without enterprise well i'm just glad to
be a part of it and the most uh exciting part about this is the very same kit that we shipped
to steeda to install on silver bullet steeda and edelbrock are doing a giveaway so you can win
that very same kit by going to steeda.com and registering for the steeda edelbrock supercharger
giveaway so be sure to go check that out go to that site register uh we're going to give that
away or we're going to announce the winner i should say at mustang week mustang yeah
in the end of july so um anybody that's watching this register up you can have the same hardware
that's on the silver bullet all right well that was a quick recap of what led up to the nmra
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