We're doing, look, there's a camera, they see what you are doing, they're going to show
it to a policeman.
My name is James Rowlett, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.
So the backstory is, it was three weeks before LS Fest and I had a small block Ford in here,
still with a five-speed.
And I'm an LS guy, I just had the car and I said that when it blows up I'll swap it,
well it made it all summer and then we blew it up with nitrous, so I said, we're going
to swap the car before LS Fest and we're going to race it.
So it was three weeks, did a 370-inch motor, power glide, the whole fuel system, Holley
EFI, wheels and tires, suspension, I'm talking about everything and it actually didn't run
until we got here at LS Fest.
It had never even been started.
We tried to start it, we had some issues and Tom Kise came over and helped me and we got
it going and he's got some funny stories about that, but ever since then I've been 100% Holley
EFI, and the car has just grown and grown and grown and we have just had a great time.
Pretty much a base tune-up would make a pass on this thing with the Holley man, it's just
awesome.
The first pass it ever made period was like 9.40 in the quarter, never even been down
the track one time, that's how good this stuff is, it just went on down through there, man,
just crazy, stock shocks on it still, I mean it shouldn't have gone that fast or whatever
but now it's a high four-second eighth-mile car.
You know I've got an HP because I can make an HP work with my setup.
It has the intake manifold, fuel rails, the brushless pump, anything that can be Holley
is on this car and where I work at we're a Holley dealer so no matter what I try to get
that on the car you know, it just helps us sell it and we honestly, ever since I put
this car together and put this wrap on it and Sniper has come out, dude, I put at least
one or two Snipers on something a week, and it keeps going, and so I'm glad to be back
at LS Fest this year, you know I've had two weeks off and I called Lonnie Grimm and he
said, man you better get here on Thursday or you're not going to have a parking spot.
He's like, it's grown that much since you've been here.
I've been racing here since I was a kid, junior dragsters, and I've never seen the pits go
this far, ever.
I participated in a TV show this season called "Fastest Cars In The Dirty South", it's a
new one, it's on Motortrend On Demand, it's not going to be out on TV until the fall I
think.
These are the guys that are on the show, and I just kind of put their picture on there
to screw with them you know, but we finished that season up and if you haven't seen it,
the stakes were, I gave them a slow car that I had, and I had this car, and they said that
they would fix my slow car and outrun my fast car.
So they had the car for four months, it was a Vega, I had a 5.3 in it and stuff, they
did their thing, we came back and raced and I ended up outrunning them in the end and
so I got the car back with everything that they did so that's what I did with that.
So it's been a good year just playing around, and I came here and I'm trying to win that
$10,000 but honestly, just being here, bringing all my friends, everybody hanging out, cooking,
just seeing all the cool stuff.
If you can just come here and be a part of it, it's a big deal in my opinion.
I actually missed my time trials today and I'm waiting for the next one, I haven't even
made a pass in this car this weekend and I don't even care, we've been hanging out, and
grilling, you know, I got my little girl, and so we are having a good time.