My long time friend Mike Janis just won Pro Mod at the Indy US Nationals, the most prestigious drag race of the year! 5.952 @ 241.41 MPH to Mike Smith's 5,955 @ 241.37. MOV = 10'!

 

It's got an engine so it's not that far OT , Holy Crap thats Fast

 

Ax that's cool and fast but only in a straight line. How would he do against the kanary????

 

I'd smoke him in a down and back race!

Pro Mod is the fastest "doorslammer" class.

 

Now that's a close race. Photo finish for sure. At that speed they are going over 350 ft per sec. so .003 sec. is only about a foot.

 

Engine:

Over 8000 HP on alcohol!

Car:

 

Mike got a ,03 holeshot on him, it was like they had a rope tied between them all the way down. MOV (Margin Of Victory) approx 10'

 

It's not totally off topic for me. Valvoline is a local company. A good friend of mine works for their parent company, Ashland.

Props for great driving, and a great machine. (for a Chevy, though I don't think there are a lot of Chevy parts in there)

 

About the only real Chevy part in there is the grill emblem (oh wait, even that's a vinyl decal!). Rules require a body that resembles a real car, The 13 Camaro replica body had the best wind tunnel #s this year, Last year's car was a Mustang, he's also used Dart, Firebird and Corvette bodies. The roof of the car is about 40" above the ground (about waist high).

 

Mike owns the oldest speed shop in Buffalo. Builds his own complete superchargers and injector systems in house, buys the as cast aluminum block and heads, does all the machining. He sells his engines and superchargers all over the country and as far away as Sweden and Australia. He won the NHRA Englishtown Summer nationals this year as well as the IHRA Pro Mod points championship twice. In spite of all that he is a friendly, great and humble guy.

 

Ax for that class and level of competition a 10 foot win is rather impressive! I would imagine there is a very big party going on. Hope you get to enjoy some of it

 

Very cool! That's movin out.

 

Did you ever do the math on how many times the engine rotates from the hit of the throttle until the 1/4 mile mark (or 1000' for the fuel cars)
Some surprising numbers.

 

I'm not there. I do plan to see Mike in 2 weeks at the 4 lane Zmax dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the NHRA Fall Nationals. We'll celebrate again then (twice if he wins that event as well!).

 

Never have Dick. I'll ask Mike when I see him at Charlotte, I'm sure he can tell me exactly from his data recorder.