Between rounds team update: Thursday 30th July

Yet again a month has gone by in-between our blog entries, but as always we have been totally manic with work on the cars and sponsorship deals.

Since our Summer Nationals event win and low ET run of 6.42 (at only 1000 foot) we have done a lot of work on the Relentless Topolino, mainly maintenance that these cars require when you push them to run low 6’s, so the car was pulled to pieces to check and measure everything to see if it needed replacing, and we new certain things needed to be changed, for example valve springs, anyone running a good blower will know that an alky motor eats springs. It’s a necessary evil.

We also changed the rods too as these were the rods from 2008 and half of 2009 and for the cost of rods its not worth leaving and gives piece of mind.

One of the major points we looked at was the clutch and gearbox. At the Summer Nationals we used a set of clutches on only 4 runs so as you can imagine its slipping a little bit too much…so we stripped and cleaned it and reset with more finger weight and more base. And also found a needle bearing had collapsed in the Lenco too, which was a strange one as everything else was untouched, but we rebuilt it and replaced all of them to be safe and its all back in the car.

We are looking forward to the next event and if all goes well then we would still like to get that 6.2 (or better) as the 6.4 at the Summer Nationals was quite and easy pass for the car as we only left at 4,000rpm and shifted at 8,000rpm so there is a lot more to come and the fact that it was a 1000 foot pass, it doesn’t take a lot of working out to know the potential of this car. A video of the run is below.

We are also slowly collecting parts for the Bantam altered which as told on Eurodragster will now use a blown big block Chevy. Recently we bought some Brodix aluminium heads with T&D rocker stands and rocker arms. Thanks to Bill Todd for sourcing and sorting these.

We are still looking for some parts for the car, but its coming together well and the plan is to have the car out early 2010 for some testing.

Yet again I need to thank everyone who has visited our website, as I write this we have had over 146000 visits, I have been keeping an eye lately and its working out about 400+ per day, obviously this is great for us and our sponsors as there getting some very good exposure, so thank you too all, keep it up!

Regarding sponsorship, I am still working away with a few companies but as ever we are looking for more so if you would like to get your name on three separate race cars that will race in three different classes then E-Mail us at sponsorship@bennettracing.co.uk or give me a call any time on 07843 619724.