Mike headed down to the NC DSM track day at Fayetteville Motorsports Park yesterday to get some passes in. The progress of the car may not be as fast as Mike wants as he’s been dealing with a bit of bad luck parts breakage the entire season that has slowed his progress down. He has run a number of mid to low 9’s this year only to have the weekend end early due to some shit luck. Well this weekend it all came together for him and he got his first 8 second pass. The promising part is there is a lot more to be had out of the car. The 60′ times keep dropping as Mike gets used to the car and gets it dialed in more and I’d guess to say that this car has a 8.2-8.3pass in her the way it sits.

Congrats Mike! I hope that your dedication and perseverance are starting to pay off as your goals are achieved. We’re proud of ya brother!

We just finished up our 1g DSM Intercooler prototype and thought I’d share some pics. It is based off of Garrett’s 24×12x4.5 core, this is a big ass core and is not for the meek!

Improving yet and to add to the sex appeal the production units will have 1 piece CNC bent .125″ thick Endtanks and CNC turned billet 3″ inlet & outlet Hose Connections. We built another intercooler a while back for a customers car using the same Garrett core. The car makes a little over 1050hp to the wheels and typical intake temp increases are ~15deg throughout a 1/4 mile pass with nearly 50psi of intake manifold pressure. We find that very impressive for a car making such ridiculous power!

2:30pm August 14^th came, it’s a Friday afternoon and we were in a rush to close shop and hit the road to make the journey to downtown Wakeman, Oh to attend Buschur Racing’s 17^th Annual DSM Shootout. For some it’s just another race weekend. For others it’s a gathering of friends from across the country, who may only see one another once a year, at this annual event. This year marked my tenth year attending the shootout and it’s the first year that I’ve felt “old”.  There has been a lot of disparity in the community over the last year and the enthusiasm from this new generation of DSM’ers was quite refreshing.

Despite the sun and blazing heat the weekend was a blast from start to finish. Saturday’s Dyno Day and Car Show packed the small town of Wakeman from one end to the other. The village put on an excellent BBQ with chicken and ribs for the taking. Some impressive machinery filled the grounds from Scott Glassbrook’s RWD Talon, Yusuf’s 9 second EVO 2 street car, to AWD Motorsport’s 8 second EVO, Buschur’s 9.0 EVO 8 street car, CBRDs road race car, and the list goes on.

Race time came too early Sunday morning as we rolled into the track with just 3 hours of sleep. The day quickly got HOT and the temps were in the mid 90’s most of the day. The cars were down on power from the extreme heat and the track temps were through the roof. In typical Norwalk fashion the track crew didn’t let the heat get in the way of delivering a top notch racing surface. The track was packed with racers and spectators and everyone was in great spirit as lots of excellent times were popping up on the score board. All classes had fast fields and the competition was tight in several of the rounds that I saw. Every year this race gets bigger and this year was definitely the largest to date.

I like to give a big thanks to all of the Shearer Fab Q16 competitors for making it out. There was an excellent turnout of competitors as over 21 cars tried to qualify for the field in hopes to take home the big payout put up by Shearer Fab and AWD Motorsports There was some excellent competition as the class got closer to the finals. Big congrats to Jared Early for taking home the $2500 top prize and also for running his first 8 second pass in the finals!

Shearer Fabrications/AWD Motorsports Quick 16
Winner, Jared Early, 89 Conquest, 8.961@154.26. $2500 cash
Runner -Up, Allan Friedman, 03 EVO, 9.784@145.75. $1500 cash
Semi-Michael Wohler. $500 cash
Semi-Nick Abele. $500 cash

I saw our product all over the grounds this weekend and I’d like to say THANK YOU to everyone who runs our product! The continued support is so appreciated that I could never attempt to put it into words. Also I’d like to give special mention a couple customers that finished in the money over the weekend, if I forgot anyone I apologize as this is coming off the top of my head.

*Al Friedman in his ’03 EVO took home 2^nd place in the Q16. Al drove his ass off in the last two rounds on competition and he brought home a well deserved finish.

*Mike Wohler for taking home a 3^rd place Q16 finish. I was routing for Mike as he had a very good shot at taking home the big prize money. Hopefully next year!!

*Eric Oberdorfer for taking third place in DSM Eliminator

*Curt Brown for running mid 9’s all day long until an axle failure took him out of the running. Curt street car is among the nicest examples of a DSM around. To top it off the car is fucking fast and drove it from Pennsylvania to race

*John Shepherd for cleaning up in EVO Eliminator. John 2003 EVO is a pure street car and he drove it to a multitude of 9.9x passes throughout the day like it was a bracket car.
*AWD Motorsports for cleaning up in the dyno competion on Saturday with a killer 800+hp on there T3 set-up. That’s an excellent number considering the size of the turbo and the number was made on Buschur’s “heart breaker” dyno.

Can’t wait to see everyone next year!!