The car you were looking at was Ron Cohn's Monza ... it used to be red last
year. Mike Chapman (Carbon-X, Chapman Racing Heads) built the engine for
them to run last year. Put a TON of money into it but they have been
running well with it. The paint job really dresses the car up a lot over
what it was last year.
There's a couple of reasons for the exhaust, the biggest one is that there's
an optimal length on the headers that works out to that location and having
them dump ahead of the front tires helps on boundary air as well. Gary's
Monza spent much of the week on the trailer while they worked on the "Rose"
but he wanted to get his son licensed and that's what their plan was at the
beginning of the meet. The car is supercharged, not turbocharged.
Wes
on 10/20/03 5:45 PM, Ray Buck at rbuck@aros.net wrote:
> At 10:08 PM 10/20/2003 +0000, saltracer552@juno.com wrote:
>
>> Ray & Russ,
>> The car in question wasn't Gary's, his is red. I don't know the green car
>> owners name either but it looks like a nice ride. Skip can still tell you
>> the reasoning behind the header arrangement besides getting him an
>> additional 10 mph. Seems a common approach for the Monza folks.
>
> Thanks for the info. I think I'm gettin straightened out on that now. :)
>
>> Ray- if you saw a 40 ft long black streamliner, that was Skip (owner),
>> Gary (driver) and I (grunt). You should have stopped.
>
> Was that the 6969 Classy Chassy Plastic Express? If so, I came by and shot
> some pics while it was in impound, but the folks workin on it were pretty
> busy at the time and I didn't wanna screw up the works, so to speak. :)
>
> Ray
> Taylorsville, Ut
>
>> Gary LaRonge #552 C/BF Alt
>> Pahrump, NV
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