SVS Turbo
Enthusiast
Yeehaw! what an incredible weekend in Neebrasky ! This event was about a small town (pop. 500) of great people that gave everything they had to make you feel welcome. The town of Arnold, and the Sandhills 1 mile shootout and O.R.R event changed my whole outlook on Nebraskan’s and their state. For years I thought Nebraska was boring and flat from driving through on Rt. 80. Now I know that 40 miles north of Rt. 80 anywhere in the state of Nebraska holds hidden treasures of people that are genuine and have more integrity than all the Hp. available. Soothing rolling hills with roads built through that have more technicality than any controlled racetrack I have ever experienced. The 1 mile shootout that was wide, smooth and flat with a SLIGHT downhill dip into a MINOR crest that was barely noticeable and EQUAL for all who raced. The handling of safety and staging procedures was far superior for an event in its infancy. Once again I give congrats to all the people who volunteered and put their hearts and time into running such a smooth event.
Numbers and stats for the 1 mile shootout.
I laughed so hard when I read some of the rhetoric based misguided information and propaganda assumptions that have been placed on where the Stryker is at for Hp numbers. It seemed quite obvious that in order to place themselves at a level of feeling better about their own positions people love to discredit others. I have taken many a back seat in racing, 2nd places all the way down to DNF’s and it is always something that hinders you from winning. Regardless of what it is, it is how you decide to look at it. My idea is always to give credit where credit is due and figure out my own solutions to my own problems. I always try to shake the winners hand because the energy they have is what I didn’t have at that moment, and then take it with me, not as resentment but as energy to learn from and race another day. To try to make something sound like it isn’t, just to elevate my position, is quite mental to me.
SVS planned and new EXACTLY who our competition was for the Sandhills 1 mile shootout and the O.R.R.. We also new what their possible Hp numbers were from reading posts on the internet and previous knowledge deciphered. We wanted to come to the game with what it seemed like everyone else was coming to the game with. We placed the SVS Stryker TT on the Dyno just before we left and detuned it to 850rwhp w/ 950rwftlbs of torque at 7psi. If we wanted to raise the boost and push 1300hp out of the Stryker it would have been very easy. But why do that? What would we have proved? If we would have arrived and achieved 210 or 215 everyone would have yelled “those guys got 1 million Hp and a 1 billion dollar car”. The funny part is that exactly what we anticipated everyone would say is what you can read about on the board right now. Some people say it was expected that SVS would win because they have this or they have that.
Let me ask a question? If you have a dancing roller skate champion and he/she doesn’t win, do you think they should complain because the winner has planned better with more preparation, better roller skates and prettier tights.
Interestingly enough I heard that someone said they ran out of gas, in a full throttle run and only achieved a minimal speed? (W.O.T.) and running out of gas is a pretty scary place to hang out. Everyone had to drive 20 miles immediately after the 1 mile shootout event for lunch and promotion in the town of Callaway. Wonder how they made it there? I was told someone also broke their supercharger belt and spewed black smoke all the way down the run. Our customers Stryker 800 SC did break its belt on the first run and we realized how much more difficult a supercharger is to keep belts on when overcoming huge speed.
A very important factor in the 1 mile shootout is consistency. Consistency wins races even if your not the fastest. We all ran 3 times:
SVS ran a 195.5, 199.2 and a 200.04 ---------- 198.24 avg.
The next best avg. was -------------------- 186.96 avg.
3rd best was --------------------------------------- 183.1 avg.
When we tuned at the track the only thing we adjusted was timing and fuel. We improved on our 850rwhp, 950ftlbs at 7 psi platform by making small changes but staying safe. We were able to inch out another 5 mph by conservatively adjusting the map around the elevation.
I played our in car video of our 200mph run and timed it at around 26-27 seconds
We were running a 3.54 gear. Stock trans. Oh and I forgot we spent $ 900,000.00 on wax to make the Stryker shine as well as she does.
The Open Road Race
Again I cannot say enough about the people and how well this event was ran. There was 3 entries in the unlimited class but on race day the Corvette backed out. Ron Adee driving his modified race truck and Dan Downs navigator along with myself driving our 625hp N.A. road race Viper and Dave Mason navigating were the only entries left in the unlimited class. Dave and I did a lot of preparing and studying for this race. We put the SVS Viper back together after sitting for three years. We bought helmets w/ communication and studied, studied and studied. The day before we were leaving we tested the car in front of our shop and found the trans to have a bad synchro. We had to quickly change the trans and rush to Gingerman Raceway in Michigan. We arrived late with only 1 hour of available time to test. We bedded in the brakes, pushed the Viper hard and everything seemed OK. As we packed the transporter the following morning we noticed that the slave cylinder was leaking bad. We put everything in the transporter, our vehicles and left for Nebraska. We discussed what might have happened to the slave cyl. and tried to formulate a plan on how to remedy the problem when we arrived. We realized that when we changed the trans back at the shop we forgot the spacer for the quartermaster triple disc clutch, thus overextending the slave cylinder. We immediately had one overnighted. The local Dodge dealer in North Platte was more than happy to help us use his lifts. On Friday after the one mile shootout, the SVS crew went back to North Platte and worked on the road race Viper. The only thing we had not tested was the communication between the helmets in our Viper at speed. We had purchased the helmets and had them shipped to our hotel because they wouldn’t have made it in time for when we left home to go to the Sandhills.
Saturday Race Day- 55 mile county road closed with every type of technical turn you could imagine. 29 miles north course, stop and wait for 80 cars to finish while having breakfast and then 26 miles south on the same road.
Dave and I prepare ourselves, get in the Viper and go to the line. As we wait I can hear Dave breathing heavy getting psyched up. The flag drops we take off and I cant hear a word my navigator Dave is saying. The SVS race Viper is side exhaust and straight out from the headers and way to loud for our new helmets. All of our preparation gets thrown out the window and I had to drive on what I could remember. Coming up to a blind turn at 140mph on a road I have never drove at speed was quite intimidating. Every once in a while under braking I would hear Left from Dave, but I didn’t know how fast I could go through the left turn. The first 29 mile leg was scary, exhilarating and frustrating knowing that I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to over do any turn. We finished the first leg and got out of the Viper which ran flawlessly. Adrenaline pumping and hi-fives flying we realized how much fun we were having. Don Sleik a fellow supporter and good friend told us that maybe we should put our visors on our helmets and we might be able to hear better. After everyone was finished with the north course we belted up and headed back for 1 more 14 minute legal rollercoaster ride on the Custer County Road. When we left the start line I still couldn’t hear Dave my navigator but it was a good thing Don Sleik told us to put our visors on. Half way through the race we hit a bird at about 130mph which slid up the window and squished between a 3/8 inch gap between the removable hardtop and the windshield. The bird and everything it was about blew up inside the Viper. With feathers flying and guts all over Dave’s helmet I raced on not giving a care. At the end the smushed bird inside the car was the talk of the pits and Dave gave Don many thanks for telling us to wear our visors.
Later on that Day the awards ceremony was held with a huge gathering in the town park. How many times can I say how great all the people in Arnold are? At least ten more times. WE WON! Both eventsYeah! Had to give a short speech and thank all the guys from SVS who worked so hard to get the Road Race Viper and the Stryker TT ready. This was all about the team and the people that support us. This is a huge thanks to all our customers that believe in SVS and not the B.S. slinging. Our average over the 55mile road race was just under 130mph. It’s a cool video to watch.
Thanks to Joe Shown for believing he could get this race started, Thanks to Gary Patterson (test driver for Carol Shelby) for supporting the race and helping the town, Thanks to Raoul, Becky, Fran, Aron, Stalker(Oliver), and everybody that was part of this great weekend.
Just wanted to give a special Congrats to Bob Griffith for winning the 115 mph class in his West Coast Vipers prepared Viper. I was unable to catch him at the awards and wanted to give him a shout. Super Nice Guy.
Last thing – The only two people that I know from Chicago that were at the awards banquet and brought home their trophy’s were Ron Adee and myself. So thanks to Ron Adee and Ron Misjak Jr.(SVS) for putting Chi-town on the map!
Ron Misjak Jr.
SVS
Numbers and stats for the 1 mile shootout.
I laughed so hard when I read some of the rhetoric based misguided information and propaganda assumptions that have been placed on where the Stryker is at for Hp numbers. It seemed quite obvious that in order to place themselves at a level of feeling better about their own positions people love to discredit others. I have taken many a back seat in racing, 2nd places all the way down to DNF’s and it is always something that hinders you from winning. Regardless of what it is, it is how you decide to look at it. My idea is always to give credit where credit is due and figure out my own solutions to my own problems. I always try to shake the winners hand because the energy they have is what I didn’t have at that moment, and then take it with me, not as resentment but as energy to learn from and race another day. To try to make something sound like it isn’t, just to elevate my position, is quite mental to me.
SVS planned and new EXACTLY who our competition was for the Sandhills 1 mile shootout and the O.R.R.. We also new what their possible Hp numbers were from reading posts on the internet and previous knowledge deciphered. We wanted to come to the game with what it seemed like everyone else was coming to the game with. We placed the SVS Stryker TT on the Dyno just before we left and detuned it to 850rwhp w/ 950rwftlbs of torque at 7psi. If we wanted to raise the boost and push 1300hp out of the Stryker it would have been very easy. But why do that? What would we have proved? If we would have arrived and achieved 210 or 215 everyone would have yelled “those guys got 1 million Hp and a 1 billion dollar car”. The funny part is that exactly what we anticipated everyone would say is what you can read about on the board right now. Some people say it was expected that SVS would win because they have this or they have that.
Let me ask a question? If you have a dancing roller skate champion and he/she doesn’t win, do you think they should complain because the winner has planned better with more preparation, better roller skates and prettier tights.
Interestingly enough I heard that someone said they ran out of gas, in a full throttle run and only achieved a minimal speed? (W.O.T.) and running out of gas is a pretty scary place to hang out. Everyone had to drive 20 miles immediately after the 1 mile shootout event for lunch and promotion in the town of Callaway. Wonder how they made it there? I was told someone also broke their supercharger belt and spewed black smoke all the way down the run. Our customers Stryker 800 SC did break its belt on the first run and we realized how much more difficult a supercharger is to keep belts on when overcoming huge speed.
A very important factor in the 1 mile shootout is consistency. Consistency wins races even if your not the fastest. We all ran 3 times:
SVS ran a 195.5, 199.2 and a 200.04 ---------- 198.24 avg.
The next best avg. was -------------------- 186.96 avg.
3rd best was --------------------------------------- 183.1 avg.
When we tuned at the track the only thing we adjusted was timing and fuel. We improved on our 850rwhp, 950ftlbs at 7 psi platform by making small changes but staying safe. We were able to inch out another 5 mph by conservatively adjusting the map around the elevation.
I played our in car video of our 200mph run and timed it at around 26-27 seconds
We were running a 3.54 gear. Stock trans. Oh and I forgot we spent $ 900,000.00 on wax to make the Stryker shine as well as she does.
The Open Road Race
Again I cannot say enough about the people and how well this event was ran. There was 3 entries in the unlimited class but on race day the Corvette backed out. Ron Adee driving his modified race truck and Dan Downs navigator along with myself driving our 625hp N.A. road race Viper and Dave Mason navigating were the only entries left in the unlimited class. Dave and I did a lot of preparing and studying for this race. We put the SVS Viper back together after sitting for three years. We bought helmets w/ communication and studied, studied and studied. The day before we were leaving we tested the car in front of our shop and found the trans to have a bad synchro. We had to quickly change the trans and rush to Gingerman Raceway in Michigan. We arrived late with only 1 hour of available time to test. We bedded in the brakes, pushed the Viper hard and everything seemed OK. As we packed the transporter the following morning we noticed that the slave cylinder was leaking bad. We put everything in the transporter, our vehicles and left for Nebraska. We discussed what might have happened to the slave cyl. and tried to formulate a plan on how to remedy the problem when we arrived. We realized that when we changed the trans back at the shop we forgot the spacer for the quartermaster triple disc clutch, thus overextending the slave cylinder. We immediately had one overnighted. The local Dodge dealer in North Platte was more than happy to help us use his lifts. On Friday after the one mile shootout, the SVS crew went back to North Platte and worked on the road race Viper. The only thing we had not tested was the communication between the helmets in our Viper at speed. We had purchased the helmets and had them shipped to our hotel because they wouldn’t have made it in time for when we left home to go to the Sandhills.
Saturday Race Day- 55 mile county road closed with every type of technical turn you could imagine. 29 miles north course, stop and wait for 80 cars to finish while having breakfast and then 26 miles south on the same road.
Dave and I prepare ourselves, get in the Viper and go to the line. As we wait I can hear Dave breathing heavy getting psyched up. The flag drops we take off and I cant hear a word my navigator Dave is saying. The SVS race Viper is side exhaust and straight out from the headers and way to loud for our new helmets. All of our preparation gets thrown out the window and I had to drive on what I could remember. Coming up to a blind turn at 140mph on a road I have never drove at speed was quite intimidating. Every once in a while under braking I would hear Left from Dave, but I didn’t know how fast I could go through the left turn. The first 29 mile leg was scary, exhilarating and frustrating knowing that I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to over do any turn. We finished the first leg and got out of the Viper which ran flawlessly. Adrenaline pumping and hi-fives flying we realized how much fun we were having. Don Sleik a fellow supporter and good friend told us that maybe we should put our visors on our helmets and we might be able to hear better. After everyone was finished with the north course we belted up and headed back for 1 more 14 minute legal rollercoaster ride on the Custer County Road. When we left the start line I still couldn’t hear Dave my navigator but it was a good thing Don Sleik told us to put our visors on. Half way through the race we hit a bird at about 130mph which slid up the window and squished between a 3/8 inch gap between the removable hardtop and the windshield. The bird and everything it was about blew up inside the Viper. With feathers flying and guts all over Dave’s helmet I raced on not giving a care. At the end the smushed bird inside the car was the talk of the pits and Dave gave Don many thanks for telling us to wear our visors.
Later on that Day the awards ceremony was held with a huge gathering in the town park. How many times can I say how great all the people in Arnold are? At least ten more times. WE WON! Both eventsYeah! Had to give a short speech and thank all the guys from SVS who worked so hard to get the Road Race Viper and the Stryker TT ready. This was all about the team and the people that support us. This is a huge thanks to all our customers that believe in SVS and not the B.S. slinging. Our average over the 55mile road race was just under 130mph. It’s a cool video to watch.
Thanks to Joe Shown for believing he could get this race started, Thanks to Gary Patterson (test driver for Carol Shelby) for supporting the race and helping the town, Thanks to Raoul, Becky, Fran, Aron, Stalker(Oliver), and everybody that was part of this great weekend.
Just wanted to give a special Congrats to Bob Griffith for winning the 115 mph class in his West Coast Vipers prepared Viper. I was unable to catch him at the awards and wanted to give him a shout. Super Nice Guy.
Last thing – The only two people that I know from Chicago that were at the awards banquet and brought home their trophy’s were Ron Adee and myself. So thanks to Ron Adee and Ron Misjak Jr.(SVS) for putting Chi-town on the map!
Ron Misjak Jr.
SVS
