2018 Outlaw Street Car Reunion Coverage From Beech Bend Raceway
It’s elimination day here at the fifth running of the Outlaw Street Car Reunion, and promoter Tyler Crossnoe and the Beech Bend Raceway team have the track set up for hot passes and great racing. Unfortunately with so many people on the property the internet connection is quite spotty, so we’ll bring you updates where possible.
“The Piano Lady” saved the Tooth Jerker’s weekend. When the team spun in testing earlier this week—sending 50-plus psi through the intake and blowing it up, along with the charge pipe—and hurt the cylinder head during testing earlier this week, there wasn’t anyone in Bowling Green who could fix their cylinder heads with a new O-ring setup. So they started checking local piano stores, as the wire used to complete the operation is similar. Out of the three piano stores in Bowling Green, none of them could help to fix the problem.. but one store directed the Digby/Barnett team to the Piano Lady, a relatively local resident who lives about 20 miles from the track and just so happened to have some piano wire.. which now resides inside the Tooth Jerker’s engine, sealing up the passenger-side cylinder head. The gang at Holley came through with machining to the intake, a new burst panel and some tubing was installed, and they were back in business.