The teams take to a local junkyard to find bargain-basement parts for their respective machines.
With a scheduled weekend off commencing, the teams, already well into the build-up of their engines and many with their cars rolling, made final in-roads to acquiring parts for week two as the lights went out fin the shop for a couple days of well-earned R&R in the Southern California sun.
Next week, the teams will be back at it as the clock ticks toward zero on the 10-day build-up, with engine-building, tuning, and the big test: the chassis dyno — all yet to come.
The beers and the B.S. fly as the teams cut loose following the conclusion of the opening week of the build.
The Horsepower Wars $10K Drag Shootout is comprised of four teams who have been given $10,000 — $3,000 in cash and $7,000 in Summit Racing Equipment gift cards — to build the quickest and fastest drag car possible. Once complete, they’ll race in front of a live audience at the Shakedown at the Summit in Norwalk, Ohio to see who keeps their car (and a $10,000 winner’s prize) and who goes home empty-handed. The $10K Drag Shootout has been made possible by some of the leading companies in our industry, including
Royal Purple,
Comp Cams,
TCI Transmissions,
Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels,
E3 Spark Plugs,
Fragola,
Holley, Diablosport,
Mahle Motorsports,
Dyna-Batt,
ProCharger,
Weld Racing,
ARP,
BMR Suspension,
QA1,
PRW,
Covercraft, and of course,
Summit Racing.