1300 hp mercury comet brake failure crash

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I stopped by my friends machine shop yesterday to check on the x-heads and LD6B. It's a father/ son business, Cogswell Marine and Motorsports in Chula Vista, CA.
They asked if I had seen the video of the guy from N. County San Diego with the red Merc? They started cursing him up and down. They built the engine. They thought he was stupid when he was having them build it years ago. They said he came in wanting all these parts in it that wouldn't work together but wanted over 1000 hp. They got him straightened out and it made just over 1,000 on their dyno. In the video he claims HE built it in his garage and it made 1,300 hp.
They also blasted him for using drag brakes on the street. I didn't catch that when I watched the video but what idiot uses drag racing brakes on the street? Those are meant to stop a car like one time. On the street, the more you use them the more they don't work, and he was riding them!
They said the guy installs audio/video equipment by trade and the wiring is the ONLY thing the guy actually did himself on that car. They said the only reason he has over 200k in the car is because he doesn't know how to do **** himself and bought a bunch of parts that never even made it onto the car because they wouldn't work.
I hope the family that got hit gets what they deserve. And I hope this guy gets what he deserves.