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BJR Racing

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Check out a buddy of mine's Pro Mod Car, Enjoy! This is from the recent US Nationals.

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Fun with a capital "F". :) Very, very cool! How much compression and boost does he run with methanol?
 
ramcharger said:
Fun with a capital "F". :) Very, very cool! How much compression and boost does he run with methanol?
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I personally don't know, but I would guess that he's somewhere around 11.5:1 and more than likely 30% or a bit more on the blower. The reason that it not higher is because he's using a set back blower and they make boost at idle, so the overdrive doesn't need to be as great of %.
 
Look !! his name is Joe :cheers: so ya know he is fast 8)
nice moPar for sure thank you for sharing BJR, anther picture for my Mopar collection :-D
 
BJR Racing said:
I personally don't know, but I would guess that he's somewhere around 11.5:1 and more than likely 30% or a bit more on the blower. The reason that it not higher is because he's using a set back blower and they make boost at idle, so the overdrive doesn't need to be as great of %.
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Thanks for the info BJR! I've never had my hands on one and was always curious. :read2:

memike said:
Look !! his name is Joe :cheers: so ya know he is fast 8)
nice moPar for sure thank you for sharing BJR, anther picture for my Mopar collection :-D
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Right click and save, I did the same Mike! :-D
 
I figure that they finally got their valvebodies sorted out. I bought one in the early '90's and had lots of trouble with it and when I ask for advice on how to fix it, all I got was shoulder shrugs. Looks like they've made some money, so I'm assuming they did get'em fixed!
 
sst3193 said:
I figure that they finally got their valvebodies sorted out. I bought one in the early '90's and had lots of trouble with it and when I ask for advice on how to fix it, all I got was shoulder shrugs. Looks like they've made some money, so I'm assuming they did get'em fixed!
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I met Joe in 1993 and bought a valve body from him shortly after, it was the external TB design that he had at the time. I never had any issues with it, I'm sorry to hear that you did. I guess it's the blues of starting up a performance business. Things don't always work like they should. I had my time too back in the 70's with porting heads.

Since then he (Joe) does alot of R&D for Coan, on converters and transmissions. His new internal stuff is very, very good, I'm running one now and have 1.065 in the box with a 3spd. transmission, and no light weight parts. This is close to most PG's around here. And I'm running a small block, if I was to use a big block with more power I'm sure that I would be well over 1.100 in the box.
 
cudaspaz said:
How does one support such an expensive habit?
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Well I can't tell you exactly how he made his money, but I have a clue. He worked for DSR for a number of years when Melanie Troxel was driving the EXIDE T/F car as a clutch specialist, then he did the port work on the MOPAR P/S engines when DSR owned the cars of Jegs, Richie Stevens, when BOB Glidden was crew chief. He spent many hours at Bobs shop in Whiteland, Ind., which is across town from him in Indy. He helped with port shape and design at ICH some to with Ken Lazarie (sp) I think. I know that his son was the clutch specialist on the car of Richie Stevens for a few years until DSR sold the teams. Joe jr. now is the clutch specialist for Fast Jack Beckman under Johnny West.

Thats Joe at the drivers door and his son Joe jr. at the back of the car. I can see how they could support there habit as these guys are very talented. And I can say that I'm glad to have known them since 1993 and that we are very good friends.
 
BJR Racing said:
Well I can't tell you exactly how he made his money, but I have a clue. He worked for DSR for a number of years when Melanie Troxel was driving the EXIDE T/F car as a clutch specialist, then he did the port work on the MOPAR P/S engines when DSR owned the cars of Jegs, Richie Stevens, when BOB Glidden was crew chief. He spent many hours at Bobs shop in Whiteland, Ind., which is across town from him in Indy. He helped with port shape and design at ICH some to with Ken Lazarie (sp) I think. I know that his son was the clutch specialist on the car of Richie Stevens for a few years until DSR sold the teams. Joe jr. now is the clutch specialist for Fast Jack Beckman under Johnny West.

Thats Joe at the drivers door and his son Joe jr. at the back of the car. I can see how they could support there habit as these guys are very talented. And I can say that I'm glad to have known them since 1993 and that we are very good friends.
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I guess one can save a whole lot of money by having the talent to do alot of work for themselves.
 
Needless to say that you can get parts real cheap when you align your self with influential people like he has. I know as when I was doing the Top Alcohol thing I was able to get blocks and cranks and heads for less than what most would spend on a small block mopar stroker kit.
 
Here's something you don't see everyday, Joe Sr. is driving and Joe Jr. is behind the car and Fast Jack Beckman backing Joe Sr. up. Now thats a change. Of course little Joe is Jacks clutch man so I guess he owed him one.

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