It’s a good thing that the ChallengerFest 8 racing schedule got condensed down to one afternoon, because the second day of racing that was scheduled became an utter washout. You can’t control the weather, but that’s just the luck of the draw. What made up for a short day on the strip at Beech Bend was the selection of hard-hitting cars and trucks that showed up to rip up the asphalt. At one end of the spectrum you had Alan Pederson, who showed up in a bone-stock V6 Chrysler 300 and…well, yours truly. At the other end was a black Hellcat Challenger with a freaking Liberty trans that shifted as if Ronnie Sox’s spirit had possessed the driver. In between you had cars like Howie Rumjahn’s turbocharged, 426ci Challenger Yellow Jacket, OSTDyno’s Jeep SRT-8 and others.

But the one vehicle we were really paying attention to is another BFNY Performance product. Take note of the brown-and-tan Ram 1500. Looks dead-nuts stock, right? Yeah…about that. There’s a built 6.4L under the hood that has an Edelbrock E-Force supercharger feeding it. If we weren’t snapping photos or prepping Angry Grandpa for another run, we were following this truck around as Erik worked every possible trick in the book to get the truck to launch without hazing the rear tires into oblivion. Let’s just say that it’s currently on-par with our Chrysler and once it learns how to hook, will edge it out in the quarter.

ChallengerFest 8 might have been a rough deal due to the weather, but the die-hards were out in force and the racing was as good as it gets. There was breakage (at least two rear pumpkins, a water pump, and a driveshaft that got twisted like a pretzel), there were tight races, and there were clouds of tire smoke for everybody!

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