Hey everyone, your old pal Double-B here with another often-neglected, non award winning edition of Gilby's blog.
 
As you probably know we've taken the summer off from racing to get our chassis up-graded to the latest SEMA specs.  The car is up in Lafayette, Ind. at Murf McKinney's shop and very soon our car chief Kevin Fenstermaker (yes that's his real name) will make a hot lap up there to pick it up.  Our plan is to compete at the new race here in Charlotte next month and we should be at the IHRA World Finals at Rockingham in October.
 
Since we haven't been racing, Gilby has been hard at work at the world headquarters of Trick Tank and he's come up with two new products designed especially for the sport of drag racing.
 
First off is a new addition to the Trick Tank product line.  Our traditional Trick Tank, the only aluminum portable air tank built in the US, are horizontal in design, but Pro Modified racer Quain Stott wanted an upright tank that takes up less floor space in his trailer so Gilby came up with the "Fat Boy."  It's about the same size as the traditional Trick Tank but has a smaller footprint and is ideal for last-minute tire pressure changes in the staging lanes.
 
Next up is a new product for those of you who burn nitromethane, we call it the "Nitro Saver."  With the ever increasing price of nitro a lot of teams are now warming up their cars on alky to save some $$$ and this tank makes it easy.  It holds approx. seven gallons of alky and features a siphon tube on the supply side and with 10 pounds of pressure it will supply enough alky to warm up the car for about 5 minutes if needed before the crew chief switches over to nitro to check the idle and wack the throttle to seat the clutch.
 
With nitro going for almost $50 a gallon, this tank can save about $250 every time you start the car.  If you warm up three times at an IHRA national event during qualifying, then another three warm-ups if you go to the final round, that's a $1,500 saving or almost a full drum of nitro. 
 
If you need more information on either of these products or want to order one go to: www.tricktank.com  When you get there make it a point to check out the apparel page where you also get our t-shirts and other collectables from our race team.
 
Last but not least I've got to give a shout out to our neighbors down I-85, Andy Kelly and his race team for their first IHRA win last weekend in Martin, Mich.  I know how hard these guys worked to get their first IronMan and congratulations to them from all of us here at Terminator Motorsports.
 
That's it for now, type at you L8R.
 
BB

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