Feast To The Top Of The Tree

Feast To The Top Of The Tree

By Mark HumphreyQuentin Feast picks up the front left on the way to an 8.91 pass.

Calder Park, Vic/Aus. 23^rd September 2014. Local south eastern suburbs man Quentin Feast had the hammer down for round 5 of the Street Outlaw qualifying series putting his LH Torana at the top of the tree for the Street Outlaw category with an 8.91 pass @ 159mph. Feast now sits 2^nd in the category just shy of the 8.87 top mark. Basically running a standard LS1 power plant, Feast with the help of good friend and mechanic Mark bolted on a couple of turbo chargers to get the LH really singing. Coupled to a 2 speed powerglide the performance is pushed through to a 3.25 diff running radial tyres. Like a lot of car enthusiasts Quentin has owned the car for about 20 years and in that time has carried out several builds. The latest build was done over a 12 month period with the car freshened up from top to toe. Originally purchasing a 2 speed from the States the boys eventually turned to local suppliers to put together a 2 speed suitable for the vehicle. Feast ran the car on the weekend with around 15lb boost and said the car was comfortable at that level. He hoped in the coming weeks to pick up the boost in time for the Street Outlaw finals. Feast had the car out Friday night cruising the streets and said the car just looks like any other car. “We drove past a Highway Patrol car the other night without any issues. The boys in blue aren’t looking for guys like me they’re after the dudes doing the wrong thing” he said. Feast added “This car is such an easy driver on the road you wouldn’t know there is a couple of turbo’s bolted on”. The Street Outlaw series is exactly about this. Cars that could be driven daily and Feast has the perfect example of this type of motoring.

With the sun beaming down on the drag strip there were plenty of cars out testing in both the street category and race versions. Phil Parker had his top fuel bike out to test but unfortunately a couple of damaged sumps put paid to his day before he could get out on the strip. “It’s a real shame that we can’t go testing today” he said. “We cracked a sump loading the bike so we replaced it here with a spare. All was ok initially then on a re-start the sump let go again” he said. Parker added “it’s a shame we couldn’t get out as the motor is running perfectly at the moment. It would have been interesting to see how the bike performed today” he said.

That aside, there were plenty of quick passes put down on the day. Glen Forster driving his Boss Mustang topped the time sheets with a 7.23 pass @ 197mph. Several other boys dipped into the mid 7.50’s in what was a fantastic day of testing. Forster picked up quick time on the day with a 7.23 @197mph

Tim Holmyard had both his cars out testing on the day also. Currently both street registered his red VX Commodore is a purpose built race car that at one time was Australia’s fastest IRS naturally aspirated car. Just fresh from a rebuild Tim was out testing and put down an 8.97 pass @ 158mph. “Yeah the car ran ok today considering we were just checking things over. We give it a small shot of NOS without issues so that was good” he said. The car on a full gas shot produces around 1400hp which is plenty for a car still running an independent rear set-up. His daily driver is a black 02 Monaro which managed to dip into the 10’sTim's street (above) and strip (below)

Street Outlaw qualifying reverts back to Friday night with the next scheduled meeting on Friday 10^th of October. To keep up with the latest check the Calder Park Drag Racing facebook site.

Some of the better ET's on the day

8.43 @ 169mph8.16 @ 162mph8.19 @ 165mph7.50 @ 149mph7.53 @ 174mph8.88 @ 149mph8.87

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