Would like to congratulate Jon Kaase and Royce Brechler on the win in Vintage Class.  It was an interesting challenge for us competitors, and I thoroughly enjoyed the event and meeting everyone again.  I would also like to thank Ted Eaton for his invaluable help and advice on my entry.  Without Ted's help, my entry would have been difficult at best.  We did finish second to Jon, and that is respectable.  Royce said we were tied after the second dyno pull, so Jon went to work tuning his MEL to find more horsepower and torque to edge us out, and go for the win.  I am sorry I had to leave the event early, but my wife had hurt her knee before the event, and I wanted to get her back to San Antonio, to meet her Doctor appointment on schedule.  I hope there will be another chance to show that the Y Block is a strong performer, and capable of another win in the future.  We made 566.6 hp with the timing backed down to 26*, and that was about 30hp less than testing at Ted's shop before leaving.  Ted had a killer combination with the torque and horsepower of his 403 cubic inch engine.  IF only we had had 110 octane fuel, if would have been a much different competition.  They lost 5 out of 7 of the Vintage engines for various reasons, but detonation seemed to be the root cause for most.  Joe-JDC

JDC