First I'd like to give a big Thank You to Royce for allowing me, for the 2nd year in a row, to be a Team Member on his EMC entry this year.
It was only a couple days before the event that he informed me that I'd be his ONLY Team Member. Great, no pressure there!..lol
2nd, I'd like to apologize for not having many pictures of his engine. I was so concerned with trying to help any way I could, then got so busy today with the dyno runs and the intake change he had planned, that I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I did. UGH! My apologies to Royce
Here's a couple shots of Royce's engine before it was mounted on the dyno cart and before the upper intake with the dual throttle bodies were installed and wired.
For those that didn't know, John Kaase used Royce's engine from last year, made some of his own modifications and ran it in the event this year. John seemed to have a lot of respect for Royce, and that should tell you something.
Here's a few shots of the Kaase/Brechler entry this year...
John and Royce talking before the event...
The entry after it was loaded onto the dyno cart...
The infamous "Finger Port" intake with plexiglass plenum...
This was the first clue that something radical was going on in John's engine...
Tuesday was the day that John and Royce were both running, so I was pretty busy with either watching John run or helping Royce do some hookup work on his engine. Royce had planned to do an intake change from EFI to a single Dominator during the time he was allowed, which I think was 35 minutes, so we discussed what needed to be done and I familiarized myself with what I needed to do. I was pretty excited to do this, and I wanted to get it quick and get it right! Unfortunately, that left no time to grab pictures, but I did get some video from inside the dyno operators room and I had placed my GoPro inside the dyno cell to grab the action there.
Here's a shortened video of Royce's first 3 runs, which he did in quick succession. They also turned out to be his best scoring runs of the day. Not a big surprise though as heat kills power, and the engine heats up fairly quickly after every pull. The dyno operator forgot to load the dyno on the 3rd run. Luckily he quickly caught it before the engine spun to the moon! I don't like the dynos at UNOH, they don't have a very linear pull and you can hear many of the engines jumping up in RPM in increments instead of being smooth. It was like that last year, but even worse then.
https://youtu.be/TUiWdx8fJJUJohn was adding up Royce's scoring as each pull was made. I'll tell ya, you can't buy days like this! I felt pretty lucky today!
This website isn't real friendly when I try to upload a bunch of pictures for some reason. So I'll finish there, then add some more if this posts ok. You'll want to see the heads on John's engine, so make sure and check back if they aren't here yet!
Ok, that seemed to post OK, so here's some of the shots of John's entry during and after teardown. He won the Vintage Class, and not by a close margin. Even though the Gene Adams Performance/Smithberg Racing Hemi and Royce's engines were both excellent engines with well thought out designs, John just lives on another planet when it comes to ideas and vision. I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves...
The rules stated that you couldn't raise the port roof. It also stated that you had to have a head gasket. The rules said NOTHING about raising the head, or using a head 'gasket' that was about 1 1/2" thick! I can't even begin to explain the work done on those heads, it was nothing short of amazing! With Mr. Kaase, you quickly learn that what the rules say isn't as important as what they DON'T say