WICKED WARRIOR WEB PAGE!!!

This is the WICKED WARRIOR in street trim.  Yes this car is driven on the street, this is no trailer queen.  Only thing I do is remove the slicks and mount my set of M/T Sportsman Pro 33x20x15, which have no ability to hook the torque this monster putts to the ground.   I also put on my DynoMax 3 1/2" Race Magnum mufflers with turn downs as my exhaust.

I completely built this car my senior year of college, while finishing my BA in Psychology & Philosophy.  I built everything myself, plus with the help of friends.  The only thing I didn't have anything to do with is the beautiful body work, which was performed by Dave Pacheco & Russell Brillo (two close friends of mine).  The rest, (including, but not limited to) where performed by yours truly, with a hand from my friends:  built the motor, shortened the rear, set the gears, tub the rear, make the rear frame rails, TIG weld in the chromolly cage (had to learn to TIG weld for this), mount the fiberglass nose, hood, scoop, and truck lid (the fiberglass one piece nose is from Fiberglass Trends in CA #714-532-6140), all the tin work, all the interior work, rewire the complete car, rebuild the entire front suspension, ect.................

One Wicked Motor!!!

Here is a nice shot of the engine compartment after it was complete.  Now for a list of engine and tranny goodies, from the top.  1050 HP Holley Dominator (w/ PERCY'S Adjust-a-Jet), 1" Clover Spacer (matched to intake), Victor Intake (ported by Joey Botelho), NOS Pro Shot Fogger 500HP system, Reverse Cooling System (designed and manufactured by Joey Botelho), Edelbrock Performer RPM heads (ported by Carrita Racing Engines), K-Motion Springs, Titanium Retainers, Custom Valves, Meiziere electric water pump, Custom Cheetah Racing Roller cam, 1970 455 block, Custom ROSS NOS pistons, Tool Steel Taper Wall wrist pins, Eagle 4340 3D 6.8" H-Beam connecting rods, 4.25" stroke crank, Indian Adventures Billet 4-bolt caps, ARP hardware throughout, and finally the first ever TITAN Oil Pump to fit a traditional PONTIAC V8 (I sent this thing back and forth many time before it fit and we now have the proper adapter for it).  The transmission is an ATI unit, with a Grinder Billet Aluminum transbrake.  The converter is an ATI MRT* Pro Tree Converter.

Here you can see it all paid off in the end.  She run's so far a best of 9.91 @ 135 mph on motor and 9.32 @ 144 mph on 150 HP shot of NOS, which is basically what it ran off the trailer with out tuning it on a cool night with no hook.  No more attempts where possible with the new combination, because it's first time out on a race day, the car hooked so hard it chewed the teeth right off the ring gear.  We hope to have a few runs in this year all sorted out.  We are looking for some 9.70's and possibly 8.90's on NOS.  Two years ago when the car was running 10.15, it ran 9.44 @ 141mph w/ ONLY 100 HP of NOS.  We feel there is a lot more to come once the wick is turned up on this baby.  For a car that has great street manors, and doesn't run over 175 degrees in stop and go traffic, it's not bad at all.

Here I am doing a burnout in Lebanon Valley NY.  I personally like to completely blind the driver on the side of me with SMOKE, I find it unnerves most people!!!

What we have here is some good old PONTIAC vs. CHEVY rivalry at it's best.  It was a close race, but my 9.94 beat out his 10.21.  That was not the first Chevrolet I put back on the trailer!!!

This is a picture of my MOM keeping me company in the staging lanes at Lebanon Valley, NY.  My MOM (Peggy) watches me race every chance she gets, aren't mom's great!!!  Isn't my car shinny!!!   :-)

Sorry to say, but she was sold when I started racing motorcycles.  I know it killed me, but racing is expensive, too expensive to be competitive with a Motorcycle and a Car.  The motor was sold first and then the same gentleman drove 1/2 the USA to buy the rolling chassis, 2 years later.  He dynoed the motor at 708 HP at 7,200 RPMs and 1,134HP w/ a bunch of NOS!!!!!!  It ran 8.0's in a GTO, the same weight as the Wicked Warrior, but he used a lot of NOS, I was still sorting out the motor and torque converter, so the NOS system never came into the picture.  But even at 150HP when I played with it one day, it dropped 1/2 second and gained a shit load of MPH!!!!!

BABY I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER & MISS YOU!!!!!  :-(