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Kody and Tanner Swanson finish 1st & 3rd in USAC Silver Crown at Lucas Oil Raceway

9 Aug 2011

With Tanner Swanson's third place finish in the JD Byrider 100 at Lucas Oil Raceway he is now in a tie for the points lead in the Silver Crown Championship series. Photo By: Chris Pedersen, Race Photo 1.

Your world creeps in slow motion; you're riding the perfect juxtaposition of balance between the controlled stillness in your mind and chaos that is racing. And in a blinding flash, those two oxymoronic worlds collide on top each other as you go flying ass over teakettle. Racing requires that you unvaryingly push your limits and constantly redefine them as determined by your particular reality, so by definition, there will be mishaps. One of the most difficult things to do in racing is getting back up to speed after a crash; apparently Kody Swanson didn't get that memo.

Kody Swanson paced the field for the final 80 laps after passing from sixth to the lead. The win was just his second career victory in the USAC Silver Crown series. Photo By: Chris Pedersen, Race Photo 1.

Last weekend the K&N sponsored Swanson brothers, Kody and Tanner, restored order in a big way in the USAC Silver Crown series. After missing the first three races due to injuries suffered at the end of May, at Tri-State Speedway in Indiana, Kody returned to the USAC Silver Crown series and Victory Lane on the same night. Tanner joined his older brother on the podium with a solid third place finish, which puts him in a tie for the championship points lead. Back in May when we last spoke with the brothers they had just finished sweeping at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis, and now, that circle is complete. Clearly the support of his family and team played a huge part in getting Kody back on track, yet there is every reason to believe that Tanner generated the most healing influence. We've discovered from past stories that the two brothers don't so much push each other - they inspire each other.

With Kody's and Tanner's first and third place finish, Team 6R Racing now holds sole possession of the all-time USAC Sillver Crown wins. Photo By: Chris Pedersen, Race Photo 1.

Tell us a little of what has been going on with you during your down time, how are you feeling, and how did you deal with any negative thoughts that may have tried to creep into your thinking?
"I'm feeling good. As far as returning to racing, the toughest part was that I couldn't really do anything for seven weeks. Two pelvis fractures, two skull fractures and broken collarbone don't really leave you any options for physical therapy until they're healed. Now, I go to the gym and go running with Tanner. I haven't really had too many negative thoughts. Obviously an incident like that changes your perspective, but that's been all. I'm still focused on meeting my goals, this was just a speed-bump in the process, and it's not going to keep me out of the seat."

Tanner, what was going on with you while Kody was recuperating, clearly you kept your focus as you're in a tie for the points lead?
Honestly it wasn't very hard for me to keep focus. Even though Kody had been seriously injured, that is always one of the possibilities that's expected when we signed up for the job to be professional racecar drivers. To an extent during Kody's rehabilitation it was kind of nice, he provided me with an extra set of eyes while track conditions were changing, and was supportive of me as I had to keep up with the busy racing schedule through June and July. Now I am glad to have him back as a teammate in the Team 6R camp because Kody's insight from the driver's seat plays a key role into the success that my No. 23 team has had. I am glad that the chapter of his recovery is over and we can try our best to get back into our winning ways."

. This past weekend Kody and his crew notched their first ever career USAC dirt sprint car victories. (MMRacingPhotos.com) Photo By: Chris Pedersen, Race Photo 1.

Kody, as we mentioned one of the toughest things in racing is to come back after a hard crash and trust yourself to run hard, how do you explain winning in your return race?
"I was actually able to come back in a very limited capacity in early July, but this was the event that I marked on my calendar for my return to full-time status. It was a Silver Crown-Midget double-header, and the event that I wanted to be able to be back by, to do my job for Team 6R Racing and Wilke-PAK Motorsports. I am very fortunate to drive for two great teams, both supported by Toyota and K&N Filters, and that we had the opportunity to do a little testing prior to the event. This allowed me some extra laps to get reacquainted with the car, and better prepare myself for the race. I was very focused on doing well. I have already had to sit out and watch some big events that I really wanted to be a part of, and I wanted to do my best to make up for that.

This question is for both of you, how was it to be back on a podium together again?
"For me, it was a great way to cap off any questions about my recovery. The Silver Crown series has the longest races of any series we race, so to be able to win one of those, after running in the Midget series just before, really means a lot to me."

"For Tanner, I think it was really special to have me back in the race as a teammate, more than just a spectator. I think for both of us to end up on the podium, shows that maybe we haven't even missed a beat, and that we can be stronger together than apart. It was really great to do that for everyone involved with Team 6R Racing, and to show that we can compete with the best."

What are your adjusted goals for the rest of the season?
Tanner and I are both really close in the USAC Pavement Sprint car standings. He is currently two points out of the lead, and I'm just 15 points back. With five races to go, there is a real chance for us to both do well in that series standings. For Tanner, obviously the Silver Crown Championship is within reach, and that would be a major goal. For me, I want to make sure I make the most of each race, especially in the National Midget and Silver Crown series. Being that I was unable to contend for either Championship, I want to win as many races as I can."

K&N Race News Update:
This past weekend Kody won his first ever career USAC dirt sprint car race in Chico, California, by topping a 29 car field in the "Wayne Sue Classic" for the USAC Western Classic Sprint Cars at Chico's Silver Dollar Speedway. Kody took the No. 69 Alan Kaiser Construction mount to victory in only his second ever USAC dirt sprint car start.

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Sheldon Gecker Adds to 2011 Top Dragster Wins with NHRA Sonoma National Event Victory

9 Aug 2011

Sheldon Gecker wins Top Dragster at 24th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway

Surprise, Arizona resident and longtime K&N racer Sheldon Gecker has been more accustomed to index class racing over the last couple of decades, but seems to be finding a new home in the Top Dragster class with his 2010 Tom Yancer dragster. Gecker grabbed his second major win of the season during the 24th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, his first coming during an IHRA Nitro Jam earlier this season.

NHRA Top Dragster Driver Sheldon Gecker at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California

Gecker started off the season with a 565 stuffed between the frame rails of his Top Dragster, but for this event he made some changes. "We had some parts laying around for a 632, so that is what was in there for this race," he said. "We were just up there [Infineon Raceway] last week for the divisional and got runner-up. I was a little disappointed in the final, we put ourselves in the wrong lane and there was a sun issue there."

"When we thought about the national event, we thought we may be in trouble and not be able to qualify," he confessed. "So we got to work on the car, moved some things around, made some gear ratio changes in the transmission and pulled the wing off. We even changed the type of fuel. It seems like about two-thousand things and we were hoping it would work out during the first lap [qualifying session] and it didn't, but it did during the second. We had to get rid of some tire shake and we did by moving some timing and things like that. Steve Williams even brought us out one of the new K&N 2nd Generation dragster scoops to put on the car and that helped quite a bit. Adding that along with everything we did, helped us pick up some ET."

"This whole Top Dragster thing is kinda new to us," he added. "I mean we haven't had to qualify for anything we have run since the seventies."

Things worked out well for Gecker in qualifying and as the ladder would have it, placed him in a first round match up with Tony Jardino, who went red and gave Gecker a virtual first round time run. "I was a little surprised to see him do that," Gecker said of Jardino's .024 red. "He was Division Champion last year and is a good driver. There were a lot of strange redlights across all the classes I noticed."

"Then I ran Art Hoover in the second round and he was just the opposite side of the spectrum, he was really green," he continued. Hoover may or may not have been trying not to go red after his perfect reaction time in round one, but nevertheless his .063 light to Gecker's .001 wasn't going to win him any rounds here. Gecker took the stripe by eighteen feet all while still managing to scrub nearly fourteen MPH and knocking plenty off his ET.

Gecker would meet up with Mere Silva in round three. "We have met up with her three times already this season," he explained. "She seems to be the most consistent of everybody that I have run this year as far as what she's going to run the in reaction time department and she's always very near the number more so that the rest of the competition everywhere we have been."

Years of experience paid off for Gecker as he cashed in on his .017 starting line advantage and pushed Silva into the worse side of the double breakout.

For the semifinals, Gecker once again had the better reaction time and for this round it was a bunch. "I never got a chance to talk to him [Randy Pressel] after that round. I don't know what happened to him. He had been really good on the tree in the previous rounds," he said. "That was a gift round right there, which you gotta have one of those about every race you expect to win. But I don't understand what happened with his light, he was like .280 or something."

That would send Gecker to his second Top Dragster final for a second week in a row at the Sonoma, California facility and where he fell short during the divisional race, he was looking to take care of finished business.

The race between Gecker and fellow K&N racer Mike Henderson was nearly a heads up final round and although both driver's went red, Gecker's one hundredth of a second quicker dial-in meant, technically, that Henderson had the first chance to do the deed. "It was pretty exciting," Gecker said of his Top Dragster win compared to other classes he has raced and won in. "And you know, one of the nice things about it is that it's a five round race to win, not a 'two-hundred' round race. The other side of the scenario is that you don't have to get up at 'five in the morning' to warm your car up to go drive it down a cold track. There are advantages to running the Top Dragster class."

"We had some confidence going into this race after our runner-up at Fallon [NHRA Div] and the runner-up last week," he continued. "It was pretty neat since I've never won one of these [NHRA National in Top Dragster] before. And just to add a little bit in on Henderson, we thought he was going to be the toughest competitor there. Luckily, we qualified close enough to him that it put us on opposite sides of the ladder and we didn't have to run him until the final."

"I gotta say some special thanks to the guys at K&N," he noted. "They keep working on all this stuff, making their products better all the time. They really have a handle on their filter area and had like four or five guys out there [Sonoma Event] testing different filters. We just can't believe all that K&N does to stay on top of their R&D like they do."

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Mark Faul Continues Strong Showing in His K&N Super Stock Entry With NHRA Victory #15 at Sonoma

9 Aug 2011

Mark Faul's Super Stock Win at the 24th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals

Just a few short weeks ago, Mark Faul found his way to the Jegs All-Stars winner's circle in his Stock F/SA 1969 Chevelle in Joliet, Illinois, and a couple thousands of miles later, he made it happen again, only this time taking his Super Stock entry all the way for the title at the 24th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals in Sonoma, California.

NHRA Super Stock Driver Mark Faul at FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals in Sonoma, California

"I normally pay very close attention to where I qualify, so I can try to avoid heads-up runs," said the K&N racer from Tacoma, Washington. "But this was a race where I was the only one in my class, so I just said the heck with it and ran it all out and whoever I race, I race. But I sure didn't want to race Justin Lamb first round. You know he's driving very well this year."

While Faul was also entered for the event in his F/SA 1969 Chevelle, where he didn't have good fortune in Stock Eliminator, he certainly made it happen in Super Stock starting right with first round where he was able to push Lamb out the backdoor for a breakout and move on to round two.

Faul would get an easy pass in the second round of eliminations after his competition, John Winslow Jr. broke shortly after the green, "He launched and I looked in my mirror and saw the front end, pretty much like the bumper was going to hit the ground. I guess it skidded to a stop and something had locked up in there. So I was able to just go down, get my thousand foot time and shut it off."

The third round would be a very important one with the winner getting a bye in the following round. Faul and his opponent, Dave Bridgewater were the second pair out. "I watched the pair in front of me and it was a double breakout, so that had me thinking that it was quicker than I had thought it was," he explained. "So I went down there and gave it a couple of quick throttle whomps. Then I thought he was going to get by me, so after that I was full throttle to the finish line. It looked good on paper to get there first by three-ten-thousandths [.0003], but really that was a big mistake. I just tried to tighten it up and actually got a little carried away."

Too close for comfort or not, the round win and the very important bye into the semi-finals belonged to Faul, where he would meet up with Frank Grossi. Faul would have been a tough customer to beat after he slaughtered the tree with a perfect .000 reaction time, but was able to take a fairly easy stroll at the top end to save the car for the final, after Grossi pushed his luck a little too much when we went .015 red.

"Going to the final I was feeling pretty good," noted Faul. "The biggest drawback was having that .000 light in the semi's, because then, since I don't have a delay box in Super Stock, I had to make the button a little longer just to make sure I didn't do anything stupid and go red in the final. I was very pleased to have the .021 light that I had. He [Ken Etter] missed the tree a little bit and gave me some room to get out of the throttle a little at the end. I was probably going about a seventy on my seventy-one dial. The car was repeating very well, I was very happy with it."

The more than five-hundredths advantage that Faul gave himself on the line along with some smart decisions at the top end, was all he needed to acquire his fifteenth NHRA National Event win.

"It was pretty cool to be up on stage with all those guys," Faul said of his victory celebration with the other Sportsman class winners. "Some of those guys are many time winners, like Sheldon Gecker [Top Dragster winner] and Mike Ferderer [Top Sportsman winner]. It was really nice to share the stage with those guys and represent K&N with them and our other sponsors like Mickey Thompson and Hughes."

"I really need to thank my mom and dad, Gary and Cynthia, my brothers Brian and Darin," he noted. "And a special thanks to K&N Engineering. I've been working with them for the past five or six years and it is absolutely a great relationship to have. I've known Steve Williams for a long time and Bob Harris, actually when he was racing himself a little more. There are K&N products on both cars and then even my daily driver has the K&N performance kit on it."

This weekend Faul will compete a little closer to home at the 24th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals, just outside of Seattle, Washington and if history repeats itself, he has a good feeling about putting at least one of his cars in a final round. "I've made it to a final round every three years at that race," he pointed out. "In '99 I runnered-up in Stock, 2002 I runnered-up in Super Comp and then in '05 and '08 I won Super Stock. So, being 2011 I'm hoping for real good things this weekend."

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Bajaj Pulsar Motorcycles Popular in India Get Performance from K&N

9 Aug 2011

Replacement Air Filter for Bajaj Pulsar motorcycles made from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 equipped with 150, 180, 200, and 220cc engines.

Replacement Air Filter for Bajaj Pulsar motorcycles made from 2006-2011 with 150, 180, 200, and 220cc engines.

The Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle is an extremely popular performance motorcycle in India. Before the Pulsar, most motorcycles in India were fuel-efficient small capacity machines with 80 to 125cc engines. The Indian youth have embraced the powerful, by comparison, yet affordable Pulsar motorcycles.

K&N now delivers performance and protection for the Pulsar motorcycles, made from 2006 to 2011 with 150, 180, 200, and 220cc engines. K&N has released a new High-Flow Air Filter^™, BA-2201, to fill the need for a reusable performance air filter that is easy to install and designed to add power.

This high-flow replacement motorcycle air filter is washable/reusable, pre-oiled and ready to ride. K&N's BA-2201 is specifically designed to fit into the stock air filter assembly of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Bajaj Pulsar motorcycles with 150, 180, 200, and 220cc engines.

K&N high-flow replacement air filters are designed to provide increased airflow, resulting in increased performance and acceleration while providing excellent filtration. Fuel management modifications to your motorcycle are not necessary to obtain increased performance.

Covered by the famous K&N Million Mile Limited Warranty^® K&N's BA-2201 will provide years of performance and excellent filtration.

K&N's BA-2201 air filter fits the following bikes:

2011 BAJAJ PULSAR 220
2011 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2011 BAJAJ PULSAR 150
2010 BAJAJ PULSAR 220
2010 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2010 BAJAJ PULSAR 150
2009 BAJAJ PULSAR 220
2009 BAJAJ PULSAR 200
2009 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2009 BAJAJ PULSAR 150
2008 BAJAJ PULSAR 220
2008 BAJAJ PULSAR 200
2008 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2008 BAJAJ PULSAR 150
2007 BAJAJ PULSAR 220
2007 BAJAJ PULSAR 200
2007 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2007 BAJAJ PULSAR 150
2006 BAJAJ PULSAR 180
2006 BAJAJ PULSAR 150

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K&N Pro Series Canister Oil Filters Provide Outstanding Quality at a Great Price

9 Aug 2011

Pro Series oil filter part number PS-3002

Since its humble beginnings over 40 years ago, K&N has been delivering the best in performance filters for just about anything with an engine. K&N became the official sponsor of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series in 2010 and the #1 filter in NASCAR. In recognition of K&N's partnership with NASCAR, K&N has released the Pro Series Oil Filter. K&N Pro Series oil filters embody the spirit of NASCAR performance racing with its new sleek canister design and filtration media which is all precision engineered.

Pro Series oil filter part number PS-1017

K&N Pro Series oil filters are high quality oil filters, co-labeled with K&N and NASCAR logos. Complete with a fluted black canister, these oil filters are designed for removal using a traditional oil filter wrench. The newly engineered filter media provides outstanding filtration and flow, allowing for a high volume of clean oil to keep your engine lubricated and protected from harmful contaminants.

K&N Pro Series oil filters come with strong sidewall canisters for higher burst strengths, PSI relief valves and nitrile rubber anti-drainback valves (where applicable), and rolled threads to help prevent stripping when installing the oil filter.

K&N Pro Series canister oil filters are numbered similarly to K&N Premium Wrench-Off oil filters. Simply take the HP- prefix from the K&N Wrench-Off oil filter that fits your vehicle and change it to a PS- prefix. For example, a vehicle that takes an HP-3002 can use a PS-3002 Pro Series canister oil filter as well.

Below is a list of available K&N Pro Series canister oil filters:
PS-1001
PS-1002
PS-1003
PS-1004
PS-1007
PS-1008
PS-1010
PS-1011
PS-1017
PS-2001
PS-2002
PS-2003
PS-2004
PS-2005
PS-2006
PS-2008
PS-2009
PS-2010
PS-2011
PS-3001
PS-3002
PS-3003
PS-4003
PS-6001

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