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Glidewell's last minute gear change improved his cars handling enough to allow him to win the title.
After discovering that his car wasn't running up to its full rpm potential during practice at Orange Show Speedway (OSS), David Glidewell made a couple of quick gear changes. "Man what a difference that made," said the K&N sponsored Pro-4 Late Model racer. The cog alteration allowed Glidewell to glide to victory in the abbreviated 15-lap main, and to his first ever ASA Pro-4 Championship.
This is K&N sponsored David Glidewell's first ever ASA Pro-4 Championship.
"Winning my first championship is bittersweet," remarked Glidewell. We fought hard against some good cars and did a lot of work to make our car handle and be fast. Our class has had low car count due to the economy and a lot of the classes at OSS have been down this season."
"After getting with Eddie Secord of Fastrack engineering and going over the car for the first time since its completion we found that the rear end was out of square. Eddie worked his magic on the car, and we got it all back in tune. I have to blame myself for the gearing being wrong."
The Glidewell31 team now plans on taking their state-of-the-art car up north to see how they fair in the Northwest Pro-4 Alliance Series.
"After looking at the recall on the tech I discovered that it was only turning 7900 rpms and the motor needs to turn 8400 to 8600 rpm. I ordered the wrong gear and looked at the wrong gear chart. It wasn't until race day morning that I figured out I had misread the gear chart. So I rushed to Harold at Racing Plus and picked up a new 6-splines 21 gear set. It was amazing how much that few hundred rpm changed the way the car handled going into the turns and improved our exit speeds."
The Riverside, California driver and his Glidewell31 team won three of their six races, they were the number one qualifiers and won some of their trophy dash races, their clear frustration stems from the fact that the scheduled awards banquet for 2010 was canceled and that they wouldn't be receiving anything for winning the championship. "We looked forward to it for our sponsors as well as for ourselves," said Glidewell. "We're very disappointed with best in the west racing and their decision with the Pro-4 class."
The Glidewell31 team plans on going up north to race in the Northwest Pro-4 Alliance Series now. Glidewell feels that the change of venues and challenges for himself and his state-of-the-art car will be good. They also want to see what their Fastrack built car is capable of doing on bigger tracks.
"We will not race at OSS as long as best in the west is in control," declares Glidewell. "Eddie Secord has raced up north for some time now and I look forward to being able to race with him - he's a mentor and friend. I'm trying to learn as much as possible, but it's not always easy, having Eddie on our side just helps make it a little easier."
"This year has been a hard one for us financially. Getting ready for the August 7th race Mike Williams of Keller Williams Reality stepped up and made it possible to get fuel and paid our entry fee to race. This is the first race he attended and we ended up sweeping the whole night with a top qualifier win, we won the trophy dash and the main event, it was a very good night for the Glidewell31 team. A lot of hard work and having good equipment paid off with us in winning this championship."
"I think our car is the best looking car out there by far," adds Glidewell. "It has the paint job that Dale Jr raced with for Mt Dew and it stands out. Long time friend Phil Rogers of Body systems has done all the work to make this thing shine, it's just amazing how the whole car turned out."
Glidewell expressed his sincere thanks to all the aforementioned people that made it possible for him to continue racing this year and to bring in the championship, including a special thank you to Bob Harris at K&N filters for his continuing support. Glidewell also wanted to be certain to thank his fiancée, Susan Hansen, "She doesn't really like racing but she's always been there to support me, and she's even done the job of spotting for me when my regular spotter Dwayne Blay wasn't able to make it."
Performance Supply Innovations' 2010 Chevy Camaro SS 6.2L
The SEMA show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, is one of the most highly anticipated auto events held each year. This year was no exception, and
it turned out to be a big success. After-market performance manufacturers and automotive enthusiasts collaborated while they experienced the latest technologies the industry had to offer.
2010 Chevy Camaro SS 6.2L
Performance Supply Innovations (PSI) was one of many companies who supplied the event with impressive and innovative vehicle designs that drew crowds and impressed peers from all around the show. PSI's main focus is on building supercharger kits. "Our goal is to create a quality yet affordable power adding solution that is easy to install for the average car enthusiast in his or her very own driveway," adds car builder Brett Gish of PSI. "We have a few unique projects already in the works for next year as well. "
2010 Chevy Camaro SS 6.2L with K&N
"This was my second year at SEMA," Gish mentioned. "Last year I helped build a 2010 Chevy Camaro and a 2010 Ford Taurus for which I fabricated our first centrifugal supercharger kit."
2010 Chevy Camaro SS at SEMA
Gish is certainly not a newbie to building custom vehicles with enhanced performance add-ons. "I have been building cars with my father since I could turn a wrench at the age of 8," Gish explains. "I started by helping him with his Pro Street 1967 Camaro. When I was in high school, we built a tube chassis steel bodies 1933 Willys coupe which we entered in the local ISCA World of Wheels and beat out the points runner and won the largest award at the show. "
By the time Gish was a senior in High School, he was ready to get some wheels of his own and built a big block 1982 Trans Am. "This was my first car which I still own," Gish said proudly. "It has since been redone with a 540 cubic inch big block Chevy." Gish also mentioned that he has built numerous one-off supercharger kits as well as a twin turbo Silverado SS, twin turbo LS powered 3rd gen Camaro, a 1957 Chevy Sedan Delivery with a 502, and numerous other projects.
For the 2010 SEMA show, Gish delivered a 2010 Chevy Camaro SS boasting the 6.2L V8 engine. "My biggest inspiration was my urge to create a truly unique yet tasteful version of how I feel a 5th generation Camaro should look," explains Gish. "I didn't want to bring a car to SEMA with a bunch of different purchased items on it that were available to anyone."
"Our own first ever seen ram air hood, rear spoiler, front fenders, sheet metal intake manifold, wide angle mirrors, and centrifugal supercharger unit and kit, I feel, really made our car stand out from the crowd," said Gish, about this fully custom Camaro SS.
Gish was quick to point out that "many great sponsors stepped in to make this car the complete package. Many long days and nights in the final weeks prior to the show really brought this car together. Creating a supercharger kit using a new head unit that we produced and tested really took a decent amount of time to perfect. Everyone working together to build the plugs and develop a mold to get our production parts really paid off just one week before the show. With only one week to finish, our painter Mike Cramer did a great job finishing the car 2 days before we loaded it in the trailer headed to SEMA."
Performance Supply Innovations' custom Chevy Camaro SS was featured in the Convention Centers North Hall for the 2010 SEMA show and was equipped with a K&N air filter and oil filter. "We chose K&N due to their great reputation and quality products," remarked Gish. "Since I began building cars I have used K&N and plan to continue to do so for all of our supercharger kits."
We asked Gish what his plans were for the Camaro now. "Now that the car is complete, it will be driven quite regularly and shown as much as possible," he stated. "It will also see a decent amount of track time come next spring."
This year, SEMA was a great success for everyone involved. "I think this year was much busier than last year," Gish pointed out. "We will definitely be back with some new projects and products. Some vehicle will be strictly done by PSI and we will also be teaming with some other builders on some other cars for SEMA 2011."
Currently, PSI is working on a twin supercharged 1956 Chevy that is scheduled to debut at the Detroit ISCA show in January, 2012. "We are very excited for the upcoming year," expressed Gish. "I want to see where all of these new ventures will take us and I look forward to using K&N products in all of our kits."
Replacement Air Filter for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Yamaha YZF450F
In 2010 Yamaha Motor Corporation unveiled a project that changed the motocross world for
years to come. Since the sport was invented, motocross bikes have been improving rapidly year by year. Every so often manufacturers step up improvements to an un-paralleled level, this was one of those years.
Restriction Chart for YA-4510 Air Filter
The 2010 Yamaha YZF450F is a competition motocross bike which is posed to be raced in the 450 main class of disciplines such as motocross, supercross and arena cross. It is the first year ever that Yamaha has gone to fuel injection with any of its motocross bikes, but they didn't stop there. Along with a new frame design, improved suspension and body fairings, Yamaha reversed the cylinder head in hopes of changing the frame geometry to allow for an engine that sits as far forward as possible. With a forward sitting engine the main improvement is ergonomics and ease of handling in corners. When riding this bike, it feels much lighter than previous models, and slices through corners with the utmost ease.
The entire body of the bike was redesigned, making the YZF450F look more like its cousins, the R6 and R1 street bikes. Instead of having the intake system in the rear which has been the way of motocross
bikes from the beginning, the reversed cylinder allows for a forward sitting ram air intake setup. The gas tanks and seat now fold up much like street bikes to expose the filter. The filter set up is a panel filter
and K&N's YA-4510
is the perfect choice for a replacement air filter.
The YA-4510
was designed for the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 Yamaha YZF450F. It's a one piece panel
filter, just like the stock, but comes with an oiled cotton gauze media that
gives you the performance and protection you need on every race vehicle. The
cotton gauze for this filter uses the XD (extreme duty) media which provides
a tighter weave for off-road applications. The motorcycle filter is washable, reusable
and comes with a one year off-road limited warranty. It is designed to
improve the motorcycle's power and torque. When changing to this
filter, most will notice you can ride longer before needing to service the filter
due to its depth loading ability that allows for more dirt to build up on
the filter before significantly impacting air flow. If you want to treat your YZF450F like the cutting edge machine that it is, then the YA-4510
air filter is worth checking out.
Traditionally outdoors, Enduro racing has always been a huge part of motorcycle racing. A grueling test of man and machine the challenging off-road courses go over, through and around some of the most challenging natural obstacles this planet has to offer.
Orleans Arena Endurocross Track in Las Vegas
This is done over hundreds of miles in some of the most remote places. Most of the challenges riders face in enduro riding would be hard to traverse by foot and they have to do it with a 200 pound machine.
This style of racing never hit the USA as hard as it did in 2004 when Eric Peronnard, a long time motorcycle promoter invented a new style of racing called Endurocross. He took the hardest most spectacular aspects of enduro and fit them all into a basketball arena. The race is formatted motocross style with riders running laps. Most of the battles in traditional enduro racing happen in woods cliffs or rivers hundreds of miles out of site from spectators. Racers put their lives on the line to compete when only other racers and forest creatures are there to bear witness. With Endurocross these same diehard racers battle it out only this time with manmade obstacles that resemble booby traps and over 10,000 screaming spectators.
Yamaha YZ250 at Endurocross Las Vegas Finals
As an advanced trail rider, I, K&N employee and intermediate motocross racer Justin Rastegar, thought it would be a great idea to run the amateur open. The amateur support class is part of the series and takes place at every event before the pros run the race. It is on exactly the same torturous course that the pros run, the only difference is it's against amateur level riders making for a very entertaining venue.
Endurocross Track Pond
Working at a desk all day and going home to hide behind a TV gave me the false sense of self confidence to say those famous last words "that looks easy." Next thing I knew I was loading up the moto van with my good friend and fellow racer to drive out to the last event in the series the Las Vegas finals. I packed up my Yamaha YZ250 a two stroke bike and my K&N performance filter and shoved off.
When I arrived the dark cold Vegas weather foreshadowed what I was about to see at the 8 am riders meeting and track walk. As I walked the track for the first time I highly doubted my ability to even complete one lap around the arena that was more reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie than a motocross track.
Justin Soule
It didn't help that I had not slept a wink the night before, as I suited up my motocross protective gear the wrong way. All I could think about is how I was going make it through the course without damaging my bike or more importantly myself. Typical features on the Endurocross tracks are logs, tractor tires, sand, ponds and rocks (which look much smaller on TV).
Devin Davis taking moving past the tractor tires
I was most concerned with getting over the logs and the tractor tires since I had never done either and the tractor tires stood around 10 feet in the air and had portions of vertical angle. 5 minutes and two laps later, after practice I had a totally different take on the difficulty of the course. The tires were the easiest feature on the course, while they were mentally challenging the bike got 100% traction and climbed them with ease. The rocks were not as bad as I thought although on my first lap around I heard my name boom through the stadium over the loud speaker and in my moment of self gloating I dropped the bike in the rocks just as the spot light crested my helmet. It took all of my strength to get the bike out of the rocks because once you lose your momentum they turn into a real problem.
Colton Haaker
The real challenge of the race came in a feature that the race promoters dubbed the matrix. Getting stuck in the matrix was worse than anything Keanu Reeves had to put up with, it was pure torture. The Matrix is a series of sequoia logs placed a bike length apart from one another so once you are completely over the first one your font tire is hitting the second one and making you stuck. Unless you can skim the top of these you are inevitably going to get stuck or be uncontrollably launched from your bike onto a bed of logs something I had the pleasure of experiencing.
Ty Davis battling tractor tires
I finished 5 out of nine in my timed practice giving me the fifth best pick in qualifying heat. Luckily they only used my fastest lap because I spent most of my five minutes underneath my bike in the big rock section. I had beaten my friend Keaton my .55 of a second letting me get one better gate pick than him. In my qualifier I was second into the first turn and held this position all the way until I hit the matrix where I fell back to fifth. Once I got out of that wonderful section I quickly caught up to fourth place where I watched him get cock-eyed over a log and crack two ribs on an adjacent log. His misery put me in fourth which I held onto for 3 of the toughest laps I have ever done in my life. It was the first time ever in my life that looking at a dirt bike made me physically sick. Only 1 and 2 place progressed onto the main event so I was out until the last chance qualifier.
Even though I didn't end up qualifying I was not disappointed in myself finishing the race was enough for me. The whole experience was very humbling it took me back to when I first started riding when everything was a extreme challenge. When I staid to watch the pros I felt exponentially better as the best in the world faced similar challenges to me getting stuck on the rocks and in the matrix. Taddy Blazusiak the point's leader had already won the series as he rolled up the start gate. Even though he already had the series in points he ran the race as hard as he could, beating Geoff Aaron the number 2 in points. Both Geoff and Taddy made the track look easier but not effort less. Unlike a motocross race a strong lead doesn't always equate a win. The fact that the entire positioning of the race can change in the last lap of the race is what makes the series so exciting.
K&N has expanded its premium line of apparel. There are many styles and colors to choose from and shipping is currently free! K&N's apparel line includes quality t-shirts, tank tops, hats and hoodies. Sizes range from S-3XL for men and S-XL for the ladies. K&N t-shirts come in a variety of colors and designs. Whether you like a simple
K&N logo t-shirtor the detailed design of the K&N
3 Skulls t-shirt,
K&N's apparel store will allow you to keep your closet filled with some cool threads and best of all you can get them with free shipping.
K&N
Rhinestone Tanktops
All automotive, motorcycle, and racing apparel design and manufacturing is done at K&N in Riverside, California. To order go to K&N's Premium Apparel Store or call K&N customer support and place an order over the phone at (800) 858-3333. Make sure you check back occasionally for new releases.
Need an air filter to go with your t-shirt? We can help you with that also. To find K&N products for your vehicle use the K&N application search then use the K&N dealer search to find a K&N dealer in your area.
