Edwards & Young Racing – Seattle & Kent, WA.

Spring is here and both the ’57 and ’71 Chevelle are now ready to hit the strip. Over the winter we freshened the old 331 in our ’57 with new bearings, oil pump, rings, valve grind and valve springs and replaced the rods. We replaced our clutch that had a warped pressure plate after 90+ runs and clutch disc. Installed new Aldan Eagle rear coil-over shocks (our old rear shocks were “dead”) and have installed new slicks. 

The Chevelle now has a new air-shifter installed with an updated delay box and we replaced all the pushrods and one rocker arm and checked the seat pressure on the valve springs. Our goal with the Chevelle is to run just a tad bit slower by softening the leave slightly but be more consistent thru a broader range of track conditions to make the dial-in more predictable. 

Weather permitting, we’ll be able to get both cars out for testing at Pacific Raceways in April. 

Our best, 

Roger Young 

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April 2010 update: Edwards & Young Test & Tune Report posted! 

Roger (driving), Chris & Paul Young

Edwards & Young 331 in our '57

Here’s a much stronger pass on May 8th, 2010. The old car ran great running a 10.602 @ 125.90 MPH on this pass and leaving the starting line at 8,000 rpms.  Too bad this old man was asleep on the starting line and gave the first round away! This was our quickest pass for the ’57 ever at Pacific to date, 2nd quickest pass for the ’57 in its history.  Again, this marked improvement over the video above all came from chassis adjustments we made prior to going back out. 

15 May 2010 – Pacific Raceways – ’71 Chevelle 

I’m very happy to report we feel like we made excellent progress this evening. The air shifter is working properly and life is good again! Chris did a excellent job in the first round leaving the starting line with an outstanding .010 light and running a 10.491 @ 122.22 MPH [on the brakes] on a 10.47 dial-in to take the win light. On to the 2nd round where we lost breaking out with a 10.424 on a 10.44 dial-in. Again Chris did his job and left on our competition but our opponent ran a 8.863 on a 8.86 dial-in to take the win light. There’s great races here in Super Pro! 

Top Sportsman cars were also out this evening at Pacific. Here’s a video Paul took of Barry Hobson (far lane) & Joe Loch [near lane] on a qualifying hit. Hobson runs a 705 Sonny Leonard engine in his GrandAm. Loch runs a 800+ Sonny Leonard wedge in his Cavalier – both normally aspirated.