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It’s day two of the sixth annual Holley LS Fest at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Friday night’s rain showers gave way to mostly cloudy skies. The drag strip has been in outstanding condition all day with the exception of a few close calls, and a couple of fluid related incidents.
Bret Combest’s LS Swapped FC RX7 makes its way through the cones at the Autocross Saturday afternoon. Look for a feature on this car coming to LSXTV soon.
2015 NMCA Chevrolet Performance Stock champion Glenn Pushis was kind enough to let us throw a camera on his dash so we could “ride” down the track in his mid-10-second Camaro. Pushis is looking to round out his season with a win here at LS Fest.
On the QA1 autocross some of the fastest drivers in the country have been competing all weekend for the grand prize. Many of these competitors are duking it out in the Grand Champion class. These cars not only compete in the autocross, but also the drag race, and other challenges. Grand champion cars must be well rounded street and track combinations with talented drivers that can take on multiple challenge. The winner gets a bid into the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational finals in Las Vegas this fall.
Danny Popp let our camera ride along on a trip around the autocross. Popp’s C5 was one of the fastest cars on the autocross all weekend long. Watching this video of his runs around the track it’s easy to see why.
SAM Racing’s Brian Maseigill nearly put the school’s COPO Camaro on the bumper. The car of course features an engine built by students at SAM Racing. At the end of qualifying Masengill sits atop the COPO ladder.
Third Gen's are coming beginning to show up more frequently with LS Swaps. They're plentiful, inexpensive, and great platforms for a cruiser or racer.
George Farkouh sits atop the Real Street ladder after running a 7.685 at 178.19 mph.
The drifting cars were putting on an incredible show all day long. With both solo and tandem side by side drifting action. Crowds packed the Beech Bend circle track stands to check out all the action.
This year's engine swap challenge was closer than ever.
The engine swap challenge turned out to be a fight to the finish. This was the biggest, and closest engine swap challenge in LS Fest history. Two teams duked it out to swap a couple of C10 trucks. This year’s challenge included swapping the transmissions. Holley also provided a brand new EFI system as part of the challenge. The winners were the home town team from Kentucky, with a margin of victory of just 7 minutes. The lead changed more than 4 times between these two teams, and Mark Burch’s team from A Geared For Life, just narrowly lost out. In the end, that truck owner also purchased the entire package from Holley for what we are told was a “smokin” deal so he didn’t have to yank it back out.
We wonder how much hatemail and turmoils this LS Swapped Mopar causes.
The car show as also packed with all manner of beautiful and unusual LS Swapped Vehicles. We took a few minutes to talk with many of these LS enthusiasts.
Yes Vettes drift too.
Dan Ballard's '72 Nova had us drooling all day long.
LS in a Porsche? Yes please.
Danny Popp’s Lingenfelter powered C5 was screaming through the autocross all day. Did we mention it was runing 10s in the quarter-mile at the drag strip too. Watch our video above to ride along on the autocross.
All of the qualifying results have been posted. We did not get the autocross or drift results, but we’ll have those tomorrow.
