Holley LS Fest East’s drag racing program is massive and you never know what you’ll see in the pits. We here at Dragzine set out on a mission to find 10 cool vehicles, and boy was that a hard task. There were so many great cars at this event we could have picked 50 for this list. The 10 vehicles we selected for this list all have something unique about them that got us to stop and take a second look at LS Fest East.
Joe Hammann’s Turbocharged Dragster
We’ve seen a few LS-powered dragsters with a turbo before, but Joe’s dragster is a bit different. Instead of using an EFI system, Joe went with a blow-through carburetor setup to move boost, fuel, and air into his engine. The reason for the switch is Joe has another LS-powered vehicle that needed some engine work, so he sold most of his EFI parts to get that vehicle’s powerplant fixed.
Joe’s dragster is also a homebuilt hot rod, so that makes it really awesome.“I built this car from a pile of tubing. I made my own chassis jig. I made the tooling to make the body and other parts on the car as well. The engine uses an LS2-based block that’s filled, and I assembled the engine myself as well. The Quick Fuel carburetor is an off-the-shelf unit that I changed the boosters on and drilled the metering blocks out so I could build my own blow-through combination,” Joe says.
Zachary Blausey’s Wild Supercharged 1923 T-Bucket
Zachary Blausey built his gnarly 1923 T-Bucket in just 33 days. Was this car trailered from Zacharay’s home in Toledo, Ohio? Absolutely not, in fact, the T-Bucket’s original junkyard engine seized up a mere day before Zachary was supposed to leave for LS Fest. Zacharay bought another engine, made sure it had oil pressure, and made his way to LS Fest. The T-Bucket ended up running a respectable 6.14 at 100 mph in the eighth-mile, not bad for a junkyard build.
“When I was a kid, I had a Hot Wheels toy that was a T-Bucket with a blower and I always wanted a real one, so I built it. The chassis is just some box tubing I welded up after taking some dimensions and laying the axles out on the floor. I’d say it weighs around 1,800 pounds as it sits now. The car is just a blast to drive and was a lot of fun to build,” Zachary says.
Chis Henderson’s Unique 1959 Mark 1 Jaguar
There was a time when building cars that were radically different was a big mainstream movement in the hot-rodding world. Chris Henderson jumped on that bandwagon and never got off,…
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