Drag Daytona

You're going to be seeing a lot more of this car, not only on the pages of Kit Car Builder, but at drag events around the country. We're following along on the complete build of this special Shell Valley Daytona Coupe and chronicling its progress in a series of stories in KCB. Eric Andreen is the sparkplug on this project along with driving it. Andreen is a successful Colorado drag racer and engine builder and has done a stunning job on the car that some folks have tabbed, "Tic Tac," for it's eye-searing orange paint job. So far the Drag Daytona is running a back-up/test engine, a 481-ci big block Chevy churning out something like 700 hp before

nitrous bursts. At a recent event, Eric managed 10.23 seconds in the quarter on the freshly-built car/engine and without using nitrous. The primary engine is still being assembled and will produce 900 hp!

The first story on this project appears in the October issue.