January 2023 RPM Magazine Sampler

STRAIGHT-WEIGHT PERFORMANCE

HIGH PERFORMANCE MINERAL DRAG RACING OIL

Mineral based engine oil designed to enable maximum power while providing ultimate protection under the most severe race conditions.

• Unique friction modifier system enables maximum power output

• “Stay-in-place” chemistry and 2X Zinc anti-wear system provide lasting protection

• High quality base stocks enable effective ring seal

• Advanced, proprietary additive system keeps your engine clean

• Designed to prevent separation caused by fuel dilution

• Available in 50WT, 60WT & 70WT

Made in the USA MaximaUSA.com

RPM Magazine is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK of Revolution Publishing & Media Inc. RPM Magazine is a worldwide motorsports publication distributed online.

To subscribe to RPM go to www.rpmmag.com or email Trish Biro at trish@rpmmag.com, or call 519752-3705.

The focus of RPM is to bring a diverse mix of high performance street and race automobiles to life within its pages including race cars, muscle cars, hot rods and street legal machines with an emphasis on the “EXTREME,” including fast doorslammer and outlaw forms of drag racing. Not familiar with these types of cars? They are considered to be the top-shelf of the industry and are on the edge with regard to design, performance, and power!

RPM Magazine does not sell its mailing list or share any of the confidential information regarding its subscribers.

RPM Magazine has been a world leader in motorsports publishing for 23 years and has support locations in Ontario, Canada, Alabama, Texas, and Virginia, along with contributing writers and photojournalists worldwide.

If you have a story that may fit within the focus and scope of RPM Magazine’s coverage, please email our Editor In Chief at editor@rpmmag.com. Submission of an article does not guarantee that it will be published.

Revolution Publishing & Media Inc. (RPM) / RPM Magazine IS NOT responsible for errors or omissions in ANY advertisement or article. Advertisements may be rearranged or altered at the sole discretion of RPM to allow the ad to fit in the space purchased by the advertiser.

It’s safe to say that re-running my CONGRATULATIONS! Editor’s Rant has now become tradition in RPM in the first issue of every year.

Before you read on, just to be clear, I am all for progress, innovation, advances in safety, science, better health and moving forward, however, some things– read “some” things, just might make more sense the way we used to do them. The point is, learning how to deal with responsibility and challenges as well as success and failure at a young can go a long way in life as years pass. With that being said, I hope you enjoy this with the spirit in which it was written.

Congratulations! CONGRATULATIONS to all of our 40+ year old readers.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, white bread and tuna from a can. Then, after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored leadbased paints. We had no childproofed medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking! Mom didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet, she worked only if she wanted to.

We would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags, and riding in the back of a pick-up on a warm spring day was always a special treat, not a crime. If someone cut us off while driving we’d flip them the bird, and they would return the favor, without getting out a bat, knife or gun at the next stoplight.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. Take-out food was limited to hot dogs, fish and chips and pizza. You didn’t line up at the drive-thru for your morning coffee but got up earlier and made it yourself.

Even though all the stores closed at 6:00pm and didn’t open on Sundays, somehow we didn’t starve to death. We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy a whole bag of penny candy, sports cards, bubble gum and some fire crackers.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in them, but we weren’t overweight because... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We’d leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us, yet we were somehow O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes, which consisted of a wooden stick on a screw that scraped the ground to slow us down! We’d hop-up our bikes with banana seats and long forks and didn’t need some slick dude on a TV reality show of the month to tell us how to do it.

We built tree houses and played in river beds with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. We did not have any video games at all, and when we did finally get them it was for occasional entertainment with the whole family. No on-demand TV

or 200 channels on satellite, no DVD or streaming movies, no surround sound, no personal computers, no internet, internet message boards and forums or social media, no cell phones or other handheld devices and no texting... we did have friends though, and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits. We were given pellet guns, jack knives and slingshots for our 10th birthdays. We played with toy guns that looked like real guns, only because it was cool, not because we wanted to be a gangster. And every young boy wanted to be a policeman or fireman!

At 13 we learned to drive the family car at the empty mall parking lot on Sunday. We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled out for them.

Christmas was Christmas not Xmas, no really it was! No Black Friday or Cyber Monday either. We went shopping for our gifts at actual stores and most everything was made here at home. Football, baseball and hockey had tryouts and not everyone made the team. And those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! Getting on the team was a privilege based on ability and merit, and not due to special rules, threats, fear or guilt... There were very few football, hockey or soccer moms and dads who cared more about their kids becoming the next superstar over just letting them play and have fun. I know this all sounds strange, but it’s true!

If a company we bought something from made a mistake, we gave them the benefit of the doubt and simply called them about it. And they either fixed it or they didn’t, and they would live with the word of mouth (good or bad) AFTER we gave them a shot at fixing it. We didn’t go on social media (because there was none) and smear the company’s name first.

We did not talk back to our parents or we’d get spanked, and knowing that kept us in line… most of the time. Our teachers used to belt us with rulers or leather straps, and knowing that kept us in line… most of the time. Grade school bullies didn’t have guns and knives. The idea of a mom or dad bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! And police were given respect, because they deserved it.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we LEARNED how to deal with it all! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You were allowed to grow up as kids, before the lawyers, governments and big businesses regulated our lives “for our own good”. You may want to let your kids read this so they will know how brave their parents truly are.

Once again, have a fantastic 2023!

Chris Biro, Editor In Chief

Centers 110

PBM Products 83 Profiler ................................ 80

PRW-USA 18

Rage Wraps 92

RAM Clutches 74

RCD ..................................... 71

Ross Racing Pistons 7,78

RPM Magazine 18,49,64

RPM Magazine Subscribe! ..................... 28,41

SPEEDTube TV 17

Summit Racing Equip. 27,59,79

T & D Machine ..................... 49

The Supercharger Store 83

Thermo-Tec 19 Ti64 38

Total Seal Rings ................... 68

Trailer Alarms.com 28

TREMEC 93

Trick Flow 15,93

Tuned By Shane T ................ 23

Ultimate Headers ................ 46

VFN Fiberglass Inc. 28 Vortech 10,81

VP Racing Fuels ................... 56

Weinle Motorsports ............ 58

World Domination – RPM 37

World Products 46

Advertising Info: Contact Trish Biro 519.752.3705 trish@rpmmag.com

Story & Photos: Wes Taylor

Anthony Sellars is one of those guys who became hooked on racing a bit later in life.

It all started when he was helping a buddy with his 1998 Chevy Camaro at the track. Feeling his own need for speed, Sellars got into street racing and became pretty good at tuning his car, winning races, and making a name for himself. In 2007 he decided to take his skills off the street and apply them to a safer, legal form of racing. Anthony continued to make waves in racing at the track and built a solid team to help with the heavy lifting of running a race program. As the car continued to get faster, he changed over from more street-oriented parts to strictly race-proven ones. Unfortunately, in 2019 at Middle Georgia Motorsports Park, Sellars wrecked the car he’d worked so hard on. It was a total loss and he considered quitting drag racing, but after coming so far and starting to gain traction in the no-time grudge race world, he decided that wasn’t an option and bought “Vendetta”.

V is for Vendetta, and upon Anthony Sellars’ return to drag racing after a devastating accident, his revenge would be exacted through this wicked Fox Body Stang.

The 1992 Ford Mustang Fox

Body platform came as a roller out of Lucas Weldon Race Parts. It’d been a race car in previous years, but nothing like what An thony had in mind for the level he would be competing in, so pretty much everything was gut ted and or reworked by Carl Ste vens of Xtreme Race Cars. As a result, a Certified 25.1 cage and a custom-built chassis reside in the factory-looking shell. The front-end subsection was cut off in favor of a lightweight version for strength, not to mention ease of maintenance between rounds.

The body tub, pillars, rocker pan els, and roof back remain steel, but the firewall, floor pan, and tubs are all carbon fiber. The car uses a strut style suspension in the front with double adjustable coilovers.

Your Recipe for

High Power Certified.

There’s no place for middle of the road in high performance engines. That’s why Trick Flow developed CNC-ported GenX® series cathedral port cylinder heads for GM LS engines. Trick Flow engineers changed the valve angles to 13.5° to decrease valve shrouding, increase airflow, and improve rocker arm clearance. Relocating the spark plugs boosts mid-lift airflow and rocker arm clearance, and extra material added to the rocker arm mounting points enhances highRPM valvetrain stability. Trick Flow’s top-of-the-line CNC Competition Ported runner treatment delivers large amounts of smooth moving airflow for making big power.

GenX CNC-ported cylinder heads are offered in 205cc, 215cc, 225cc, 235cc, and 245cc intake port sizes. A 6-bolt mounting pattern is also available (optional GenX 235; standard GenX 245) for extremely high compression, high boost applications.

Track Max® Camshafts

Give your GM LS an even bigger power boost with a Track Max camshaft. Available in several hydraulic roller designs up to 230°/238° duration and .625"/.625" of lift, they are dyno proven to produce significant power increases over the entire RPM range.

Active Fuel Management and Variable Valve Timing Delete Kits

The problem: most performance camshafts don’t work on engines equipped with AFM or VVT. The solution? Ditch them with these delete kits! They include everything to completely remove AFM and VVT the right way so your engine will make the power you expect with no hiccups.

Cylinder Head Bolt Kits

Keep combustion where it belongs! These high-quality cylinder head bolt kits provide consistent clamping force. The bolts are made from premium quality alloy steel with cold-formed heads and rolled threads. The kit contains all the bolts you need to install a pair of heads.

Some parts are not legal for sale or use on any pollution-controlled motor vehicles.