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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.............................................................. CHRIS BIRO editor@rpmmag.com V.P. MARKETING/CUSTOMER RELATIONS.................. TRISH BIRO trish@rpmmag.com EVENT MEDIA.................................................. events@rpmmag.com EVENT SUBSCRIPTIONS COORDINATOR........... SHERRIE WEBER sherrie@rpmmag.com ART DIRECTOR............................................................
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Videos that are too hot to keep hidden
AED Competition .................87
Misener Motorsports ...........12
AFR:
Moroso Performance ...........20
Air Flow Research .... 5,40,95 AJE Racing...........................90 American Racing Headers ...74
Northern Radiator ...............96
Baer Brakes ...............37,104
Parts Pro/Total
BES Racing Engines .............17
Truck Centers .......................75
Billet Specialties ..................33
PBM Products......................99
BoulandMotorsUSA.com .. 104 Burns Stainless ....................18 Callies Performance Prod.....17
Race Part Solutions ...63,100
Calvert Racing Suspensions .34
Racetronix ...........................27
Deez Performance ...............24 E3 Spark Plugs.....................16
RM Racing Lubricants ..........36
ECAM ..................................96
Ross Racing Pistons ......7,103
Energy Suspension ..............78
RPM Magazine ..... 16,38,47
Erson Cams..........................33 GoDragRacing.org ...............47
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Granatelli Motorsports ........56
Subscribe! ....................21,43
GRP Connecting Rods ..........60
SM Racecars ........................98
Harland Sharp .....................63
Summit Racing
Hitman Hotrods...................80
Equip. ............. 69,105,109
Ian Hill Racing ..............10,98 Icon Forged Pistons .............90
Taylor Cable Products ..........61 T & D Machine .....................74
Induction Solutions .............57
The Supercharger Store .......95
Jesel ....................................76
Thermo-Tec .........................16
Joe Van O.............................80
Ti64 .....................................77
Kinsler Fuel Injection....13,81
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RAM Clutches ......................49 RCD .....................................87
JW Racing Transmissions ........5
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Rage Wraps .........................24
Design Engineering .............58
Hughes Performance..............7
“And They Walked Away” .....As the new Red Bull Corvette nears completion, Watch Shannon “Big Dookie” Poole’s Crash Video
Profiler ................................80 PRW-USA ............................17
Clearshot Customs...............99
Watch Ed Thornton kicking butt at 3.83 @ 193.96 MPH!
Piston Racing Engines .........47
C & S Specialties ..................77
Canton Racing Products ......28
Wally Elder’s Blown HEMI Pro Street 1969 Dodge Daytona Walkaround
Neal Chance Converters.......86
AVAK/Ridgegate Tools .........62
Bill Mitchell Products ...32,60
This Joker is wild! Watch Allen Hurley’s ‘68 Fairlane fly!
Moser Engineering .......24,45
LenTech Automatics .....12,94
Tom’s Upholstery .................59 Total Seal Rings ...................21
Liberty’s Gears.....................94
Trailer Alarms.com ........... 105
Lokar Performance ..............96
Trick Flow .....................15,90
Lutz Race Cars .....................16
Tuned By Shane T ................91
Magnaflow..........................99
Ultimate Headers ................32
MagnaFuel ..........................19 MAHLE Aftermarket ............39 Manton Pushrods ................53
VFN Fiberglass Inc. ..............21 Vortech ...............................81
Mark Williams .....................98
Weinle Motorsports ............40
Maxima Racing Oils ................2
World Domination – RPM 101
Metal Products ....................87
World Products....................69
Meziere Enterprises .......... 104
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Often Imitated, Never Duplicated—For 23 STRAIGHT YEARS RPM Magazine has been the ORIGINAL Voice Of Wild Street Machines and Extreme Drag Cars WORLDWIDE! Don’t Settle For Less! We DELIVER Insane Fast Cars and Bring You NO POLITICS... JUST ACTION! Your ONLY “Real Time” “Real World” Car Mag...PERIOD!
The Joker This twin turbo Coyote Fairlane is no joke!
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Something Different ................................................ 8 From Small Tire Drags to Pro Stock, Pro Mod and now an AWD 2,000hp Street/Strip GTR, Gene Wilson wouldn’t have it any other way!
The “Fast” Gene .................................................... 30
Building killer cars, going fast and winning is part of this father/son team’s DNA!
35 Years of Smoke & Gears..................50 Harry Gerb’s nitrous’d ’68 Firebird is show quality, street legal and deadly consistent! Page 92
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We light the fire in our latest RPM MAG small block Ford build
“You can’t change what you can’t measure”
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The Nissan R35 GTR surfaced in 2009, shedding new light on the performance car world. Sporting a paddle-shifted dual-clutch transmission, all-wheel drive, and a twin-turbo V-6 engine for quick responsiveness, they quickly became terrors of the street, and it didn’t take long for the aftermarket and drag racing sector to catch on to this unique platform. Gene Wilson comes from a long line of muscle car enthusiasts. “The first time I got to ride in something fast, my father took me down the road in his ’67 427/435hp 4-speed Corvette. It made such an impression on me, from that day forward my thoughts were consumed with engines and cars,” he explained. As a teen, Gene worked at a grocery store where he saved all the money he could to buy go-fast parts for his 1987 Mustang street machine that he eventually built into an Outlaw 10.5 car with a 408 twin carb small block, Powerglide and nitrous. It was the early ’90s, and the Fox Body experience gave Wilson a bunch of seat time and introduced him to
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Even with the parachute hangin’ off the back, who would ever think that this almost stock looking Nissan would be packin 2000 ponies?
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many like-mined friends, such as Tim Lynch, who he would race with in Outlaw 10.5 and years later would become instrumental in the GTR build. From a very young age, Gene’s dream was to drive at a professional level such as Pro Mod or Pro Stock. He eventually took a job at his friend Keith Swafford’s machine shop where he learned the trade of engine machining and assembly, which definitely opened some doors towards his goals.
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Working with Keith gave me a good general knowledge that allowed me to start building my own engines after our workday was complete,” Wilson explained.
And soon, by 1995, his dream to compete at higher level would become reality when he stuffed a 604-incher into a Mustang to hit local Pro Mod races. “It gave me an understanding of how to set up and adjust a clutch and also how driving a Lenco equipped car feels. It was trial and error for a long time, more error than anything actually, but we learned, and the only guy at the races with me was Keith.”
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The exterior body panels, trim and paint are completely factory, the only addition is the rear wing. 14
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