 ich Daly had never set up a drag sled when he picked up a copy of Straightline Racer
last spring. As the owner of Dyno Port, an aftermarket pipe and engine mod company,
he hadn't spent much time dabbling in clutch work, and none on the suspensions of the
sleds he worked on. But after a quick read, he was hooked. "I'm pretty mad at you
guys," he told us in a mid-season interview. "You made it sound real easy to build a
Prostock 800 sled. I figured I could put a strong motor in and use big horsepower to
compensate for my inexperience with suspension. It doesn't work that way."
Once he made the commitment to compete with the big dogs, he couldn't go back. "It
was pretty frustrating
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at first," Daly recalled. "I had plenty of power, but we just
couldn't get our times down. That's when I knew we had a lot of work to do with
clutching and suspension." So off he went, renting track time at his local drag strip
for testing.
"In hindsight," he commented, "I think we spent way too
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