GMCRACER
06-27-2006, 11:11 AM
This is kinda old and copied from another forum, but still good reading...
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Rusty's nitrous was stored in the rear weight bar, and the tubing ran through the frame rails into the midplate and through the scoop mounting tubes (remember those?) into the scoop area.
Though the Probe was sold after the story came out, the weight bar went back to Greenfield.
I personally watched Div 2 tech guru Jim Collins inspect a PS mid plate with a strong magnifying glass during a later teardown.
Though Bob Glidden could expertly foam at the mouth over things that didn't matter, as far as I'm concerned one of the lowest points in NHRA history came when the suits decided to smear him. Thery probably deserved what they got and more power to Rusty for trashing his career to prove a point and defend his father.
Good Call! Here's futher proof!
From Super Stock Magazine - December 1995 Page 9
Glidden Admits Using Nitrous!
The war of words between perennial Pro Stock champion Bob Glidden and the National Hot Rod Association escalated at IRP over Labor Day Weekend when NHRA's most proflic drag racing champion reiterated accusations that some Pro Stock racers have resorted to the use of nitrous oxide to enhance their quarter-mile performance.
NHRA senior veep (that's how it was in the article) Graham Light categorically denied the accusations and proclaimed Glidden's charges "nonsense" and "fiction". But then one of the offending parties, Glidden's son Rusty, admitted on record that he did in fact use nitrous oxide in his Pro Stock Ford Probe , as did his brother BIll in another Probe.
The admission by Rusty Glidden was accompanied by a detailed explanation of how the nitrous oxide was hidden and plumbed in the car: "The holding tank was the big weight bar in the back of the car. The nitrous line went over the axle housing right up to the front of the car and stopped at the motor plate. The plate was riffle-drilled, and so was one of the tubes that held the hood scoop on. The nitrous went up through the top of the hood scoop to a small stainless steel line that went down through the top of the scoop with two .029-inch jets over the carburetors."
According to Rusty," There was improvement right off the bat. I went to Indy last year and didn't even qualify. I skipped the next race, then went to Topeka and qualified #7-coulda been #1- with an engine that three years ago wouldn't qualify." Rusty said the nitrous was worth an additional 90 horsepower and 120 ft-lbs of torque at 7000 rpm.
Bob Glidden explained how the nitrous system in his son's car was virtually detection-proof:" They had a combination of things to activate it so a tech guy couldn't walk up, turn on the ignition and open the throttle. You had to have the shock and computer switches on, the engine running, and be at full throttle."
"That's not fiction," Bob Glidden said. "Trust me."
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Rusty's nitrous was stored in the rear weight bar, and the tubing ran through the frame rails into the midplate and through the scoop mounting tubes (remember those?) into the scoop area.
Though the Probe was sold after the story came out, the weight bar went back to Greenfield.
I personally watched Div 2 tech guru Jim Collins inspect a PS mid plate with a strong magnifying glass during a later teardown.
Though Bob Glidden could expertly foam at the mouth over things that didn't matter, as far as I'm concerned one of the lowest points in NHRA history came when the suits decided to smear him. Thery probably deserved what they got and more power to Rusty for trashing his career to prove a point and defend his father.
Good Call! Here's futher proof!
From Super Stock Magazine - December 1995 Page 9
Glidden Admits Using Nitrous!
The war of words between perennial Pro Stock champion Bob Glidden and the National Hot Rod Association escalated at IRP over Labor Day Weekend when NHRA's most proflic drag racing champion reiterated accusations that some Pro Stock racers have resorted to the use of nitrous oxide to enhance their quarter-mile performance.
NHRA senior veep (that's how it was in the article) Graham Light categorically denied the accusations and proclaimed Glidden's charges "nonsense" and "fiction". But then one of the offending parties, Glidden's son Rusty, admitted on record that he did in fact use nitrous oxide in his Pro Stock Ford Probe , as did his brother BIll in another Probe.
The admission by Rusty Glidden was accompanied by a detailed explanation of how the nitrous oxide was hidden and plumbed in the car: "The holding tank was the big weight bar in the back of the car. The nitrous line went over the axle housing right up to the front of the car and stopped at the motor plate. The plate was riffle-drilled, and so was one of the tubes that held the hood scoop on. The nitrous went up through the top of the hood scoop to a small stainless steel line that went down through the top of the scoop with two .029-inch jets over the carburetors."
According to Rusty," There was improvement right off the bat. I went to Indy last year and didn't even qualify. I skipped the next race, then went to Topeka and qualified #7-coulda been #1- with an engine that three years ago wouldn't qualify." Rusty said the nitrous was worth an additional 90 horsepower and 120 ft-lbs of torque at 7000 rpm.
Bob Glidden explained how the nitrous system in his son's car was virtually detection-proof:" They had a combination of things to activate it so a tech guy couldn't walk up, turn on the ignition and open the throttle. You had to have the shock and computer switches on, the engine running, and be at full throttle."
"That's not fiction," Bob Glidden said. "Trust me."