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The Home Group WA 45th Westernationals were run this weekend at the Perth Motorplex under the IHRA sanctioned 400 Thunder Australian Professional Drag Racing Series and John Zappia stamped his authority in the Pro Slammer class by re-setting the Australian National Record at 5.683, getting to the final, and maintaining his lead in the series.

We Test A Dyno Room Full Of New Chevy LS Cathedral-Port Heads.

Australian Top Doorslammer Champion John Zappia is on his way to the Australian Nationals at Calder Park this weekend to take on seven other Top Doorslammer teams, and has his eye on the prize. The event is round four of the ANDRA 2015/2016 Championship and the first time the Nationals has been run at Calder in fifteen years.

We've conquered our 6th SEMA Global Media Award

SEMA is seeking to identify youthful innovators whose work is substantially changing the way the automotive aftermarket is doing business. These nominations will be used to select the third-annual SEMA Gen-III Innovator of the Year Award. SEMA will honor the award winner at the 2015 SEMA Show Banquet, which takes place on the evening of Thursday, November 5, 2015.

Now in its fourth year, the SEMA News 35 Under 35 roster has become a much-anticipated annual feature. In the following pages, we are again pleased to present 35 young trendsetters who are bringing exciting new ideas and renewed enthusiasm to every segment of the automotive specialty-equipment industry.

Justin Grey is Managing Editor at Octomedia, Publisher of Inside Retail.

The 2015 race has been challenging for the Speedmaster #11 Street Stock. Feeling the heavy loss of our great friend and teammate Dave Scheidecker to a heart attack during the preseason, the team struggled to find success.

Within 6 months of the launch of the Speedmaster website (January 2014) our efforts were being noticed, not only from our industry, but in all facets of online retail, and our My Application module was the reason for our nomination as Australia's "Most Innovative Online Retailer".

Speedmaster™ is part of the exclusive track tested manufacturer program. The Track Tested

Perfection often ends with an exclamation mark. And for newly christened eight-time ANDRA Top Doorslammer champion John Zappia, the final run of a perfect season was a record-setting affair.

Tunnel vision can be described as a narrow focus, not unlike looking through the proverbial tunnel. As you might imagine, tunnel vision can be both productive and destructive, depending on your perspective. Oftentimes tunnel vision eliminates outside possibilities that may otherwise provide the answer to your dilemma. By contrast, the narrow focus can also mean you have applied all of your attention to the task at hand while eliminating unwanted distractions. Our tunnel vision is more of the later, and focuses on building a combination that deserved not only the massive tunnel ram, but also the dual 1050 Ultra Dominator carbs. In the automotive hierarchy, sometimes more really is better, as in more cubic inches, more compression, and certainly more head flow. As easy as it would be to perform this test on the more common big-block Chevy, we decided to make things difficult and selected a big-inch Ford. Despite offering the largest stock displacement of the big three (Chevy, Dodge and Ford), the 460 was still way too small to deserve a dual-quad tunnel ram.

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Dave Scheidecker, standing infront of his car, competed in 45 of 66 editions of the Orange Show Speedway. Scheidecker passed away last month. He was 63. (Courtesy photo)

We race the Competition 1400 Series, within the S.N.O.R.E. desert racing series and are currently third in points standings in both.

Seven times back-to-back Australian ANDRA Top Doorslammer Champion John Zappia won the 44th Westernationals held at the Perth Motorplex this weekend and increased his lead in the short 2015 season to 85 points.

Six times back-to-back ANDRA Top Doorslammer Champion John Zappia today made history in Australian Drag Racing – by winning his seventh championship in a row with a finals finish at the Fuchs Spring Nationals, the most any racer has won consecutively – a title his good mate Victor Bray held for many years. He did it with one meeting still to go – the Australian Nationals in Sydney.

At Speedmaster our mission is to Go Green and move to a complete Paperless Operation by the end of 2017