SHANE STACK
Take
It to the Bank
A verified threat in Limited Drag Radial this
season, Stack kicked off his championship
defense season with a big win at Lights Out
9: No Escape, bagging the $5,000 prize
presented by Strange Engineering, UPR
Products and Mac Fab Beadlocks.
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asserts Stack of his commitment
to the category.
To ready his 25.2 SFI-certified
Monte Carlo for LDR duty, Stack
swapped over to a set of smaller
88mm turbochargers. The car had
been back-halved by Chris Terry
Racing since its rebuild in 2009,
and CTR also upgraded the stock-
style suspension to a four-link
setup instead, featuring Menscer
Motorsports shocks in the rear
and Santhuff shocks in the front.
A set of Mickey Thompson 275
drag radial tires were bolted on,
and he was set to rock.
Stack started his 2017 season in
February with a short trip across
the state line to Georgia for Lights
Out 8 at SGMP. “I was deter-
mined to figure something out last
year. In 2016, I had lots of motor
trouble and didn’t race much – it
was about as bad as much 2010
season, short of sticking it in the
wall,” he confesses. Joined by
Chris Terry, Stack devoted a sig-
nificant amount of time to testing
and suspension adjustments at the
race, and changed up the four-link
settings on practically every pass.
He qualified nineteenth in Ra-
dial vs the World and double-en-
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hat feeling was
fleeting, though,
and Stack inevitably
got the car back
together in time
to run at Donald
“Duck” Long’s No
Mercy race at South
Georgia Motor-
sports Park in Val-
dosta, Georgia, by October of that
year. “Since then, I’ve just kind of
been there… racing every year, the
setup hasn’t changed much, but
never really any standout perfor-
mances,” Stack comments.
When the newly created
Limited Drag Radial (LDR) class
was conceived in January 2016,
by Tyler Crossnoe and Jason
“Pooch” Rueckert, Stack’s interest
was piqued. The goal of LDR, the
newest radial class, was to give
stock-appearing cars with big
horsepower a place to race fairly
with competitive rules and limited
power adders – it seemed as if
the class had been tailor-made
for Stack. “I can’t run Radial
vs the World; that class is just
ridiculous. I really like Tyler and
Pooch, they’re good dudes, and it
seemed like a good series for me,”
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