Extreme 10.5 hitter Billy Glidden participated in last weekend’s NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal drag racing and his main purpose was to exorcise some of the combination demons that have tormented his combination for most of 2009.

Did the testing work in a favorable manner for Glidden?

“Don’t know yet,” Glidden said. “I don’t have a new rod or piston in either of my engines. I usually take a drain pan full of them and throw them in a barrel. I dumped the barrel and picked through them to come up with the pistons for these engines.

Extreme 10.5 hitter Billy Glidden participated in last weekend’s NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal drag racing and his main purpose was to exorcise some of the combination demons that have tormented his combination for most of 2009.

Did the testing work in a favorable manner for Glidden?

“Don’t know yet,” Glidden said. “I don’t have a new rod or piston in either of my engines. I usually take a drain pan full of them and throw them in a barrel. I dumped the barrel and picked through them to come up with the pistons for these engines.

The same holds true for rods and rings.

“We just trying to learn and a whole new curve has been thrown into the mix,” Glidden said. “We’ll try to get it sorted out. This thing acts different.”

Glidden wouldn’t specify how the car acts different.

“We’ll have to make several runs in a row before I can make a guesstimate of where we are at.”

Glidden has competed for much of the last few events with used parts while he sorts through what he deems to be learning curve issues associated with elevating his combination to the next level.

“We used to run new parts,” Glidden said. “We were beating up those new parts and it has gotten to the point that I cannot waste any more new parts trying to figure this out.”

Glidden landed in the No. 4 spot with a 4.110 elapsed time at 171.18 following Friday's lone session at the ADRL U.S. Drags II in Dinwiddie, Va.

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