That ProCharger Wagon With Zoomies is Now Targeting Sixes
If you attended any day of Sick Week 2024 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive, you could not have missed Chuck Stefanski’s Pontiac wagon. Heck, you could hear the damn thing from the next county over.
A blown big block Chevrolet with a crank-driven F3 ProCharger was chosen to motivate the machine, and on its very first drag-and-drive, Chuck completed Sick Week 2024 with a 7.72 average alongside teammates and business partners Rick Trunkett and Bob Hess Jr.
“We built our cars as fast street cars,” said Chuck. “The other local guys kept saying they were not street cars. How better to prove that they are than a drag-and-drive?”
The wagon was caged out to SFI 25.3 specs to be able to legally clock as quick as 6.50 elapsed times at 3600 pounds.
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But Chuck wants more from the wagon, and although it was just assembled prior to Sick Week, the Pontiac long roof has already been stripped apart.
“I need to pull some weight,” Chuck said. “I’m also switching to methanol, adding fiberglass front doors (but keeping the crank windows), changing fuel system and ignition system, and the wiring was rushed, and a few wires were tagged, and I don't like that.”
He also wanted to give the car a good once over Sick Week, make sure firewall is sealed, and go through the motor before the season starts, in addition to re-wiring the car.
Why all the work on a freshly built car? “All in the quest for 6-second passes,” Chuck admitted. “I also need to get my advanced NHRA competition license.”
The wagon was slightly detuned to stay above the 7.50 mark during Sick Week since Chuck only had a basic sportsman license, and the car was still being sorted out.
“I think that if I could have worked at it during Sick Week, I would have run 7.30s,” Chuck said. “But I couldn't with the license issues and the PMU issues I had.
“I would like to run at least one six-second pass at Hot Rod Drag Week, and finish in the top three in my class.”
As of right now, Hot Rod Drag Week and Southeast Street-N-Yeet are the drag-and-drive events on Chuck’s radar, but we might even see him at a fourth event in 2024.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine and Chuck Stefanski.
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