{"id":8247,"date":"2014-12-02T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver4\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:06:05","slug":"lizzy-musi-unveils-new-pro-nitrous-2015-dodge-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/lizzy-musi-unveils-new-pro-nitrous-2015-dodge-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"LIZZY MUSI UNVEILS NEW PRO NITROUS 2015 DODGE DART"},"content":{"rendered":"

(December 1, 2014)<\/strong> MOORESVILLE, NC – After a historic rookie season behind the wheel of Frank Brandao\u2019s 2010 Dodge Stratus, PDRA Pro Nitrous phenom Lizzy Musi plans to put the class on notice next season when she debuts a brand new 2015 Dodge Dart built by Jerry Bickel Race Cars.<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on the 2014 season, Musi\u2019s accomplishments in Pro Nitrous, which included her breakthrough first win in July at the PDRA US Drags at Virginia Motorsports Park, the second-quickest elapsed time of the year (3.740) and the first pass over 200 MPH in the eighth-mile by a woman in doorslammer drag racing history, it would be easy to overlook the fact that she was competing in a five-year-old car that wasn\u2019t even designed for Pro Nitrous racing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Dodge Stratus she drove last year was built in 2009 and it\u2019s a great car, as all Jerry Bickel cars are, and was the first car to win an NHRA Pro Mod race with EFI, but it was designed to run NHRA-legal Pro Mod. It was designed to run quarter-mile, with a clutch, at NHRA-legal weight,\u201d said Pat Musi, Lizzy\u2019s father, engine builder, and crew chief. \u201cWe spent last winter converting it over to run eighth-mile in Pro Nitrous, putting a new 903 EFI engine, torque converter, and everything else in it. You can\u2019t help but be impressed with the way it performed, and we\u2019re looking forward to the new car being even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Encouraged by Lizzy\u2019s success, car owner and longtime Mopar aficionado Frank Brandao gave the green light for Jerry Bickel Race Cars to begin construction of the 2015 Dodge Dart, which will be a one-of-a-kind piece in Pro Nitrous competition.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe body is the same one as the current Dart Pro Stock cars, but of course it\u2019s stretched to accommodate the 110-inch wheelbase and larger tires, and those Pro Stock cars don\u2019t have a new 942 cubic inch EFI nitrous engine under the hood and zoomie headers out the side!\u201d Lizzy Musi said. \u201cI am so thrilled about this new car. It\u2019s going to be lighter and more aerodynamic, and will be built around our setup from the start. It\u2019s going to look awesome, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That look will be provided by world-renowned painter Jeff Hoskins and his team. An artist in her own right, Musi collaborated with noted drag racing graphic artists Rod Burke and Mike Carpenter on the car\u2019s paint scheme, with Burke delivering an ultra-detailed rendering of the Dart. Burke also provided a custom illustration of King Kong to adorn the side of \u201cKing Kong 6\u201d, which is a continuation of the naming scheme for Brandao\u2019s series of Mopar doorslammers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPro Nitrous is such a competitive class; if you\u2019re not moving forward you\u2019re falling behind in this class,\u201d Lizzy Musi said. \u201cEven though we had a great year, we had to build this new car and go with an even bigger and better Musi engine to stay where we want to be, which is at the top of the class.<\/p>\n

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\u201c2015 is going to be an amazing year, and I couldn\u2019t do any of it without the support of Frank Brandao, Shaikh Mohammad and Drag965, Lucas Oil, Edelbrock, and my family and crew,\u201d Musi concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(December 1, 2014) MOORESVILLE, NC – After a historic rookie season behind the wheel of Frank Brandao\u2019s 2010 Dodge Stratus, PDRA Pro Nitrous phenom Lizzy Musi plans to put the class on notice next season when she debuts a brand new 2015 Dodge Dart built by Jerry Bickel Race Cars. [gard] Reflecting on the 2014 season, Musi\u2019s accomplishments in Pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8249,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcobcur.com\/ver5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}