Keith Haney ready to bounce back at Rockingham

4/9/2015

Keith Haney

Keith Haney ready to bounce back at Rockingham

Keith Haney and his Keith Haney Racing team areready to bounce back during this weekend's PDRA Spring Nationals at Rockingham Dragway.

At last month's season opener, the Texas Nationals at Texas Motorplex, various mechanical gremlins kept Haney from showing the potential of his Lucas Oil/RacingJunk.com Pro Nitrous Chevrolet, but he's eager to get to Rockingham and go fast.

"We're ready to roll into Rockingham with guns blazing," Haney said. "We figured we couldn't have had much worse of a weekend in Texas. Hopefully, we've got all our gremlins out of the way.

"The Larry Jeffers car is absolutely amazing. There's no problem with the car, and the powerplant we have in it, there's no issues there either."

A new Reher-Morrison engine is due for the next PDRA race, but in the meantime Haney and his 872-cubic-inch engine will battle some of their bigger engine foes, and with Brandon Switzer tuning the engine and Brandon Pesz tuning the chassis, Haney knows he has what it takes to win.

"We're trying to fight with these 1,000-cid boys," Haney said. "I don't think any of them have that much more power than we do. We've just got to make sure all the gremlins are out of the way so we can show them what we've got."

Haney and his team were pumped for the season opener in Texas on March 19-22, but mysterious parts failures cropped up almost from the time the team arrived at Texas Motorplex.

"Texas was an unusual race for us," Haney said. "We had some parts failures that normally don't happen, but two small parts issues cost us from doing well."

Haney's team also battled with the fuel pump and the water pump and dodged wet weather all weekend.

"We had to stay up all night to redo the fuel-pump system," Haney said. "We had to replace pistons while we were there. It was a rat race and kind of a screwed-up weekend.

"We had some issues that couldn't be overcome. It was nothing anyone did wrong, but we've made those corrections. We got revamped, restocked, and we took the motor to Reher-Morrison and they fixed it all up."