Well, he ran 8.5's in the eighth on a track with zero prep. The car has run at least one 11.7+ in the quarter on a 49/Garrett housing and with a new 44/PTE housing since is perhaps capable of an 11.4 or 5. The build is lots of bolt-ons only.
This particular night is a street night and very amateurish at that. As the track announcer confided, 'there's no sense in making the track sticky and breaking a bunch of these cars.' Lots of water in the burnout box, which no one had the sense to drive around, nor execute a proper burnout, and with all the underpowered cars and street tires and dripping wheelhouses it seemed the first 200 feet were soaking. And I suppose that's exactly what they wanted. Not a night I'd race on, but my buddy is a bit more impulsive (?) than me.
I think my friend needs to drill a hole in the bottom of each of the 3 relays and shake the rust out...