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CANNON’S NITROUS BOAT DOMINATES ROHE WRECKS RECORD SUPERCHARGERS AND NITROUS AT IHRA? Sources also told the Agent that IHRA tech was also checking all pressurized containers such as the air shifter bottles, fire bottles, and any other bottle on any doorslammer that had compressed gas in them. Evidently they want to make sure all bottles have the right gas in them (e.g. a bottle that says it’s filled with nitrogen had better not have some other gas in it.) The Agent has also heard that the IHRA tech people may be making spot checks of bottles at the next event.
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The Agent hears that Fuel Coupe racer Scotty Cannon has another vehicle
that he races when he isn’t burning nitro that is a bad hombre.
Seems like the irascible Cannon has a 28 foot catamaran-style boat that
he runs on the lakes in the South. Cannon’s boat is powered by
a 700 inch, Eagle Racing Engines-built, bottle-fed big block. Reports
are that the boat will run about 116 mph on motor alone and around 140
mph with the spray. The Agent hears that Scotty drags the boat around
to lakes where the NASCAR guys race their predominantly supercharged
boats and beats ‘em silly. The Agent is pleased.
Nitrous racer Gary Rohe’s NMCA EZ Street Mustang has dominated
the class for a couple of years. This year the Indiana racer completely
changed his program by building a lighter car and smaller engine. At
the Louisiana NMCA event he upped the speed record by about two miles
an hour. The interesting thing about that is that Rohe uses an NOS crossbar
plate that uses a very small amount of nitrous. 
Agent
N2O has heard from several sources that at the last IHRA National Event
at Rockingham, S.C. IHRA tech officials were all over the supercharged
cars that use an air-controlled throttle stop device. The stated purpose
of the device is to enable the driver to leave the starting line at
the exact engine rpm desired. The Agent wonders what they were looking
for.