John Zappia was crowned 2009/2010 ANDRA Top Doorslammer Champion last weekend, after he successfully defended his back to back title by winning the final of the Castrol EDGE Winternationals against point's leader Robin Judd, with a 5.817 @ 246.93 mph and reset the National Record with a blistering 5.805 @ 246.08 in his semi-final win against Ben Bray. "I love it when a plan comes together" said a jubilant Zappia, "We set some pretty high goals going into the last event, and to almost achieve them all is a testimony to the maturity and standard of our team. We aim high, and work hard at a lot of one percent details on the car and thankfully most of them actually work". Zap Top Qualified after running 5.866 @ 241.07mph, 5.831 @ 245.90mph and 5.810 @ 247.02mph. In the first round Zap had an easy win against Bishop who tried to gamble on the starter's finger and ended up with a massive red light and Zap running 5.852 @ 244.52mph in the Striker "Crusher" Monaro. Round two saw Zap put away Benny the Kid Bray with a 5.805 @ 246.08mph - resetting the National ET record. The Final saw Zap with a hole shot over Juddy and win with another "five Eight" - his sixth for the event - 5.817 @ 246.93mph and confirm his status as Australia's king of doorslammer tuning and driving. Zap is also $12,000 richer as winner of the Karcher Tri-State Shootout. The $20,000 prize money is shared between the top three competitors in the Shootout with a breakdown of $12,000, $5000 and $3000. Holding his two ANDRA Gold Christmas Trees and the $20,000 Karcher cheque, John Zappia was all smiles.

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Marty Rinehart, Jr. raced his way through seven rounds of competition at the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Maple Grove Raceway to score his latest win in the Santhuff-equipped Guest & Rinehart Super Stock Camaro. Marty's opponent in the final, the always-tough Jack Sepanek, uncharacteristically fouled out while Marty ran 9.911 at 135.25.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate long time customer and friend John Scialpi on his PSCA Pro Street win in Las Vegas. John and his 57 consistently powered down the track en route to the win, which was the first win by a blower car in that class.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate all of our customers who attended the ADRL in Valdosta, we were well represented at the track. Our stuff was in the finals on Stott's car in Pro Extreme and Carpenter's car in Pro nitrous. The racing was great with Santhuff cars running good all weekend. Stott and Carpenter both did what they do best, consistenly getting down the track and going rounds.

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John Zappia wowed the crowd this past weekend with the fastest pass by a legal weight doorslammer running a 5.81 then backing it up with a 5.81 to reset the ANDRA record. He also went on to beat Robin Judd in the finals who also uses Santhuff on all four corners. These guys are definetly on their game and continue to prove there the ones to beat.

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Santhuff's would like to formally introduce the Drag Pack shocks. With the help of Mike Roth at MR2 Performance we were able to build and test these shocks. The results were outstanding and the word spread quickly. With consistency and quality our trademarks these shocks are guaranteed to impress.

Feel free to call with any questions.

Santhuff's would like to congratulate Carlos Zaldivar, Bill Futch and team on their ORSCA championship. The team had a great year laying down some big numbers including going 4.24 at 184mph at Steele, AL. The corvette runs Santhuff's on all four corners and we bet this car is going to coninue to make headlines.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate all of our customers who attended the ADRL Finals in Texas, we were well represented at the track. Our stuff was in the finals on both cars in Pro Extreme, Carpenters car in Pro nitrous, and Ulschs car in 10.5. The racing was great with Santhuff cars running good all weekend. In the finals Santhuff newcomer Alex Hossler in his Duncan built car layed down a 3.73 at 202.48, just edging a tough to beat Quain Stott with a 3.75 at 205.57. Carpenter did what he does best, he cosistenly layed down passes in the 3.90s and capitalized on mistakes by other drivers all while nursing a wounded motor. Although Balooshi won Carpenter made him earn it, great job. In 10.5 Chuck Ulsh was just on a mission avenging a tough loss in the battle of the belts. He cosistently ran passes in the 3s all weekend. We are also glad to hear Jason Hamstra is ok and will race again.

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Congratulations to Jim Daniels on his win at the Mopar HEMI Challenge at The Dutch in his 1968 Dart by beating David Barton in the final Sunday afternoon at Maple Grove Raceway. He also set the NHRA Super Stock Hemi Record with a pass of 8.273 at 159.72mph. Both Jim and David run with Santhuff's on all four corners. With these guys on their game we expect more records to fall.

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Congratulations to Mustang Mike on his awesome record breaking run with Santhuff's on all four corners. Mike ran a 6.92 at 196 mph with a 1.186 60' 3.067 330' 4.530 1/8 on drag radials. We have a feeling Mike is going to continue to break records with his Mustang.

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John Zappia and Robin Judd wowed the crowd this past weekend with the fastest side by side 1/4 mile race in Australia history. Judd got the win 5.857 @ 245.6 mph to Zap's 5.875 @ 243.4 -Santhuff's would like to congratulate both Judd on his big win and Zappia for picking up right were he left off with a just repaired car. Both drivers use Santhuff on all four corners.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate Jason Hamstra and his team on a dominating weekend and win at the ADRL race at the Rock. He consistently ran in the 3.70s as he mowed down the competition en route to his second win. Jason runs Santhuff on all four corners.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate Charles Carpenter and team on the recent win and following runner-up were he ran his career best E.T. a 3.958. Charles has been a longtime Santhuff user and we're very proud of him for getting things turned around after a rough start to the year.

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Santhuff's would like to congratulate Andy at Smithracecraft on their first win in Texas True Ten5 True Street Class (275 Drag Radial, stock supension). The Parks/Graham Camaro Qualified #1 w/ a 5.602 (#2 was a 5.603!); had bye runs 1st and 2nd round due to ladder placement and breakage, got around a tough competitor in Roy Spencer (Blue '66 Chevy II), and faced the #2 Qualifier in the final. Their 5.64 beat his 5.65. Nice close racing.

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Santhuff's would like to inform every one that on September 1, we will be raising prices on rear shocks, certain struts, and some other items. Everybody who uses our products knows we do not cut corners or use parts that we don't feel are safe, we will always provide a top quality product that does what is supposed to do. With building a top quality product does come cost, we refused to raise prices for as long as we could however our suppliers aren't as nice and for us to continue building products that allow racers to compete at top levels we have to raise prices. We are also working very hard to get are lead time down as we know nobody likes to wait to long. We will be mailing dealers new price sheets and updating the online prices in the next few weeks.

Thanks and feel free to call with questions or comments.

Santhuff's would like to congratulate John Zappia and team on what will be another championship. His lead is unbeatable after his latest win were he reset the ANDRA National Record with a monster 5.828 246.17mph. Zappia ran 5.843 to qualify #1, then ran a 5.861 round 1, 5.839 round 2, then broke the record with the win. With this consistency John has ran over 50 passes in the 5 second zone this year alone and many of those have been in the 5.80s. Zappia uses Santhuff on all four corners.

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Congatulations to Burton and team with his third straight finals appearance he gets the win at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. Burton is proving consistency pays off as they really have that car running well..

Customer News - Posted May 17, 2009

Marty Rinehart, Jr., of Thomasville, PA, drove the Guest & Rinehart Santhuff Shock Equipped 69 Camaro, to defeat Mark Young, Wake Forest, NC, for the IHRA Pro-Am Tour Super Stock win at Maryland International Raceway on April 18th. Congratulations to Marty and crew on their first IHRA Super Stock victory. Guest & Rinehart is off to a great start in 2009 thanks to the world-class products and support of Sanhuff!

SUPER STOCK Marty Rinehart Jr, Thomasville, Pa., '69 Camaro, SS/EA, 9.752, 134.08 def. Mark Young, Wake Forest, N.C., '93 Mustang, PFA-2, 9.784, 134.16.

Customer News - Posted May 6, 2009

Congatulations to Burton and team with a strong weekend making it to the finals. Even with his career best run (5.988 237.75mph)it wasn't meant to be as he loses on an great light by Burgess.

Customer News - Posted May 6, 2009

Gatornationals Santhuff customers did pretty good this weekend with James Caro being #1 qualifier and taking the runner-up in the Super Stock event. Caro runs Santhuff shocks and struts.

Burton Auxier had a good weekend running very consitently and making the finals in Pro Modified as well. Burton runs the new Santhuff aluminum shocks.

Customer News - Posted March 24, 2009

Santhuff would like to remind everyone to remember our troops and the sacrifices they make for us. Don't forget to keep them in your prayers and wish them a safe return.

Above is Captain Eric Santhuff at the Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan.

Customer News - Posted March 13, 2009

Jason Hamstra runs 3.859@ 196.90 w/ converter. Uses struts and shocks

Johny Pilcher #1 Nitrous qualifier W/ 3.959 @ 184.07. Shocks

Chuck Ulsch goes to semi finals in 3,000+ lb. car. Uses Shocks and Struts

Clyde Scott rips off a 3.974 @ 191.81 on first pass after bolting on new aluminum shocks.

Customer News - Posted March 10, 2009