JayCee Enterprises

Feb 9-2012
After the 1st round of qualifying at the season opening NHRA Winter Nationals in Pomona Ca, Mark Prothero sits atop the  Super Stock field.  Mark ran a 10.52 in SSVX,  which bettered the current record of 10.63 by over a tenth!  Mark runs a JayCee power plant in his flamed green NationWide Paving sponsored machine.   Good luck to Mark and all the guys running SSVX this weekend at the Winter Nationals!  Photo courtesy of David Alipio.

January 31, 2012
As Ashlyn Sacchette prepares for high school graduation, Dad has been busy preparing her to go racing!  Jack's been putting the finishing touches on getting a car together for Ashlyn to join the women of "VW Racing" in the Powder Puff series.  Jack's been getting her ready by taking her to Irwindale Raceway on Thursday night TNT sessions and hot lapping her in the familys VW Jetta so she can learn the basics of the Christmas tree and the etiquette of racing.  JayCee wants to thank Nationwide Paving, Brothers Machine Shop and Bendig's Garage for all their support in getting this project started.

Jan, 25, 2012
JayCee has once again stepped up to Sponsor the popular SS/VW class in the "Triple Crown VW Racing Series" who puts on the "Drag Day" / "Bug In" drag racing events. JayCee has also increased the purse for SS/VW class to $1000.00 per event and RANCHO PERFORMANCE TRANSMISSIONS has signed on to sponsor OUTLAW TURBO.  The first event is "Drag Day" at Irwindale Raceway on March 18th, the second event is April 29th at the Fontana "Bug In" with the season final October 28th at Irwindale's "Drag Day"                    

See Ya there!!

Feb 2012
Congratulations to Dominick Lupino Jr. on his 4 page feature article in Hot VW's Febuary 2012 magazine.  Dominick uses many JayCee parts & accessories on his Cal-look sedan

August 2011:
Congrats to Joe Maestas and Mark Prothero for making it an all JayCee final at the Bakersfield event August 6th & 7th.  This was the 1st time the PRA has raced at a WCHRA event and from the sounds of everybody on the Ultimate Aircooled forum, it was a success!  Thanks to Jerry Spern for getting these 2 organizations together.  Also thanks to the PRA for the Facebook updates for those who couldn't be there.  The win was Joe's 8th at a PRA sanctioned event, all coming in Super Street.  The Bakersfield win also has Joe leading the Super Street points chase by 37 points over Roger Crawford, and don't count out Ron Fleming, Mark Prothero or Doug & Shawn!  Any of those 6 cars are capable of winning at any time!  So, with 3 races down and 3 to go, it looks like it's going to be a battle for the Championship!!  Stay Tuned...  

May 2011
Congrats to Shin Mukai.  While in town from Japan for the "Classic" weekend Shin decided to get in some seat time at Irwindale Raceway. Shin managed a 7.19 ET in his new all steel 2 seater Notch, which is his best so far to date.  If you haven't seen it yet, pick up a May 2011 issue of Hot VW's and check out Shin's beautiful racer!

Photo courtesy of Mike Morgan Racing Photography

May 2011
JayCee would like to congratulate Tony Schwab on the debut of his “Full Monty” at the Sacramento Bug-O-Rama.  Tony was shaking down his new ride, which sports a Ron Lummus chassis and many JayCee components.  Tony’s Long-term plan is to run Pro Mod.

Thanks to JCPHOTOGRAPHYONLINE.com the the bueatiful picture of Tony's "Full Monty"

May 2011
JayCee would also like to congratulate Dylan Venegas for going to the “semi’s” in Sacramento this past Memorial Day weekend.  While Dylan’s motor is still not quite finished yet here at JayCee, he borrowed Corie Sacchette’s Motor and set a personal best of 11.64 @ 115mph.  Dylan is also getting used to his new ride this year.

April 2011
You always know it's race season when motors are in line for the Dyno.  Good luck to all JayCee customers this weekend where ever you may be racing!!

"Dirty Dave Bendig's" Super Stock engine on the Dyno getting ready for Bug-In in Fontana this week end (5-1-2011).  Dave also plans to run in Fontana at the NHRA Lucas Oil Series "Jegs Pacific Sport Nationals" in the new SS-VX class in Super Stock May 13 - 15th Good Luck Dave!!

Jason Poynter's Pro stock motor's on the Dyno getting the final touches before being shipped off to Jason back home in Texas.  Jason runs in the TXPRA as well as the ECPRA when time permits, Good Luck Jason!!

April 2011

Be sure to pick-up the May issue of Hot VW’s to see the beautiful Shin Mukai Notchback using JayCee power.

March 2011

Congratulations to Greg and Steve Tims for setting a new SS/VX record at a 10.91 during the recent NHRA Division 7 Race held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Greg and Steve use JayCee modified IDA’s and billet velocity stacks.

March 2011

The first race of the PRA season held at Firebird Raceway is in the books and two of the JayCee cars made it to the finals. In Super Street, 2010 champ, Joe Maestes (10.479 / 128.20) beat Roger Crawford (11.300 / 127.55). Joe qualified number 2, and had the best reaction time during elimination...s with a .044.

In Super Comp, David Bendig (11.706 / 118.17) was runner-up to Randy Bowen (11.419 / 117.74). Complete results can be found at the Race PRA website:

March 2011

Congratulations to Corrie Sacchette for wheeling the Brothers Machine Shop entry to the first win of the 2011 Super Stock season at the Hot VW’s Drag Day event at Irwindale Speedway. On top of the win, they also set a new 100.4mph record.  Cory uses JayCee modified IDA carbs along with many other JayCee components. 

June 12-2010

 

JayCee is hosting our 2nd annual “Open House”.  So if your in town for the VW Classic be sure to come by and join the fun!!
Dyno pulls every hour on the hour, Complimentary food and drinks, watch your souvenirs being made in the CNC machine, Music by “The Originalites” , and of course High Performance cars on display.  Located at 3100 W.
Harvard St. suite #3, Santa Ana, CA. 92704                  (714) 444-4344   

June 2010
BOR 65 perspective from Dirty Dave

This was going to be an epic event. Face it, this event is the most happening in the PRA schedule. The shop has been very busy during the past month getting everyone’s engines ready. Jack has been doing R&D work getting the new CB Strip Dominator heads ready for Zach. Joe started the build on his new bullet for the Strip Dominators, David Stark got his engine finished to debut his return to Super Street, Mark continued to dyno and tweak his combination. Joe was able to bring Jay Schumacher out of hibernation to call the tuning shots. They went over the car front to back fixing all the issues that they found in Phoenix. I worked on my plan to gain a couple of tenths in Super Comp. Troxel even put in a few weekends assembling his Pro Mod creation. As usual, nothing ever goes as planned and it was thrash central the closer it came to race weekend.

Saturday’s qualifying threw all but Joe a curveball. At some point, all the cars were not happy, which meant we all were diving into the cars making adjustments. When the qualifying was over Sunday morning, the cars had qualified #2 (Joe), #3 (Mark), #5 (Dave) and #6 (Zach). Super Street eliminations were plagued with breakage. First round was not kind to Dave and Mark. Zach got past Doug when the D&A machine broke at the line. Joe got a bye run off the Stark’s when their tranny stuck in 2nd gear getting ready for first round. Zach had a bye for 2nd round, and Joe got past Roger when his tranny wouldn’t shift. It was going to be an all Jaycee final. When the dust settled, Joe got the win light, moving Joe into the points lead, backed-up by his runner-up finish in Phoenix. With Jay’s help, Joe had a consistent car during eliminations; (10.291@132.96), (10.172@133.75) and (10.212@133.61).

For me, my day ended bitter sweet. Super Comp has a very competitive field where anyone can win on a given day. I struggled with my qualifying runs, and only qualified 6th out of 9 cars. First round put me up against Joel Carter, the 2007 champ. Everything came together and I got the win light. Second round I broke out against Steve Atkinson. I ended the weekend with three consistent 10 second runs, and some new personal bests.

Jack had the quotable quote for the weekend telling Bill Taylor, “No matter what we are going drinking with two cars in the final!”

Needless to say that many people need to be thanked to enable the Jaycee team to go down the track. First off, we all need to thank Jack and his family. Thanks go out to Jose at DPR, RLR, LAT Oil, Rick at CB Performance, Vdub Parts, Rick and Dom at Bugpack, Mike and Sam at Rancho, Jeff Denham Racing Heads, Sonny’s Welding, and all our friends that support us unselfishly while we get to power down the track.

We all have homework to do and look forward to getting a Super Street 8 car field for the next race.


Zach launching

Joe on his way to a win!!

Mark qualifing

Dave Stark making his Super Street debut.

Dirty Dave Bendig goes 10's!!  Congrats Dave

Photos courtsey of Stephen Hawes at Hole Shot Photos

 Video of: Joe and Zach in Super Street Final

June 2010
Next time you are at the track, look for Dylan Venegas participating in one of the trophy classes. Dylan’s Dad, Herman, has known Jack for 30 years. They met street racing and have been friends since. Last year when Dylan was nearing driving age, they asked Jack to build a 2276cc bullet for his street car. Since getting his license he has been hitting the track honing his skills and upgrading the car. All the hard work paid off at this year when he won the T2 class at Bug In. To prove it wasn’t a fluke, he backed it up this past weekend at Sac when he won the trophy class. Rumor has it he cut an .009 light. If you need a driver, Dylan may be the one.

.009 reaction time!!

Dylan and "pops" in the winners circle!!

April 2010
Welcome to JayCee’s 2010 race season. Last year we tried to get Zach to blog, and we got one race out of him. We are going to try a different slant this year where I’ll recap the races for everyone and provide some quotable quotes from the team. As you can see I’m already late posting this, but Phoenix was not your usual race. After Fontana last year, everyone took a different path. Joe Maestas blew his car apart, and everything now is painted, polished or chromed. There is still some to do to the car, but it is one beautiful piece. In post season testing at Irwindale, Zach had a driveline failure, so the car was parked while the trans was rebuilt. Mark kept his car as-is and just kept testing. I powder coated the interior tin, had A-1 build an over-the-top header and put a new wire harness in the car. Time ran out for Joe, Zach and myself, so the cars went untested heading into Phoenix. 

In Super Street, Mark qualified the best, posting a 10.196 at 128mph, which earned him the #2 position behind Doug Gonzalez. Zach qualified #4 with a 10.607 at 126.50mph and Joe qualified #5 at 12.288 at 78mph. After Zach spun and Ron Fleming crashed in qualifying Mark decided to park the car. Joe was fighting a valve train problem earlier in the day, but figured it out, and ended up being runner up to Doug in the finals.

In Super Comp, I was able to get some new personal bests. Although I still don’t have a 10 second pass yet, my quarter et (11.10) and mph (120.60) says I’m going in the right direction. This pass allowed me qualify #6 out of 10 cars. I got to experience Esther’s crash by being in the other lane on the third qualifying round and used up a bunch of luck on that pass. The Gods were smiling on me and was able to win the event. Bottom line is, without Jack’s help, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

I stated above that I would get some quotable quotes from the guys. I think Zach summed it up best by saying in the Jacuzzi Sunday night. “Stay in the groove”.  We all learned a lot and have to remember to be safe and race smart.  I can’t wait for Sacramento!

Zach doing a burnout with Pop's watching.

Zach launching

Bueatiful "Super Street" cars of Mark Prothero (far lane) and Joe Maestas launching together

Your 2010 Phoenix Bug-O-Rama Super Comp winner "Dirty" Dave Bendig (near lane) Nick Name courtesy of Rick Sadler

Thanks to Herb Barbee for Photos 

April 2010
Unfortunately Phoenix claimed 3 more cars at the Bug-O-Rama this  year, almost 4 cars, but Zach was able to save his car as it spun out, but didn't hit anything except for maybe a timing cone.  We wish speedy returns to Esther, Ron and Todd

Zach spinning out.

Easther's car.

Oct 2009
Congratulations to Joe Maestas!! After not racing for nearly a year, Joe found himself back in a familiar place... the winners circle with his JayCee powered Super Streeter at the Las Vegas Bug-o-Rama.  Way to go Joe!!

March 2009
JayCee announces that LAT Oils has signed on as an associate sponsor of Zack Sacchette's Super Street racer. LAT is a producer of synthetic racing oils and transmission lubricants, used by top NHRA Pro Stock teams such as Team Mopar's Allen Johnson as well as some NASCAR teams.  LAT also sponsors Mike Berry's NHRA Pro-Stock Motorcycle.