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The 2012 Chevrolet Performance LSX Challenge Series began in Florida in early March and continued with events in Atlanta and Bowling Green, and this weekend, the second running of the year-long LSX Challenge Series will come to a close with the LSX Shootout at the famous Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis as part of the annual NMCA World Street Finals. Championships will be decided on the track in the five LSX categories, while off the track, a sea of LS-powered show cars and manufacturers are expected to be on hand for this late model GM extravaganza!

: The LSX Shootout is under way, folks. We’re here on the premises all weekend in Indianapolis and will be bringing the latest in news, rumors, and racing coverage to you. Stay tuned!

Left - Mark Carlyle is here with his record-setting IRS Corvette to take his shot at all the marbles in LSX Radial. Will he end the weekend with a six-second pass? The weather is there...will he be able to make it happen? Right - Nick Mobus is going for the record of World's Fastest Stock CID nitrous LSX. The current record is a 9.29 and he's hoping to eclipse that at some point over the weekend. The engine was built by Steve Roden at Legend Racing Enterprises in Schaumburg, Illinois. Roden also does all of the tuning on this machine.

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Mark Mathews is here with his stock-suspension Camaro to run in the LSX Drag Radial class. Mathews' x275 combination consists of a 427 cubic inch Kurt Urban Performance engine and an 88mm Precision turbocharger. It's tuned by Patrick Barnhill and Jason Lee of Part Time Performance. Mathews ran the Camaro at No Mercy III last month and went a 5.07 at 141 mph.

Jud Massingil got loose in testing, but the SAM crew is hard at work trying to line the car out for the first round of LSX All Motor qualifying. This badass hotrod features a 438 cubic inch LSX engine wearing C5R cylinder heads. Massingil makes the gear changes via the Liberty transmission stuffed in the tunnel.

In the LSX Rumble, Dave Harris shattered the ring gear in his Corvette on a test hit. The owner of RPM Transmission was kind enough to re-open his shop and provide replacement parts - Harris is there right now having the chunk rebuilt. The car is capable of 8.90's.

The School of Automotive Machinists' crew was working hard to repair the transmission in Jud Massingil's Camaro. The shifter linkage was allowing too much slack in each gear. Jud told us that this is the best track he's been to all year and is looking forward to tomorrow.

Ray Litz ran a 7.53 in the first round of qualifying, which is a personal best for both him and the car. This is his third time out this year, and he makes the claim to be the World's Fastest LSX 88mm turbo car.

Mark Carlyle ran a 7.11 on his first pass of the day, which hurt third gear in the transmission. After that pas they pulled the suspension in order to repair the transmission, put it all back together, and went out to run again. Later, on his only qualifying pass of the day, he had a driveshaft failure. At this point they are working towards a fix for tomorrow.