On this episode of the Cycledrag Show Jack Korpela sits down with bonafide motorcycle racing legend and perhaps the greatest race team manager of all-time Rob Muzzy to talk more about the secret of his success in road racing, flat track and drag racing , finding success with legendary riders like Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Rickey Gadson, Scott Russell and Ryan Schnitz. During this in-depth podcast from Muzzy’s home in Florence, Ariz. we talk about some of his most favorite engines, including the legendary Kawasaki Z1 900 and KZ 1000, his transitions from Kawasaki to Honda, back to Kawasaki, his secrets for getting the most out of every single engine, how he pushed back on the factory when he felt the engine needed better connecting rods, his experience at Daytona and much more.
We talk about how Rob Muzzy was hired by John Hoover to lead a Kawasaki drag racing racing team in AMA Prostar and how he helped revolutionize a sport by utilizing modern engines and building ground-breaking Kawasaki ZRX, Kawasaki ZX12 and Kawasaki ZX14 drag bikes. We talk about Muzzy’s huge leap into NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle with Kawasaki and Trim-Tex to try to run with the dominant Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson V-Rods. We talk a lot about Muzzy’s current project building high performance UTV and turbo UTV engines for top racers Robert and Ryder Van Beekum of the R-N-R Steel team. We also talk about the rise and fall of Muzzy Performance and Muzzy Exhaust and how Rob is happier doing what he is doing now – building engines. Enjoy this sit-down conversation with one of the greatest race team managers of all-time Rob Muzzy.
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