I'm pretty sure with the old setup when he had the twin turbo Stage2 he was using an air shifter so that might have been the issue. Either way it really sucks as Ricardo is a cool guy and has put a lot of hard work into that car over the years.
Hope he was ok, he's a super nice guy. I met him a few years ago when he was converting the car to an lsx and I ended up buying one of his s2 blocks since he was done with the v6. He told me the last run with the v6 that the car went 8.30@165.