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Wow!! Am I behind the eight ball or what? I have been busier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs the last few weeks. So let me catch you up-The weekend after the Spokane division event we went to Pacific Raceways in Kent for the next Lucas Oil Darg Racing Series Division event. There were 12 cars for and 8 car field. The weather wasn't particularly cooperative all weekend. Rain on and off with fairly cool temperatures inbetween showers. The first pass resulted in a ok 5.94 time at 241 mph, leaving us in the number nine spot. The next and last qualifying shot resulted in a hard shaking run that didn't help our cause a bit leaving us in the 10th spot for an 8 car show. We hadn't hurt anything but didn't really get a chance to sort anything out with the weather restrictions.
Our next weekend found Kim and I back in Spokane as crew members for Lee Crosselin's car. it is a nice little altered body with a blown Keith Black Hemi motor. Long long ago I sold the block that is powering that car to Lee so it's nice to see it out at the track as Lee works towards getting his competition license.
The following weekend brought us back to Woodburn for another Lucas Oil Division event. This time there were 13 cars for an 8 car field. Our tuning efforts were finally rewarded with a 5.80 at 248 mph. That got us into the 8th spot facing Jay Payne in the first round. Once again the dreaded first round against the number one qualifier. We ran a 5.82 to his 5.71 but again our mph was over 248. So all in all- I would consider it a definite improvement in performance. I set career personal bests in elasped time and speed. I was very happy to have gotten into that tough field although going a little further in competition would have been great.
The following weekend was the Seattle Northwest Nationals. Nineteen cars were on hand for a 16 car field. I had the car loaded for bear on the first run. As soon as I dumped the clutch the engine RPM went right for the moon. Once the car settled back to earth I legged it on through to a 8.88 et at 232 mph making us the worlds fastest super comp car. The next qualifier went into the dumper when the transmission broke on the burn out. The last qualifier was again in the dreaded left lane and although the car left the starting line this time it still spun the tires about 20 feet out. I again pedaled it and it ran 6.32 at 242 launching the burst panels 300 feet into the air when they let go. Thankfully no truly terrible damage happened to the motor so we will be able to regroup and fix it soon. Kind of a dissappointing end to a too long weekend. But nevertheless I learned a ton about tuning the car and maybe our next outing will benefit from these hard taught lessons. So for now- "I'll be back" is all I can say. Or maybe-"I need a weekend off" Dave