shots from the garage...
Had an “ok” time at MaTS…. What we learned is whatever was plaguing the car after the Irwindale episode was still present with the car. I had entered a class to run on Friday and the car was absolutely unhappy up on the two step. Even my helper noted it sounded like it was pulling down, not crisp. Now mind you I run a pretty archaic race car msd 6AL, two step, dial launch rpm module. I completely tore the carb down after the Irwindale episode, but we looked at it again at the track. Late night session had me checking electrical connections, cap and rotor, etc…. One thing for some reason I have a gut feeling that might have been the “cause” to this, is I took the knob on the rpm selector module and twisted it back and forth several times. Got out sat am and all was well! That gave us two time slips to give us a guess at Sunday as we opened with R1. Sunday morning I was paired with a 9.57 car. We went with a 9.33 and I cut a .030 light, and ran a 9.336 to the other guys 9.51. That was awesome!
……but R2 I threw it away. I’m usually the faster car in class and I failed to note my competitors dial in and got on the brake way to early and mentally choked and took off way to early.
checking the schedules to see where we can go next…..
Had an “ok” time at MaTS…. What we learned is whatever was plaguing the car after the Irwindale episode was still present with the car. I had entered a class to run on Friday and the car was absolutely unhappy up on the two step. Even my helper noted it sounded like it was pulling down, not crisp. Now mind you I run a pretty archaic race car msd 6AL, two step, dial launch rpm module. I completely tore the carb down after the Irwindale episode, but we looked at it again at the track. Late night session had me checking electrical connections, cap and rotor, etc…. One thing for some reason I have a gut feeling that might have been the “cause” to this, is I took the knob on the rpm selector module and twisted it back and forth several times. Got out sat am and all was well! That gave us two time slips to give us a guess at Sunday as we opened with R1. Sunday morning I was paired with a 9.57 car. We went with a 9.33 and I cut a .030 light, and ran a 9.336 to the other guys 9.51. That was awesome!
……but R2 I threw it away. I’m usually the faster car in class and I failed to note my competitors dial in and got on the brake way to early and mentally choked and took off way to early.
checking the schedules to see where we can go next…..