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Sorry been busy as heck after nationals and trying to get the house sold to come back east soon.
Nationals was a absolute blast with the drag and drive guys. Despite the treatment we got by the NHRA after one guy's brand new 10k motor blew about half track and spilled a little oil that came out of the belly pan they had looked at and given him the thumbs up on.
Thursday was the 165 mile drive from Pacific raceways up to Xtreme Speed shop, up to Chinook pass and back around a few other stops to the Fan fest in Kent. Then we headed back to the track after that for racing to start Friday. I had the tabs on my aluminum trans over flow can break during the drive but luckily wasn't anything serious, and Scott Speelman was awesome enough to take it back to his place and weld it back up for me and drop it off right before Q1 on Friday.
Q1 and Q2 on Friday I had some issues with the crank synchro error again after everything had just gone perfectly fine at the previous test and tune and it went 8.9 on low boost. So I think my best pass of the weekend was 10.0 at 148 after having to do some pedaling. Wasn't really able to go very fast with that error causing the car to lose power twice each pass. With as strict as they were the whole group of drag and drive guys turned into 8.5 1/4 mile bracket cars with the exception of the two who had 6.0 and 7.5 certs. Which kind of took the wind out of everyone's sails and limited the show we could put on for the fans. We had plenty of the pro teams and mechanics come over and were loving the cars and had some great conversations with them. The only people we had issues with the entire weekend were some of the bracket racers who were complaining about how the NHRA had brought us in to help get people in the seats. Mainly complaints and hate about how we didn't belong there because they paid lots of money to race there and we didn't. Had they paid any attention to the attendance for the NHRA, its been falling off because not everyone wants to come see a bunch of 10.90-11.1 throttle stop cars do bracket racing. There are fans for those yes, but as recent years have show there are more fans at drag and drive and no prep events than there are at most NHRA races. So bringing a larger variety to these events will help keep the sport and the interest alive so it doesn't die off where it is.
Despite all of the negative the positives from the weekend, to include sleeping in my enclosed at the track all week was awesome. The organizer on our end Donovan Linwood and his wife Marissa did an awesome job making sure everyone stayed fed each morning and evening and even had ice cream for us at the track for those crazy hot afternoons and evenings. Picture flood coming as well as a few videos. Now to get everything packed up and moved back east so I can get the motor out of the car and get that reluctor wheel issue checked out and check the thrust bearing as well. I don't want to have any doubts on issues when this thing goes back in. Then il be coming up to see you guys at Carlisle. I also have the coastal Virginia Auto Show in November too, and hopefully Dig or Die in December at Rockingham.
Sorry been busy as heck after nationals and trying to get the house sold to come back east soon.
Nationals was a absolute blast with the drag and drive guys. Despite the treatment we got by the NHRA after one guy's brand new 10k motor blew about half track and spilled a little oil that came out of the belly pan they had looked at and given him the thumbs up on.
Thursday was the 165 mile drive from Pacific raceways up to Xtreme Speed shop, up to Chinook pass and back around a few other stops to the Fan fest in Kent. Then we headed back to the track after that for racing to start Friday. I had the tabs on my aluminum trans over flow can break during the drive but luckily wasn't anything serious, and Scott Speelman was awesome enough to take it back to his place and weld it back up for me and drop it off right before Q1 on Friday.
Q1 and Q2 on Friday I had some issues with the crank synchro error again after everything had just gone perfectly fine at the previous test and tune and it went 8.9 on low boost. So I think my best pass of the weekend was 10.0 at 148 after having to do some pedaling. Wasn't really able to go very fast with that error causing the car to lose power twice each pass. With as strict as they were the whole group of drag and drive guys turned into 8.5 1/4 mile bracket cars with the exception of the two who had 6.0 and 7.5 certs. Which kind of took the wind out of everyone's sails and limited the show we could put on for the fans. We had plenty of the pro teams and mechanics come over and were loving the cars and had some great conversations with them. The only people we had issues with the entire weekend were some of the bracket racers who were complaining about how the NHRA had brought us in to help get people in the seats. Mainly complaints and hate about how we didn't belong there because they paid lots of money to race there and we didn't. Had they paid any attention to the attendance for the NHRA, its been falling off because not everyone wants to come see a bunch of 10.90-11.1 throttle stop cars do bracket racing. There are fans for those yes, but as recent years have show there are more fans at drag and drive and no prep events than there are at most NHRA races. So bringing a larger variety to these events will help keep the sport and the interest alive so it doesn't die off where it is.
Despite all of the negative the positives from the weekend, to include sleeping in my enclosed at the track all week was awesome. The organizer on our end Donovan Linwood and his wife Marissa did an awesome job making sure everyone stayed fed each morning and evening and even had ice cream for us at the track for those crazy hot afternoons and evenings. Picture flood coming as well as a few videos. Now to get everything packed up and moved back east so I can get the motor out of the car and get that reluctor wheel issue checked out and check the thrust bearing as well. I don't want to have any doubts on issues when this thing goes back in. Then il be coming up to see you guys at Carlisle. I also have the coastal Virginia Auto Show in November too, and hopefully Dig or Die in December at Rockingham.