Monday, September 27, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Winter's back, I hate winter!
Woke up to gray skies, drizzle and cold temps and had a car show to go to in Golden too. We did go and while it was drizzling/light raining at the house, the sun was out at the car show. Ok so it only lasted about a half an hour but it was out none the less, but then the clouds took over and it was cold again. The car show let out around 2pm and yup that's when the skies cleared and the sun came out and it was nice. I've had to close some windows in the house, thermostat say's it's 66 in the living room and that's cold to me. In the end it sure beat being at work though, just ask the wife, she had to work.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
2010 High Altitude Bracket Nationals
It's been a long time coming but I was finally able to race the car with the new 347 and not have it leaking all over the track.
I made 3 runs Friday all in the 11.7 range at 117 mph, the only problem I had was the car bogged real bad on the launch. I thought about the problem and Saturday made an adjustment to the fuel level in the secondary float and it really helped. I made 2 time runs Saturday and the first was a 11.59, the second an 11.65 so the car was running better in the heat we had.
For the first round I had the bad luck of having to race my Phast Phat Racing team member Steve and got lucky and won because he red lit. He had a great day too though, he was picked to run a special money race and won his first round but lost his second when he went to quick.
So on to the second round I go and won that one when my opponent went too quick and I ran closer to my dial, 11.63 on a 11.64 dial in. Now I'm on to the 3rd round and get a car that's a lot quicker than mine so I leave first. I knew when let go of the trans brake button I was late on the light, and sure enough the other guy caught me by about 1000' and won rather easily.
No complaints from me though, all the nights under the car, swearing at it and being frustrated paid off, the car ran great all weekend with no problems.
We have another race next Sunday where I'll be putting some runs on the set up to try and get it a little quicker.
I made 3 runs Friday all in the 11.7 range at 117 mph, the only problem I had was the car bogged real bad on the launch. I thought about the problem and Saturday made an adjustment to the fuel level in the secondary float and it really helped. I made 2 time runs Saturday and the first was a 11.59, the second an 11.65 so the car was running better in the heat we had.
For the first round I had the bad luck of having to race my Phast Phat Racing team member Steve and got lucky and won because he red lit. He had a great day too though, he was picked to run a special money race and won his first round but lost his second when he went to quick.
So on to the second round I go and won that one when my opponent went too quick and I ran closer to my dial, 11.63 on a 11.64 dial in. Now I'm on to the 3rd round and get a car that's a lot quicker than mine so I leave first. I knew when let go of the trans brake button I was late on the light, and sure enough the other guy caught me by about 1000' and won rather easily.
No complaints from me though, all the nights under the car, swearing at it and being frustrated paid off, the car ran great all weekend with no problems.
We have another race next Sunday where I'll be putting some runs on the set up to try and get it a little quicker.
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