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Post by Dave Schultz on May 5, 2010 9:18:42 GMT -5
in early June
Who's going?
We'll be there with Vitamin C and the Black Coronet
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Post by texoutsider on May 6, 2010 7:06:58 GMT -5
Why not the Red car?
M.
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Post by Dave Schultz on May 6, 2010 7:48:03 GMT -5
The new motor in the Red car is still not fixed from the Jesel shaft breaking on its first pass in Dallas. We're still waiting on some parts, and I imagine Damon is going to be busy with his car for a while to worry about my motor.
Got the new TD Rockers installed, have the new push rods in hand, waiting on Reher Morrison to get the Mopar parts to replace the Chevy parts they sent me. When we get that new engine ready -- I need to take it to the track a couple of times to make sure it is right and tuned before dragging it across country. Damon doesn't think anything else was hurt in the motor -- but we won't know until he gets it running and we take it to the track.
I have the Vitamin C car running right on the number (made 4 passes at Bowling Green and the worst of the 4 was .04 off) and so I'm going to run it for the remaining five NMCA events this year -- and run the Coronet (and wagon when ready and tested) at the non points events like the Monster.
That could always change if we can't figure out what is wrong with Dallas' car and he has to run the Vitamin C and I the red car. The oil leak on the black car has been resolved, but the mystery breaking up still hasn't. We thought we had it fixed when we rented the dyno -- but it was still doing it when we T&T in Bowling Green. We'll be changing the ignition box and looking at a possible short in the truck this week and try to T&T again next week.
I'll be honest with you, after spending all last year having to work late into the night chasing down various ignition problems on a 9-second car (ultimately found to be the dampener slowly moving forward until it took out my radiator and screwing up the crank trigger alignment), needing my right shoulder ball and socket joint replaced vs. the yanking of a 4-speed as hard as I can, and the trouble hooking a 4-speed car when the tracks went away (or were never there -- like Zmax) -- I'm really looking forward to spending one year of wearing a lighter jacket, no neck brace, an open face helmet. It is Dallas' turn to drive a 9-second car, and we just can't afford (money or all night in the pits repairing what got shook loose) to run two high maintenance cars in the same series. I think I have a better shot at the points with a less radical 11.0 automatic -- as that's what I'm usually competing against. I've done five years in a 9-second car -- so reserving doing so for just the non-points races is fine with me.
I think I'm going to want to also short-shift the wagon to 10.0s and not wear out the parts and my ass.
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