August 11, 2007

This has been a long day. Paul Witting came up this morning to help test, then tear the car apart. The first thing we had to do was a leak down the motor to verify that our problem wasn't motor related. After three conversations with Kris Nelson at Nelson Competition and reviwing the results, we were thoroghly convinced that our problem is converter related. As a result, we extracated the transmission and converter as well as a bunch of other parts that were in the way. We also changed the oil, adjusted the valves and broke a spark plug in the head. We were able to extracate the spark plug also with no real problem. Hopefully with a trip to CRT on Monday, we can get the converter turned around by Tuesday or Wednesday and be ready to race next Friday night and finally get the car to run what it should. We expect it to run in the 5.20 ET, 130 mph range at Sunshine. That's a far distance from the 5.80 range that it just ran after putting the fresh motor in it.