Well, today started out great. Mike Scott from Right Trailers came over to Clearwater to have lunch with me and Paul Witting in order to discuss our progress and develop some short as well as long range marketing plans. We're on a great track.
In the late afternoon we headed to Sunshine for the Wednesday night Top Dog Race. They take the quickest 4 dragsters and the quickest 4 bodied cars and run the 8 cars off in eliminations for $300. As it turned out, I qualified 4th and made the program.
My first time run was a 5.806 ET which was not speedy but very consistant with the previous Friday night. I had taken .015 out of the delay box and had a spectacular .005 reaction time. Boy was it hot though, 94.2° with a relative humidity of 47.29%, barametric pressure of 29.88 and (get this) a density altitude of 2715 feet. Geez, there was so little available oxygen in the air we were two-thirds as high as Denver. All you have to do to sweat is breath.
Time run number 2 the car picked up 2 hundredths to a
5.78 just like the previous Friday night. Wow, I was
starting to feel pretty good about my chances of winning
as I knew exactly how the car would run and I had
qualified. NOT!! I was bitten by the TDR (That's Drag
Racing) bug. All of a sudden the car slowed up
progressively on the next 3 runs. I think the converter
took a hit. To top it off I discovered (the hard way) a
loose wire to my electric water pump and the motor got
hot driving back after my last pass.
So...It looks like this weekend I'm yanking my transmission to get my converter back to Steve at CRT. Thank goodness he'll warranty it. Another day in the life of a drag racer. It sure beats work though!!!!
In the late afternoon we headed to Sunshine for the Wednesday night Top Dog Race. They take the quickest 4 dragsters and the quickest 4 bodied cars and run the 8 cars off in eliminations for $300. As it turned out, I qualified 4th and made the program.
My first time run was a 5.806 ET which was not speedy but very consistant with the previous Friday night. I had taken .015 out of the delay box and had a spectacular .005 reaction time. Boy was it hot though, 94.2° with a relative humidity of 47.29%, barametric pressure of 29.88 and (get this) a density altitude of 2715 feet. Geez, there was so little available oxygen in the air we were two-thirds as high as Denver. All you have to do to sweat is breath.
Time run number 2 the car picked up 2 hundredths to a5.78 just like the previous Friday night. Wow, I was
starting to feel pretty good about my chances of winning
as I knew exactly how the car would run and I had
qualified. NOT!! I was bitten by the TDR (That's Drag
Racing) bug. All of a sudden the car slowed up
progressively on the next 3 runs. I think the converter
took a hit. To top it off I discovered (the hard way) a
loose wire to my electric water pump and the motor got
hot driving back after my last pass.
So...It looks like this weekend I'm yanking my transmission to get my converter back to Steve at CRT. Thank goodness he'll warranty it. Another day in the life of a drag racer. It sure beats work though!!!!
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