shots from the garage...

Sometimes I feel like I probably shouldn’t own a racecar….. we’ll get back to that.
the in-n-out festival was quite the large shindig. Two stages, mobile museum, carnival. It’s more than fast food….it’s an institution. We all flew into this event blind from a race standpoint. All we knew was “qualifying Saturday“…..but for what??
there was a GM, Ford, Mopar groups and what they did was take the fastest qualifiers from each group, and you got to the bracket style race Sunday, so basically a champion in each group. I ran a 9.42 my first pass, but when hitting the traps and hitting the brakes violent front end shake…..again. Felt this at Famoso the week before and thought rotors?? …so I threw my new set on prior to this event. Obviously a swing and miss. Jacked the car up, and all felt tight. In a conversation with a few friends one noted chasing a similar issue and found his K member bolts had loosened. Crawled back under and there was the smoking gun…. The right rear one was mia. By this time I’d missed the 2nd pass and although they did have a cleanup pass, we decided to throw in the towel and just get it home and check things over. It was quite obvious from the scrape marks the K had been dancing around quite a bit. Got home and dropped the K out and checked the welds etc. got it back together and will get it to work and see how the alignment goes. Hope it’s not bent. So I got to make a pass at Pomona, got the T-shirt, and got to watch some nice cars make hits.
btw Shiloh Davies brought his small tire heads up Dart with an 8.40 tune and won the mopar side. He was the #2 quickest mopar with Eric Dondero (Plymouth Arrow) at #1 with an 8.11 (later went 8.09). Great Showing for the small block mopar crowd. I was at #7, but I’m sure we could have improved on that a bit. plan was to go to Famoso this coming weekend, but we’re skipping on that one. Spent enough on fuel for awhile.