So this weekend as some of you know from multiple other threads, we hitched up the trailer to the Ol motor coach and headed to Tucson for the duct tape drags with hopes of making a few passes in the D100 in test and tune, pouring a few hydraulic sandwich’s down the hatch and hangin out with some good friends in perfect weather. Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad right? We had a wonderful weekend except for 4am to 11am Saturday morning, (i’ll explain that) and I didn’t get to run the D down the track. Partially my fault and partially out of my control. So Friday we arrive at Tucson dragway about 6pm. I unload and immediately take the D100 through tech, got my sticker and number and went to the lanes. The cars were lined up 4 lanes wide and 1/2 mile long. Some dummy in a coal burner rivered the track with diesel so they closed the track for clean up. End result for me was park truck, help girl make dinner for everyone and drink beer. No pass Friday night. My chick made an incredible carne asada and el pastor taco dinner to which I covered in the hottest hot sauce I could find (last dab pepper X, look that up) and devoured it. The next 3 hours we hung out by the bon fire and got sauced on Rocky Mountain spring water. We headed to bed about 2am. I wake up at 4am convulsing and shivering uncontrollably with my body telling me to evacuate anything inside from any available orifice. Yea it was bad. I threw up until about 11am. I was the only one who ate (later we find out it was expired) the hot sauce and the only one who got sick. No passes for me Saturday morning. I started feeling normal again about 2pm drinking lots of fluids and finally got some food down so I figured I’d suit up and head to the lanes. Fire the truck to warm it up and smell fuel. ****. Pop the hood and the gap of the air gap is now a lake. Front accelerator pump diaphragm is no longer diaphragming. Rip the whole thing apart and search for anyone with parts. Found a guy in the pits selling Holley parts and 10 bucks later we’re in business. No more leaky leaky. Fire it up, head to lanes only to find out they’re closed for the battle of the beaters race, which took the next 4 hours. No test and tune after. That was it, no pass Saturday night. Oh well, I did drive thre truck around the pits a bunch, meet a lot of really awesome people, wrench on a few really fast cars for guys I don’t know that are now friends, and the response to the D100 was overwhelmingly positive. I can’t tell you how many people came to my pit to talk about the truck. It was fantastic. So all in all a great weekend just no drag racing for me. We’ll keep going the duct tape drags as long as they keep having it. It’s an event everyone needs to get to for sure.
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