Back and recharged after Braggin Rights this past weekend. To say it didnt go as expected was an understatement.
Turned the car all the way down for index to make it more consistent and able to run a number consistently. We got the cruise done over at the speedway and came back to the track and put the radials back on. Ended up with a round 1 win in my very first index race. Got the car turned around quickly and got back in the lanes. Temps at the track were scorching and dying in my fire suit. Rd2 came up and as I was bumping into the 2nd beam the sweat rolling off my hand and momentum of the car caused my thimb to slip off the trans brake and we rolled through the beams early. Completely my fault for not having my gloves on.
Tested a lot leading up to this event and knew I had a hotrod capable of running in the Mild, Wild, and daily categories of the shootout. We missed Q1 because we were doing the index cruise at the speedway. After the index rd 2 loss we noticed something funky going on with the way the car was running. Looked liked a possible 02 sensor or fuel injector issue on one bank. Swapped 02 sensors and that wasnt the issue snd wr found one cylinder thay wasnt quite up to temp like the others and we checked plugs, wires and those were good and got the injector pulsing again after a trackside cleaning and pulsing. But it was short lived as it started doing jt again af t er the next fire up.
So we missed Q2 becuae of that. Got the injector swapped out saturday morning literally right before Q3 and got the car to the lanes. Car wasnt 100% but felt confident we could get a pass in that would get us into the daily group at least. Then hit fuel cut safety in the burnout and the computer shut us down on power and we made a slow pass thay was 2 seconds off what it should have run with the tune up I had in it and we missed the cutoff and thay wad the end of racing for us.
Can't thank my brother enough for coming out and trying to help me get this thing fixed during the event. He was there sweating his butt off with me all weekend with my nephew. Haven't had any issues through all the testing I was doing leading up to it, but it would decide to have em at the big race.
Time to get her right and get it back to testing for the next event.
