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Minus 16 Days" Until My First Event of 2008
Its been a while since I last
updated my blog, sorry guys, I've been pretty busy with life.
Most of
you don't know, but besides my competitive nature at the drag strip, I also
coach high school Track and Field at a local high school. My kids sometimes
don't understand why I want them to win so bad. Its all about competing; they
need to learn to be the best that you can be at everything they try to do.
Since November, we've been competing in the indoor track season. Our boy and
girls teams both won the district meet (11 schools in the district) and our
girls won the state meet (4x400 team setting a new state record too!). The
girls teams compete in the National meet this coming weekend. I coach the Pole
vault and our squad are all new this season. I have a few boys with talent and
they are starting to show their stuff now. Enough about my personal life, back
to drag racing.
The motor- Currently, I am still waiting on my custom
pistons to be finished. Between not knowing the rules/classes for this season,
not knowing what car I would be running, and all of the other stuff that has
been going on, I ordered all my stuff late. Because I don't know when they'll
be in, I'm just going to put my small (back-up) motor back together for now.
When the new stuff gets in, I'll assemble the bigger project. I hope to have
the small motor assembled by tomorrow.
Trans- The past 2 years, I've
had transmission issues. It was a combination of a few things, trying new trans
fluid, trying to be cheap and using stock pressure plates, reusing old
hub/sliders, etc. This season, we bought all new parts, including a new LSD,
and have been measuring all clearances. I'll never forget the E-Town race I had
a car and setup that was running on point, but the transmission broke on me at
the starting line. That haunts me every race. I hope to have 1 transmission
complete by Friday.
Season- Currently, we have 20 events scheduled to
be at. A couple are car shows, a couple non-sanctioned races, and the rest
between BOTI and NOPI/NHRA. This is a lot to do being on a sportsman budget but
we'll make everyone we can.
2008 is almost here!
Two
Months Until the 1st Green Light
2008 is the season which we really
set our sights on hitting it big. We have some great plans on the new motor
setup.
DFE Enterprises has a great new piston design for us to try and
our Skunk 2 head package shows great promise for the new setup and PasswordJDM
is showing great support once again.
This season we’re going to be
tackling 18 events all over the east coast and even head out to 2 west coast
races. We’ll be racing both Import series, showing the car at Hot Import
Nights, and hopefully taking part in a couple of the big time national money
races.
As well as on the track events, this year we’ve started to
help our local car enthusiasts with hosting a monthly dyno day, couple charity
fundraisers are planned, and hopefully we’ll get to get out to a local
school to encourage youth to keep the racing and playing off the streets and
get involved at the local tracks. 2008 looks to be a real busy year, but it
also looks to be a very exciting one. Lets get our cars ready ladies and
gentlemen, we’ve got some racing to prepare for!
