Take back the keys!

i made it to the track today, it was the first saturday event ive ever been to at quaker.

HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF GOD it was terrible. tons of people breaking, and the track did a piss poor job of cleaning stuff up and keeping things moving. i made my first pass at 1:45, and my second (and last) at 5:35. on fridays its 25 to race, but you get 5 bucks back even if you lose in round 1, and every round you go (bracket racing) pays another 5 bucks. today i paid 30 to test and tune, and got two fucking passes in. in case you cant tell im miffed.

about those two passes... i now apparently make more torque than a king cobra clutch can handle. my first pass started out great, but the clutch started slipping in the middle of 3rd gear and i had to lift. i put it in 4th and it bit again at the end of the track, ended up running an 11.87 @ 110

luckily i had to wait almost 4 hours to make my second pass, and it had plenty of time to cool down.

on my second pass it slipped a tad going into second, and at this point im begging it to hold. so for the 2-3 shift i take it easy. like brett was shifting it easy. it held through 3rd and i did the same thing for 3-4 and it made it down the track. it still felt like it was slipping a little bit, but that may have just been me being nervous.

it went 11.049 @ 124.05. which i dont think is too bad for a 75 shot, my previous best was 11.58 @ 115.8 all motor. i havent confirmed but my guess is the DA was very similar.

moth-er-fucker i wanted to run 10s, but it looks like im gonna have to drop a few hundred on a clutch to get there consistently. im not gonna tear this clutch up over 5 hundredths, if i could have even shifted normally i woulda drove that (.05) off the et. anyway this is as mad and happy as ive ever been at the same time.

youtube video link will be posted shortly.

here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1lFu0rAhA

That shit pisses me off sooo bad when track's pull that shit... The one down here does shit like that because the owner only see's it as a tax right off for shit... A way out of thing's so they don't give two shit's less... =(

But you did get a good pass in, and that's better then breaking or only getting shitty one's in so it wasn't a TOTAL loss.... =)

i thought the track was the shit? you sound like andy now. and nice vid but whats with no one running in the other lane? not much of a race.

CruxSucks wrote:here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1lFu0rAhA

Sounded like you were shifting fine to me. Nice time though, and MPH.

"the track" is the shit, quaker in particular is a joke. they always fuck everything up, never prep anything, and the owners are douchebags. id just rather deal with it than drive an extra hour to norwalk, but i may re-think that. i have had good luck going on fridays, you wont see me back there on a saturday. this one rail car broke a brake line at the starting line while doing his burnout, and it stopped and they figured out what it was. then they proceeded to let him drive down the track while the line pumped fluid all over. some dude with a dirty mop kinda smeared it around and then said it was good to go. wow.

it was test and tune and there were an odd number of cars, im so sorry brett ill find someone who runs the exact same time as me and test my car out next to him so that my youtube videos are exciting for you.

and thanks cory.

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Sick MPH from MPR!

..I gotta check my queer tweets more often to find out whats cool and what isnt haha...guess I'm out of touch too

6spdscreaminchickin wrote:i thought the track was the shit? you sound like andy now. and nice vid but whats with no one running in the other lane? not much of a race.

LOL The track IS the shit Brett.. That's why I would never invite your ass... Cool kids only...

Just because it's the shit doesn't mean people don't fuck up sometimes...

Why Can't Thompson be closer

Thompson isnt even that good, return road is forever and burnouts are annoying, but its better than Quaker. I just wish we had any track near here, cuz Quaker would either be forced to step their game up or go out of business. But unfortunately they are the only game in town.

I wish Norwalk or Pittsburgh Raceway Park was closer.

Oh yeah, and congrats bill on the 11.04, sick shit. You going this coming Friday? I was thinking about going friday and saturday but sounds like it will be a huge shit show like it used to be on Sat. I used to run the points race on Saturday but I it gets old after a while, by it I mean staying at the track from 10am till 6pm and getting 3 or 4 passes in.

Soooo... Friday then? Ive been making it to the semi's pretty regularly, I was kinda hoping to win the No-Box class again before the season is over.

i will be there friday for sure. my dad is going to try and get lower into the 11's, and there is still a slim chance ill have a new clutch in by then....slim. if not i may just run all motor so i dont ruin this clutch.

Your Dad got into the 11's? Holy shitballs, quite the jump from what he was running before, was he running on the bottle as well?

he went 12.35 all motor, and his first pass on the bottle (75 shot) was 11.97. theres no doubt in my mind he will get it down a little, probably to a low .8x or high .7x. we were just so sick of being at quaker all day he said fuck it we will just run it some more next friday. i think with a little more air pressure he can get his 60' down enough to et a little better.

i found the clutch im going to buy, fat chance ill have 400 bucks in the next day or two to get it

Nice run man! Looks like those front tires want to come up for a second!

yeah it leaves REAL hard, even with spinning tires (poor prep) and a slipping clutch. ill do this and that over the winter to take care of that

CruxSucks wrote:yeah it leaves REAL hard, even with spinning tires (poor prep) and a slipping clutch. ill do this and that over the winter to take care of that

You're gonna fix Quaker?? Schweeeeeeeeeet....

i was thinking more along the lines of get a job and move away!!