| Probird |
08-20-2012 05:37 PM |
Thanks again everybody. It's been a very good year so far. I showed up yesterday with a hurt engine. It's having head gasket issues. Not a big deal as it hadn't lost any water as of the 3rd pass when I decided I better start looking things over. I was just trying to limp it through the day and maybe win enough money for a new set of head gaskets.
I knew it was going to be a long day after the first 3 passes. I went 6.07, 6.11, then 6.20. I couldn't get the car to hook for anything but most everyone else was running some of their best times of the season. That's when I started to do some investigating.
I dialed from 6.23 to 6.18 and had I run every pass out it would have ranged anywhere from 6.05 to 6.17. I had to make sure I had a better reaction time than the other guy and make it as close at the stripe as I could. I don't think I made it to the mph stripe any of the passes before I started pedaling. In the final I knew I had to make it good and went .003 and closed up the finish line to .013. I dialed 6.18, ran 6.23, and looking at my 1/2 track numbers it would have run 6.05 so I killed almost 2 tenths on that pass. I just didn't have any idea what the car was going to run from pass to pass so I had to play the game a little different than normal. Anyway, it worked out for the best and the car made it through the day. Now hopefully I can get a set of head gaskets here and put on before Saturday night. Getting them here in time will be the biggest problem.
How many passes are you guys getting out of a set of Cometics? I've made 114 passes with this set. I think they started going away about 10 passes ago. ;)
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