Yeah, it was close but no cigar, the car was good but the driver was the problem. I did have one issue where the nitrous line decided start leaking in the car and I had to bail out in the staging lanes and shut the bottle off, bad line, had a hole in it. I was lucky that a friend was there who pulled his line so I could get some nitrous passes in. Then the nitrous solenoid inlet fitting started leaking. After getting the leaks fixed I got back into the staging lanes and lined up against a rat box 80s or so Z28. The guy red lighted (I think he left on the third bulb) so I hammered the nitrous off the line and not much happened in first gear. I forgot to purge the nitrous so I didn't get the hit till second gear. The guy had 5 car lengths on me and I drove right by him.
I ran 11s.
11.0
11.04
122 something mph
After that everything went down hill. My eye doc came up with some contacts that should work good at the track. They did good till it got dark and I lost all of my near vision, I couldn't even see the tach or read a time slip. Ended up hitting the rev limiter in neutral twice.
It was a lot of fun though, lined up against Kenny on a .400 Pro Tree. Kenny caught me sleeping, beat me by .001 off the tree.
Last race was with Dave H., that was a good one. First time the T/A has ever lifted the wheels off the ground. David's son was so pumped after the pass, he came running up and said it was such a cool race, that was worth all the work over the past week.
I think I'm going to call John Calvert to get some suspension advice. My car is launching just like my Camaro buddy with the same setup, hooks hard, pulls the wheels, unloads and then it spins.