As usual, the last few things took longer than expected. We finished the car Thurs evening, loaded it up, and I headed with the car to the track. We had put all of 2 miles on the car since we got it (what is it with us finishing a car on Thurs and then going racing with no time on the car?). We got tagged with a few tech issues, which made me glad we teched first thing Fri morning. Took the car back to G&G and everybody jumped on it and I got back out to the track around 5:00. We passed tech.
Did anyone notice that it was hot this weekend? Sat started out well, the car felt good, except that it wouldn't go over 95 mph. It's a 5 spd, so we tried unplugging the speed sensor from the trans and it worked, though we lost the speedo. Our rookie drivers ended up getting us 4 black flags. There really is a lot going on out on the track and it takes tremendous concentration and experience is definitely a benefit. We had to stay off track for awhile due to the penalties. I got in the car to finish up the last two hours and the car started to sputter at higher rpm and under more throttle, gradually getting worse until it would only go to 2000 rpm. We tried some hose over the hard fuel line next to the engine and exhaust, which seemed to help but it wasn't fixed. We went to town and got a fuel pump and put it in Sat night.
Sunday the car ran great and we knocked 10 seconds off of our best lap times from Sat. The front shocks were totally blown, so we'll need to do something about that. We got 3 more black flags on Sun, so we'll need to learn to be more careful. We started Sun in 109th position overall and finished in 73rd, so it was a much better day than Sat. With a few more things done on the car, like a limited slip rear diff, we should be a class B contender.