First night: Monee. Broke wrenched, wrenched, wrenched and raced a little.
Second night: BFG. Wrenched from the night before, wrenched some more, had a late model that couldn't get around the track any faster than I could walk around it, but somehow, got it back to an at least plausible running car by the end of the night. My car was total junk most of the day/night. I'm not sure what actually made it better since I threw the house at it going for the home run each time. The final combination was something close to my original setup with some spring adjustments and moving the nose of my car down to free the car up. I would much rather have a loose car than a tight one. Pushing is no fun at all.
Made some headway on my sprint car. After rebuilding the dammage from Monee and trying some new spring combinations, I finally got it to go around the track halfway decently. Still not a ton of speed though. If I roll the corners letting off the the throttle about 3/4 of the way down, it seems to carry enough speed to pull decent lap times. Got to believe that the next step is to put a speedo with some timing in it. Then again, maybe it will blow the corners. Going to play with the idea of going down a few teeth to get more pull out of the corner too.
Rapid Competition:
Today, I took a bag of parts and a pan car chasis to Freds. Duke helped me get a few things sorted out, which I appreciated greatly. By the end of the day, it was an SST truck that at least got around the track. It's not fast by any means. I'm still trying to figure out how to drive around the track in the perfect line. Consistency is not my specialty and that seems to be what it's all about.
I think I might have gotten around the track well enough to give it another shot next weekend. They say there's a big race at Rapid Competition. Might be worth it just to see those open 13.5 cars run. Man, are they fast!
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