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Roll Call Who Is going to NDRL Summer Jam at the Blue Suede Cruise Norwalk Ohio

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GlennLever:

GlennLever:
This is the most beautiful track I have been to.

Free electric hook up, a pound of ice cream for a $1.00.

Great pits, fantastic track preparation, nice people. A great experience.

The rain however continues to follow us. We have lost one round of qualifying due to rain.

Norwalk racing report.

We changed a lot of things on the dragster.

We added two degrees of timing, now at 30.

Added ¼ pounds of air to the tires, now at 8 PSI

First round of qualifying changed the main pill to 95, top pulley to 57, A/F was at 4.289 for the run, was dead and flat and sounded fat at the top end, ran a 7.986 too fast for a 8.00 index.

Second round change main pill to 100, top pulley to 58 (bottom pulley both rounds was a 42, A/F was a 4.31, top end was better, EGT’s are still hot, no heat in the plugs, timing both rounds was 30 ran 8.080 at 160 MPH (MPH fell from 162). 

That puts us as number 6 in qualifying, this is a very competitive class.

GlennLever:
Norwalk update.

So the rain stopped, and we got a third round of qualifying in.

This NDRL series is tight, to give you an idea we bettered out last qualifying run by .020 (8.06) and went from 6th place to 9th place in the rankings.

The data  logger says we spun the tires just a bit on the launch so we will soften the tires up by .25 PSI for our first round of eliminations.

GlennLever:
Norwalk update

Well we made it to the semi finals (only three vehicles left in the Pro Comp class).

Pulled up to run that round, started to do our burn out, and broke. Had sparks at my feet, pulled off to the side of the track and our competitor got a by run.

Towed it back to the pits and it looks like we sheared the bolts that hold the torque converter to the flex plate. They were grade eight bolts. I will replace them with ARP bolts.

I have to pull the transmission and torque converter, so I think I will have three additional lugs welded to the converter.

I want to get the dragster into the garage on Tuesday so I can get started on repairs (we will drive back from Norwalk on Monday)

While decommissioning the dragster found two more things, one there are several drips of transmission fluid on the transmission pan (hopefully it is just the seal on the front of the transmission) and when I went to crank it over I found I had no electrical power, did find one wire that had been disconnected by a bolt that was thrown out of the flex plate. But still no power. Will look into this when I pull the transmission.

Had a great time with great people and very good competitors. Racing is VERY tight.

A big thank you to Steve for the education he continues to give me.

GlennLever:
Who ever taped this had something against green, they missed my round, but this is a good representation of the comitetion in the NDRL

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