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Helpful advice for first timer?
dreracecar:
Went into neutral---- do a leakdown
rooman:
I thought for sure I saw you in and FED at Indy about 5 years back?
I'll have to try the helmet under the heater output
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I drove your car after I got my fuel ticket Glenn. That is why a low 9 second run made me feel like it was parked :)
Roo
wideopen231:
It is funny how your perspective change with more speed. My firs car ran 6.30 1/8 first season.2nd year was running 5.90 with few new parts.Broke the 5.13 reargeart and swapped in a 4.86 dropped it back to 6.19.Man I thought I could get out run faster on foot.
Now going from 5.70 1/4 TA/D car to a hopefully high six second car.MAybe the front engine vs rearengine will help keep the fun meter up there. Those sub 6 second runs get costly quick.
JrFuel Hayden:
Yes, the heat-up your helmet is a good idea, it is what I did when racing at night in Wisconsin. The point is to have the helmet shield close to your body temp. Sometimes I just took the shield off the helmet and put it under my suit next to my body.
NOW about going into neutral during a run, you may need a better shifter that has a lock-out to prevent going into neutral OR reverse.
We had a trans linkage issue last year, when our driver shifted into high gear, it went into neutral, motor went to 12,000 rpm, broke the block, some pistons, some rods, one head and some lifters. A high RPM rev limiter will not catch a fast reving motor unloaded. That will be about $13k to replace. Fix your shifter so you don't ruin your fun before you really get started.
Jon Hansen, Hayden Wheels and Hammer-Hansen-Hook-Ramay JrFuel
wideopen231:
Jon maybe next time list what did not break would be better.
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