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Dolmetsch:
First run yesterday was against my friend Pat Doornbos and his hot injected BB Fed FEd. The slant six was on kill and I treated the crowd to a John force style bun through. I backed up and staged at about 3800. The armdrop girl was a tall red head with short shorts but I choose to ignore that and laid a holeshot on Pat. At about 1/3track he got me as the new 454 on hilborn really cooks. When I lifted nothing happened and by the time I killed the ignition I was already about100 feet passed the finish line going faster then I ever had in my whole life. I tried for a long sloping turn onto the east west runway but there wasn't room. At about 100MPH I hit the grass and weeds and was in for the ride of my life.I slid for a long ways then hit something and the car became airborn. When it landed I felt my lower back kiss itself . PAt somehow was there as the car came to a stop having hard brake jumped out shedding his jacket and helmut as he ran. He reached inside the cockpit and began undoing my harness and arm restraints to get me out. The track crew and a first responder were there in minutes . I had blood coming out my mouth but they quickly determined I had just bitten my tonque. They got me out. man was I stiff. They almost carried me to the waiting truck making sure I was ok. I actually was other then being sore.  I said to the driver. "I must be in here a couple of hundred feet." He laughed. "try about 1000" he said. Since I was not in any medical emergency they threw a tow strap on my car and one of the track crew jumped in a steered it back to my pits. My buddies wife is a nurse so after they checked me over and took my vitals they said "just sit there for awhile and if anything odd happens call us immediately." The car sustained absolutely no damage of any kind and the harness kept me in the car. I didn't even bump my head. There is grass and weeds hanging of it but nothing is broken. What happened to the throttle I don't know. I have run it all this year with no problems but now it feels gritty like a carb shaft broke or something.   My pals just put it in shop and I will look at it after I recover from my bruising. I didn't expect the power this tunnel ram header combo makes and am probably in over my head now so it is time to quit shoeing it.
Anyway I am resting till the pain subsides.
don

wideopen231:
Hey a wreck of any kind that you walk aways from is not that bad and if the car is unhurt even that much better. Glad you both got out ok. Car probably not in as much pain as you are and will be for cpl days.

Pipe Dreams:
So sorry to hear about the incident, glad to hear that you are not hurt and car is ok.

JeffV8:
Don I'm glad you're OK.

Supercat:
Don glad to hear you are still around to tell us about your weekend......
Take it easy for a few days and let us know what you find when you get back to the shop and car.
I use 3 different return springs at 3 different locations on my fuel system for this reason.

Again glad to hear you are still vertical..........

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