KOH
Shot myself in the foot - again. Second round I had a huge RT lead and gave it up the stripe - by about a mile. I had to pull over to pee. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Matt and the yellow Nova were in the final. Good job Matthew.

HARD WIRED and BONEHEADED
I was running my vacuum carb. I need to slow to about 7.50 for Sportsman racing so I thought I'd experiment with short shifting. I'd put it in 3rd gear and step on the gas. Let the transmission auto shift. The Halloween Nova ran 7.45 to 7.53. That will work.

It was the craziest thing. I absolutely could not keep my hands off the shift lever. No matter how hard I tried, every time I launched I would grab the handle. When the shift light flashed I would jam it into DRIVE. Then I'd get the short shift to second and my bell would ring - and I’d put it  back into 3rd. It didn't affect anything - except for my sanity, it was driving me nuts.

Next time I'm bringing handcuffs.


VACUUM SECONDARIES
Very interesting graph attached. Ever wonder when your vacuum secondaries opened? With my manifold vacuum sensor it's easy to see. My vacuum Holley has the stock pink spring. The graph shows high vacuum, and a lean mixture, in first and second gears. The secondaries did not open UNTIL THIRD GEAR! Wow!


TRACTION
My suspension is well tuned. Except for obvious track deficiencies I haven't spun a tire in a long time.

I raced the vacuum carburetor in last year's Summit Series and figured to do so again. I'm expecting that the vacuum carb's two barrel launches would assure me boatloads of traction and I'd be golden, even with marginal conditions. After last night I'm not so sure.

Last night the tires slipped to varying degrees in all but one run, both lanes. I don't think the track was all that bad - though some were complaining about it.

My four link tuning has been focused on shocking the suspension as hard as I can to crush the tires before they turn. Maybe the vacuum carb doesn't crush them so hard.

Or was it the track?

I better start thinking about Plan B for the Summit Series. I'm not all that fond of slowing down anyhow.


Cheers,

Tim