10-07-2019, 09:32 PM
Eastside went well. The brake cut-off made burnouts idiot proof and the car ran almost a second faster than last year. I ran a 9.09, 9.04 and 9.02 without really launching all that hard. Probably has an 8.5 in it if I stop being a bitch and launch at 3k. Took it easy my first run and then fucked up staging twice. The track shut down for an hour and there was a huge back up before my third run. Fortunately I was the next person in line to get back on but I wasn't going to stay another hour to get a forth run so we'll see what next year brings.
Finally wrapped all the powersteering cooler fittings with paper towel strips and found the source of the leak too. Just have to reassemble one of the ends but will probably hold off on that until after the event this weekend. Just waiting on one more wheel to show up to get the Rivals mounted. I'm really excited to see how this thing handles without really shitty front tires. Still need to get a rear swaybar, subframe connectors and a better set of shocks on the car before I really call it "done" but all that probably won't come close to what having a proper set of front tires is going to do.
Finally wrapped all the powersteering cooler fittings with paper towel strips and found the source of the leak too. Just have to reassemble one of the ends but will probably hold off on that until after the event this weekend. Just waiting on one more wheel to show up to get the Rivals mounted. I'm really excited to see how this thing handles without really shitty front tires. Still need to get a rear swaybar, subframe connectors and a better set of shocks on the car before I really call it "done" but all that probably won't come close to what having a proper set of front tires is going to do.