Well I'd love to see 'em Marcus, I was busy pedaling the Hillbilly Racer, no chance of video from me....Did any one have a camera? And if it was you Lisa......cough up😂vassy66T1 wrote:Matt ... did you get any videos of your runs?
Well happy times had by me.
Big thankyou to Col for as usual being Mr Scrounging Can-do Man!!!
Also to John 'blue vision' Ghiaman for the luxury T5 tow vehicle, if not for his offer the hillbilly racer wasn't going to attend the event. The turbo diesel certainly made the trip easy, so much so, we nearly forgot the trailer was on the back. Had to be careful to remember while changing lanes❗
Enroute to willowbank we managed to fit some second hand M/T street slicks....WOW . Heaps better than your OLD worn G-grids Col ❗ These tyres although not improving 60ft's by much (.2s), made the car smoother and much more consistant. We spent the 4 runs getting pressures sorted and leaving the line without spinning too much. 2nd pass we were spinning in 1st and 2nd 🤪.
Col also helped out when we tried to fit the mt's at the track....bloody Murphy....had clearance issues with the inside side wall interfering with adj spring plates....nothing that an angle grinder that the scrounger found could'nt fix.
First run against Stanley saw the 1600 dust the 2332, but by 1/2 track the smoke screen he put out couldn't stop the charge down in the deep end, my 101 mph against the 'running out of oil' 88 mph, but was not quite enough for the win..doh!
3rd pass against a hot HR, I got the win and a thumbs up from the driver as I slowed to give right of way to the inside line to the return road....You gotta love taking a win in a dak dak.
Buy the end of the evening, we ran a 13.144 @ 104.24 mph :-).
Shame the clutch cable broke (guess I'll have to fix the bodgy pedal hook), we felt a 12.90 was definately possible on run #5.....next time.
Any pics out there, please post.
Cheers
Matt
