Well, over my holidays I popped the heads off my new motor and found I had
eaten a head gasket but the heads and pistons were absolutely perfect. This
problem was caused by a failure of my fuel selonoid while running at Maxton
in September. What amazes me is while at the meet I asked Keith Turk and
Scott Griswold to take a look at my sparkplugs which were very lean, which
they confirmed , yet I persisted for all of the weekend to think there was
something wrong with the nitrous selonoid. I attribute this to being so
tired from the drive down and just refusing to change an idea that I got
into my head regardless of the evidence staring me in the face. Fortunately
my mistakes did not cost me another motor. This has been an embarrassing
lesson for me as I know better than this by a long shot but I still did it.
I think the worst part of it all is I could have fixed the fuel selonoid in
15 minutes and then I might have run much faster. So my point in this is now
I have to wait until next September to try again to set a record , or even
just run this motor near its full potential all because of my mindset at the
track that weekend. I hope I'm never so inflexible in my thinking again. But
as I said before I still had a great weekend and I can't wait to go again-
I'm very motivated to get this car above 180mph.
Scott -and we finally
got some snow in Toronto yesterday- about one inch- hey it beats dull brown
grass!
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