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Offline MRK

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2014, 02:30:07 PM »

Mike,
Thanks for the explanation.

DW

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #31 on: July 24, 2014, 02:34:09 PM »
If you find that you are going to have trouble making it to impound within the one hour time limit send someone down to the impound trailer. Do not speed! Explain the problem to an official. Do not start to work on the vehicle! I would go sit in the air conditioned tow vehicle and wait. We don't want to see a big crowd around the injured car. Do not go through the pits! Go directly to impound. Send someone back to your pit area get your tarp or tools or mother-in-law. You don't have to work on your vehicle as soon as it is in the impound area. Get it over the tarp and go have breakfast or lunch or what ever. Tell the official you are leaving and check back in when the 4 hour work period begins. This is not our first rodeo! Better not take my word for it- I JUST PICK UP THE TRASH!

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #32 on: July 24, 2014, 02:36:31 PM »
Sum & Chris,
Yes and Yes

Jesse,
Only remember one that failed displacement check. It was a Ford bought from a bone yard and the entrant was told it was X displacement. Tuned out it was too large for the class entered because you cannot tell one displacement from another from the outside of some Ford products.

Mike,
Thanks for the explanation.

DW

Thanks DW, I was always curious about that

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #33 on: July 24, 2014, 07:01:45 PM »
Do not go through the pits! Go directly to impound.

This deserves to be said twice.

If you tow the car through the pits, or even behind the pits, anywhere except on the return roads when coming from your qualifying run then don't even bother going to impound. It doesn't matter if you stop or not, it is assumed you did and your qualifier is thrown out. Go straight to impound, check in and leave the vehicle, then go to the pits to get your stuff and tell Uncle Bob to come with all the tools.

Don't stop by your pits to drop anybody off.
Don't stop by your pits to pick up your log book.
Don't stop by your pits to get the ground tarp and EZ up.

Qualifying for a record is too hard to get it torpedoed by something like this.

JR

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #34 on: July 24, 2014, 07:20:22 PM »
JR is 100% correct.
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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #35 on: July 24, 2014, 07:45:53 PM »
Dan -

Is plugging in oil heaters or charging a battery before a back-up run considered working on the car?

Thanks.

Chris
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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2014, 09:59:51 PM »
No, that is just warm up prep. Don't think I'd try to remove a valve cover. Chris you're excused. :cheers:

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #37 on: July 25, 2014, 10:47:46 AM »
Ron,
Agreed.

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #38 on: July 25, 2014, 10:48:33 AM »
Thanks JR529,

I forgot to mention that in my initial post.

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Re: 2014 SW Impound info
« Reply #39 on: July 25, 2014, 11:58:23 AM »
Warming oil is usually done in impound between 6:00 am and your pack up run at 7:00.