Figured I would post up and introduce myself. My name is Casey Campbell and I've been lurking for a little bit reading and learning and reading some more. I've been playing with DSM's for around 12 years or so, and recently in the past few years have been introduced to standing mile racing and thought it looked like a lot of fun. After going down to the Texas Mile with a friend a few years ago while he was racing his car, I figured I'd give it a try. Figured I'd try and follow in Mike Reichen's footstep, just without all the blowing up and stuff. lol
Fast forward about a year and I took my car (92 Eagle Talon) down to the mile in hopes of hitting 200MPH. First time out didn't go so well. We pulled the car off the trailer and get in the staging lanes. Our turn came up to run and I roll out and start rowing through the gear. When I went to hit 4th it was gone. Coasted the rest of the way and pulled it back into the pits. Turned out I stripped all the teeth off of 3rd gear.
A year goes by and I get the car back up and running and we make our trek back down there. This would be October 2011. The weekend for the most part went well, we didn't however reach our goal of 200MPH. We managed a best of 171.2. Mid day through Saturday one of the couplers on the intercooler pipe blew. Not just popped off, but tore a whole in the middle of it. That ended our fun.
Now fast forward to last month, took the car down, again hoping for a 200MPH pass. I changed a few things to help insure we hit 200MPH. Bigger turbo and more fuel. Friday morning everything was looking good. A nice cool front blew in, and we had a nice (North) tail wind, which is rare for south texas. We pull into the staging lanes and wait. Finally get our go ahead and roll off the line. I row 1st-5th and kept going. I had no idea how fast I was going, but know it was pretty fast. Get to the end of the track and noticed I pushed a bunch of oil into the catch can (Which we found out was way to small). Get to the timing trailer and they handed me my slip. 196.9MPH I was super happy. But, they wouldn't let me drive my car back because of the oil.
Turns out the first pass was our best pass of the weekend. We only got 2 full pass's in. On the third pass I went to shift into 5th and I was there. Turns out I chewed up the hub/slider. Still had 1st-4th but not 5th. Oh well, drove the car onto the trailer and had fun the rest of the weekend.
One day, I hope to make it to Bonneville, as my buddy is supposed to be building DSM to run out there, but it hasn't more in YEARS.
Any here's a picture of my heap! Look forward to meeting some of you guys.