Jeez.. what a week end. Arrived Fri afternoon, got right into inspection, passed. but big lineup to pay and enter. Then they closed at 5:00 and everyone come back Sat morning. Big slooow line, finely entered, warm up engine runs a while and quits,
WTF is all that smoke at back of trunk? Positive batter cable that goes to is melting, shut power off at rear. We spent rest of day tracing the short and after many this must be its, we [Troy] changed the starter Even though short cable to starter from junction stud showed no short. Fired up, kept running and no more heated up cable.
Then SCTA closed early because of bad course and "supposedly 3 cars had gone out the back door and BLM was threatening
sanctions"
I talked to one back door driver that he got dusted out and when it cleared he didn't realized he had passed the traps.
Dusting out was a problem on this course and Sundays also.
Sunday. Round 2 had been called when we finely got up to the lineup but we hadn't run yet so they let us push by. We run out of the 200 mile line and nobody in line.
Troy takes off like a bat out of hell, even sooner than usual, leaving us in a cloud of dust completely blocking push truck
vision, that's never happened before. Newly grooved tires?
1st gear 30% tps 2 gear 40% 3 gear traction good then bad, a bit side ways, backing off an on throttle, but bad track and time of 207mph.
Back to pits, pull plugs #8 melted and 0 no compression in cyl.
I hope its a piston and not the head.
JL222