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W ell, I got the Mustang out to the track. It was a great day for racing!
Bad day for me.
It started off when I backed the car out of the trailer. This is something I have done hundreds of times. This time I managed to get the cable that lifts to door on the trailer hooked on my front bumper. It ripped out one of the bolts on the bumper and really got stuck. I had to unhook the cable from the door and let the tension spring unwind.
After I got the car free, I drove to tech. When I go to start the car to pull forward, the battery was dead. I forgot that I left everything on when I jumped out to get the cable free. A jump start and I was on my back to charge the battery.
I get to the staging lanes and of course, there is an oil down. So I sit for about an hour. Then racing starts up and then another oil down. This one only takes a few minutes to clean.
Now I finally get to the burn box with my new motor. Burn out feels great! Pull forward and stage, RPS up, lights down. Car launches very strong, everything feels good. Car pulls strong all the way down the track. First pass on the new motor is a 10.75 at 125!! Picked up about half a second and 5 MPH without any tuning.
After the pass someone told me that my left front rim looked bent, and I should take a look. So I jack up the car and spin the wheel and sure enough, it is wobbling all over the place. So I pull the rim off the car to see if it is the rim or something with the breaks. Breaks looked good so I took a good look at the rim. This is what I found.
The rim is cracked about ¾ of the way around! No more racing this day!
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Bad day for me.
It started off when I backed the car out of the trailer. This is something I have done hundreds of times. This time I managed to get the cable that lifts to door on the trailer hooked on my front bumper. It ripped out one of the bolts on the bumper and really got stuck. I had to unhook the cable from the door and let the tension spring unwind.
After I got the car free, I drove to tech. When I go to start the car to pull forward, the battery was dead. I forgot that I left everything on when I jumped out to get the cable free. A jump start and I was on my back to charge the battery.
I get to the staging lanes and of course, there is an oil down. So I sit for about an hour. Then racing starts up and then another oil down. This one only takes a few minutes to clean.
Now I finally get to the burn box with my new motor. Burn out feels great! Pull forward and stage, RPS up, lights down. Car launches very strong, everything feels good. Car pulls strong all the way down the track. First pass on the new motor is a 10.75 at 125!! Picked up about half a second and 5 MPH without any tuning.
After the pass someone told me that my left front rim looked bent, and I should take a look. So I jack up the car and spin the wheel and sure enough, it is wobbling all over the place. So I pull the rim off the car to see if it is the rim or something with the breaks. Breaks looked good so I took a good look at the rim. This is what I found.
The rim is cracked about ¾ of the way around! No more racing this day!
