Author: tractorfix

Grabbed our 3rd feature of the season tonite. All was well til the tech guy had a close look at our suspension. He didn’t like that he found polyeurethane bushings in the control arms. We are supposed to have all stock parts. I have always thought that a poly bushing that is application specific is…

Saturday night just after making a pass for the lead, a hunk of tire or something got up in the timing belt. The engine kept running but barely. Ended up 8th.
Yesterday we went to a special at another track. I was running the high line to keep my motor wound up. The guy behind me decided to stick…

My coil looked ugly and it was the wrong one. So I ordered up a 8140M ACCEL unit. It is engineered to replace 79-92 Mopar coils exactly, no resistor required as original. Well it started missing in the second heat. I fired a set of plugs in it to see if it would help. It didn’t. 5 laps into the…

Was great last night to get our first win of the year. We led flag to flag and more importantly, took over the points lead. That old Daytona still has a little KICK left in it!

Now they’re greasing the bumpers?!. This is starting to get ridiculous.

Rained out again 3rd time in 4 weeks. And the one night they got the show in, my division had the night off. JEEZ!

Well we made it thru our first season without any major disasters. 1 broken motor, 1 broken flex plate, 1 time backwards down the back and 1 minor wreck. Only 1 guy mad at me and we ended 4th in the points. The racing gods smiled and made most our problems occur on non points nights. On points…