Well, I finally broke a loosing streak and pulled off a win yesterday at the Kings of Grudge event at Piedmont Dragway. While it was my original intention to race my SOHC in the ET bracket class, I decided to run the wife's drag bike since she decided not to compete. I also entered the 5.60 index class on my car tire bike. Right off the top, we discovered an issue with one of the carbs leaking fuel on the wife's bike so I went into repair mode. After a quick tear down of the problem carb, I fire the bike up but had to then adjust all four to get decent plug color. Gotta love the Lectrons.
I missed the first time run in 5.60 because I was in the pits working but did make the ET time run. The bike ran a 5.43@123mph. Good pass after the quick out work. I did catch the next 5.60 qualifying pass but was was to quick, running a 5.40 on a 5.60 index. Dang, I forgot to detune it. Made the next ET time run, bike ran a 5.44@124mph.
I detuned my bike to slow it down for first round. Paired with my opponent. We left the line but I realized he red-lighted so I had a free time run. Fortunately for me it wasn't a real race because I still went way to fast, 5.49 on the,5.60 index. We'll, more detuning needed. First round of ET and I took the win running 5.43 on my 5.43 dial in.
I won second round 5.60 but lost on a breakout in 3rd round. I ended up winning the ET bracket race. First place was paying $1000 but I decided to split with the remainder of the racers. It was,a good day.
