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Got some mail today from the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA).
08/28/2026

Got some mail today from the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA).

Sometimes the less glamorous side of racing catches up with you. I’m still in the salt cleaning phase of the return from...
08/27/2026

Sometimes the less glamorous side of racing catches up with you. I’m still in the salt cleaning phase of the return from Speed Week at Bonneville. I’m also working on the To-Do list which has grown substantially since I got home. I did find a bent torque arm that I didn’t expect and I’ve had discussions with Bart Davis, my good friend and master fabricator (Twisted Crown Fabrications). Our best guess at this point is that the motor, which is now making better power than ever before and is on the brink of producing much more power, bent the arm when I was applying enough power to push the car past 200 mph. The torque arm prevents the differential from twisting when lots of power is applied and you are getting decent traction. I plan to remove the bar and Bart is going to build one that is stronger. Increases in power and speed will always find your weak link. Glad it just bent and didn’t break at 200 mph. That is a testament to the quality of Bart’s welds.

One other “structural “ head scratcher is the driver side rear spring which is riding 2” higher than the other side. I haven’t figured that problem out yet but if man made it, man can fix it. May just need to have some new springs made. I know the guy that can do that (Kerry Cannon of Cannon Racing Springs) so I’ll update that in my next post. Take a look at the photos with captions.

I changed my profile pic but it cut off part of the poster. So I am posting it here.
08/20/2026

I changed my profile pic but it cut off part of the poster. So I am posting it here.

08/10/2026

Finally made it home in one piece. Drove all day but the only way I know to cover the miles is to sit in that seat and drive. Now I will start a two week process of cleaning salt. It gets everywhere. No matter how much you clean you never find it all. So in reality the cleaning process lasts all year.

On the road home from Speed Week. Spent the night in Fort Bridger WY at the TA truck stop. It was a hard found week but ...
08/08/2026

On the road home from Speed Week. Spent the night in Fort Bridger WY at the TA truck stop. It was a hard found week but the results made it worth the battle.

08/07/2026

After all the repairs and disappointments this week I finally got the car running and ran faster than the record speed which qualified me to make a backup run to get a record certified. Made that run backup run this morning. I was able to raise the record by 12 mph. This is the audio of the radio announcer of this second run.

Today was a busy day, but it turned out good. We found two spark plugs that had cracked insulators that was part of the ...
08/06/2026

Today was a busy day, but it turned out good. We found two spark plugs that had cracked insulators that was part of the problem in the early runs. It was causing us to have a miss at high RPM. In fact, I wasn’t even getting the RPM up to my shift point which is around 7 to 8000 RPM. So we reset the base timing to 30° of initial and reset the map sensor to take out one degree of timing advance per psi of boost. The initial timing was off and I didn’t think that it was because I checked it before I hauled the car here. For some reason it moved about 10°. So all the ground fixes yesterday the new ignition box the new coil and all the work we did today resetting the timing and changing the plugs seem to have done the job and I was able to make a pass that was faster than my existing record which means tomorrow I run to back it up and get a new record. It’s a good feeling know the car can run faster than record time.  After the backup run tomorrow we can change classes and go after one of my other records and see if I can increase that. So that is the plan.

08/04/2026

Finally got the parts. Got them installed and put a tune on it. The motor has never sounded better. I’m pumped up! Thanks to Paul Powell for his expertise in programming the ignition box. Going to make a run in the morning as early as possible while it’s cooler. Cooler air means more power. Yesterday we rechecked all the ground cables and even added a few more cables. Ignition experts seem to agree that the most likely reason an ignition box fails is a bad ground. I decided that’s not going to happen (if that was my problem), EVER. With the new parts and the new grounds the motor sounds good.

Attached a video of the final tune.

08/04/2026

Still waiting for parts to arrive. Once they arrive we will put them in and see if we can get it down the track

Recently I was trying to button up the rest of the motor. As I am doing that I notice something sitting on top of the K ...
05/09/2026

Recently I was trying to button up the rest of the motor. As I am doing that I notice something sitting on top of the K frame under the motor. Hmmm what the heck is that? Oh great! It’s a fl**ge that goes in the wastegate(see photo below). Yes , the wastegate I have already finished installing. Yep, that thing is coming apart, again. Uggggg. I guess it fell out while I was putting things together. So I reinstalled that fl**ge which would have caused massive problems if I hadn’t stumbled onto it. So that’s two accidental finds (including the locked turbo) that saved me from lots of frustration.

Wastegate fl**ge reinstalled so I moved to the intercooler-to-carb tube. Nothing matched up! Here I go again. As usual, see attached photos. I sent some photos to my good friend Bart Davis and he says, no problem, we can fix it. Which means he can fix it. So I loaded up the car on the trailer and hauled it to his place. He knows exactly what to do and in about 90 minutes he has it fixed and I’m headed home. Of course that’s not the end of the story. As I’m loading the car on the trailer to take it to Bart’s house I attempt to make sure that the transmission is in neutral. And it will not shift. Great! That will be my next target to figure out why the shifter is stuck. How many things can I continue to find? Dang.

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