I had a chance to be on the crew for a weekend drag racing, although we used it more for a shake down run,
Santa pod was our venue, and a Run What You Bring meet was our chosen time.
After unloading, signing on, fuelling up and getting everything thing ready, time to hit the starter and go... Hit the starter and go...Go.. Nope, nothing, out with the multi meter and start hunting down the problem, tracing wires back, jacking the car up so we could reach the starter, making up test switches, and going through things one by one, we narrowed it down to the solenoid, no spare with us, so made a by-pass switch up, and in true, time to go, fixed it with some tape and press... Bang, into life, near 8 litres of V8 burst into life, shaking the ground and rumbling with delight, we was off.
Into the match up lanes, with a little bit of a hard push, as the rear brakes where a little rusty, we were soon at the end, and away went the car and driver ready for the first pass, a short half pass, and a big thumbs up soon had us back down pushing for a second run, and what a run a very respectable time and getting better each pass...
Lunch break had us waiting for a long time, and it was decided to make this one the last for the day, although we had hoped for a fast last run, the lane was a little slick, and the car did not pick up as well, but still went well, and all in all a great weekend.
Cant wait to do it all again.
