The good news: Nothing broken (Yay!) drove the car home. Learned a LOT of respect for the practice needed to launch an fwd car. Spin, spin, spin on starts but wheel hop was close to zero.
The bad: Hit the raised rev limiter on the first run; messed up shifts on two runs; had too much spin spin spin on three runs. There was an event going on at the track, so time testing was very limited and I only got those three runs in. Most of the cars in sportsman classes only got in two runs before dialed in bracket racing eliminations started. Anyway, did I say crappy starts, too much spin and needing practice on starts? Yep. I had 60' times around 2.4, my "good" shifts were still too slow, and a 1/4 time of 15.7.
Did my 3 runs with my windows closed, as the other sportsman cars were all noisy V8s, and I did not want all their noise to distract me. That was a rookie mistake, as then I also had less appreciation of my own overspin.
I saw only one other fwd car run there, a Civic automatic set for consistency for bracket dial in racing. Can't recall how slow he was, but he kept doing/running the same thing over and over.
On one run, I was matched up with some guy with a rwd chevy V8. He left me way behind on the 60', but then he only turned a 16.1. I did not see him run again after that. Maybe he was too embarassed over losing to a 151 inch contour?
The buddy with the modified Cobra had issues with his stock clutch slipping by his third run. But with no practice before today with that car and its new drag radials; overpowering his clutch; and his own launch/spin problems, he ran a 12.02 and traps of 115-118.
Anyway, I gotta work on the driver mod. I need practice, practice and more practice. Sounds like you spend less time between runs during evenings at PIR, so trips there will be coming up soon.
