Have You ever oiled the track
 

Have you in the last 5 years oiled the track that took a major clean up in your stock or super stock car? Please put your car number and name.

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No! Billy Nees Stk#1188 SS#1188 ( and knocking on wood!)

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Great Billy but I think they are trying to get a list of ones that DID oil the tracks ................and keep hitting that wood !

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I have been racing at NHRA events since 1991, and racing two cars at each event since roughly 2000. Obviously, I race a lot. I have NEVER put one drop of anything on the track that required any form of organized clean up.

This whole deal is a farce. The joke of a fuel car show and the alky cars oil the track every other run. Do something to make them quit doing it. Thats your problem, not us. Ray Charles can see that.

As Billy said, knocking on wood...

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I agree with Dan.....Its mostly the joke Fuel cars and the really bad joke alky cars. I also think the JET CARS should be made to run a large fire proof diaper (like a parachute) off of the rear exhaust to keep the raw kerosene off of the track. Have you ever made a run right after the jet cars run........

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Well I guess I break the ice......
I'm in the 12 step program, so let's begin....
Hi I'm Greg and I had an oil down problem,
2009 Houston Spring Nats, round 4 Sunday am,
I remember like it was a year ago...hah
put my stocker in high gear.....boom blew it up broke 2 rods, holes in pan, plenty of valvoline's finest all over the right lane from half track to almost 1000ft, stopped and was towed to the 1st turn off.....I was smart enough to get out of the racing groove....yes the safety safarii made laps, so yes it does happen.....I hated it to be me and was thankful they didn't send me a bill..I am still recuperating my wallet from the experience...as I am on a small budget. I apologized to the clean up crew, they thanked me for moving out of the groove and stopping as soon as I could.
Wow I feel better sharing this with the class.....on to step # 2:p

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I too oiled the track, Dallas Pro-am day 2 this year. I thought it was the rearend at first then saw smoke and got over soon as I could, told track crew I was sorry. Amazingly they were running again before I could get everything loaded up in the trailer. I felt bad about slowing the race progress and I never even thought of a diaper before, but they might be good for piece of mind, to keep the cars going down the track, just in case. Anything can happen at any given time without warning, parts break that should'nt have. Rod bolt broke and it got worse from there, broke another rod and so on. I hope never to experience that again.

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Steve Hagberg, Stk 59. In over 20 years of racing I've broken a couple of engines, but never oiled the track. Knock on wood!

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Turk, I hate it happened to you, but I think it pick a good time to do it.

I had one let go at the Sportsnationals in Belle Rose 5 or 6 years ago. It let go around the 330' mark, and I pulled over before half track. Clean up didn't take too long.

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Yes 2010 at No Problem rod bolt broke in the Test and Tune on Thursday before the race started on Friday. So officially I have never oiled down a track during the race.

We been racing since the late seventies with the same car and that is the only time we oiled the track.

Larry V. Hill
A/SA 383

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I have blown up three engines, one at div race at douglas years ago, took about 15 minutes to clean up. One at div race at Brainerd four years ago, never stopped to even check, and two years ago at Denver, took about 15 minutes to clean up. Do we all need to have more expense? When we oil the track down it is with 4 to 6 qts of oil and maybe water, when the pros and semi-pros oil down the track it is with 2 to 3 gallons at much higher speed and thru a bigger hole. Might be time to take up golf. Thanks Jerry

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Rockingham some 5 or 6 years ago. No motor oil, broke tail housing on trans. Brought t-shirts to all the crew, offered beverages after the race, otherwise just tried to hide. I don't remember a motor spill. We did knock a motor out at MIR. One rod broke the side, pulled piston out throught hole. Oil stayed in. No cleanup. I learned one cup of oil 'additive' is worth 3 hun, 2 cups gets condition described above.

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I am embarrassed and probably should not post this one, John Irving 741 O/SA 80 Dodge . 2007 Winters. lost transcooler line on second time trial. I had just purchased car few months before that. Line worked like lawn sprinkler.... oiling track from 60 ft to return road. It took 123 minutes to clean it up. Trans fluid even poured out side marker lights. Car drove perfect with no smell or smoke inside passenger compartment and within .01 of prior pass. This was two years prior the 2009 tree destruction. Rather than diaper perhaps mental competence exam might be in order for elderly drivers. :confused:

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Not me...:eek:

I have 2 close relatives who have though :D

My son (its hard to do an oildown with a jr too) and my dad.....I guess Im immune to this :eek:

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3. First 2, bracket racing. 1 at Montgomery, at the Nat'l.Open race 5 yrs ago, during 1st rd., got over to wall, as fast as I could and not slap it, still took over an hr, if I remember it right. Motor was old, but still hated it anyway. Crank in 4 separate pcs, 3 or 4 holes in block, pan had 3 holes.

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John, did NHRA send you a bill for that tree? I've heard of sawing the tree down, but that is another extreme. I hate to see the carnage, but that's still one of the best photo sequences in stock history.
Rusty

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only time we have oiled the track at a divisional race was our first race "back" in 2000 at Montgomery, popped a head off the valve and dumped some water/oil in the shutdown area. was about a 20 minute cleanup if i remember.

we did have a cylinder wall collapse testing one weekend, happened on the 2-3 gear change. entire contents of radiator and oil pan on track. We were loaded and gone before they were done cleaning the track. When we got home there was a stream of "chocolate milk" coming out the back door of the trailer. I think it took longer to clean the trailer out than it did to clean up the track.

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Not that particular time. HOWEVER, 2008 Winters. I broke 904 trans 1200 ft....saw it off clean at end of bell/pump area as neat as a band saw. Tail shaft fell clean out of car with driveshaft on return road.......Danny charged me $250. Is there a pattern here I don't see?

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maybe Pamona just isn't your place