LIVE from Indy - NHRA Div 3 LODRS Season Opener
 

We're LIVE from Indy, for the NHRA Div 3 LODRS season opener. It's a good for filling out tech cards. The (wildly) inaccurate long-range forecast originally said nice Fri-Sat with rain on Sunday. The reality is actually a better situation: rain this morning leading into a picture-perfect remainder of the weekend.

I got here about 4pm yesterday and worked til 9pm (interspersed with a lot of benchracing with folks who stopped by to talk about next week's Auto Meter Northern Class Nationals.) Installed new seatbelts installed, changed the starter, put my big front tires on, new class/car# decals, and saw Lynn Ellison for Collector Tethers. Since I've got the old school straightpipe collector with the 3-bolt flange, I didn't know exactly what I needed, but Lynn crawled under the car and had a combination for me in a jiffy. I also got to check out his JustNTime transbrake button test bench. He had three buttons set with different springs, shims, etc. I hit each one, not even hooked up to anything, and the last one was visibly, shockingly slow to release. Actually did a double take. They've hit on a perfect balance to accomplish that. I'm a footbraker with a slow leaving car, but if I were in Adger Smith's car again, that button would be just the trick for those 7000 rpm launches. Sure easier than swapping tires! (Indy is one of the few places I even need the tall fronts... Fiber optic Compulinks are nice and tight!)

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While the overnight rain has soaked everything, it is starting to slow a little. Looks like the pits filled up quite a bit last night -- lots of rigs, but plenty of elbow room, too.

I wanted to add a thanks to Summit Racing Equipment. I've been so busy that my order wish list had been buried on my desk for a month. I finally made use of my Summit gift cards from last year's IHRA TOC and Christmas. Ordered a bunch of stuff online Tuesday night and it was on my doorstep the next afternoon.

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Still ugly, cold, and very windy, BUT the rain has stopped and the jet dryer is making noise. We got quite a bit of rain and the temp and humidty may make drying a chore. Not sure how much the wind will help. It's a pretty brutal headwind right now.

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Michael, how about a picture of the "fix" for an old school straight pipe collector with a 3 bolt flange?

Tom

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Absolutely, Michael,,inquiring minds want to know (besides, I've got the same setup)!
Danny Durham

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Mike Pustelny's copo...

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new copo running SS/E...

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Well, 6:30pm, finally sat down for some lunch.

Turns out, at least with my particular TTI headers, I couldn't get the 1.75 clamps to work. I could get them started up top where the tube was 1-5/8, but couldn't maneuver it past the step. 2" clamps worked. Also turned out that the 15" cable was fine for the driver's side, but the tubes on the passenger side come together different and tight, so I ended up needing the 20" cable. Anything worth doing is doing three times, right? Start out with the right stuff and it's a piece of cake. Thanks to Lynn the Pirate who was very patient with me! For straight pipe flange collectors, it's exactly what you would imagine: one clamp on whatever primary tube is easiest/best for you, one clamp around the collector itself (mine is 3"), and a cable running between them. Doesn't have to be/isn't supposed to be taunt, so position wherever it work for. I just ran the cable so that it was going over the flange, but wasn't up against any of the bolts. It really IS ridiculously simple. Again, just look at your tubes on both sides to figure out what you need *first*.

S'wanyway... After that, got through tech in short order, then went back to drain the likely mix of fuel I had in there from bracket racing the end of last year, flushed the return line, and filled it up with fresh C-12. First qualifying run, the car was getting harder to start as I got toward the front. About 2-3 pair back, it was bad enough that I just let it run. Staged sloppy, felt like a slug, but went A-B. Batteries finally gave up on the return road though, so with a helper here and there I pushed it across the scales and to fuel check. Jory Elliott's dad gave me a ride back to my pit. Took the truck and trailer down, and put the batteries on the charger. Got her going again. Oh, by the way, the timeslip printers are down, so everyone is going to the tower for a copy of the run sheets. Ended up -.005 red and ran within a few hundredths of Numidia back in October, easily accounted for by the headwind vs our tailwind last fall.

Wore out. Heading back to the track to see if we can get a 2nd hit yet today.

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Michael,

Is Gary Summers there this weekend? I really need to stay home and work. If he's running this weekend, may run up there tomorrow. Would really like to get a look at his car.

Robert Swartz

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I think I heard his name mentioned in fuel check while I was waiting on batteries to charge.

Stock just finished Q2, Super Street is in the lanes, and Super Stock should follow. They did say no cleanup runs tonight.

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Thank You Michael. If we make it up, I'll try and look you up and introduce myself.

Robert Swartz

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Q2 Stock, 98 cars, Holbrook #1 AAA/SA, 8.622, -1.078 under

Q1 Super Stock, 82 cars, Dan Kyle #1, GT/GA, 9.954, -.946 under.... Headwind went away in Q2, a lot of us picked up a tenth! Sheet's not out yet.

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Gary has his Super Stock and Super Street cars this weekend. He injured the stocker last weekend at the beech bend combo race.

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Top of the sheets for Stock Q2 and Super Stock Q1...

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Look at the at the heads on those guys. :-)

The car is owned by a gentleman, Mr. George Lyons. We had the privilege of racing his car this weekend. George is real good guy and got his license Thursday. He'll be a good addition to class racing.

Thank you George.

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DRC has all sheets...
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The charcoil gray car is owned by Mr. Rich Rinke. Rich owns Turn Key which builds all of the COPOs. Rich's white car was also here being driven by Jim.

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Got another good lick in to finish off qualifying. Time to do work this afternoon to see who gets to play on Sunday. Beautiful day for racing! 64.4F, 60%, 28.96, 1815'DA, tiny crosswind flirting with tail.

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Look! Philbilly not working on something (at the moment), hanging out with Dollar Bihl in the staging lanes. Lots more pics at www.facebook.com/looserocker. (Just takes forever to repost here with my phone)

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Getting close to wrapping up first round of Super Stock. The air got significantly worse as the heat of the day set in. Larry Hodge took me to the woodshed with a .002 light, heading for dead-on it looks like. I lost .02 in 60', and that's what I was missing by, but my .021 light rendered me mathematically ineligible at the start.

76.0F, 39%, 28.94, 2554'DA at 3:50pm

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Some Rnd 2 Super Stock pics. Stock Rnd 3 coming up next. Bunch of pics on www.facebook.com/looserocker

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Rnd 3 Stock and Super Stock pics are posted on the Facebook page...

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Rnd 4 is in the books. Bureski had the bye in Stock.

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Layer, Traupman, Rashid, Frantz, a white Camaro, and Decker (bye) advanced in Super Stock
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More pics: www.facebook.com/LooseRocker

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Stock semis: Walther vs Richardson, Zaskowski vs Gillespie

Super Stock: Layer vs Lund, Traupman on the bye

The wind is picking up CRAZY! Gonna be fun.

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Stock final will be Richardson vs Zaskowski

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Super Stock final will be Layer vs Traupman

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Zaskowski drops dead-on zero to take the Stock title, with Richardson dead-on behind him!

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Dave Layer wins Super Stock over Ronnie Traupman