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Originally Posted by Ken Miele
Here is a shot of Chris Wertman and his DP, along with Mandie and Kyth Lynch I believe.
Thanks again John, you sure come up with timely and unique pictures.
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Not me in the pic, thats Charley Bob Downing. (and I was TOLD to call you that), if you dont like it blame the Mashall's and Lynch's and PM me and Ill edit it. I wasnt real sure if they were telling me the truth or that would be yanking yer chain.
I was under the car at the time, if it was up in the air.
We had issues, a broken timing chain, yea really, Keith ran the burnout and was spot on and car shut down.
We got back to pits, and checked the valves and compression and STRANGLEY it was good, or appears to be ?!?! So we sent to old man back to pickup a new set of timing gear, and a WHOLE bunch of people helped immensley.
We pulled the rockers and shafts and had the pan off, and were ready for a cam change and timing setup in about 2 hrs and back together.......NONE would have been possible without the following list, in no particular order and if I forgot any names it wasnt intentional at all....I didnt even know that Ed F was the one that handed me a magnet.
Some, not all of the people who had hands on or added to Moral support were as follows.
Charley Bob Downing.
Ed Fernadez
Jim Marshall
Geno Monahan
Mandie Abraham
Keith Lynch
Tonya Lynch
James Perone (yes, he was over with Oil so fast I count blink)
Gary Parker
Perfect Pam Mashall
Paul Dilcher
Doug Duell
To pull a cam and put it back together and get fire in 2 hrs some of that spent waiting for my Father to get back. To be able to do that in that time with this car isnt a testament to us, but to the amazing effort racers from all over came to help. I think only that the only reason we didnt have more help was there was nowhere in between people to work or move.
Even Mandie commented she was out of room
We do have some interesting pictures out of the event.....Unfortunatley none of them were of us in the Winners circle or as #1 qualifier....soon
If we had about a half hour more, I think maybe we could have been running enough to get qualified, but well we werent. Im not sure we dont have some minor bent valves, I almost dont see how we couldnt , but it didnt appear so.
So we are hard at work on our next plans and Ive got some other things I need to take care of this week. (like my house wiring) But well get back as soon as we can.
1 step at a time, at least we made it to the race
Next to actually get to run one.
We learned more about our setup and other things in the few days with the Lynch's than we had in months, simple things I didnt see as issues, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense, like throttle travel and pressure reqs. Other things I learned like reversing the bolt on the oil pickup tube and welding a nut on the pickup so the oilpump can be pulled without dropping the pan. And a whole list of otherthings.....
All to be added to my "LIST" so, well Im not Listless....
Sometimes other peoples bad days are others good ones, this day wasnt as depressing or even disheartening. This day went from a failure on my part to a success for myself and others even without the Qualifying pass....
Soon.......