"Live" from Route 66 Jegs All-Stars Nationals in Joliet

[SSMA 3838]

We have never ever been told our fuel was on the edge, until this year. Once at Indy, and once at the Chicago div. I did nothing to improve it, and it checked perfect during all other checks. Seems like there is something more going on lately.

[philip miles]

I was at Division race, they didn't have Sunoco at the track, so I switched to C12 fuel, well I got caught up with an in line filter causing the fuel to fail. As soon as I took the filter out of the system, car passed with no trouble. Sean, I feel your pain. I was lucky enough to get it done before first round, but missed 2 qualifier runs.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock!

[Dave Casey]

First off, congrats Sean on your son's nice job at his 1st event, It stinks what happened, but worse things certainly do and will happen, so head up!!! Mainly I applaud you for stating the facts, taking some responsibility and moving on.

Good luck racing

[BBF67]

If the fuel in the jug tests good but the fuel from the line in the car tests bad, the answer is the filter is contaminating the fuel. Sometimes just running new fuel through the filter will not clean it good enough. Although it might take a little work, it would be better to change the fuel filter, especially after switching types of fuel.

[joe176]

Tell you a funny story.....always paranoid as to how I store my fuel or making sure jugs are not in the sun as I had a problem years back with fuel 2 races old not passing...was told by an official to always take the first cup on a deadhead system and dump it..then sample the second cup....I had a plastic jug of C11 in my trailer that was old and didn't want to risk using it at NHRA races......well it ended up sitting in my fuel jug rack for 2 years......I'm at a race seeing a fellow competitor having problems passing.....with nothing to do as racing was over for the day I grabbed that 2 year old plastic jug and ran it down to fuel check just for the sh??ts and giggles...wanted to see how bad it gets letting it sit that long in this type of jug.

Was shocked when the official says it passes......my reply was "is it close ?"...he said "it's right in the middle"........so go figure....used it up at that race and the rest is history.

[KRatcliff]

I think that is because it is C11. I have not followed the recommended procedures with C11 and have never been close to a failure. Knock on wood.

In another car we are militant about draining the fuel cell and putting it back into a sealed container. It has been marginal at the fuel check even when it came from a new barrel at the track. It is C12.

[Mark Yacavone]

...Moved to Jody Lang's fuel check thread...