How Hard Some Racers Work!!

[Doug Hoven]

I can say I had never worked so hard in my life on a car as I did at the division race this past spring at Cecil county. I went there with the intent to test and tune the car to try and go faster and ended up being on the hairy edge of running the index the entire weekend. Had the transmission in and out of the car 2 different times changing torque converters to try and go faster. Even got to the point where I changed the cam timing as a last ditch effort. Ended up going 3 rounds that race just on the edge of running the index. Turned out that the rear end gear was bad in the car and it kept slowing it down more and more due to excessive wear. That being said it is not uncommon for people in my family to work quite hard on their cars at the track. I remember watching my uncle and a few fellow racers take the engine out of his firebird at Englishtown and changing rod bearings to make first round the next morning.