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Great job Ed!

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Well, there ya go, ya get what ya wish for !!

A single day national event for the first round losers in Stock at Dallas that is a four day schedule ~!~!! he he! ---------- no big deal, just say'in.

Ya'll get back to the house and get them gutters cleaned out now, ya hear !! LOL

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Thank you Ed and Cooter for doing a fine job of keeping us informed with good info and great pictures!!!:)

Keep the info coming!! thanks again

please stay safe radar doesn't look good at all!!!

Maybe Ken needs to get you guys on the payroll for this great live reporting;)

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Well its raining hard enough to where I can't see my truck from my hotel room so I think I'll just relax for awhile.

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Ed, you might want to bring your boots there is lots of standing water.

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Track dryer is working. We seem to be in a long lull in the weather. Maybe in the pm, and as I type this it is sprinkling again. Maybe late pm.

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glad i skipped this one Rain Rain Go Away!!!!! at least your at a good track that you don't sink in the Mud like Houston.oh i forgot there was no Race There!!!!!!!

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Yesterday, I was waiting for sprinkles to quit on the starting line, and I was somewhat surprised when starter Mark Lyle came up to the car and chatted with me a bit. He seems like a great guy, and he seems very concerned about the well being and safety of racers. If you get a chance to talk to him stop by and tell him hello. I think when racers speak there minds about track conditions, they are no longer falling upon deaf ears.

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Last year at the Gators, Sunday afternoon, as I was pulling my Super gas car around to the water box, the same thing. Started to sprinkle. I got out of the car and like you, Mark came over and we talked for a few min. I expressed concern over how the track may be and he agreed and had us go back to the pits. He didn't want to send us down a track if we weren't comfortable with it.
Chuck

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Nasty, nasty, nasty here.

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Going to be a hurry up deal when it clears up.
At least I had time to figure out what happened to mine during class. Took my MSD box up to the MSD trailer to be checked. You can hear spark jumping inside. Car is loud enough I could not hear it there. Only sparked the coil erratically. Was driving my tach nuts. Think I'm ready for first round if it ever dries up.

Edit: Just started raining harder again. Think it's about nap-thirty "up in here". LOL

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It's official we will try again in the morning.

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Ed thanks for the picture but I think photobucket took them out. Thanks for the great reporting. Hopefully the rain will go away. Claude

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Fixed. More money for bandwidth

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Sure love all the pictures.
Thanks for taking the time and posting all those great pictures!

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sorry bout the weather.
thanks for all the great pics
Ed Wrights car looks AllWright. lol.
Love them 67 Camaros w the factory SS hood much better then the cowl look.

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Thanks for sharing the race with us stay at home Ed. Hope mother nature cooperates.....looks like some weather challenges in Division one as well this week end.....
MB

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Still no schedule for tomorrow. That ain't right. We at least need a clue.

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Jeff, the clue is, the first thing you'll hear tomorrow is, "stockers to the lanes!"

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Bill,
you are right. Still nothing. No rain in sight yet. Too dark to really tell. Showing 63 low 88 high sunny 0 % rain.

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I post pics to Facebook, and then right-click on the pic, go to "Properties" and triple-click on the "Address (URL)" to select the overly-long address, ctrl-c to copy. Doesn't cost anything.

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Mr.jeff, any word yet? Figured I would hear track dryers by now, oh wait, that's us stockers. Lol

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What a difference a day makes. Clear and cool looks to be .07 or .08 faster right now. Have to see when we go up. Stockers already running. First pair double breakout. Could see alot of that.

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So much for faster. I blew through the clutch and got my ***** whipped.

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Well it is a much nicer day today. Stock was anywhere from .07-.10 better on average. Super stock was about .07-.08. I won both r2 of stock and r1 of ss. We are supposed to run r3 of stock before pros but it's 9:45 and they are only in super gas. So, I anticipate that we will get pushed back to after the first session of pros, and it could turn into a long day especially with Alcohol here.

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Is Hagen Gary ok, see he came in contact with the wall?

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Looking at the results from 1st round of S/S, it looks like the track lacked traction for many racers. Good luck to all. Dyno

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He's ok brushed the wall.

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No lack of traction for me. Stood up higher than yesterday with no changes.
People I talked to think it's fine.

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Traction was awesome. I unloaded almost immediately. People that didn't make it down the track probably unloaded.

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Unless I am mistaken,this was Dennis Oliver's M/S - P/S 4 speed car for a zillion years. No telling how many trips it has taken down a strip.
Was always a very nice, well detailed car.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...ps3fbc478c.jpg

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Yep, I pulled a Ratcliff, no offense Kyle(speaking of, sure do miss that guy on this forum). I Got on the breaks a little to hard trying to feed Cooter some stripe after i missed the tree. Little did i know he was double O and i was finished anyway. I was able to pull it back in and just touched the wall. Car is hurt but I'm fine, besides my ego. Last thing I want to do is get out of shape and I'm ashamed it happened. Could have been much worse, but its nothing a little bodywork and paint won't fix. My opponent Hildalgo Jr, and his dad Jimmy came by and offered to help with the parts. Great people, and I feel terrible knowing I could have caught them up in my mistake.

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I'm headed home good luck to everyone still in.

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Thanks for reporting Ed!

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Well I was one win light shy in each car from racing on Sunday. They were in serious hurry up mode trying to get everything finished. They are almost done for the night. We are heading out early in the morning. Good luck to everybody that is still in.

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I see drc is reporting Ed Wright won but was dq for going by the scales. Can't believe he would that intentionally. Hate to hear that.

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I would bet that Ed did drive by the scales on purpose...that way it puts the SS/B car back in. Ed really slowed on his second round win (like 6 seconds)....the SS/B car was late by about 1/2 a second, but broke out. What that tells me is that Ed's car was hurt and being the person he is, told the other guy "don't red light"....

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Wish it was something that heroic. LOL
I had problems with it very low on power in class run-offs. Extremely lazy, would not turn a tire. On the return road it sounded kinda like it was running on 4 cylinders. Inside the car it sounded like only the left bank was firing. I changed the MSD box and ECU. Sounded OK. Decided to have MSD check the box. They declared it bad. You could see it would not fire the coil consistently. They gave me a plastic-like card to write the RMA on to put in the box with the unit when I send it in. I decided to put the other ECU back in since I had never run the new one. Ran OK first round. Had a heads-up.
Changed nothing 2nd round, ran bad again. I knew I was in trouble when I started it to pull into the water. Only hope I thought I had would be a red light. I looked for a win light about half track, nothing. Figured I was done. Never thought about Mr. Kent (very nice gentleman) breaking out. Did not look at the win lights again, was so frustrated I didn't even look at my time slip. Found out I won (and screwed up) back at the trailer. I ain't just real bright.

Btw, everybody I talked to found track prep excellent all weekend. Those guys did a stellar job. I believe many 60' times were by the rear tires. Lots of cars straight up in the air.

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Ed...from my experience I would advise you NOT to send your MSD box in for them to test. A big waste of time and money. Toss it out or send it to the guy that posts on here sometimes that works on them.

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Rich, they already tested it and found it defective. I'm to send it in with the card they gave me to be repaired. Two guys tested it in the trailer. First guy asked a second guy to look at it too. They agreed it had a problem. Pretty obvious when the spark was not steady.