I am officially,a Class Racer
 

This weekend I attended my first divisional at Dallas Raceway with a stocker. I started this project in Feb of 06. It's been a long road but worth the trip. Me and a friend built this car. I bought a good roller and redid some of it to my liking. I also built the engine and trans. We went up on Friday tore down, I wanted to be sure I was legal. Well I passed tech and it went down hill from there. Fridays night test & tune sucked I ran a 12.63 on my 12.75 index. Pulled it in the pits, it was smoking bad out the valve covers, I thinking what the %#%$. I ran a 12.06 in testing last year at the same track. Well by now I thinking the improvements we made over the winter, might not have been improvements. Saturday morning readjusted the valves and drained the brake in oil out and put fresh oil in. First run cut a 040 lite and run a 12.63. Now I am thinking lets go for consistency. Second run cut a perfect lite and run a 12.47 so there go's the consistency theory. First round of eliminations I paired up and the first two cars down the track. Well I turned the big red on with a .496 and run a 12.49. Sunday morning made some more adjustments and run a 12.38 with a .480 red lite. First round of eliminations paired up and the last two cars down the track. I cut a .081 lite and run a 12.37 with a 9 ,so my weekend is over. Even though I qualified last each day, I was happy because I qualified under my index. So would I do it all over again, you bet I would. I met a lot of nice people this weekend and the IHRA staff could not had been any better.

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A rough outing at the races beats a great outing anywhere else!!!! Congrats on your first "official" outing.

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I agree Alan,welcome to the mix. Glad to see you get your car down track running the numbers you did.Track time will help iron out the rough spots. Hope to see you at the LODRS event in Ennis in a few weeks.

Bob Unkefer
4409 D/SA

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Congratulations Alan. Running under the index the first time out is very encouraging. Enjoy!

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And no pictures?

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And your now officially in the Nitro Joe's Drag Racing Stats for 2010

And the crowd goes wild, lol

But anyhow Congrad's and welcome to one of the nicest group of people you will ever be associated with.

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Congrats to you Alan !! Sounds great, even after all the turmoil !

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Welcome aboard!

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rayfin a pic of his car is on my ihra crandall pic post.

Alan it was good to meet you and well see you down the road at the next one. Ed

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Alan -- Unk nailed it -- after a few races the problems you're facing today will lessen ........