[Bryan Broaddus]

And one more thing. The track is good all the way down. Case in point. During my last run my car would not shift into high gear. It went to the rev limiter in second at 8500 RPM. I backed out of it and was stirring the shifter to get it into the nice clean nuetral position afforded by the latest technology in automatics. Well I was not able to get it into neutral, but I did manage to knock it into first gear. I don't know where the RPM topped out (the tach only goes to 10,000) but I can tell you it never thought about skidding the tires. It just spun my little old 454 up to the moon. At most tracks this could have resulted in a tire smoking wild ride. Not Las Vegas!
It was running when I turned it off but not well and without oil pressure, oups! Turns out the nut on the shift arm was not tighned and it backed off. I sure wish it had just fallen off.