A 30 year journey, and a 2nd chance.

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I just got back from a 38 day 5 week racing/campout adventure in the Great Pacific Northwest (Div. 6), 5 weeks of class/bracket racing (Woodburn 2 times, Pacific Raceways 2 times, and Bremerton 1/8th mile No Box Double, after going to Grand Junction, CO for a Div. 7 Nat. Open...Went rounds at all of them except the Nortwest Nats. Where again Jason Lamb stopped me first round in his Copo. (That result turned around 3 weeks later in Race 2 of a double there).

Long story short a ton of firsts and personal bests for both the car and I up in the great northwest and will list them later. But though it may not last very long (we shall see just how long), after 32 consecutive 1/4 mile passes under the vacant EF/S National Record I asked if they were able and willing to certify! National Stock record...and they told me go for it!

Record set, backed up, torndown,, passed and reset in 3 Q passes in Race 1 of the Seattle Double at 16.578@77.98mph...at least for now we own it.

Who knows what the future holds, the car is still in learn mode 1 on the Holley Term. X only manageing fuel, not timing, and all passes are in Drive.

The season resumes in div 7 next month with class racing at a double at Bakersfield@?$ ?@# And I am not touching it between now and then.

It was just rebuilt in a midnight to 9Am reassembly in the grassy wet pit area and it was 2 10ths quicker in Q3 than it was in Q1.

Good things come to patient hard working people it seems. I am stoked, there are more improvements planned this Winter but more racing yet this season. More to come!

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Tired of this window closing and losing the details. So, 2/10ths came from a timing belt that was slightly stretched 2 degrees after 764 race miles. The weighted timing belt tensioning factory tool was the cheapest 2/10ths I ever found. Note: re-tention belt with every oil/filter cg....not just every unscheduled record teardown. After Q3 I realized that was the prior issue as the deck ht check required me rolling the crank forward about 2 thou or 2 degrees and a remeasure once it was truly at TDC to get .003 deck ht. And the cam is dialed in at 3 degrees Adv. It was after re-tensioning the belt back at the correct spot.

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I actually nutted/retorqued the whole car last winter and ckd torque of that tensioner bolt (if it ain't broke do not fix it, just maintain it), I never thought to grab that tool, loosen the bolt, tap th?e weight twice downward and torque the bolt. I will often now!

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When you build it yourself, it is easy to remember your own successes, and find your own failures...and create new success stories. The correct tools help though.

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I struggled to even run the 1/8th mile high altitude index at Grand Junction (shortened due to high winds), still went rounds Sunday in the S/SS Combo and R.U. in non-elect. Bracket Sunday.

But,, I backed out (half way already in distance of drive miles), from going to the D-6 Double in Montana due to the prior struggles. Sry I missed that double now. Did get to meet the Track owner and his son and other from there in Seattle at a late night starting line party of sorts.