Willow Springs with Speed Ventures
Ok, getting off my duff and honestly comfort zone in doing Cobra Club and L.A. Shelby Club events, and well I guess some Alltime Racing events, signed up for a Speed Ventures event. The event looks to be many late model cars, I think 2 other 60′s cars are signed up so far. I guess I’ll be the old cook driving some old low tech car. The event is the weekend of Jan 26, 27 2008. I signed up for the intermediate class, BLUE group. The event should be good, lots of track time, potentially some new things to learn from people more driven to drive their cars (No pun intended).
The ripper has has one change since the Cobra Club event a few months back, and that mainly is the changing of the 3 level idle if my DamBest carb. Last time was as the Big Track was the first time the new carb was really run. It worked much better except at idle and in deceleration mode where it seems due to the large cam it was difficult to get to idle, a idle air jet was changed and it was much better, but still seems to be popping more on down shifts then the old Holley 830 Nascar carb that was on it. So with some excellent tech support from John Satterfield at DamBest he gave me the tip to toss in a small bleed style jet into the 3rd level idle circuit. Will see if that and the 4 1/8″ throttle blade holes solve that issue. On the few times I have calls, he has called back withing minutes, very good support, and an excellent made carb.
Other then that, will likely have to change out the Kumho Victoracer v700 as they are just about corded. The other set of rims already has a fresh set of Kumho v710′s which are nice and sticky.
Oh, this is a high end event as you need numbers on your doors 
I guess I should buy a roll of blue tape!
I guess I should also fix the bad cable in the ChaseCam so I can video the event.
More as this unfolds…
Forecast looks like Rain. Sad, I only have Kumho Victoracer V710′s which are essentially slicks. Back for another set of older V700′s from the Tire Rack. Seems the V700 are all done, and what is in stock is all you get, but they did have my size and I’ll be mounting some treaded tires just in case. Run is rain or shine. Hopefully Shine.
It’s still raining.
Well forcast for Rosamond, CA shows Clear partially cloudy. So today the car is on the trailer. Windows are taped up with plastic to keep the spray out from the tow. See you at the track 7am bright and early!
Well, couldn’t ask for nicer Willow Springs weather. Clear, cool, and no wind. So that is the good. Got out on the track and got the tires hot then did some crazy driving and pulled a best of 1:41 worst of 1:45. I have no idea if those are good or bad, but I did get to mess with some pretty fast vetts’ (Beardo’s, see lexicon).
The bad is that after about 4 laps, the oil pressure pulls a disappearing act, and before I knew it tach was buried at 0.
I’m not sure what broke, but it may be a pump shaft or a pump, but not really interested in cracking the motor at this point. Bummer. One thing I did notice right before it seized was the tach bounced wild, and I’m guessing that was the cam or gear striping and bearing seizing up. Oh well, the ripper has run hard for 4 years on the same motor with some bad overrevs and careless hard winding.
Well, the glass half full will be this, now I can get rid of that rough shifting Tremec TKO. I have a nice Tex Racing T101A fully prepped by the fine folks at Tex Racing.
So back to the drawing board. I am almost hoping that the bearing spun vs. pumping a valve.
Video coming soon of the sort event…
Here is the video from Yahoo Video.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1864829
Enjoy.