Well my 2 cents here......
TAI is certainly the place to be in NC.
Well my race week started off on sunday as thats when JD and Don landed in Randleman as i hosted those guys for the week. So we started off by going nad hanging out at richards place and helping clean up. Over the next few days I helped work on many cars and i also changed out a engine in Bob Bailey's car. I knew that my transmission as acting funny. So i swapped out the trans filter to a 700r4 bottom feed filter as i had a deep pan and was thinking i was havin fluid starving problem and when doing this i found a couple of small pieces of metal in the pan. OH well buttoned it up and drove it seems to help
Well i now friday morning and i make the trip to the track and make my first pass and spun bad. so i waited a bit and decided to make another pass and it hooks i ran like a 6.8X off the foot brake and i find out 2 things wrong with my car!! one the trans is still acting up on the 2-3 shifts hitting the rev limiter @6500 during the shifts. Second the Turbo drain is leaking oil like crazy. WTF I was a little pissed about that.
So i lowered the rev limit down to 6100 to help the 2-3 and i helped alot ! it lowered the et 2 tenths!!!!!! so i'm now stuck in the low 6.60's and i.m tring to turn the boost up and it won't go up !! I later found out that tha gasket under the turbo is now busted and i now have a exhaust leak!! so three thing wrong wth my car ! damn it!!!!
So i enter e 6.99 race and i got put out in the first round due to what i thought was tire spining thru the 60 ft. (Bad Trans).
So along comes TAI count down. I had to race since i talked so much smack to JD here in this thread!!!
JD got the bye run (imagine that)
Esinger runs John gorrie (gorrie wins )
I run steve from FL and I win
So the next round was JD and John gorrie ... JD won to the Finals he goes!!!!!!!!!
I got a bye Run.
During my bye run i was just gonna 60ft it to make sure i could stick it a little harder since i knew it was going to be me an JD in the Finals. Well the car left hard (foot brake) and the trans done a caught and relaese thing and i thought that i had spun a little when it got out near the 60ft clocks.......Well i lifted and coasted to the end of track and got nthe return road and the trans acted like it was in nuetral ...............so i tried all gears and all i had was reverse.........SO i backed all the way down the return to the timing tower and to the pits in reverse!!!!!!!
I got the trans out of the car and gonna tear in to it tomorrow........
here is a vid my buddy shot of me in the semi-finals.........
IT was a great week for me!!!!!!!!!! and TEAM JD!!!!!!!!!!
TAI is certainly the place to be in NC.
Well my race week started off on sunday as thats when JD and Don landed in Randleman as i hosted those guys for the week. So we started off by going nad hanging out at richards place and helping clean up. Over the next few days I helped work on many cars and i also changed out a engine in Bob Bailey's car. I knew that my transmission as acting funny. So i swapped out the trans filter to a 700r4 bottom feed filter as i had a deep pan and was thinking i was havin fluid starving problem and when doing this i found a couple of small pieces of metal in the pan. OH well buttoned it up and drove it seems to help
Well i now friday morning and i make the trip to the track and make my first pass and spun bad. so i waited a bit and decided to make another pass and it hooks i ran like a 6.8X off the foot brake and i find out 2 things wrong with my car!! one the trans is still acting up on the 2-3 shifts hitting the rev limiter @6500 during the shifts. Second the Turbo drain is leaking oil like crazy. WTF I was a little pissed about that.
So i lowered the rev limit down to 6100 to help the 2-3 and i helped alot ! it lowered the et 2 tenths!!!!!! so i'm now stuck in the low 6.60's and i.m tring to turn the boost up and it won't go up !! I later found out that tha gasket under the turbo is now busted and i now have a exhaust leak!! so three thing wrong wth my car ! damn it!!!!
So i enter e 6.99 race and i got put out in the first round due to what i thought was tire spining thru the 60 ft. (Bad Trans).
So along comes TAI count down. I had to race since i talked so much smack to JD here in this thread!!!
JD got the bye run (imagine that)
Esinger runs John gorrie (gorrie wins )
I run steve from FL and I win
So the next round was JD and John gorrie ... JD won to the Finals he goes!!!!!!!!!
I got a bye Run.
During my bye run i was just gonna 60ft it to make sure i could stick it a little harder since i knew it was going to be me an JD in the Finals. Well the car left hard (foot brake) and the trans done a caught and relaese thing and i thought that i had spun a little when it got out near the 60ft clocks.......Well i lifted and coasted to the end of track and got nthe return road and the trans acted like it was in nuetral ...............so i tried all gears and all i had was reverse.........SO i backed all the way down the return to the timing tower and to the pits in reverse!!!!!!!
I got the trans out of the car and gonna tear in to it tomorrow........
here is a vid my buddy shot of me in the semi-finals.........
IT was a great week for me!!!!!!!!!! and TEAM JD!!!!!!!!!!
