Friday1 said:
Hey Tote- You got it man! WE WON! We worked so hard this weekend. Only got 2 qualifying passes since Mark crossed the centerline and hit 2 cones in qualifying. They cost us $100 each! So that qualifying run didn't count. We had to pull the rabbit out of the hat then and did! We qualified 2nd and then won every round of eliminations. We beat our mentor and world champ Pro Mod guy Jr. Pippin straight up at the line and at the long end! Another epic dragrace with him. We came from behind at about the 1000' mark. So we had to run the top qualifyer-Ainsworth. He red lit and so did we but he did first and worst so we won! He had us covered and why he left over 1 1/2 hundreths early is beyond me! We will take the win. We were 3rd overall nationally. Not bad for our first year of Pro racing. We ran 91 runs without a major failure and never took the cylinders or pistons out. We never looked in the camchest not once! It took a few minutes on the line to understand what had just happened. We developed an air leak in the shift system and if Ainsworth had not red lit he would have won as we could just shift three times and we were out of air! Talk about luck. Friday
OUTSTANDING!!!! Congratulations!
Sometimes, I'd rather be lucky than good! You certainly got your share in the finals but Hey! that's racing!
Otto and I were following your progress through the weekend. We were happy that you took out Doug! By the way, Otto knows Jr. Pippin also through all of his racing since 1996.
On a separate topic.....
What size motor are you guys running?
You had mentioned before that your race motor goes fat on the top end,
how do you lean out the motor on the big end? and do you retard the timing a touch once Mark shifts to the big gear?
On the X-Mod 113" Twinkie, we've been seeing it go lean on the big end, so we put an extended bowl on the carb to try and prevent that. By the way, we found a pilot for the bike that will get us 45 lbs lighter and we expect with it closer to correct race weight, it should go 8.6's or 7's. not bad for a little 113 Twinkie!