With the weather looking average, and no real plans for the weekend (other than catching up on work and cleaning up for Jr’s arrival) we decided to go racing. It was a real blast! We got to make 2 time trials and one full pass for eliminations. My opponent red-lighted so we had a free pass to the 2nd round. But then the rain came. It was rainy enough to cancel the evening. And we were given our entry fee back as our “winnings”. Not complaining – we basically got to make 3 passes for free.
Had a bit of a scare on the first run, the hood wasn’t fastened by 2 zeus fasteners so at around 100 it started lifting and buckling. Unwilling to have it fly off just during time runs, I lifted and coasted through the traps. Considering I had lost the brakes at this track in my last race there, it was a little unnerving to have a new problem on my first run back. But after we got past that, we were back in the saddle.
We are trying to figure out what is going on with the transmission these days. It doesn’t leak anymore, but instead we have shifting problems. It appears that we are hitting the rev-limiter on every 1-2 shift. It didn’t used to do this, but has been doing it since the first run of the season. Not sure what is going on – but definitely considering getting the trans temp hooked up to the racepak so we can see if there is any correlation. We are theorizing that it could be something related to pressure – perhaps the pump.