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Tough night for Team Tiresmoke with 0 wins tonight. My tuning challenges are continuing. My 02-sensor went out at some point tonight, so that didnt help things. This stupid sensor is brand new. I put it just before racing season started. Good thing I bought two...

I went 12.52 @ 108 in my first time run. I applied a tuning change, which i should've known was gonna make it worse by the numbers I saw, but i applied it anyway, and i was de-warded (is that the opposite of rewarded?) with a 13.30 @ 103. I re-applied the tune from Time Run 1, plus a few manual changes and dialed 12.50 for round 1. I was lined up with a new Challenger dialed at 12.10. I got a decent leave, with a .11 R/T and I was ahead by a good margin the whole way. I lifted before the MPH trap, but went 12.48 @ 99 for the breakout-loss. It was breakout city all through eliminations with plenty of double breakouts as it really cooled off when the sun went down.

I ended up hanging around for a time-run, but even that didn't go well. I pulled into lane 1, did my burnout, then got waved off by the starter as they start to clean something up on lane 2. Prob sat for 2 minutes. Should've done my burnout again, but it was just a timerun. It spun a little off the line and went 12.48 @ 108.

I've now logged 17 passes on the season and 6 round wins, and made it out there 3 weeks in a row. I've been racing this car for 33 years now (!!) and it's still fun.

-Dave

I was looking at the Kuhnle facebook page, and they are posting the live feed of eliminations every Wednesday! How cool is that??

Here's the one from last week where I lost in the final..

https://fb.watch/kKBDYuflmX/

I'm at:
9:25
43:20
56:15
1:03:00 (i get no announce for my win, booo)
1:09:00, just watch from there till the end (2 minutes)

-Dave

I vividly remember when you got that car.....33 years ago....gold rally wheels and all.

You and your mom ventured out to the greater Youngstown area to look at a different car.....but came back with a better one.

Sparky seemed to approve.

Well done!!!!

Here's the link from last night's feed:

https://fb.watch/kK-IPlXKU8/

I'm at 11:10.

-Dave

The Tesla was mid-11s @ 113. Check out the battle of the license plates.

Here is Fred's .001 breakout, https://files.tiresmoke.org/f/1265d30e6 ... 980a/?dl=1

Summer of 1990:

Not gonna lie, I like the gold wheels.

-BP

Basement Paul wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 7:36 am Not gonna lie, I like the gold wheels.

-BP

I'm pretty sure those were painted gold originally to go on my navy-blue '82 Caprice, which I had before the Chevelle. They looked better with the darker blue. I re-painted them silver not long after I got the Chevelle.

Didn't Karl Hack have gold ralleys on his Camaro at some point, or am I losing my mind??

-BP

My blue Trans Am had gold honeycomb IIRC - Karl kept them

I've always enjoyed Wednesday Night Racing at what is now call KMP,
for me this evening was "over-the-top" with a 4 round win for the Truck Eliminator Trophy!

I was watching live on facebook after i got back home! Great job!

Even though I lost in the 2nd round by .008 (hit the brakes too early), it was still a successful night for me. I went in more focused on racing instead of going fast. I made five passes total and my worst light was .04 and all my runs were from 11.73 to 11.67 or would have been if I didn't let up in the first round.
But the best part was watching dad mow down the truck class again. Cool stuff!

-BP

Another year, another trophy for Fred.

That's simply amazing. Well done!!

I were thinkin' da mill in dat little red truck ain't stalk.