GRM Update: we placed...

[vwtype53 at yahoo.com (Ben Harder)]

Congrats Brett, Brian, and Neal too!

For as close as you guys came down to the wire on getting this
project completed... I am impressed to say the least!  ;)
And to think of the potential remaining...

Can't wait to hear all the stories at Cincy!
(will "the car" be there?)

Ben


--- Brett VanSprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote:
> 
> ...29th overall out of 85ish cars!  I am sure that if the car was at 
> least cleaned up
> and had a front bumper we could have moved up at least 5 positions, 
> maybe more.  With
> about an hour longer at the drags, we would have easily dropped .5-.75
> seconds
> and that would have netted us another 1 or 2 positions.  AutoX was 
> great because
> Neal drove the snot out of the car (especially after we told him to 
> blow it  up).  Thanks
> again Neal!
> 
> There were quite a lot of 12 second cars there, even an 11, even a 10. 
> Amazing
> for less then 2 grand of equipment running down the track.
> 
> We are real tired at this point, I finally feel like I can stop running.
> 
> Again, we've got some great stories....bent Konis, coolent flange 
> grommets, leaking
> oil, zip tie bushings, adjusting the fuel mix AGAIN, adjusting the 
> linkage AGAIN,
> explaining why we have an intake manifold made out of plumbing and those
> things
> between the manifold and the intake AREN'T CARBS! :-) hood pins from 
> trailing hitches,
> tool steel, a cold chisel for an anti seat rocking mechanism...you 
> get real creative
> when the pressure is on. :-)
> 
> 
> Ask me in a month or so if I'd recommend this to someone else...
> 
> later!
> 
> ==Brett
> 
> 
> 
> 
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