Sorry to be so late on thanking the group for inviting me to the meet.
It was great to see a bunch of really nice cars. I'm sorry that I left early but here is what happened. Not necessarily in order...
First, I was trying a new tire combination out on my car for the 1st time. It didn't work well. I went from 26" tall tires to 28's and the car was really "spooky" in 3rd and 4th gear. I thought they would help the launch but as you all know the track was VERY slippery. 60' times were way off. But that's OK as you take it as it comes, right?
Then on the last run I (think) I kicked a pebble up into the right front brake rotor and it lodged against the caliper and sheared a grade 8 socket bolt. As I pulled into the timing shack on the return I couldn't use my brakes as the caliper would rotate and lock the right front wheel. As soon as I let off the brakes it was OK again. So when the guy handed me my timing slip he told me "You can't race here without a cage". I thought that had been covered before we left but it really didn't make any difference as I had to fix the caliper and didn't have the tools to do it.
Most of you were out racing so I put the car in the trailer and since its a LONG way to Fayetteville I figured I'd take off early.
The GOOD news is I was talking to Paul Smith (Corvette) and he gave me a good idea to cure the high speed handling problem (with the taller slicks). He'd had the exact same problem and it came down to not running my 17" BFG KD's with the slicks. I need to get a set of bias ply fronts to go with the bias ply slicks. I believe, from his description that it will fix things up. It would be a LOT more fun if the car went straight instead of snaking its way down the track. (Althought I guess for a Cobra that's natural
Again, thanks for the invite...
Guys...
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