Jack Z,
Glad you came out and got your feet wet with us. It sounds like you had a blast learinging the course. Hopefully nest year you can run your SPF at the Glen with PDA. I'm not sure if PDA is going to enforce a full roll bar next year, so they may be the way to go for Cobra owners wanting to get some track time.
Turk,
Hard to tell, I have heard differing opinions about the block. I think it depends where it breaks. Judging on the angle of the dampner, it looks like it may have snapped at the first journal near the front. But others are also saying it could have flailed around inside and taken out the lower webbing on the block.
I plan to drop the
oil pan this week end for a look see.
Roscoe,
If its just the crank, it will be top of the line. But if its the whole motor...I gotta wrestle with the numbers. I had planned on moving to aluminum heads over the winter anyway. These guys were trying to talk me into pulling the 351 out of my Cobra and sticking it in McStang...NO WAY!!!!
Pete C,
Gotta say Paul F. and McFez were running them BBs real hard...all weekend...with minimal problems. I was glad to see McFez break his Watkins Glen curse and run w/o any breakage. Even with all the SB breakage though, I think McFIA (aka The Barco Lounger Racer...aka Joe Rodimista) still was at the top of his game hitting about 150 on the back straight with his SB and looked like he was awake while doing it!
As I understand it, there were only 2 or 3 die hards left on Sunday afternoon. If their cars survived, they did not! PDA was running extremely long sessions, about 45 minutes each and we really did get a lot of seat time at this event. So by Sunday, many were too exhausted to drive anymore. They were averaging about 3 hours a day on the 3.5 mile course.
That's a lot of track time.
...now where's my credit card???
