Nice to have you back again, chuck, all in one piece. Tough story on the
Morgan,
though. UGH!
Paul A
"Charles F. Christ" wrote:
> virginia international raceway is quite a tow from central eastern
> pennsylvania! i'm glad to once again make it back home safely and in one
> piece. likewise bringing home the saab still running and in one piece. but
> our morgan has a slightly grenaded engine! after doing a marathon rebuild
> on a fresh short block it dropped #4 intake valve and jambed up the valve
> train causing the cam to break and blew a hole out the side of the block.
> thousands of dollars of parts and preperation just went down the toilet
> (that's racing!). this cast a shadow over the entire remnaining weekend.
> my car did what it has done all weekend (and season)....run green flag to
> checkerd flag like a fine clock. in my sunday feature race i brought home
> a second place medalion for my effort to try to reel in the fiat abarth
> 850T.C. nuremburgring that i had repaired last year (must have done too good
> of a job!). the abarth was running a second faster in lap times all
> weekend long. i knew unless he broke or made a mistake(big one!) i was not
> getting past him. but! i did have an incredible race all weekend long
> with a formula V! that V had real sticky tires and stuck like glue in
> corners where my shaved street radials were sliding and i could out run him
> on the long straights! it was the best racing yet this year! we got off
> course sunday and shook hands congratulating each other on a well run hotly
> contested race! the V was not in my class, but it was fun! and after he
> closely inspected my rear tires on course i was informed that not onlymy
> rear tires are lifting up on the inside on corners but he saw some daylight
> under my front inside tires too! there is no driving my car at 9/10ths ,
> it 10/10ths all the way! so that was the season finale for the SVRA. now i
> can pull the morgan's engine and see what we can salvage and get back on
> brian's bugeye here...and finish porting frank's head too! btw! i
> finally met dr. dreadfull......nice car! ummm, nice rig too! (nice guy
> too!)
> so after today's decompression day it's business back to normal here(what
> ever that is to mean?).
>
> oh yes! my saab was decorated asa pumpkin and recieved a prise for the
> pumpkin carving contest !
>
> chuck.
> you should have seen all those sprites and midgets out there on course! it
> looked like a BMC convention out there!...c. :)
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