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This was my first trip to the
drap strip in a car. Saturday was import day at Rock Falls Raceway
in Wisconsin. Friday night i went to get race gas and on the way home,
my michelin man hose blew a hole in itself. I wasn't ever able to
get above 14psi at the track. Spent a large part of the night trying
to fix it, but just wasn't able to so i went anyways with a large
boost leak. Normally i've been pushing 22psi with out trouble. I did
about 12 passes between time trials and bracket racing. My first pass
was a 14.5 @ 93mph. I was royally sleeping on the line. Kinda sat
there and said, oh the light is green i guess i can go. That was the
only round i lost due to crappy driving. It was against a wrx that
ran a 14.3 and i was catching up at the end. My best ended up being
a 14.07 @ 96 and i know i can do better. the car felf way down on
power all day. But hey that gives me incentive to go back! Only problem
is on the way home my wastegate diaphragm tore kinda bad so now i
have no boost control and a really loud whistle out of my leaky hose!
In the brackets in the afternoon, i picked the 14.0 bracket and consistenly
ran 14.0- somethings...there wasn't a race that was even close. There
were about 65 cars in my bracket and i beat them all out!!!!!!!!!!!
I had the only old audi there, there were some newer a4's but they
were 15.8+ cars. Everybody liked my launches, big crowds came to watch
them. Four wheel smoke does that i guess! First launch a buddy in
the stands said i was getting laughed at...until i launched and then
i got some appluase! |
