Omega Drags 2008 (July)
Well, the Omega Drags have been and gone this past Sunday and they were a big disappointment, although not an unexpected one. I was up until about 3am on Sunday morning trying to work out what was causing my engine misfiring problem, all in vain. To be honest, when I went to bed I was in 2 minds about even competing on Sunday. The only reason I did in the end was because I’d paid my money to enter. To summarise my problem, when driving normally and when I put my foot down from a roll, there are no issues. However, if I launch the car then when I hit 2nd gear my car seems to misfire through the rev range up until about 6,000rpm. The problem is temperamental and very annoying as it can cripple my runs. As it indeed did on just about every run I did on Sunday. My times were slower than before, even after the methanol injection I have in the car, mainly due to my not getting a clean run at full boost the entire day. And the weather was scorching up there. I like warm weather but it was just solid sunshine all day with virtually no shade. And for some reason there was almost a 2-hour wait between qualifying and the actual knockout tournament, where everyone just sat and burnt to a crisp. A few people talked about just leaving, noting that they weren’t going to win anyway and were just uncomfortable. I could understand where they were coming from. I drank about 6l of fluids on Sunday, and was still dehydrated at the end of the day.
So it’s looking forward to October 19th now, when the next drag tournament will take place. I have a couple of strong leads about what could be causing my misfiring though and I intend to put in a much better showing next time. To be honest it can’t be much worse! Ah well… my first tournament was a learning experience but a fun one; this was a poor one all round; next one will be more successful and fingers crossed I’ll be competitive again. I’ve got my eyes on a couple of things to help that but will tell you more about that later.
So all that remains is for me to give you some photos from the day. Am pretty pleased with how my camera is working, and it’s taking some decent shots. See more of my photos here. Mentioning that, my soldave.ismysite.co.uk site might be closing soon. It is probably better for me to just have a Flickr account for my photos and I think it’s cheaper for me. Will let you know if this happens though.
This is the final race. These are quick cars!
You can here me misfiring on this run
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2nd & 3rd vids aren’t buffering or loading correctly even, might just be me though.