We made it.

The temps. at Noble, Ok, Ennis, Tx and Tulsa, Ok were in the 90's for the whole week. We put about 900 miles on the 37 Ford total and only had one problem when a fuselink in the electric radiator fan failed. But it failed after we completed the whole 6 day event. The fuse holder was partof the wiring that came on the fan so it was nothing we did. The Ford managed to average 11.8 seconds in the quarter mile in the four days of racing at all tracks. On Friday, the last day of racing, we loaded the car back on the trailer, hooked the equipment trailer, that was towed had to the tracks by the Ford, back to my pickup for the ride back home. We learned a lot about the event and about the Ford race car. The fuel injection is very reliable as is the new custon built Gear Star 4 speed auto. transmission. We needed the 4th gear overdrive to compensate for the 4.10 : 1 gears in the rear end. We took the chance to get the car weighed at Ennis, Tx. 3060 pounds. After I finished building the car in the late 90's I had it weighed and it was a bit over 3300 pounds. So the changes made to make a race car out of it reduced the weight a lot. We were just looking to finish the events even if the car had major problems. But finishing without any problems was great. On top of reaching our goal of finishing getting the 11.8 sec. average was gravy and frosting on the cake. (it's a Southern thing) I mowed the lawn before we left for the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0. It had rained every day for 2 months and I had to avoid the ditches. When we got home 12 days later the lawn was not too high but the ditches were still too soft to mow. Since returning it hasn't rained and today I got the chance to push mow the ditches. The park was mowed about a week ago and the grass was high but barely flyable. I got in 3 flights and will wait until it gets mowed again.