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Great to finally meet some of you guys face to face. If you were there and I didn't come say hello, apologies. I walked around a lot talking to people I didn't recognize but if I heard a ratchet turning or someone was staring at a computer screen looking at a log I didn't interrupt. Also great to see some tuners out there supporting their customers directly at the track. Got to meet @curt_dusterhofftuning in person and watch him work with @hellno in Curt's trailer office. Top secret so I can't tell ya about that 
Andy Wagner from EastCoastMoparts was there as usual supporting the event as well.
I love living in the south, with all the changing seasons and the scenery that goes with that, but man I hate humidity. As soon as you step out of the AC it's immediate sweat fest and makes for a long day and Saturday was pretty brutal. If you could hide in the shade it wasn't too bad, but sitting in the car in the staging lanes was suffocating. I brought my fire jacket and jeans and all that and never wore them. I thought the risk of getting light headed or worse behind the wheel was greater than catching on fire. We were getting conflicts from the various apps about DA but the one I used said 3800 most of the day. Dew point was near 70° and that's oppressive.
I didn't do the TNT rental on Friday. I have some pretty good tuneups for the car and figured I had it covered. Reports were that the track had amazing prep all day during TNT. We dropped the car Friday afternoon and headed out to hang out at the dinner party sponsored by Vandrake Racing at DJ's Steakhouse and had a blast. We lucked out and it was within walking distance of our hotel.
Saturday we got to the track at 8:30 to get a couple test passes in during the hour of time trials. First hit off the trailer 10.07 at 140. I planned to compete in the 10.00 Index so I was pretty happy with that. Then I shot myself in the foot by mucking with my tune and trying to put just a hair more power in down low to compensate for the rising temps. The next 3 passes I fought the track for traction, as did everyone else. Seemed the prep was a bit different than during the rental. Finally I pulled out some power and figured out the track just in time for 10.00 rounds. Ran a couple 10.0xs at 139 and was happy with those times considering the conditions. I've always said 10.00 in any conditions is my goal and I think I've met that. I'll noodle on what's next but maybe some suspension work to get my 60 foots outta the low 1.5s and go after the 9.50 class next.
We loaded up about 7pm, grabbed some dinner, and drove back to middle TN. It was a long, but fun, day and glad I got to put some faces with screen names from here. I had a lot of questions about ChallengerFest and me and the gang are trying to put something together toward fall and it's looking positive, so stay tuned there.
I've got some clips I'll put together, but for now here's getting the car ready to go the day before.
Andy Wagner from EastCoastMoparts was there as usual supporting the event as well.I love living in the south, with all the changing seasons and the scenery that goes with that, but man I hate humidity. As soon as you step out of the AC it's immediate sweat fest and makes for a long day and Saturday was pretty brutal. If you could hide in the shade it wasn't too bad, but sitting in the car in the staging lanes was suffocating. I brought my fire jacket and jeans and all that and never wore them. I thought the risk of getting light headed or worse behind the wheel was greater than catching on fire. We were getting conflicts from the various apps about DA but the one I used said 3800 most of the day. Dew point was near 70° and that's oppressive.
I didn't do the TNT rental on Friday. I have some pretty good tuneups for the car and figured I had it covered. Reports were that the track had amazing prep all day during TNT. We dropped the car Friday afternoon and headed out to hang out at the dinner party sponsored by Vandrake Racing at DJ's Steakhouse and had a blast. We lucked out and it was within walking distance of our hotel.
Saturday we got to the track at 8:30 to get a couple test passes in during the hour of time trials. First hit off the trailer 10.07 at 140. I planned to compete in the 10.00 Index so I was pretty happy with that. Then I shot myself in the foot by mucking with my tune and trying to put just a hair more power in down low to compensate for the rising temps. The next 3 passes I fought the track for traction, as did everyone else. Seemed the prep was a bit different than during the rental. Finally I pulled out some power and figured out the track just in time for 10.00 rounds. Ran a couple 10.0xs at 139 and was happy with those times considering the conditions. I've always said 10.00 in any conditions is my goal and I think I've met that. I'll noodle on what's next but maybe some suspension work to get my 60 foots outta the low 1.5s and go after the 9.50 class next.
We loaded up about 7pm, grabbed some dinner, and drove back to middle TN. It was a long, but fun, day and glad I got to put some faces with screen names from here. I had a lot of questions about ChallengerFest and me and the gang are trying to put something together toward fall and it's looking positive, so stay tuned there.
I've got some clips I'll put together, but for now here's getting the car ready to go the day before.
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