Hello Racefans!
We had another exciting weekend at The Place to Race Pacific Raceways. It was action packed with Nitro Funny Cars, Nostalgia cars, SWIFT TOOLS bracket racing along with Bracketstars car show.
Chris was running in Pro along with myself both Saturday and Sunday. Chris unfortunately bowed out in the 1st rd Saturday and I made it to the 3rd rd before losing by .006 in a double breakout against James Van Cleve. The day got more exciting though for Chris as he bought into the No-Box Gambler race and made his way through the field in nice fashion all the way to the finals against Brian McGinnis. It was a great race as both drivers were on the tree and by a slim margin of .009 Brian got around him right at the stripe. Great job Chris!
We both gave it another shot on Sunday and I unfortunately went red 1st rd by .001 running .01 off my dial. Chris continued his winning ways all the way to the finals once again to face off in a rematch from earlier this year against Mike Driscoll in his badass Camaro. Both of the drivers had outstanding lights in the semis leading to the finals and was looking to be another great race like earlier this year. Mike cut another great light and ran his number to get the hard earned win against Chris whom just went red by a slim margin.
Chris Runner-Up on June 30th 2019!
It was an outstanding job of driving this weekend by Chris. The car ran really well and he had some killer lights, very proud of him!
The points race is really starting to heat up for all of the SWIFT TOOLS participants battling to make the ET Finals. Hope to see you all at The Place To Race in the near future! – Paul
’57 Update:
While Chris & Paul were at the track this weekend, I got the new electric radiator cooling fan in the ’57 on Saturday with the appropriate Bosch relay & wiring to trigger the cooling fan from a coolant sensor. After the installation I fired up the ’57 while Pam monitored the new cooling fan which came on at 160-degrees and shuts off at 140. This addition should improve the cooling and take a load off the Moroso water pump motor since it is no longer turning a heavy, high-pitch fan. This has also improved coolant flow because of more RPM at the water pump at 3 less amps. Thanks honey for your help!!
I also ran the car through the gears and checked the Long shifter adjustment which remains unchanged since replacing the 3-4 shift arm in the Doug-Nash transmission, good news! It was a busy weekend for the team and we’re very proud of the great effort by Chris & Paul this weekend at the track! VERY WELL DONE! – Roger
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