One very hot weekend at Pacific Raceways and we’re very proud of Torri. She made it to the 4th round of the Gamblers race on Saturday!
We qualified the ’57 #1 in Stick Shift with a .004 reaction time but broke the transmission when shutting down after our first pass. [Pictures of the damage and repairs below]. Chris & I worked hard to get the car ready for a hot track and the car responded with an excellent 1.440 60′ time. This season we’ve averaged 1.447 with a 1.435 being our best this past March.
In 2014 we only had three Stick-Shift entries. This year we had eleven which is a substantial increase! In 2015 I’d love to see at least 15!
Here’s some video highlights from our weekend. Much of the credit goes to Pam for all the video & photos she took throughout the event. Just sad there weren’t more spectators! – Roger
And here is another great video by Robert Fedyk:
Sunday’s Results by Pacific Raceways
Perfect launch on a hot track
Same launch from different angle – Jim Doyle photo
From the back – Photo by Robert Fedyk
We rooted the 23TS input, and 32-tooth cluster gears on our 1993 pro-shifted Richmond 4+1
We’re in business!! Liberty actually makes their own cryogenic gears for the Richmond 4+1, so we have the stronger replacement gears and front bearing for the cluster shaft coming! Woot, Woot ! Liberty has always taken good care of our us throughout the years:
New gears (arrows) arrived from Liberty on July 23rd !
5-Speed back together, July 28th 2014
UPDATE July 29, 2014:
Chris got the transmission back in the car so it is ready to go again! We’re considering changing our 1st gear ratio when we install the 350 if those gears are available from Liberty. It currently has a 3.11 1st gear, would like something like 3.05 to narrow the 1-2 gear split a touch. – Roger
Thanks to the BC Super Shifters we had 11 stick-shift entries this year compared to 3 in 2013. That’s a BIG improvement but the spectator count was a disappointment to me. A great show for only $15 that this area doesn’t seem to appreciate.
With the posting of Sunday’s race report by Pacific Raceways this marks the end of our reporting on the Wild West Nostalgia Race for 2014. We worked hard to promote the race months in advance and I want to thank Ed Garfield from PR for providing us the information this year in a very timely fashion.
I’m happy the stick-shift car count was up this year but I am still very disappointed in the lack of spectators. And frankly, I’m out of ideas on how we can promote it better. My only suggestion is for PR to take out ads in local papers and pay for some radio time to improve the turnout in 2015. Edwards & Young Racing did all we could do including many postings on FB to draw more interest to what I believe is a great event!
The new gears arrived from Liberty, so we’re looking good! 🙂