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I believe at least two of us suffered from rainwater in the asscrack, which gives you a pretty decent idea how wet it was.</div> <bR> <div> Got back, mounted the tires, dried off, and decided to eat at Olive Garden, a convenient 50 feet from the hotel. Other than the waitress trying to hose me out of $12, it wasn't too bad. Watched part of Dazed & Confused back at the hotel after a quick scan for local strip clubs. No dice. 10pm and genious Furedy thinks a McDonald's run for dessert would be a decent idea. I'm telling you, a fast food joint at 10pm on a Friday night in a little hick town is the happenin' spot for entertainment. I enjoyed my cherry pies, Dave was less than pleased with the soggy fries in his happy meal. Several gay jokes later, we were back at the hotel in our rediculously bad smelling room. Went to bed early, had to be at the track at 7am.</div> <bR> <div> Got to the track on Saturday, found a spot, unloaded the car, and of course it starts drizzling again. Great- 20% chance of AM showers my hairy dago ass. Discouraging, but if we're lucky it'll clear up. Keep working on the car after it was tech'd in in the meantime- torqued the lugs, changed plugs, set the timing with the MSD, installed the nitrous bottle, set the nitrous fuel pressure, and hoped for the best. Drove it up to the staging lanes for T&T early, and of course it's drizzling up there, too. However, it clears up, the sky turns from nasty grey to a wonderful partly cloudy, and we're off.</div> <bR> <div> 1st pass on motor went fine, back in the lanes to make a nitrous pass, then back to the pits for the True Street meeting at 11:30. The car rings up a 1.36 60' (best ever), but surges downtrack and only traps 140 or so. Same thing it did back in Martin... time to change everything. In the 20 minutes between when the car was back in the pit stall to when it was driven back over to the True Street meeting, we changed plugs again, changed the nitrous bottle & bracket, the fuel pressure again, rerouted the fuel pressure gauge on the cowl to go on the nitrous side, and pulled more timing out of it. Of course, we don't have any idea if it'll fix the car, but even worst-case we could get 2nd or 3rd running the car on motor only.</div> <bR> <div> I won the coin toss for the passenger slot on the street drive. We leave around 12:45 or so, on the lamest cruise I've ever seen in my life. 15 miles down I-70, 15 miles back. Several people weren't exactly being speedy and we passed several cars on an uphill portion. The Nova from MN in front of us did, too, and he left some nice black marks on the freeway when he got on it. The PHR photographer guy was hanging out of a chase truck taking pictures, Dave & I resisted the urge to Teen Wolf (TM) him as he drove by....</div> <bR> <div> Back in the lanes, Brent brought us another 5 gallons of fuel, and Paul met us up there. Checked tire pressure one last time, and off he went. Of course in the several hours since his first nitrous pass, the track started to go away, and the car would only 60' around a 1.50, but it went 9.38 on it's first pass, and a 9.4x + 9.5x with some traction problems. Next closest guy was in the Nova from MN, he clicked off a 9.95 but didn't have anything else. Saw Rob Lasota run 10.50's in his 'vert, too. Not bad at all. </div> <bR> <div> Unfortunately the awards ceremony was on Sunday, so Dave had to claim his prizes early without the chance for all of us to make fun of him in front of the crowd. He walked away with the same pile of obnoxious crap as last year, pictured below:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81850c40.jpg" border=0 width="592" height="452" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> -7 foot tall plastic trophy, needing dismantling before fitting in the truck</div> <div> -plastic king's crown</div> <div> -swanky purple cape</div> <div> -some cash and free stuff from MSD.</div> <bR> <div> Not a bad gig. Next up is the Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing in Joliet, July 27th through 30th. Both True Street and the burnout contest are on Sunday. I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull the burnout contest off in the Caddy (gonna try like hell to win it, though... even gonna rig up a nitrous kit), and we're not sure if there are any faster True Street cars that are gonna show up, but we're gonna look damn good tryin' and have some fun in the process!</div> <bR> <div> Couple random pics, be sure to check out the rest on my picture site <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blusmbl/sets/72157594154646004" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blusmbl/set"><U>here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81af44a0.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="330" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Hotel parking lot in the rain.  Team U-Haul, baby.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81bf4140.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Saturday AM at National Trail.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81df44d0.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Rob of <A HREF="http://www.lasotaracing.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lasotaracing.com"><U>www.lasotaracing.com</U></A> fame.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81ef46c0.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="364" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Waiting to drive an ultra-sweet 15 miles down I-70.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="81ff4100.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Mopars!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="820f4310.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Before pass #2, and after getting yelled at by the safety nazi about his window net and gloves.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>