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Originally posted by top comp:
I've been reading all these posts and trying to understand everones view on what happened. I'm probley going to open a can of worms here,but here it goes. I drive the lake erie monster. at about 200ft. we sheared the convertor bolts. one or two locked the engine up for a mirco second,breaking the blower belt. at that point the belt broke the oil filter(the same one they use on a top fuel car)I felt the trans problem and killed the engine(looking at the gauge I had 80psi so I thought it was the lenco that broke)I had no idea that I was trashing the track.trust me ,nobody feals worse than I do about the track. we had a diaper on the car,one of the convertor bolts broke the pan but it leaked in the diaper.I'm still a bracker racer so I can understand most but not all the comments. but driving one of thse cars is a differant ball game.things happen very fast and you don't get a chance to think,you have to react. again to all the racers and the track I am truly sorry about the track, bur it was a racing thing. pittsburg is one of the nicest track that I've been to. as racers I think you guys are pretty luckey to have a track like that to race at(milian is 23 miles from my house and I don't go there with either car) we will be back to run the rest of the asphalt war races so please don't throw rocks us,we are racers too. just stop by and say hello, and tell me how you really feel. thanks fot the place to post Keith T/D 3777

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Originally posted by Keith B.:

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Originally posted by top comp:
I've been reading all these posts and trying to understand everones view on what happened. I'm probley going to open a can of worms here,but here it goes. I drive the lake erie monster. at about 200ft. we sheared the convertor bolts. one or two locked the engine up for a mirco second,breaking the blower belt. at that point the belt broke the oil filter(the same one they use on a top fuel car)I felt the trans problem and killed the engine(looking at the gauge I had 80psi so I thought it was the lenco that broke)I had no idea that I was trashing the track.trust me ,nobody feals worse than I do about the track. we had a diaper on the car,one of the convertor bolts broke the pan but it leaked in the diaper.I'm still a bracker racer so I can understand most but not all the comments. but driving one of thse cars is a differant ball game.things happen very fast and you don't get a chance to think,you have to react. again to all the racers and the track I am truly sorry about the track, bur it was a racing thing. pittsburg is one of the nicest track that I've been to. as racers I think you guys are pretty luckey to have a track like that to race at(milian is 23 miles from my house and I don't go there with either car) we will be back to run the rest of the asphalt war races so please don't throw rocks us,we are racers too. just stop by and say hello, and tell me how you really feel. thanks fot the place to post Keith T/D 3777

I was the first to see the oil coming out of the car. I then heard the pop and saw the body panel go flying so I knew you had major damage and we were in touble. If you could I would appreciate it if you could tell me what that green slime is so I can make some phone calls to figure out how I can clean it better. Recently we got a new soap (at $920 a barrel) that was working much better than the old stuff that we had. On synthetics and non synthetics as well as the new powder that we just swithed to which went from $7 a bag to $13 but again it works so much better. I don't know why it didn't work as well on your lubricant so any information you can give me would be appreciated.

No buddy likes to see an oil down. We're pushing equipment to the limit, it's going to happen. We were behind the eight ball to begin with when we had a totally drenched track and we took hours to get it ready. Hats off to managment for making a call that in years past would of been the opposite. Everybody wanted to race including the pro mods and outlaw dragsters and I for one would not want to see them run on a differant day. It is my job to get not only our bracket cars but any show cars down the track and it gives me great satisfaction when I do. It's great to see a change of pace.

Back in the Mike and Phyllis day we did not have thousands of dollars worth of eguipment to give us an opportunity to clean up an oil down and continue to race. With everything that is going on in the world and most recently with the storm that wrecked havic on PRP take a look at what you have because in less than a minute it can be taken away. I have said this before and will continue to say it,RACING IS NOT A RIGHT IT IS A PRIVLEDGE.

Keith, I'm not mad at you. PRP racers, I am sorry that between Dave Adams, Bill Turk, Randy Good, Greg Miller and myself that we couldn't get the track repaired in time to race today. The more we got into it the more we found burned up, blowed up, etc. We just ran out of time and hopefully we can get everything we need and be up and running for thursday night.

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Originally posted by ratty:

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Originally posted by top comp:
I've been reading all these posts and trying to understand everones view on what happened. I'm probley going to open a can of worms here,but here it goes. I drive the lake erie monster. at about 200ft. we sheared the convertor bolts. one or two locked the engine up for a mirco second,breaking the blower belt. at that point the belt broke the oil filter(the same one they use on a top fuel car)I felt the trans problem and killed the engine(looking at the gauge I had 80psi so I thought it was the lenco that broke)I had no idea that I was trashing the track.trust me ,nobody feals worse than I do about the track. we had a diaper on the car,one of the convertor bolts broke the pan but it leaked in the diaper.I'm still a bracker racer so I can understand most but not all the comments. but driving one of thse cars is a differant ball game.things happen very fast and you don't get a chance to think,you have to react. again to all the racers and the track I am truly sorry about the track, bur it was a racing thing. pittsburg is one of the nicest track that I've been to. as racers I think you guys are pretty luckey to have a track like that to race at(milian is 23 miles from my house and I don't go there with either car) we will be back to run the rest of the asphalt war races so please don't throw rocks us,we are racers too. just stop by and say hello, and tell me how you really feel. thanks fot the place to post Keith T/D 3777

Keith, don't worry about it, there isn't a person in the world who would think any racer at your caliber would purposely knowingly ignore that they're oiling the track... i for one, as i'm sure most, are surprised that any of you guys knew at all what was happening, especially in a rear engine dragster... no one will be throwing rocks at you guys, we totally love to watch you all, it's super cool to be racing my piece of junk street car at the same time as you guys (and gals) are racing your incredible machines... i would wait all night to race or even not race... sure, no one likes oil downs, but hey that's drag racing... the faster it goes, the bigger the boom... i'll never complain about an oildown.. that is, unless it's someone else who's running a piece of junk like mine at the track and blows up in their street car and doesn't pull over... now THAT would get anyone pissed off... ha... but hey, can't wait till you guys come back, always a major thrill to see you run... hope you didn't see too much damage on your car!

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Originally posted by top comp:
it was brad penn 70w not anything trick.

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Originally posted by John_Gover:

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Originally posted by top comp:
it was brad penn 70w not anything trick.

Wow..70W in the engine.

Bet that gets tough to start if the weather cools if you aren't using a coolant heater.

http://www.amref.com/CMSFiles/...grade_HP_Oils_PB.pdf

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Originally posted by top comp:
again we are sorry to the racers and the track for trashing the track, it was brad penn 70w not anything trick.I've done some checking with some of our mopar freinds and nobody can remember anybody else taking out the oil filter with the belt,although I'm sure it has been done before. we now have a sheild around it and are going to have one made from carbon fiber so hopefuly it won't happen again

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Originally posted by adn406:
Anybody have any word on the repairs? TnT thursday? racing on saturday?

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Originally posted by Tom Lang:
I can't take credit for the link. That came from John Gover.