Just saw on FB that they cancelled today. Long ride for nothing

Yep, cancelled the day for the forecasted rain. Just got home and unpacked. I was getting everything set up early to make my pit stall nice-n-comfy and a fella walked over to let me know I was wasting my energy. LOL. Weather Channel forecast predicted 100% rain storms by 1pm, continuing through the afternoon. Looks like they missed it though. Checked again at my pit stop around noon and the rain time was moved to 6pm. Can't blame them for canning the event though. Crap happens and weather is sometimes a finicky ******* to figure out. Heck, I only had 4 hours to drive. Larry Carasea with the sweet lil red 61 Vette drove from upstate NY for this. He made 1 run in t-n-t last night, broke trans, swapped to his spare and now gets to drive bake home to NY. He checked all over NC and a couple other areas and couldn't find a track running a program he'd fit in today.

As for my 2 passes last night.... 1st pass wasn't spectacular. Doing my burnout, engine started breaking up like it was on the chip and shift light was flashing, well below it's setting. As I came out of the burnout, it cleared up, so I decided to run it, figuring maybe the tach has a problem. Have had that happen in the past with other hotrods. Reaction time stunk at -.014, car ran great, but did spin a bit at launch. Heading back to the trailer, the temp kept rising, prompting the "son of a b1tch, I thought I fixed this damm thing" thought. Get back, fan quit and relay is loose and super hot. After last race a month or so ago, I cleaned the terminals, reinstalled relay and couldn't make it fail at home, so figured I got it right. Lil turd proved me wrong. This time, I have it narrowed down better I believe. One female terminal in the housing isn't seating properly, unless I physically hold the relay down to the housing. It's now dangling loose from the wiring panel, zip tied together, so there's no way for it to get loose until I tell it to. Next pass after this was great. Engine never stumbled, tach/shift light worked properly, ran my usual ET and managed a .0104 rt, which kinda pumped up my ego.

Now, I'm trying to figure out, how this damm relay getting loose and killing the fan, may have been causing the engine/ignition to break up when I did my 1st burnout. I know grounding issues cause all kinds of havoc, but I don't believe this relay is associated with anything ignition related, aside from the master switch panel on the dash. I spoke with a wiring guy a few weeks ago about possibly rewiring the car, and should be seeing him at the CCRA race at Farmington in a few weeks. Hoping to get in another t-n-t before then.

Hey Fern, dunno if you heard yet, but rumor mill says Wilkesboro took a bad lightning strike last night. Haven't heard how bad any damage was or how long til it's fixed.

BTR I was at dinner near the track and it poured down at about 5. So no matter what I guess they were right.