{"id":737,"date":"1998-07-04T12:19:00","date_gmt":"1998-07-04T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-08-28T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:24:53","slug":"marc-s-carlsbad-in-july-12-14-clutch-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/1998\/07\/04\/marc-s-carlsbad-in-july-12-14-clutch-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc S – Carlsbad in July – 12.14, clutch-limited.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m exhausted as hell so this will be shorter than my usual novels (but
\nstill long) :)<\/p>\n

– Billy ran an 11.97 I believe. YES! Finally an 11, now him & I can go
\nhome & rest for the next few weeks, we are sick of going to the track
\ntrying to get that 11 we both knew we could run :). Major congrats!<\/p>\n

– I got a personal best of 12.14 @ 113mph. I continued to have major
\nproblems launching… 60-foot times were mostly 1.8’s and 1.9’s. Highest
\nMPH for me was 113.6 mph. Other runs included: 12.15 @113.4, 12.18 @113,
\n12.18 @113 (another), 12.18 @112, 12.24 @113.2. I’m confident the car
\ncould run 11’s… All it needs is a good launch… And\/or remove the
\nheadlight… And\/or take off some weight like Billy :) hehe… Or add the
\nITC… Or… :) But the bottom line is now that 11’s have been done I’m
\ntaking a rest from racing for a month or longer & when I come back likely
\nit’ll be with additional stuff so I don’t have to just “squeak” an 11… And
\nI’ve got to figure something out about this whole clutch\/launching
\nsituation… Maybe re-treads for traction… Who knows. 4 puck clutches just
\ndon’t seem to be the way to go for launching…<\/p>\n

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– Carlsbad… Anyone who went to Pomona missed out. Anyone who did not go
\nracing PERIOD missed out. There were 40 cars total at Carlsbad. I got
\n*16* runs in when I finally “had my fill”… Coulda kept going and probably
\nhad 20+ runs! That’s 16 runs in about 2.5 hours time (2pm to 4:30pm).
\nPretty insane! There were never more than 4-8 cars in front of you in
\nline! Weather was warm but the air wasn’t too hot unlike Pomona last week.<\/p>\n

– DSM’s @ Carlsbad… Well, we just had our “West Coast Shootout” :).
\nNearly 1 out of every 4 cars there was a DSM! We had about 9 cars (one
\nDSM wasn’t a Club DSM’er). With 4 of us running 12’s and 3 of us running
\nreally low 12’s (and an 11!) we dominated and kicked muscle-car a$$. The
\ngood ol’ boys were commenting how we were mopping up. I really enjoyed
\nkilling some of the big loud big block slick wearing and super-charger
\nbreathin’ brutes :)… We popped a lot of ego’s today :)<\/p>\n

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– We had an awesome drive after leaving the track with 7 DSM’s… The road
\nwas 3 lanes wide, so we had 2 rows of 3 DSM’s (With Steve H. in the rear
\ntrying to snap a picture)… Felt like I was in a fighter plane formation :)<\/p>\n

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– Personal thanks go out to Scot Gray & Henry S. Scot let me borrow his
\nBFG TA R1’s to try to get more traction (couldn’t get them heated up enough
\nw\/ drag racing so they weren’t as grippy as we were hoping) and Scot and
\nHenry were both a killer pit crew changing the tires back & forth :).<\/p>\n

– On a final note… Damn DSM’s are built tough :)… In the past week I
\nhave put *27* 12 second passes on this car, mostly low 12’s, without a
\nglitch (knock on wood). Mike Ferrara wouldn’t like it! :)<\/p>\n

Hope you all had a good 4th.
\n-Marc<\/p>\n

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