Mini Ho's racing season 2010 picture thread

[kyledvor61]

Edit one more from last week. The sticker in the background is the sponor and my builder, and etching on the cylinder head that you cant read is them as well

[Peelz]

Blossom?  How is your brother Joey? WHOA!!!!

[kyledvor61]

Last weekend 5/21-5/23 I raced in Charleston Illinois. about 5 hours south of us. I cant even begin to explain this chit, so let me show you some pictures to the entrance of the track. enjoy.

First the sign to the track..


Then the parking lot of Billy Bob's septic service that you have to go through..


Then follow the single lane dirt path through the trees


and then cross this

[kyledvor61]

So anyway after we changed our underwear from going across that, here's some pics.



If you look closely at our tires in this one we both have a little bit of wrinkle

usual incremental times




I dont know if anyone knows anything abour bracket racing or not? If anyone does ill describe our strategy, if not, we'll say i just did good But the class I ran saturday was called 7.90 index. Where all you can dial is 7.90 seconds and its run on a pro tree. Went 5 rounds to make it to final four (semi's) of 64 cars.

First round
third round
Car that won that class. I lost to him 3rd round on sunday


My same friend that I beat in the final last week also made it to the 5th round (semi's) in a different class.




Miniho keeps doing work 3rd trophy this year out of 4 races

[Krandall]

sweet pic w/ the flame comin out the exhaust!

that bridge looks safe and I'm sure there's people rollin in there w/ fancy trucks / trailers. I'd be poopin my pants too!

w/ the 7.90 class. the best you can run is 7.90 right? whoever is closest w/ out going over wins basically?

[kyledvor61]

Thats what I was going for with those shots and I got em

We were! We have a regular size class A motorhome and a 27 foot trailer, but there were people with setups alot bigger then ours that made it fine

yep thats the game, closest to 7.90 without going under. if you do go under, you can win if the other person goes under more.

ex. 7.89 would still win against a 7.88 because its closer. but a 7.89 would lose against a 9.00 because you ran quicker even though they ran way off.


So what we did was a good strategy. The class was protree and pretty much no one runs protree on a regular basis so their lights arent that good. For some reason im good at the protree

So what we did is take weight out of the car to get it in the 7.84-7.85 range where we knew it would run fast. We did this because we knew I was consistently good on the tree. Since my car runs faster, I would be out in front the whole time. This gives me room to "play" and lightly drag the brakes and BARELY take the finish line stripe. Pretty much the idea is purposley run fast, have a better reaction time, and lightly drag brakes to slow down enough to not break out, and be right on the money.  

I hope that made sense

[Peelz]

pu$$ies!

close your eyes and gas it

[kyledvor61]

pu$$ies!

close your eyes and gas it

that class is too much money

[kyledvor61]

Damn, havent updated in awhile. After the redneck ass track, we raced at route 66 raceway in Joilet. This started some hair pulling

When I launched, the car would break up, pop, stutter and bog. It would clear up about 100 feet out and off i would go. Sometimes it would only have a little pop, sometimes it would die on the burnout, or on the track. Our first thought was jetting, as this was the first time this year it was hot and humid. We tried our spare carbs, and changed jetting, fuel pumps, and just about everyting in the fuel system. Didn't help at all. After failing balls all day, we decided to put on our spare motor. We went and tested monday on memorial day. Car ran great, ran the same number all day. So we thought we fixed the problem.

Fast forward a week to Bunker Hill, Indiana. Same exact problem, even worse. car occasionaly made it down the track, otherwise it died. We figured out the problem on the last pass, it was my kill switches. My electrical kill switch was grounding out inside the switch from the inertia of the launch, which explains the stuttering at the hit, and clearing up down track. Also, my mechanical kill switch had a problem. The wire was arcing against the plug somehow. So we fixed that shit, and off to Martin, Michigan we went

We raced in the ADRL, for those of you who havent heard of it, its really badass http://www.adrl.us/ It consists of door cars running 3.60's@210mph in the 1/8 mile. crazy stuff. anyway, we raced in this league in front of about 10,000 people, plus the 100,000 watching live online

How this works, is 16 cars get in, and qualifying is based on reaction time. I qualified 9th with a .024 I beat the #8 qualifier by .005 of a second. Then I beat the #1 qualifier. Then I beat the #11 qualifier to make it into the finals I lost by .005 of a second in the finals
But it was very cool, as I should be on tv on the versus channel sometime soon. http://dragracecentral.com/DRCLadder.asp?ID=206887&Filter=30#indextop

Last weekend, we raced in Terra Haute Indiana. Friday night I lost in the finals by .001 of a second Saturday my throttle stuck wide open on the burnout I put my foot off the pedal and the pedal stayed down A bushing on the throttle cable got stuck behind a plate behind the pedal, holding it down. So i had to shutoff and I had to lose the round. On sunday i lost in the semifinals by .012. I ran a 7.9402 on my 7.94 dial and had a .042 light. Other kid had a .0000 light and ran a 8.06 on his 8.03 so i barely lost. Pics in next post

[kyledvor61]

No pics from Joilet, mom wasnt there
oh shit i forgot. when we were in Bunker Hill, a tornado was less then a 1/2 mile away  Saturday night we awoke to a knock on our door, and a woman telling us to get our ass in the bathrooms because of the tornado

Sign before the tornado


After the tornado





Badass picture I took of my friend

[kyledvor61]

Pictures from the ADRL race in Martin, Michigan.







Finals

Some words of encouragement from Kenny Knowling, the owner and founder of the ADRL before the finals.