<VV> Season ender AutoX

[levair at aol.com]

 Now I know for sure when my season will end. Today
Indy region SCCA had it's invitational event this Sunday.I've missed a lot of events this year so was anxious to get some time in on my little E Modified Corvair . I just recently installed a Roots type positive displacement supercharger from a 3800 Buick--similular to  the type in Mini Coopers- in this very tired 8 season old 3100 engine. We got 10 runs; how many events is that?
   The temp was 55 and partly sunny, not bad for Nov. in Indiana.
This time of year on cold slippery surfaces you just expect FTD from SM 4 wheel drivers.
Jeff Alexander, with help from virtually everyone, put on a great course with something for everyone: Miniture road race "Curves" , slaloms, chicanes and "thread the needles".Surely every one got something they liked.
I especially liked the bigger turns with room to experiment with different apexes. I didn't need first gear anywhere; not even on the start. The entire range of a tall 2nd gear was used. This reminded my of the old days with the "Velocirapter" formula car.
  The other Corvair entered was my son Michael in his barely SM Stinger. I love to watch his "yeahaw" style fo driving. he not only had a "Babe" passenger (Wanda Brinkerhoff) but she drove the Stinger also.
  I couldn't get a Babe passenger--they said no way after watching me run--what does that mean?
 Scott Dales in his very Street Mod Mini Cooper blew away the field in the first heat on his only clean run out of ten--that's all that counts. We figured that he had it for the day, so large was the gap.
  Modern performace car are every bit as fast as the best home built--just a fact now.
  WE keep having large fields of modified cars, three or 4 Lotus 7 replicas is a normal occurance around here.
     The fastest Lotus today was Lee Miller in his 4.3 Chevy in a Locust 7.
Lee and I just barely beat the FTD Mini. The resullts weren't ready to see whether Lee or I won FTD. It doesn't really matter, I just love the close competition.
  I was  plateaued so let one of the Lotus drivers(Steve) take one of my runs and my son Micheal take the last one. He usually beats me and pushes me upward. He made it half way around with the engine stopped.
some of the intake pressure hoses blew off; I'm suspecting because the valves were closed due to a broken cam gear .,remember-positive displacement blower.
 I've had the parts prepared for some time to rebuild this old engine so am not too disappointed.
   It ran so good that it might place mid pack in a CP field. Yeahaw!
      Warren
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