It was a fun weekend. Not a whole lot of sleep, but that's pretty typical before a day at the track. Jake rebuild my transmission the night before, got the new M/T ET Drags mounted and we went to see what will happen. It was great to meet Mark and the rest of the Twin Cities crowd. Jake drove the car the first three passes and ran a 10.04@151. I tend to break it every time I get behind the wheel and I did it again. When it was my turn to drive, I messed up the launch, the car bounced and the back of the left front control arm slipped off the k-member on the 1-2 shift. The car was veering to the left pretty hard and I almost went into the other lane at half track. At the end of the track all hell must have broken loose. I saw I huge cloud of smoke and the car was very hard to steer. Got pretty lucky on that one. Hopefully I'll get more seat time next year and be able to do better. No nines this year. Earlier on Sep 8th, I ran a 10.23@152 and broke 4th. Next year, I am done with the manual transmissions. The car is going to be an auto and run solid 9s.
Here is a video of the passes Jake and I made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kYXjj6Niv0&hd=1