[dsmreck]

Well we went to Wednesday night drags last night and it was fun as shit. Met Aaron and saw him and Andre make an easy 20 passes between them. Unfortunately for Andre as soon as he started trying to make good passes to get the boot we lost the wideband. It stayed at 14.8 the entire time no matter what I did to the fuel, and also had cut out at 7k rpm that we thought could be spark blowout. Turns out we eventually figured out what was wrong after his last pass he came to the parking lot stressed out. You could hear the knock when he pulled up. Damn, strange thing is the closer he got the more it sounded like an exhaust leak. So we popped the hood and started it. Damn doesn't sound like knock at all more like bad tick from back of the motor and yup there's the problem, the heat barrier intake manifold gasket was melted by the number 4 cylinder letted egr out and air in. Wow what a relief. Hopefully nothing melted in and it will be a simple fix. Explains why we had horrible idle issues and the car just kept getting slower. Could that be why the wideband shit? Most likely. Absolutely no knock in any of the pulls with a best of 11.2@135 1.8 60ft. Not exactly what he was after but with a broken car it's not too bad. All in all we all had fun and it was very fun seeing those two line up against each other over and over. I have some pretty good vids I will post up later.