[Shane@DBPerformance]

I didn't have a good day. The track was packed and with even slower cars than normal. They actually announced over the speakers that the cars slower than 16 seconds would have to wait for some lanes to clear our during eliminations, because the 16 second class was so mich bigger than usual that there wasn't any lanes left. On my first attempted pass, my some welds on my crappy Tiawan short shifter broke and the shifter just fell over before I got out of 1st gear. Swapped in a stock shift from Jim's car. Second pass, was crappy track and bad driving. 2.2 60', short shifting and not getting into 4th gear, ended up running a 12.0. 3rd pass in eliminations, I had problems getting off the line and eventually end up blowing the motor up by shifting from 3rd into 2nd, in my usual brilliant style. If the car ever runs again, I think I will have Cher adjust my shift cables and not try to shift into 4th very quickly, especially with a different shifter in the car. The tranny liked to go into 1st and 2nd easy, but 3rd and 4th were hard to get to. I probably almost went into 2nd gear instead of 4th on the 2nd pass also, and hit the "gate" between 2nd and 4th. I don't know how many things are broke yet besides the motor. Maybe clutch and tranny also. I am done for a while though.