Oh No! Say it isn't so! The Mega Maniac is broken...

After two races of increasingly poor performance. So we finally took things apart.

And although we liked the look of things at first, a closer look started to show some chinks in our armor.

A little off in the motor, and a little off in the tranny. Stuff that eventually would have caused catastrophic damage, was diagnosed. Parts are already on order, and things should be just fine with a little TLC, and some new fluids.

So now we know why the car wasn't running as good a sixty foot time as we expected, and why our top speed was down. And from this point forward, when we have a chance to take Top Stock Qualifier, we will again have the capability to reach out and grab it.

The transmission had already taken well over a year of severe abuse, so we suspected that it might need refreshing. And the engine had an awful lot of really high rpm, high speed runs on it too. And although the problems we found there were not really due to the engine itself, as much as they appear to be due to strain put on it by problems with the drive line. By strain, I mean abnormal strain, and we found some things thangs that weren't tranny, drive shaft, or rear end, but were just downright questionable. So we are taking care of them too.

So, if you are asking yourself "what racer do when they arent racing?"

I can tell you. They are  putting more hours, and many more dollars into their race car!

Until Next Time... Race Safely, and God Bless!

David