One week to go!

Well, we are one week away from traveling to the start of The Great Race in Kirkwood, MO.  I have not written for quite a while.  

Many, many things have happened during our preparation.  Dave and I completed three sets of car performance curves.  This is very tedious and boring, but necessary.  The car performed pretty well through all of this driving back and forth.  Each set of curves requires 96 (yep 96) passes to gather data.  We got it done.

We uncovered and fixed three small gasoline leaks.  Smelly and somewhat dangerous.  We also found a transaxle seal leak and had the mechanic fix that.  New tires mounted. Speaking of the mechanic, he is GREAT.  He works out of a small shop in Folletts, Iowa.  Quite a find.  He did all sorts of maintenance for us.  He also installed a new fuel pump and put in electronic ignition.  It seemed everything he did the car made it run better.

We are making piles of things to take along.  I have boxed up the spare parts.  I have my tool set assembled.  We have lots of data and guidance from lots of wonderful people.  Another practice session this Saturday is scheduled.

I guess now it will be up to us to make it happen.