For those that don't know already, my motor is "broken". It happened on my 7th run on Sunday at the shootout. The car had been running great before this run. I shifted into 3rd gear and the car just stopped making power around 5.5k. I coasted the rest of the way to the ticket booth before I heard it. Very loud and noticeable clacking noise. Fairly high pitch. Obviously not good. I pulled the car back to the HRC trailer.
Anyway, we checked the valvetrain hoping it was a collasped lifter. No luck. So it's definitely bottom end damage. Believe it to be piston damage. Did a compression test 180-150-165-180. Cyl 1,2,3 also show to be wet. Checked cam timing ... it was fine.
At this point after talking with Bill it was decided to put my car into the HRC trailer, street-ify the HRC RS, and roll back to Chicago where my car can at least get the attention necessary. HUGE HUGE THANKS to HRC (Bill and Adam), and Mike to helping this all be possible. HUGE thanks for all the people there for there support.
Dino and I are in Oswego today in a Holiday Inn. We'll be flying back to Houston tomorrow. The car will stay up here in good hands getting looked over and repaired. The car will be back ... bigger and better than ever. I'll let you guys know what the failure was when the motor get torn down.
FYI - My best run was 14.02 @ 102.9 w/ a 2.4sec 60' time. I definitely needed more experiencing launching.
