Casino Drags are on again!! - 21st May

[Holden202T]

Well i know Jayme normally posts about this event as its in his realm and im sure he will add to this post but i thought i would get it up anyways.

So seeing how i have my gemini all andra legal and ready to race (once i get licence and log book etc) i have been starting to look at what i can go to, the problem is the time of year means theres no much left before the season ends..... i'll likely have 3 weeks before the season ends and add to that getting time off work and such to go i will probably only get one run if im lucky before the end of the season, so i thought i'd look out for other events around that i could possibly go to.

So as it turns out this event is pretty much the only thing locally i know of at the moment and its sorta not tooo far away so i've booked holidays for it and im gonna haul the gem up there to hang out with Jayme and his mates at the track for the day!

be interesting to see how i go there, its not really the sort of thing i've set the car up for as i sorta planned to cover twice the distance but none the less its going to be good to have a go and get some track time!

[Holden202T]

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so whos going ??? i know i'll be there!!

[TTVN]

cant make it this time , aiming for the next one for a bit of fun

[Jayme]

ill be attending as usual, but you already know that

[Holden202T]

Jaymes Bed and Breakfast

[Holden202T]

Well the 202 express is about the leave the station to Jaymeville!

[Jayme]

good day at summerland drags today, ill let holden202 tell his story about his gemini, but my mates blue torana got first in turbo/super category with 7.77 seconds, just put a decent set of mickey thompsons on since last meet and improved it form last meets 8.88 seconds.

[Holden202T]

oooooohhh what a mixed bag this weekend has been!

so as you probably know had to put a trimatic in before coming to Casino because of the powerglide torque converter issues ...... so anyways, took the gemini out to Jaymes private test track, went for a bit of a warm up lap and to get a feel for the roads, i reckon it was less than two minutes into it and the tranny decided it would die, and that was probably less than 50% throttle .... so i drove the gemini back to the trailer in the only gear it had ..................... reverse .......

no sooner had i got back to the car and told everyone what was happening and Jayme was on the phone to his tranny mate, guess was forward sprag stuffed, anyways he happened to have a trimatic in the shed and was happy to donate it to the holden202 appeal, so we hi tailed it to another one of Jaymes mates, and got to pulling the old box out, and got the replacement box in, took her for a test and all seemed promising so i was ready for the meeting .......

i had planned to have a nice relaxing night at Jaymes with a few beers etc etc ..... so much for that, atleast i got the beers

so we go out to the casino airport, got through scrutineering etc and ready to race.

so got in it for the first run, frst gear was OK but i was only just on par with a au xr6 falcon, then second and it was just spluttering and a waste of tim .......

so had a look at the log, turns out i turned the ignition off before stopping the logger so that was a write off, and i thought fuck it, go back to what i had at WSID a few weeks ago, i knew it worked, so did that, and recorded what would be the fastest time of the meeting !!! ....

so anyways, i got 5 runs in at the end of the day but i was plagued with flat battery issues and if it wasn't that it was the tune being to lean and missing ..... and when i say too lean i mean, .2 AFR too lean was making it miss and was a waste of time really.

so if it wasn't that it was the radiator not wanting to keep the car cool.....

so i have some things to fix but it was good to get to have a run, and thanks to Jayme whos put us up for 2 nights and Jay who donated free of charge a trimatic to get me going and Rhyse (fastest blue torana) who has allowed me to have my car in his shed at his place locked up overnight, and who was also happy to let me use his facilities to change the tranny over!!

drag racing is definately not boring!

[delcowizzid]

hell no drag racing is fun as i hardly ever watch any while im there

[Holden202T]

yeah was the same for me too, i did watch a few runs of the guys we were there with, especially had to see the torana run, thats a wild bit of gear! but yeah other than that pretty much spent most of the time working on the car or tweaking the tune