WOW! Close call to 'Running the Retaining Barrier' yesterday! Spool and Slick INFO:

Two things happend here that I NEVER expected.

1) Redtird left the line and immediately headed for the outside wall. A FAIRLY HARD right if you will. Stayed in it and saved it, completed high 11 second run.

WHY (I think): POOR MANS SPOOL! Passenger side tire in sumpin' slippery, both front tires off the ground about 6" for a bit. Driver side tire hooked and sent the car headed for a 'Cement Cruise'.
I'm pretty sure this is what happens now when both tires drive (spool) ALL the time.

2) Slick rotation. I NOW remember that it takes a few runs to get the slicks reacculmated to a different rotation. First two runs were a tenth off of RB's normal low 1.5X times. By the third run she was leavin' hard and straight, again!

ALSO... Bryan Herter solved my '94 no shift 1-2 problem, THANKS!
He is at PCMFORLESS. :cool:

HInk (seeing light at the end of the tunnel, NOW) :eek:

i had a similar incident saturday night. had already put the car on the bumper and smashed a lot of stuff earlier in the night so i was very alert on the line at least. came up for a nitrous pass later in the night, dumped the transbrake on the bottle and the car jumped straight for the right wall. was in the throttle maybe half a second and ended up all the way off the concrete. turned out somebody a couple cars ahead of me left coolant on the line that nobody noticed

HInk,

good save!!!! you don't want to muck the shiny red paint on yuor ride!:eek:

that must've sent your heart a pounding!

Good Save Kevin!

What's the reccomended cure for the problem though? SHock settings, air bag tuning? Bigger sway bar?

Denny... I am gonna do some 'fixes', but I figure the ROOT cause was something the passenger side tire got into and spun. Being a spool now, the driver side tire kept driving, pivoting the car a bit on the spinning right tire. Just need to look at the line a bit better, before staging.

Next run the car left hard and true. I did take some air out of the right airbag but I don't really figure that was the problem, but...
needless to say, the airbag WILL remain at 17 psi from now on!

HInk:cool: