After no success with my MSD as far as setting my shift points, I decided to bypass the whole system and put an MSD RPM Activated unit back in the car. This worked well in the old car, so there should be no reason that it wouldn't work. Once we had the car off the trailer and warmed up, we noticed that we had a little water leaking out of one of the cylinder heads and the car just didn't sound right. To get the car running for the night I decided to put some Chemiweld in the cooling system. This seemed to ease the problem, but the heads will have to come off when I get home. My first pass was at 7:41pm, the car just didn't sound and feel right after half track so I lifted before the stripe, we ran 10.336 @ 119.92 mph. One thing that I was pleased about was that the shifter worked with the RPM Activation Switch.

Once back in the pits we looked at a few plugs and they all looked fine, the water had stopped weeping so we will continue on. My next pass was at 9:27pm  and the Cortina ran a PB of 10.048 @ 133.96 mph, so we were all excited. 40 minutes later we were up again and by the reaction of the crew in the deep end and the way the car felt going down the track. I had finally cracked a sub 10 second pass. 9.935 @ 134.91 mph. Excited by this we had less that 30 minutes to back around to the staging lanes for one more pass for the night. I put another rpm chip for the gear change to see if I could improve on the previous run. As luck would have it the chip was faulty, which pretty much hurt the pass, It was on a quicker pass up until it was time to shift, but by the time I reacted and had to manually shift the damage was done, we ran 10.109 @ 133.56 mph. With that being it for the night we went home extremely happy. Until next time Jim Denaro

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