Mike Puckett
SCCoA Member
One of the benefits of living in the South is that the dragstrips open up early in the year. Yesterday was Test & Tune and the place was packed by midafternoon so I only got 3 runs in. I ran a friends Lightning for him, too, stuck in staging for 2 hrs and finally ran a 13.640 against a Dodge Cummins Turbodiesel p/u with a 14.2. I was expecting to make some high 12 sec runs but the tire spin did me in. I hope the track's better next week for the Summit season opener. My 1st run against a late model Mustang was a 13.250 @ 105.74 to his 14.31. On my last run I ran a turbo Honda. The track writer was interviewing and photographing his Honda because it would supposedly run 11.90's. Well my Bird must have thought the Honda was sushi because we ate him running a 13.117 @ 107.66 to his 14.25 @ 104.71. Both of those runs would have been 12.9's had it not been for too much tirespin on my launch. I was a bit crossways on both runs and had to steer out of it to keep straight. My 2nd run had a decent 60' but it broke loose in 2nd gear. I also put it on the track scale and it came in at 3460 lbs w/o me in it.