What a night. Hyde made his way to Numidia Raceway.
I've never been there before and this is the 6th dtrack for Hyde to run on.
It's almost at a 1000' of eleveation (I normally race between 32' and 330').
It is one of those out in the middle of nowhere tracks ... in the country/woods ... 97% domestic land. I was really welcomed which was cool.
Tech was fun:
Tech guy, "Nice Car."
Me, "Thanks."
Tech guy, "What's it run?"
Me, "I was runing 11.8s all alst weekend."
Tech guy, "Oh, You know what you are doing."
signs tech card and hands it back to me ... never looked at the car. 
An the way to the track I had an awful metal-on-metal scraping nosie only on left turns and it was coming from the right rear. Swaybars, brakes, suspension, tires ... everything checked out. I could not figure this out so ... like a fool , I went racing anyway.
On the 45 minute trip to the track, I told myself that I was going ot break tonight. That noise was just not a friendly one.
First run:
Racing against a red F-body Pontiac and I have the video camera pointing rear-ward (wait until you see this video!). So I do a wonderful smokey burnout and pull up to the line. I forgot about how longthe sportsman tree was, so I got off boost and then back on and was asleep at the light with a .7 ot his .2 .... however, I nailed a new personal best 60' of
1.53!
I will upload the video later ... awesome friggin launch.
He we 14.X and I went 11.7 @ 118.x. I have gone 11.7 four others times on three other tracks.
I think I went 11.72 which would be a new best since I my best was 11.731 ... I may have gone 11.732 which would be friggin ironic. This was at a higher elevation so at Maple grove that would have been a 11.6/11.5 @ 120 or so.
My scraping noise got worse ... much worse.
So what does a dumbass do? ... keep racing of course!
Run 2, I do an awesome burnout and they tell us to kill our cars becuase of a timing issue.
They back us up and the second burnout sucks (the second one always sucks).
I get the light and I had monster boost built up and WHAM ... bang ... I think my LSD blew up
I pulled to the side and continued on thinking I broke an axle. I finished with an impressive 29.X run @ 30 mph. I was embarrased and asshamed when I realize that my diff gave up and I was actually dripping crap.
So Kupop on the board was there and he drove me 45 minuntes home to get my truck and trailer ... 1/2 way back to the track a tire on the trialer blew up and got shreaded *sigh*
So I drove 10+ miles on 3 tires ... got to the track, swapped the spare trailer tire on, loaded up Hyde and made a pathetic trip home.
I just got home and I broke at 6:30
I think Hyde will be down for a while.
I can't afford to keep up any more ... time to step back.
This year is killing me.