bad day of racing got even worse after

92teggsr · #1 05-22-2003, 12:19 PM

Well I made my way down to Pacific Raceway last night and everything was fine until then. I took my car down and had a friend with me and another friend of mine brought his SHO down too. I got ready for my first run ( I won't even say what I got cause it's too embarresing). Second run I only got a 15.514 which is still terrible but it was a big improvement over the first run. I did not do any weight reduction this time so I had sparetire and speakerbox and everything else in the car. After the second run the line was endless and I had to wait about one hour for my next run. I took a friend as passenger that time and got the same time as I did on my second run. I only got a total of four runs in (two of them with passengers) and my second run was the best I got (which sucked). My friend in his SHO ran a best of 15.9. Everybody seemed to be running slow last night for some reason. There was a 98 GSR with int., hed., exh., and his best was only a 15.9. Anyways to make the day worse my friends SHO started leaking coolant so we got stuck until about 10 p.m. After that we went back towards home but stopped at this guys house (who my friend in the SHO knew) and he was supposed to be some sort of mechanic and be able to get all kinds of parts at cost. I talked to him for a while and told him I was about to get a new tranny since my synchros were goin out. He told me he could figure out exactly what was wrong if i let him drive so I figured well he's a mechanic he probably won't mess anything up. I jump in the passenger seat and he takes off. That's when my car (or actually the tranny) started making noises I didn't know it could make. This guy was a worse driver than a 2 year old kid and completly messed up my clutch and tranny (I'm still trying to figure out if he actually used the clutch to shift) Anyways I got back in my car and was gonna take off and it wouldn't go into gear and my clutch felt really weird. So after a couple minutes I found out my clutch wasn't releasing all the way anymore and something major was broken. I barely got the car home(I started it in third gear and drove it home like that) and it's not drivable anymore until I get a new tranny and clutch. From now on there are only two people that are allowed to drive my car and I'm trying to get this rocketscientist of a mechanic to pay for my clutch (which probably won't happen).