I wasn't going to post this, but I thought it might someone else out there.

I prefer electric over mechanical, and this weekend is probably the best case I have...to stay with Electric fans.

Well this was Gold Cup weekend at Empire...or Nostalgia Racing...plus TNT on Friday....

My cars are down for lack of money and parts primarily, so I have been running my engine builders 69 Dart...

Now the Dart is a street car, we run it in DOT street classes, and its mild, but not a slouch. It has 10x29 DOT "tires" on it, and gets down the 1/4 in 10.9 seconds in full street trim.

We ran it last week in 1/8th mile in the Mopar Day street class at Lancaster and went out 2nd round cause I left it in 2nd gear for the launch and went 7.48 instead of a 6.94 and was off mile dial pretty far. Yet mph was the same...But we had the fastest street car in the class and best reaction times and I was going rounds and having fun until I goofed up.. And that was against some of the fastest Hellcats around. Had a blast racing with all those guys.

Then this week came around, and its my birthday and GF didn't plan anything and buddies all said lets go racing...So I tow the car all the way to work so I can leave right from there for Empire. Get to the track after work about 1.5hrs later and unload and proceed to take the exhaust off. Nostalgia racing does not allow exhaust. So its a full exhaust with X-pipe...came off real easy and I hopped in the car to make a TT.....Was one of the first cars up to the line.

Well, I do my burn out, make sure I am in 1st gear this time and wait for the lights to come down. Well, I think I got 60ft before all hell broke loose, literally....The car under full throttle went hard right, I do not know how I missed the wall..Then it went hard left and I corrected again, and now it was tripodding trying to roll over and was on three wheels, I corrected again and it did it one more time the other direction on three wheels....Used up almost the whole track and idled down to the first turn off all shook up. It was taking me a minute to process everything.

Get pulled over, and the track guy is barking orders at me thru the windshield. I told him I needed a second...I finally get out realizing I saved the car big time, and open the hood. Mechanical fan hit the rad and was pissing antifreeze out...Yep antifreeze...I got a shellacking from the track owner about that when he came down to chew me out....Its a street car I told him, and I borrowed it.

Morel of the story, if your going to race every week, better off with electric fans. eventually, that mechanical fan going to come apart or flex too much, and you gonna have a problem...All the witness's say they could believe I saved it. I cannot find any vids from that night, but I will keep looking.