Don't lock your trailer for the night with all your keys in it. Now my buddy and i have the same key for our trailers!!!!

Don't use a Mountain Dew can to drain your float Bowls. Race gas tastes like SH1T!

Not at the track but my friends garage.His cousin had a nitro Harley.New motor and went to fire it.It lit and stalled.Needless to say they didnt clear it before trying to relite it.When they did it came apart big time.One piece that just missed another friend is still in the wall. Needless to say that was like 12k down the drain fast.Rocky

If the guy you're racing is staged a car-length behind you and just sitting there, make sure you're not staging with your rear wheels.
Keep your hand off the shifter at the leave (RVMB) so you don't IMMEDIATELY hit 2nd gear.
Make sure BOTH ramps on the trailer are down before backing the car off.

I learned that engines don't run worth a crap with the distributor cap loose!!

I was getting lucky going a few rounds at my first NMCA heads up class race, as the car was real slow for some reason. Found out the rod connecting the carb secondaries was bent and they were only partially opening. Fixed that and was ready to show 'em! In the semi's now, and my opponent's car broke a valve spring after he started it in the staging lanes. Going to the final I thought, must be my day! Battery takes a dump and my car won't fire, and it was a good thing, I'd left the hood pins off after hustling to fix the carb!

Felt like a complete idiot, lesson learned, I go over everything twice now even though I'm sure I already did it.

Don't raise adj. your pinion snubber, if fuel pump is in the way.

When you can read your name on the side of your car in your rear view mirror while it's on the trailer and you are going down the highway at 65 MPH, you aint got enough tongue weight.

4.5 psi in the slicks is NOT enough.

we dug a friends Dart out of the weeds and went racing. After the first pass, I noticed one wheel had only 3 lug nuts....small track, no tech inspection. Good thing it was slow as #%@!

just how many old guys had 440 6 pak hemi's back in the day.

When camping out at the track, focus on the task at hand.......like when you get out of your trailer early in the morning to go power up the inverter for your coffee maker dont look around anywhere except your tow vehicles battery and inverter because the 300 pound chick pitted next door might be peeing out in the open. I still have nightmares seeing that huge porpoise butt.

Don't pull your gearbox apart twice because you have no reverse after fitting a new trans brake valve body, there is nothing wrong with reverse !!! Just push the button.

I got two out of mine....Then it went the rest of the season before I stripped the teeth off it from the heat treating it got.


Also, When you pull into the pits after a run and lift the hood to find the air cleaner loose but not the nut that holds it down....Check in the carb.

When you loose the stick that you set your fuel level with and you can't find it anywhere....Look inside the fuel cell.

Never lock the trailer until you have left the track....

When you ride thru the grassy areas of the pits and your four wheeler kicks up smelly dirt that got flung all over you and the wheeler, its probably not dirt....

Check the battery switch is on before you get all strapped into the car...

And no matter what, always put the hood pins back in.

When the track ambulance beats you to a stop at the end of the track, you are having a bad day - and you broke a lot of stuff on that run.

When your left brake hose is shot you will go toward the wall...if your in the left lane

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Check the battery switch is on before you get all strapped into the car...

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^^This!^^

John

^^This!^^

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Same here.... a FEW times... luckily the wife
was with me

ALWAYS... ALWAYS pull the safety pin on the chute..
it will be the one time you NEED it

Uh-huh, same here. Luckily my husband was with me.

And he likes to buckle me up in the harness. I finally figured out how to do it on my own a few weeks ago.

come back after a run and leave the water pump on as you go be social