"Next Stop - Boise, Idaho"

On Friday April 20th Lara and I got on a plane and headed to "not so sunny" LA! When we landed it was cool, cloudy and lightly raining....for once it was actually nicer in Oklahoma than LA! Brett picked us up at LAX and we promptly headed to In-n-Out burger...it is a ritual for us out of towners. From there it was out to Ontario for a display at Dave and Busters. Even though it was raining, there was a nice turnout and we made some new friends.

Saturday morning we headed out to Fontana for a day of testing. It was definitely sweatshirt weather in the morning! After getting the car unloaded and the pit set up, our team went to work. We were offered the new M&H tire to test and we were more than happy to try it out. Brett and I have been looking forward to getting this tire on our car for a while now. With some suggestions from the Hashims, Marv Rifchin and Jack Harris we went to the starting line just hoping to go a few hundred feet.

Well, it went about twenty feet and smoked the tires! I guess we missed a little!

On our next run we went back to the old tire and went back to try to go to the eighth mile, this time testing our new fuel tank, fuel line and new fuel pump. The car left pretty good and ran nice and clean to half track. All of our new parts worked great.

We also had a new engine block in the car with a completely re-designed girdle that team manager Tom Shelar designed and built. After both runs, the mains were inspected and they looked perfect. Not even a mark on a bearing. By now the sun was setting on our successful day of testing.

Our next stop is at Boise Idaho for the Ignitor on May 12th and 13th. I am very excited to race at Boise, it will be my first time to go down this historic track and hopefully we will be around late on Sunday! Please stop by and say hi if you happen to make out!

Til next time, Troy & Lara

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