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11-13-05

Ran an Autocross today.
First run: Clutch slipping like crazy. Only needed adjustment.

Second run: Damn thing wouldn't start. The little battery wouldn't turn my new engine over, too much compression. Gotta change back to the other battery. So some guys push started me. Clutch better but still some slipping. Clean run no cones.

Third run: Clutch is really hooking up and I was flying. Than at about the 3/4 mark, the gas pedal goes to the floor and the engine dies. I check it out and the bracket at the cable and the gas pedal has bent and the ball/socket has come off. I don't have a "stop" behind my gas pedal and when I pushed the pedal too far it bent the bracket.

So I need to fab a bracket for a gas pedal stop. If I had the stock floor board that goes behind the pedal, it wouldn't have happened. I'll make it so the stop is a bolt that can be adjusted in or out so the pedal stops when the carb linkage is fully open.

BTW, my second run with the slipping clutch was good enough for the 3rd overall quickest time.