Even though doing Drag Week with a vehicle like the Mark V obviously isn't like Jay or Joel's efforts, there still seems to be a mile long list of little things you want to get done. Quite a few of my things fall into maintenance stuff that should have been done long ago. The Drag Week deadline is like the old saying..."If it wasn't for the last minute nothing would get done". I have to thank my friend BradFord for all his help again. Tonight he replaced a power steering hose that was leaking. Not a simple thing either since the hose snakes around about half the car. And of course no one had a hose on hand last week, so we were waiting until it finally showed up today. I have to thank the shop he works at, World Auto Repair, for coming up with a hose too. It annoys BradFord when we put his picture in these posts, so of course we have to do it LOL, here he is working away.
One of my racing friends Joe loaned me some 26" Hoosier slicks to use on Drag Week. I had extra Lincoln rims to use so we got those mounted up this week too. Here's a picture of checking the fit. We were setting the car down gradually on the hoist while watching clearance to the frame. We picked the 26" slicks to gain some effective gear ratio, since the Lincoln has 2.50:1 gears in the 9", and as it turns out that was probably the tallest tire I could use ( being as wide as it is ) unless I went to a different wheel with more offset to the outside of the wheel well. The short tires will look a little strange, but the real racers will know why it was done.
Hot Rod sends out an email about a week ahead of the start of Drag Week with registration and event information along with a multi-page tech form they want filled out, which is mostly so they have detailed info on hand in case they feature your car. They request brand info too on various components which I would guess they pass on to their advertisers in case they want to use a car utilizing the product in their ads. I printed all that up today, you just hope you don't forget to bring it with. Back at it tomorrow.
