06/14/2026
Took the new 3M car to Diamond Park Speedway for a shake down.. Well, if it could go wrong, it did.. LOL Went out for hot laps, hit the gas and the car died.. Got a push back to the pits, found no spark so looked around and found 2 wires that had fallen out of their connector.. This had caused the engine to die but had also caused 2 teeth to break on the flywheel when starting due to kick back.. Fixed the wires and went out for the heat race.. Had 0 engine but finished the race. Back in the pits, found #7 wire had come off and thought that was it!! Started the engine to pull into line up and noticed it was running rough and fire out of the header.. We did not make the call for the feature but I needed to know what happened. I happened to push on a wire on the distributor and it moved freely.. Well good, I guess this is why I hate chevy HEI.. I am used to msd/real distributors and I really hate these damn hei pos distributors.. I don't know why we can't have msd boxes and real distributors but we can't so I am just going to have to keep a spare or 5 in the trailer.. Took the car out for the super stock race just to see if I had indeed fixed the running issue and she came alive.. I had fouled the plugs in the heat but it was cleaning out and running well.. All in all, if it could go wrong, it did.. This car feels like I can make something out of it if I can keep my firing system going!! Next stop is KMS Speedway for the vintage race car race!! Thanks to Diamond Park Speedway for letting me make laps in a race I was not a part of.. Very above and beyond!