I've been out there a few times and went back last night. Great track, plain and simple. If you north Texas guys haven't been out there yet, you need to give it a shot. I have no plans to ever go back to Ennis after going out there.

Last night, there were probably 25 cars. Maybe more, but they were packing in the lanes. You could run as many times as you want. Just about every car out there was a late model that would run pretty well - several vettes, Fbodies, some mustangs, and various dodges. Not much rice and I only saw one hillbilly.

I was parked next to shamu... I mean a Ford Harley truck with the silver/black combo. They guy had the thing gutted with a KB blower and built shortblock. Looked like he was testing some stuff out and never ran it all the way through the 1/4. He did line up next to my buddy, so I can see he ran a 7.2x @ 95 in the 1/8th on a 1.6x 60'.

 

Oh yeah, out of no where all the crew from Pinks showed up. Turns out they moved the show to Dallas are going to run their new show from this track.

Rich Christensen setup a 'test' for the shows new format and staged a mock episode. Not racing for pinks anymore, just money. Similar setup to original pinks where you negotiate the race, but each round is for money. The best part of the new style is Rich isn't standing there starting the race. During the negotiation, one guy gets to start when he wants while the other has to react.

That stopped racing for about 30 minutes, but it was cool just to stand up at the line 15 feet from the cars and negotiation and watch it all right there. And Rich is a huge ball of energy, he never stops moving.

 

and.....??? how did you do????

 

Finally dropped to a smaller pulley and was hoping for a better ET. Went from 3.3 stock pulley to 3.0". Traction was an issue. Lit them up hard on the first run. 2nd had some mighty wheel hop. 3rd I had to ease into it and ended up with a 12.0 @ 114+. Had some hop on the next couple of runs, but ET and MPH were progressively getting slower.

When I was leaving, I thought I'd look for belt dust and saw some black on the snout, but it didn't wipe off. That is when I noticed the belt was missing a couple of ribs and was shredded pretty well. Its still on the original belt and has 16K miles on it, but it was fine when I swapped pulley earlier. Glad it didn't completely break because I didn't have a spare.