Weekend!

And what a weekend it was!
Friday started of pretty non eventful. In fact I was in bed by 8pm! Crazy, must be a sign of my age. Went out the farm on Saturday. It was quite a nice day and a good opportunity to go out for a walk. I took Becky along too - she had no complaints and found plenty of rotten things to roll in (much to my mothers disgust who had to wash her afterward). I love going for a walk on the farm - so peaceful and a good time to blow out some of the cobwebs!

I managed to squash my finger in an outboard motor that I was helping my dad to lift though. At the time it was pretty cold and my fingers being numb - I hardly felt it. Man did it hurt a couple of hours later! That was followed by the onslaught of the flu on Sunday. Had the day off work on Monday. I did manage to watch a UK series (Jekyll) which I would highly recommend. It was excellent.

Off the Wellington next week. Work related. Should be fun. Might have some demons to conquer though!

Night Speed Dragwars season finale..

On friday night I had the opportunity to make my way down to Meremere drag strip to watch some of the drag racing for the final meet of the season for the NightSpeed Dragwars. It's always a good chance to see what people are racing and new ideas people have come up with their cars. I was also quite keen to see what my good mate Paul could do in his drag car. In the end he managed a personal best of 10.22 for the quarter mile (400m). All in all a pretty good night and a motivational boost to get some more work on my car done. For interests sake some of the specifications for Paul's car are as follows:
> Mk2 Ford Escort
> FJ20 Turbo engine
> Custom modified engine internals
> T61 Turbonetics Turbo
> R31 skyline rear end (28 spline minispool I think)
> Full NZHRA Tech inspection
> From memory pushing upward of 380kW
> Street legal!

Most of the pictures I got were pretty average but gives you a pretty good idea on what the night is about.

Drags