It's been over a month since Dragstalgia and what with one thing and another,,,,family funeral a wedding crap weather etc, it's been difficult to get the team together to sort out anything but! this past weekend somehow time allowed for Steve, Dave and myself time to get over to the car and start the arduous job of removing the engine. I have already documented on here the problem we had so I wont go over it again but I have got to admit that a month without racing is very boring indeed especially when it seems that some of our Wild Bunch members have taken great strides forward. Anyway first things first even though I am no longer primarily responsible for thee team anyone I am still the driver...till next year and chief towing driver, So we all met up at the usual place had a cuppa then on to the storage unit where I had to hook up the trailer to pull it out far enough to get the car out of the back so we could use the engine hoist.
As you can see it was a nice day for it but where we now store the trailer isn't exactly on the best base for using a steel rollered engine hoist that is designed for workshop floors and there is not a lot of room to do all this in. but the team got to it we emptied the trailer of all the bits and bobs first in order to free up enough room to release the dragster, boy do we carry some junk around with us but that's the problem when you don't have a workshop or a garage of your own.
With everything out of the way and the trailer jacked up we got the car out, the heads and the injection system had already been removed.
So it was a case of remove the body work and undo the engine to gearbox nuts and bolts and remove the front engine plate bolts.
Then pull the motor out of the dragster and replace the body panels so they don't receive anymore damage.
After this the motor-less dragster was pushed back in the trailer and the trailer put back in it's rightful place and locked and chocked, The engine was very carefully placed in the back of Steve's car where it will be taken away to be looked at hopefully the bottom end has received no damage, then we will appraise the damage and see what you can do about it...(Afford) if anything! at best that's us for the rest of this season at worse that's us for good, we have only managed to get the car up the track five times in total this season so this is not going to be a vintage year for us but there's always next year...fingers crossed.
