Mad Hatter
Gotta go Faster
I can relate deeply. My 2019 hasn’t had a moment of racing. 2018 ended on a high note but I can’t find my way back despite spending unreal amounts of money and even when I do get back, I won’t be competitive with peers.
I took a bit of time to see if it drew me back in (and made several semi serious attempts at unloading the car that went nowhere). Ultimately finding a new approach and format really helped. I turned off social media, unsubscribed from anything racing for about 3 weeks and cleared my head. Started fresh and went back to picking one problem at a time.
For a motor, find someone who will build you a balanced shortblock and take it from there. Completing these motors isn’t difficult but where I have had the great majority of issues is around balancing and improper tolerances/build qualities. Oem isn’t great, the lower level fpp stuff isn’t great and 3 digit shop names are terrible.
Persevere man. Break it down into digestible steps
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Too true,,, After receiving a "balanced" crank from a vender supposedly matched too my con rods and pistons.... Went to balance them again just to check, and found that they had a very basic minimal balancing job and had to do it again.... The pillow blocks on a new block were all over the place when it came to tolerances with a a brand new crank too boot. FPP does not seem to mean that its ready to race....
After all this I joked to my builder that I should have bought a Crate motor.... his reply was... Fine... but we will have to take it apart any ways to check everything!!! Nothing seems to be very difficult at all in the build... just lots and lots of attention to detail.