What happened in the sled pull?
We drew numbers out of a hat, however John Garner was not present. I drew 2nd position. When the drawing was complete, John was still not back so they gave him 1st position as test hooker ...?? When it came time to hook, he still was not present, not sure why that didn't DQ him but o-well, so I went to hook. We had not tested our 2nd gear start tcm tune yet so I did so as I was pulling forward to line up to the sled. As I did so, I snapped the CV shaft at the driver's side spindle right before the splines. I should have just hooked in 2wheel drive and pulled it 2 ft and threw away that hook, but I wasn't thinking so I backed up into the pits to fix it. I can't remember who went next, maybe John Kennedy, and he pulled it out the door. After he pulled though, the laser quit and the track crew set up a measuring tape. as far as I know, the tape was used to measure all of the subsequent pulls. I don't have a play by play because I was working on my truck, but there were people in the stands so maybe someone has videos?
I was going to try an exhibition hook but prior to pulling up to the sled, I tested my nitrous and it wouldn't fire.
It may be a dead solenoid or it may be because my bottle pressure was a little over 1200psi. either way, I couldn't do much without my preturbo jet because my converter tightened up so much the day before. I tried tapping my backup nitrous that I had running through my CryO solenoid and unregulated up to an open -4 line near my air filter, but that instantly snuffed me out and I backfired.
I was pretty disappointed by the end of it, but I did learn a lot.