[KeithO]

There are two black inserts at the front of my Firehawk hood. I looked under the hood and saw that three plastic "bolts" and nuts hold this on. It appears that the piece that comes out is the black part and a part that is body color.

It appears that I remove this, the airflow could be improved across the front of the motor.

Has anyone removed this for tracking/road racing? Is there any reason that I wouldn't want to remove this? More underhood cooling = good. Especially with my car.

[KeithO]

Well, I buried the oil temp in all three sessions today. I suppose I should look into a better cooler...

Mike - Beaver Run was wet yesterday. In the practice session, the line dried out. In qualifying, it was very wet. In the race, it started wet and began to dry by the end of the race. Today, it was warm and clear all 3 sessions.

We had 37 (!) cars in our run group. That's alot of cars. In the Big Bore group for the weekend, there was only one accident - a single car ooops today from a newly licensed CMC driver. He apparently dropped 2 wheels off, over-corrected, shot across the track and slammed head-on into the armco... I didn't see it, but I was lapping when I came around and saw the car. The driver was shaken, but OK, but the car was destroyed. With all of that tight racing, everyone was very careful. I've never run like I did this weekend and I find it absolutely amazing that we get through these races without incident.

Here's a good one - during the warmup lap for the Hona Challenge race, the polesitter crashed into the armco while scrubbing his tires. The car is pretty messed up. I'm sorry - that's funny to me.