It's all about the weight

Race, Rock n Ride turned out to be a pretty good weekend. The weather held out (mostly) and there were more people there than i expected, but we didn't manage any demo match races with any of the other funnybikes. We just ran against whoever was at the front of the queue.
We did 4 runs in total, and had little niggly issues with all of them. Traction was an issue on Saturday, we experienced wheelspin at the top of 1st gear on each run and that usually sets the bike up to go left wich it did. A 7.6 and a 7.5-  on and off the throttle wasn't too bad however.

On Sunday the first run was strange in that the bike took ages to leave the line. It seemed to just sit there revving but not moving, and a 1.33 60ft time said it all. It's not run that slow to 60 since the lockup clutch days. We serviced the clutch but couldn't find anything wrong, i even marked the tyre up on the rim thinking maybe it was slipping, but the next run proved it wasn't. the last run on Sunday made the whole trip worthwhile. It wasn't without issue, at 1000ft it went flat and the data showed it going really rich like the nitrous had stopped flowing but still ran a 7.33. But the incremental times to that point were all our best ever..... 1.0774 60ft, 2.937 330ft and 4.563 to the 1/8th. All times that point to a good 7.1 maybe even a 7.0?? who knows.
Suddenly it seems a 6 second pass maybe isn't so far away, and one easy area to gain a little something towards that 6 is if i lose some weight, so I've been eating carefully, no chocolate, no bread, no grains at all in fact. And so, it's bee falling off slowly,  and i see it like this ....if lose 10kg that's nearly a tenth of a second!

Other snippets of stuff ... i resumed progress on building a hydraulic press for the workshop. I bought the ram and pump 18months ago, but this weekend i got the steel channel to build it and have been drilling all the holes to bolt it together. Next step is to get some thick plates water jet cut, and mount the ram and pump onto it.
My van has been getting some upgrades too, I've had to fit new locks to the front doors after they both failed, so was reading on the Iveco forum how to change them when i came across an article that tells you how to enable the cruise control feature simply by buying the windscreen wiper stalk of a model with cruise control. So i checked on the steering column and sure enough the connector is there for it, so i got the part number and bought one -for the grand sum of £50 inc post. Bargain.
And lastly, i have another batch of Lectron WOT switches to make. Had them water jet cut but there's still a bit of machining to to. I have a few ready £45 if ya want one.