Thanks to all who helped me out at NG13 with car problems

**Beau_Jester** · 07-14-2013, 12:50 PM

For those who may be interested, my 94 supercharged 3000GT and I made it home in one piece after two potential catastrophe's at NG13.

Thanks to all who helped after my timing belt jumped several teeth when coming out of the first turn after some fun runs on the road coarse. Luckily there were no bent valves. Jeff Davis from Georgia stayed with me for 6 hours on the road course pit and helped me re-time the car and change my supercharger belt...not an easy job. Thanks for "paying it forward".

And when I thought all thing were good, Friday night my alternator died. Phil from Texas luckily had a used one for sale that proved to be godsend. I changed that Saturday morning and decided to call it a day and head home. Brian and Erik (I hope I have your name correct) thanks for the moral support, tech advice and spotting the "belt problem" . I was quite down in spirit Saturday morning and a bit unfocused during our impromptu meeting, so "Erik", if I have your name wrong please accept my apology and use this forum to correct me.

See you all at NG14

Dave Carroll

**anyonebutme** · 07-14-2013, 02:01 PM

you also won some trophy's!

**Lori** · 07-14-2013, 08:51 PM

Dave, I'm so glad to hear you made it! This is an amazing community - I'm not at all surprised that they pitched in to help. We missed you at the banquet and will send the trophies you won. Glad you were back on the road, safe and sound.

**Uniuno** · 07-14-2013, 10:18 PM

More of use wanted to help, but afraid to get in the way. "Too many cooks in the kitchen" type thing. I'm so glad everything worked out.

**93STLTH** · 07-15-2013, 12:41 AM

Glad everything worked out for you Dave. Wish I could have done more to help, but that supercharger is like an Alien face hugger, you don't want to mess with it if you don't know what you're doing!

**kywhitelightning** · 07-15-2013, 02:00 AM

Good to hear you made it. Congrats on the trophies!! See you next year.

Jeff

**mehrshadvr4** · 07-15-2013, 02:15 AM

Glad to see you made it. When I saw you jumped timing I wasn't sure if you can go home with the car. Good thing your car didn't have any internal damage.

**Beau_Jester** · 07-15-2013, 11:01 AM

Thanks again everyone. Regarding the repairs at the track, so many people stepped up to help out. I really appreciated that. The reality was that only a few hands could actually do any work on the car. No sense in a group standing around.

So I actually won some trophies. LOL. I guess it paid off to be FWD with a power adder. Slow cars can win! I will treasure these trophies because I may never win another. Thanks Lori.

**Maximal** · 07-15-2013, 11:06 AM

That's one thing I love about this gathering (or should I say community)....everyone is willing to lend a hand no matter how well they know you.

I remember my first road course experience in Memphis, a couple laps in I missed a gear, badly. Turns out the tensioner bolt backed up a bit and the car jumped a few teeth. I was done for the week in my mind (had a trailer) but Dan (maddog), who I didn't know very well at that point, talked me into re-timing the engine with his help. By the time we were done that night there were so many people helping I ended up getting boxed out of the engine bay and not being able to help very much.

I've seen this happen time and time again and I think it's pretty rare.