Belew's Racing

Race season coming soon......

Well we were having a good practice, car was running good and handling well and so after first practice while looking everything over, noticed a bit of water spray inside engine compartment. Radiator was low and overflow bottle was full so thought radiator cap went bad. Changed cap, filled her up and then noticed a hose had a leak so got that fixed also. Went out for next practice, car didn't seem to have the power it did in first run. Brought it in and car died before getting back to pit area. Then had water out exhaust...... Looks like possible head gasket... starting engine tear down today, would like the head valves and springs looked at, hopefully can get her fixed before first race!!

6/12/21
Gav ran his mini over the weekend thought we had the fuel issues worked out. Ran good in first practice. Made a small set up adjustment for second practice, car ran really well and Gav was able to get into the low 20 sec laps. Was hoping car would still be good the rest of the night to be able to start seeing what him and the little engine could do but he got a bit loose on lap 1 of the Heat race and spun out. Car got a bit flooded with the spin and was sputtering and popping the rest of the Heat race. We checked the plugs and all were good except one, #4 was a little black. Dried up the fuel and cleaned the plug up and thought he would be good to go for the main event. But nope, right from the get go car was still popping as he was on the throttle and then after bout 20 laps or so coming out of turn 4 the throttle cable snapped so he coasted off the track and that was the end of his night. So we'll get a new throttle linkage and cable and see what else we can throw at this running issue with the engine and hopefully be back out on the 26th.