Since we made it through the entire first day with a slipping clucth and since we most likely nuked it from all the abuse, as soon as we got back to the Houston base we started to drop the transmission once again. Our support crew of Whitney and Saki also added some more color to our car since we had a pretty plain paint job on it. So in one bay of a two car garage it was kinda crowded but since we built the car in a single car garage that was about two feet wider than the car it kinda felt like home! With the entire day spent racing it was about 9:00 pm when we started tearing the transmission out of the car. Making things worse was the spilled battery acid from our horribly oversized battery that the previous owner stuffed into the car. So the quote of the night was "So that burning sensation, that's the battery acid right?". Twice during repair did one of the team members go sprinting to the bathroom to take car of the beginings of an acid burn. The only real casulaties were a pair of pants and two shirts that eventually had holes appear in them. Around 3:30 am the new clutch was installed and the final bolts torqued and finally we could sleep for 3 hours or so before we had to be packed up and back at the track. Waking up after a three hour nap is hard to do, now imagine that you are doing it not just from a nap but that was the total of your sleep for the night. It hurts. Now make that pain be the third night in a row that you have done it. That would put you in the midset that we had as we packed up the truck and trailer for the third day. The driver's meeting to start the day consisted of the normal hows everyone doing and more procedural stuff but then things got interestering. Throughout the previous day we had noticed that a few teams spent alot of time in the penalty box. There were about 4 or 5 teams that just seemed to rack up huge amounts of penalties. In the meeting we talked about how the officials were not going to put up with anymore bad driving. They then read a list of teams to hang out after the meeting for further discussions. They then followed the list with "you guys probably could have slept in this morning." Most of the teams found this funny. These guys were all warned about rough driving, most listened however a few had to be parked. One team was even sucsessful in talking their way off the trailer, to be parked againg for good by the officials a few laps later. Menawhile we had a stroke of inspiration while we were setting up for the race. We thought that since we knew we were leaking oil from the transmission into the bell housing how about we only fill the tranny with half the amount of oil it should have. Maybe with this new level we could reduce the amount of oil that was spewing onto our clutch. The downside could be that we get alot of wear on our transmission, but by looking at the internals the night before we knew that we would still have the gears in oil and that should give us most of the protection we would need. We made the change and warmed up the motor, its time to start racing again!