Originally Posted by bjr_93tz

Yep, there is a certain satisfaction when the weather is perfect to be the only guy at a comp doing some skywriting, especially if you're having a good round. It just looks good. If you're having a bad round it doesn't look so good though!!

I remember my geared starter nearly coughing up a lung trying to turn the 170cdi over when it was new. When cold you still have to back it off compression to give the starter a chance even on 5S, but now once it's hot in the starting gates messing around with the mixtures you can just prod it and away it goes. I've sort of never noticed how much "easier" it has become to start when hot.

While I didn't have any misfiring today, it just didn't have any bottom end grunt.