Read From Top Down
December 26, 2005 - Houston and Marva
attended the BMRT Christmas Party at the Chatterbox Lounge. Everyone enjoyed
the party, especially Houston! Houston won a $50.00 Cortana Mall Gift
Certificate in the Door Prize Drawing.
Go Houston!
Go Houston!
December 24,
2005 - Houston road his new motorcycle with the "Nubian Kruzers"
Motorcycle Club as they delivered Christmas gifts to children in Baton Rouge
General Hospital today. The Christmas gifts were donated by Gerry Lane
Enterprises of Baton Rouge. Approximately 30 motorcycle riders were
given an escort, by the Baton Rouge Police Department, from Gerry Lane
Chevrolet to the hospital.
Houston said he was truly touched and it
made him very happy to participate in the event. Houston is thinking
about joining the Nubian Kruzers Motorcycle Club. The motorcycle club
has been very active in helping the community during the Hurricane Katrina
disaster and they have stepped up to the plate on more than one occasion and
helped various organizations around the city to cope with the new residents
of our city.
November 23, 2005 - Houston's Bike Photos
November 13, 2005 - Houston and Marva road
into the monthly meeting on a beautiful copper colored Honda Gold Wing
Motorcycle!
October 11, 2005 - Houston would like to thank all of the racers from all
over that have called, emailed and contacted him by other means, to express
their concern about his accident. It really makes a racer feel good
when other racers express concern, and offer help to get going again, to a
fellow racer. Houston is a regular on the message board at
http://www.racepics.net .
Houston opened the rear end and found
nothing wrong. During the past week he had adjusted the four-link and
the combination of the adjustment and the weak shocks is, most likely, what
caused the problem. Houston is purchasing new Koni, double adjustable,
shocks for the rear and he is sending his front struts off to be
reconditioned. While that is being done, he is going to rebuild his
transmission and he is sending the converter off to be overhauled.
October 8, 2005 - Houston has determined
that the shocks on the car are not working. He is replacing them with
a set of Koni Adjustable Shocks.
Photos - Houston Testing at NPRP - Oct. 7, 2005
October 7, 2005
- Racing returns to NPRP and Houston wanted to test on a really well
prepared track to try to find his handling problems. When he left the
line, the car started out straight but it drifted to the right and Houston
corrected it and the car headed to the wall on the left side of the track,
then it came back and Houston crossed the center line and then headed back
towards the wall for a 2nd time. The car then swung back across the
center line and hit Keith Hunter's Mustang in the drivers door! The
damage to both cars was only cosmetic, with Keith getting a door ding that
was about 2 feet long and one foot high, that did not hit the inner skin of
the door. Houston cracked the fiberglass on the front right of his car
in the headlight area. Both cars drove off under their own power.
Keith came back to participate in the Super Pro eliminations. Houston,
along with his chassis man, were trying to figure out what is wrong with the
car. Inspection of the underside of the car did not show any broken
parts. Houston will go into the rear end this coming week and check
everything, inside and out.
September 30, 2005 - Houston was at State
Capitol Dragway after working through two hurricanes, installing a new room
on his home, a beautiful bedroom for Marva and Houston, and repairing his
transmission. The Taz is getting ready for the Battle on the Bayou at
Louisiana Dragway on Oct. 15, 2005. He got back in the groove by
winning the trophy in Super Pro. there were eight cars in the class
and Houston had easy pickings for the trophy. His had some trouble on
his first test run. The car went straight for the center line before
Houston could pull it back. Some adjustments to the front shocks was
made and the car ran fairly straight after that. The times were not
what was expected, but still respectable at, 8.48 @ 168 MPH, for the best
run. Houston will put new tires on the car this week and test again on
Friday night at State Capitol.
August 5, 2005 - The Taz is back!
Houston tested Friday at State Capitol Dragway. His best time was 8.24
@ 160 MPH. This was only a test and he will tweak on it and get back
down to where he was running before. Houston was very happy with his
test session.
Marva was at the track with her God son.
PHOTOS
July 29, 2005 - Houston has installed his
engine and transmission. He tested the engine and found bad spark plug
wires that was causing a miss and flat spot. Of course everything else
was checked and the plug were changed before looking at the wires. He
found a few wires that had zero ohms resistance. He installed a new
set of Taylor 8mm wires and the engine woke up. Houston says the Power
Is Back!
June 30, 2005 -
Houston has accepted the challenge from
Mr. Mad and Tery Red
of Houston, TX to have a Match Race at the Louisiana Drag Classic!
Houston says this has given him the incentive to hurry up and finish his
work on the car and get it ready before the race. Look out!
Texas vs. Louisiana!
June 26, 2005 - Houston and Marva returned
safely, well rested and sporting a deep tan! They said they enjoyed
their trip and they are looking forward to their next cruise. Houston
could not wait to get to the team meeting, after getting off the ship around
Noon, he made it to the meeting. We listened to all of his stories
about the trip and what a wonderful time they had.
Houston After Cruise
June 23, 2005 - Houston
& Marva, you should be half way done now, and just in case you take a
look at the web site while you are enjoying your cruise, I hope you enjoyed
the trip down to Jamaica and over to Grand Cayman (best stop on the trip).
I should have asked you to bring me some of that good Rum Cake back.
Oh, bye the way, did you go to Hell? Enjoy the rest of your trip to
Cozumel, and don't drink the water!
June 19, 2005 - Marva and Houston are
leaving for a cruise in the Western Caribbean today. They will leave
from New Orleans for a 7 day trip. Bon Voyage!
Houston may gain a little
weight while cruising. Eat, eat, eat! The food is so good and
there is so much of it! Enjoy!
May 27, 2005
- Houston took the car out to State Capitol Dragway to the Friday night test
and tune. He was not able to get any good passes in for different
reasons, but the car did run good. The best time was 8.59 @ 165 MPH,
but that was not really representative of what the car will do.
Traction was really bad and he had to fight to keep it off of the rail.
All is well with the car and Houston will be back.
May 9, 2005 -
Houston reports his engine is back in the car after removing the pistons and
having them fly cut to clear the valves. After the head work, the
piston to valve clearance was too tight, < .040", and he had to get the
extra relief. The work was done by Bill Doucet of Doucet Motorsports,
Lawtell, LA. Houston says he can feel the new power! He will be
testing, weather permitting, at No Problem Raceway Park Weds. of this week.
March 5, 2005 -
Houston and Marva returned to the track as spectators today. They
decided not to work on the engine. A rush repair may overlook the
problem that caused the breakage.
March 4, 2004 -
Houston took the Camaro to Super Chevy Show at No Problem Raceway Park.
This is what everybody has been waiting for! Houston made his first
pass with all the new stuff and it was great! He ran 4.743 in the
1/8th mile, and passed through the 1/4 mile at 7.741 @ 162 MPH! The
car was slowing as it went through the traps. Houston later discovered
a broken rocker stud and a cracked component in the rocker assembly.
Houston was really excited, along with all his teammates, over the seven
second pass!
Houston will
return home with the car tonight and work on removing the broken stud.
He has another rocker assembly to put on. He should be ready for the
Bonus Race on Sat. and Sunday's big Bracket-1 race.
March
2, 2005 - Houston took his car to Monroe for an individual chassis
inspection by Mr. Wesley Roberson, NHRA Division 4 Chassis Inspector.
The car passed the 25.1E requirements with no problem, and is certified to
run down to 6.0 sec. ET in the quarter-mile.
February 27, 2005 - Houston picked up the car from Darren Breaud, B & B Race
Cars in Greenwell Springs, LA. Houston must recertify to be legal
under 8.50 sec., down to 6.00 sec. he needed to have one bar added and one
modified to meet the new specifications. The car will be taken to
Monroe, LA for certification on Wed. March 2nd.
Houston will be ready for the Super Chevy show this coming weekend at No
Problem Raceway Park. Everyone is ready for the Super Chevy Show
because it is the first time, since the early 90's, the show has been in the
Baton Rouge area. We are also wondering where Pat is going to
put all those cars, with the car show, the swap meet and the vendor midway
taking up so much space. Racers will probably be parked close to the
last turn-off, which is sort of like Houston Raceway Park at a national
event and they still have some racers parked on the spectator side.
February 23, 2005
- Houston and three of the Bracket Masters Racing Team showed their cars at
Capital High School at the Auto Tech class area. Mr. Kevin Stuart,
Auto Tech Instructor, hosted the event. This was the first car show at
Capital High School.
Houston talked to many of the kids during the day about the hard work and
education that it takes to be able to afford a car like he drives.
Houston tells the kids about the dangers of the streets, selling drugs and
getting into trouble. He stresses short term gains from illegal
activities do not lead to long term happiness and freedom.
Houston's car was looking and sounding very good after the recent head and
manifold work. He can't wait for this weekend to test it out.
PHOTOS
February 20, 2005 - Houston
reports that the car is back in one piece and ready to roll! The first
showing will be at the Capital High School car show on Feb. 23, 2005.
Houston reports that everything works and sounds very good. We can't
wait to see how it will run.
Bill Doucet did the work on the heads and match
ported the intake. Everything looks just great and the manifold and heads
are matched ''Perfectly''. Very very good work.
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