Ha ha Steve, that made me laugh.
I had a similar experience, but not with one particular part.
After running an 11.0 in my mustang on street radials, I decided to take the plunge and add slicks and a cage so I could dip into the tens. So I spent around $5000 on cage, race seat, harness, trans blanket, tech inspection, race wheels, slicks, front runners, fire suit, gloves, boots, arm restraints etc. Then made it to the track 4 times, battled rain cancellations and extreme heat (107f air temp with 134f track temp), made a total of 5 full passes, and broke tailshaft uni's, valve springs, blown head gaskets and now cracked a piston. And after all that I only managed a best time of 10.93.
Now I've decided to drop the comp and add a smaller cam to make it more streetable and actually have fun driving it instead of breaking and fixing it all the time.
But that's cars, and drag racing, and at the end of the day it's good fun.
Joe.
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