[jjones752]

Robert,
Perhaps "stripped" was a little too strong a word; I don't mean I'm taking it down to the bare frame, but I'll need to clear a few things out of the way to get to the tears in the frame rails, like the side panels (of course), the seat and a couple of fuel lines that would be perilously close to the heat.
Bill, thanks for the offer but it will save me a ton of time to take it the Baue's shop, which is less than ten miles from home.
Incidentally, I know I wasn't the center of everyone's attention in the "B" but in the last 3 or 4 laps I thought I had a high-speed miss from mid-straightaway on, but I could've been hitting the rev limiter; that's something I haven't experienced from inside the cockpit before, and I was harder on the throttle for longer than I'd been previously. Did anybody happen to notice?