Monday, November 5, 2012

Work Days - 10/27/2012 and 11/3/2012

Well we have been working on the car every weekend as usual. Got a lot of little things done. We got the windscreen mesh securely mounted, we got a shift light installed, we are working on getting the spares together, and my Fiance has been practicing driving.

The car itself is pretty much ready to go, besides simple maintenance like an oil change, fluid checks, bleeding and adjusting the brakes, spark plugs, and swapping the front brake pads. The rest of the work is just getting the spares built and sorted. The spare left rear axle is proving to be a pain, I am having trouble getting the broken drive hub off even with the hub pulling tool.

On November 13th my Pops and I hop in his RV and head out to Austin Texas for the Formula 1 race which is going to be awesome! The only problem is it eats into prep time for the 24 hour LeMons race coming soon on Dec 8th. Totally worth it though.

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I have a few videos I made playing with my GoPro and the video editing software on my Mac. You can see the shift light and our circle track windscreen mesh. The main reason I made them was to show the difference in the air noise with and without my homemade wind noise reducing cover. The first one is using no windscreen in the normal GoPro case and the second has the homemade windscreen cover. You can really tell the difference when at speed. The cover currently is just foam and tape, but when I am done it will be made from fake fur, foam, and will be held on with velcro.





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