Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Sonoma Drift Series May 27th '13

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Drifting... expensive, loud, flashy, and ruthless on tires. Though it is not a direct "race" these drivers have a lot of skill and are good at what they do. I would go so far as to say it represents more of a manly version of figure skating (yes there was a female driver, but you get my point), than actual auto racing. But don't get me wrong, it's pretty bad ass. Beat up with missing body panels and lots of dents, this series does not contain the nicest looking drift cars out there, but this group still puts on a good show. This event was even better than the last one I attended because it was on the actual race course, not just in the paddock.

Sadly, a good couple hours of the day I spent sitting in my car listening to the announcer repeat over and over again about how slick the track is when it's wet. Yeah so guess what? It rained at Sears Point... With my lack of knowledge of how to keep my camera equipment dry, how to dry it out, or how much moisture it can even handle for that matter, I decided against photographing any of the disappointing qualifying runs made in the rain. After qualifying was over, just about the same time I was going to give up and head back to my hotel room to be sadly pathetic, the rain stopped. After 10mins or so of no rain I got of of my car to watch the drivers line up their awesome machines for the announcement of the qualifying results. After it was over they drove off, in a reckless manor, doing doughnuts with smoke flying and sounds of motors bouncing off their rev limiters, and I realized the track had dried out. Thankfully I stayed that little bit longer as the show put on by the remaining cars was excellent.

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Unlike other motorsport events I've seen, these nuts are not required to wear full racing suits, they only need helmets. Crazy be it to me but even the announcer cracked a joke about the one guy who wore a fire suit, and there I was thinking he was the only driver with any signs of sanity. Many times these cars would slide a bit too far and hit the dirt which can always lead to a roll and the announcer even mentioned one of the competing cars had been in a bad wreck.. Oh well it isn't my neck and skin out there. Besides, who likes normal sane people anyway?

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These drivers were out there giving it their all for what I understand is only a $3,000 prize for winning the four event series. They are definitely not expecting any type of fame or fortune from running in these events with that prize money and with fans that seem to mostly be made up of friends and relatives. These fans, may I add, were very critical of the judges. Even those routing for other contenders booed the announcement of who was moving on to compete for 1st and 2nd. Clearly the crowed all agreed the driver who ended up in 3rd should have been given the chance to battle for the top spot. Hell if I knew though, the rules and scoring of drifting are foreign to me. I was just there for the show and to snap pictures. Speaking of pictures, the section of the track being used for this event gave little viewing that wasn't obstructed by the safety fence.. Kinda bummed me out but oh well..

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I also got to enjoy a peek at this Chevy crate motor swap that I am pretty sure is an LS1.

All in all it was a good day of loud motors and burning rubber...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Work Days Spring 2013..

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Well.. there hasn't been much going on since our last race back in March with the RX7. My pops got the new setup tested on the RX7 and now we are getting the cars ready for Button Terrible which is coming up quickly on June 29-30th. The Spitwad needs a lot more work including some safety upgrades so I dove in and started hacking up the car and my pops helped me get the fabrication done.

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I then had a friend of mine come over and properly weld in the new cage modifications. This guy can really weld, unlike me, I am freaking clueless..

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Pretty damn sure between the thick steal plate, DOM tubing, and proper welds.. it is almost as strong as the frame of this pile of British excellence. Really glad he does the work for us, in the safety aspect, we need all the help we can get..

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Speaking of improved safety... I threw down some cash and picked up a Necksgen for my fiance and I. Racing is not all that dangerous, relatively, but only if you're properly protected. So I really felt it was worth the cash which is over 1/2 my estimated value of the spit in its awesome current condition. The Necksgen helmet posts were quick and easy to install and it is very comfortable. A great feature I did not expect is how easy turning your head is with it on. Compared to the HANS my pops has, that I used to borrow from him, the movement is much better. This will increase our visibility so we can better watch for all the cars we are passing, er well, being passed by. Really glad I went with it verse another brand plus it came with a cool hat and two LeMons get out of jail free cards. Who doesn't love a free cool hat?

Now that the welding is done, the last safety work is to install a new bulkhead/firewall between the fuel cell and the driver compartment. After that, we can finally get to the maintenance work.. and shit it is British so there is plenty to do. Not all of it is required, but the more of it we get done the better. I also bought all the parts to rebuild the brakes and would like to get that done before the race as well. We will see...

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Videos from Sears Pointless '13 and Updates on the Sex Pistons Spitfire - 4/2/2013

So I have poorly put together and uploaded two videos from the Willy Wankel Grumpy Nerds RX7 at Sears Pointless. The first is the scary moment my pops had ...



That could have ended up much worse.. thankfully it did not. He was fine, but may have been a little wet in the pants. He checked out the car afterwords and went back out on track. - Balls of Steel

The next is a goofy mix of me behind the wheel. I am kinda a spaz, the camera and mic tell all...



And now onto the future.. or well the past cause it is the old car? Well whatever screw it.. The Team Sex Pistons Triumph Spitfire is to make a return at the 24 hour of LeMons race - Button Terrible '13 @ Buttonwillow Raceway.

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My Spitfire is bad ass but does not photograph well. It's like a dirty hooker who could have been a model 10 years ago but took up a healthy habit of slamming heroin instead ~ Colin Craft

So it appears like we will have the same basic team we had at Chuckwalla back in December but one of the other girls is going to race as well. Another rookie to suffer the fate of a first LeMons race in a underpowered British tin can that is managed by me of all people. Haha sucker!

The Spitwad did start up, has good oil pressure, and ran cool this past weekend. The new rubber comes this week and the safety upgrades plans are solid. We have to remove the old backstays and install new ones that land in front of the rear most point of the rear tires. With a very precise plan, precision cutting wheel, and eyeballing... I used a fancy green garden pole to mark it out.

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Will get the new tires mounted this Saturday but then I leave for two weeks on a work trip. When I return I will purchase the materials for the new backstays and spreader plates, then a friend and quality welder will help me install it properly.

Wish I had more time to work on the car, but work pays for this filthy affliction...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sears Pointless 2013 - The Willey Wankel RX7

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What a freaking awesome weekend! The weather was amazing and my dad's RX7 was a total blast to drive. It was the first race the car ran and there are some setup changes to be made like correcting the terrifically tail happy rear end. Otherwise, the Willey Wankel is a solid ride with great potential. I was the test driver and I might have missed a few points about the car, like say oh the rears lock up first under heavy breaking. There were sketchy moments for all 4 of the drivers so I guess I should have pushed it a bit more during testing. Being the third driver and with a good warning that the car handled this way, I still lit up the rear tires and slid into a slow corner like a bonehead. Lucky for me I caught it just short of a spin and the car behind did not cream me. (Thanks AJ)

We had a new driver this time named Ozer who got the full LeMons experience. We sent him out first, someone bumped him, and he spun. So obviously he got to meet the judges. He did a great job going out first. There was no one to warn him that the rear breaks lock up and the car is totally tail happy. He just figured it out on his own.

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Cem returned to race with us and again was the fastest on the team, great driving as always. He even told off another LeMons driver in a very classy manner for speeding in the pits.. Another thing about Cem, he has this sweet helmet that I am jealous of..

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The first goal was to finish the race and we did that. We also had fun and are home safely which are the most important things when it comes to racing LeMons. There was one scary moment for my pops when someone aggressively turned in on him going down the strait, but he did everything right and kept the car away from a major wreck. After a short break to calm down and look over the car, he went back out on the track. Later he laughed it off and we prepped the car for the next day. (Props to you Dad)

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There is plenty of video and tons photos I have to go through, the video of the wreck will be first. Then I will look for the video of my bonehead spin to post that as well.

On to the results, the ones that matter anyway... The real winner was Rich with his IOE award for the horribly awesome IMP and his class C win with his Jag. Congrats Rich!

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Good times were had and I can't wait to do it all over again.. which ever car we race. More pictures and videos to come soon. Here is the team pic with Chief Prep "Jay".. Keep it classy LeMons!

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Other events at Sonoma Raceway - Photos

While up in the Sonoma, CA for a work trip, I had a day off which was spent at the race track. Nothing else in the area really interests me and Sears Point is just an amazing facility. Now sporting a Nikon D5100 with a $130 refurbished 55-200mm VR lens, I am learning to take motorsport pictures. The camera can take really good images and goes with me almost everywhere.

There was a racing school on the track hosted by Emotive that ran some nice Formula 3 Lola cars. Was fun to watch these machines cruise around the track with no one else around. The grounds were open and I was free to roam the whole place, which I pretty much had all to myself.

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Another day I found out they had Drag and Drift racing Wednesday nights at the raceway. So two hours were squeezed out of my work schedule to go check it out and take some pictures. Most of my time was spent watching the drifters as it was more exciting than the drag racing. Some of these drifters obviously had no idea what they were doing except for enjoying themselves, though, others were quite skillful in the art. From what felt to be a safe distance, I snapped as many pictures as I could in the short time frame. Still lacking good panning technique, it takes me often a hundred shots to get one I like, but I am successful often enough to show some pretty good ones.

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In all honesty, these times spent taking pictures at the track were to practice for the 24 hour of LeMons race - Sears Pointless. With my Dad and a couple friends, I will be racing in this event, so having an idea of where to take shots from was the plan.

Here are links to both albums from the Racing School and the Drag and Drift Night.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Blog Name Change - 3/19/2013

I am updating the blog.. because.. well.. I just want to.

I changed the title and description as we now have multiple cars and who knows what we will be doing as time goes on... plus I am taking pictures now and you will have to suffer through some of them!

I will update the blogspot link later.. and may also change the name again.. if you don't like it, well sorry, I had no idea anyone even read it so Thanks!

Getting Ready for Sears Pointless 3/19/2013

Just a quick update.. this week we head up to Sonoma Raceway (previously Infineon, previously Sears Point)

The Sex Pistons Spitfire will stay home, as with lack of time and budget, we could only prepare one car. The Spitfire needs a lot more work and the RX7 is ready.

My pops has spent lots of time prepping the Willy Wankel RX7 and it is running well. Hopefully the weather will stay clear and we will stay out of trouble. The car has lots of potential and is a blast to drive, so we should have a awesome weekend.

The drivers for this race will be:
Jerry (My Dad - The team Captain and Car Owner)
Colin (Myself)
Cem (raced with us twice before - Fast guy)
Ozer (Cem's friend - new to Lemons)

Monday, February 11, 2013

RX7 - Track Day - Streets of Willow Springs- 2/9/2013

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Well we had a great test day with the RX7 at the Streets of Willow Springs Raceway. The car ran great the whole time and was enjoyable to drive. The day was pretty uneventful which is a good thing on a test day. I drove the car for 4 20min sessions and became comfortable with how it handles. Sears Pointless is going to be a lot of fun with this car. My pops did a great job prepping this RX7.

Here is a video of the full 3rd session. Mid part of the video you can here me spazz out. I can't for the life of me remember why...



I also had some fun taking pictures of the other cars on track...

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Here is a link to all the photos I took that day, except for the ones taken of the RX7, my pops took those.

Streets of Willow Springs - Track Day Photos

Sears Pointless is March 23-34.. can't wait!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Going to a track day on 2/9/13- Quick Update

Well the Spitwad has not moved from the garage since I parked it in December... and it will stay there a bit longer before I roll her out to begin working on her again. I am going to be racing with my pops in his RX7 at Sears Pointless this year. We will not be fielding the Team Sex Pistons Spitfire at Sears Pointless.

There is testing to be done on the RX7 so my pops and I are going up to the Streets of Willow Springs Raceway on Feb 9th 2013. I get to do the driving!

It will be a calm, early shifting, early braking, and point by only passing test day.. but it will still be a lot of fun to be at the track.

Will post pictures and maybe some gopro video from the day next week.


The Spitwad should be racing again later this year....

Oh and there is some videos from my last race I made on my youtube account, I forget if I posted them in the blog yet.. they are the latest ones.

Link to my Youtube Channel

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Chuckwalla - Arse-Freeze-Apalooza 24 hour of Lemons Dec 7-9th 2012

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Well the race is over, lots of booze, lots of laughs, and lots of track time. It was a great weekend!

The highlights included my fiance, Cynthia, driving in her first race, eight different people driving the Spitwad, a great fire pit, a punk rock band, the old Ford making the haul, and the Spitwad pretty much just ran all weekend.

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Cynthia completed two 30min stints without issues or giving up. She also watched the Super Snipe flip, and that means, we might have it on video... Speaking of video, I have around 9 hours of it to go through so that will come later.

The list of drivers were, Cynthia, Paul, Cem, Justin, Jerry(my pops), Chris(he earned it), Denise, and my self. Cynthia, Justin, Ron, and I were the original drivers. Ron had to drop out due to a move, and we picked up Paul, Cem, Jerry, and Denise because the Willy Wankel Rx7 hardly ran all weekend. Chris earned his spot by helping my pops work on the Rx7 for hours.

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Paul, who races a vintage MGB, brought with him a nice fire pit and lots of knowledge of the track. Gave many of us great tips and his fire pit brought many people around for drinks and conversation. Thanks Paul!

Justin raced multiple stints over the weekend and really was a team player. After some kinda harsh driving at the last race, Justin drove a calm and clean race this time around with no black flags. He also was driving while Judge Phil was snapping photos.

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Cem, who raced with us back in March, was there to race in the Rx7.  Since that wasn't going so well, he hopped in the Spitwad for a few stints and drove great as always. Him and his wife Amanda are great people, always a welcome addition. I snapped this shot of him driving.

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Though they got shut down hours early do to noise complaints before 9pm, (WTF honestly?) The Mice came out again this year to rock out in the pits. They came along with one of my favorite teams, If It's Not Punk It's Junk. I snapped a few shots of the band and the team's car.

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There is so much I could go on about from the race. What I saw, how much fun we all had, the ups, the downs, and the Spider Man story... But I really should get back to work. I had a great weekend, racing, partying, and taking pictures. I will just end with a link to my pictures from the race and a great shot of the Cow Driver working away.

Link to My Photos from Arse-Freeze-2012

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Oh yeah, and my Dad! In my version of LeMons in a nutshell..

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Spiderman Out!

Monday, December 3, 2012

Final Prep for Arse-Freeze 2012 (Early December)

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So here we are, it has been since July 1st 2012 that we have raced. Things have changed, drivers have changed, another car has been built, and life has gotten more complicated. The one thing that remains unchanged is the childish excitement that builds up the week of the race.

There is a bit of anxiety about whether or not the tow rig will make it, how my fiance will do at her first race, and of course did we remember everything? Even with all the spare parts, tools,the extensive packing lists, and our multiple race experince... it just lingers in the brain. I know I am forgetting something and what is going to go wrong? Oh well.. we will do what we gotta do. This is what it is about, seeing how much you can get out of rust bucket junk racer your team built, everyone being safe, and having a freaking blast!

Things have not worked out perfectly, they never do. One of our team members has to move across the country and won't be able to make it. Another has a Hawaii vacation and will be showing up just about the moment when the green flag drops. Well no worries, I will be there to start the race in the Spitwad and once I do... nothing else in that moment will matter. It's just that much fun!

With the lack of help and my lack of motivation, I did not get the spare motor completed yet, but as long as tech goes smoothly I have plenty of hours on Friday to get it finished up. All the parts are there, just need to bolt the head on properly, install the rockers, and put the valve cover on. The plan being not to need it of course.

While taking pictures at the F1 race in Austin, Texas with my cell phone and $100 point and shoot digital camera, I found myself wanting to dive into learning photography and spent a chunk of change on a Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm and 55-200mm lenses. This is my first SRL camera ever and I am just starting to learn the basics, but I decided I would try to get some fancy panning motorsport shots at the LeMons race. I spent some time practicing and came up with only a couple photos that the car was even somewhat in focus.

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Hopefully things will run smoothly and I will get plenty of time to play with my new camera. Maybe even (and this is a stretch) I will end up with a couple shots to be proud of. This photography thing is all secondary to the racing and mentoring my fiance through out the weekend.

Well here goes nothing! Will be heading out to Chuckwalla in 3 days!

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.





(if you are on a mobile device and can not see the video go to the bottom of the page and click "View Web Version")

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Video from Arse-Sweat June 2012 - 24hr @ Buttonwillow

Finally I have compressed and uploaded one of the videos from our last race. It was the best one that we had. It is of my teammate Justin driving from daylight into the night at the Full 24 hour race - Arse-Sweat-Apalooza @ Buttonwillow raceway June 2012.

It is about an hour long, sorry I did not take the time to trim it down. Enjoy!



(if you are on a mobile device and can not see the video go to the bottom of the page and click "View Web Version")

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Safety Upgrades - 10/13/2012

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With the ever evolving safety rules in LeMons racing and a few major crashes that occurred this year leading to "Proper Enforcement" of the rules; we had to make some upgrades.

While reading over the LeMons forums I found a thread about cars that failed tech at recent races that had passed earlier in the year. They are failing as a reaction of stiffer rules due to crashes this year since our last race. Though safety is a good thing, it would have been very annoying to show up at our next race thinking we are set for the same 2012 rules from our last two races this year. There was no notification from the LeMons organization about this, so lucky for me I read the forums often. Anyways.. I sent the Evil One (John the head safety tech in LeMons) some pics and asked about it, he replied,

I would prefer to see square tubing or angle iron over the perforated shelving angle that you have in there.
In a 70 mph collision that cell will exert somewhere around 4000 lbs of force on the metal you have there.... Is it ready for that?

If you can flex the top of that seat backwards, it will fail. Grab it and put back, if it gives much, it'll need to be braced. Most single shoulder harness hole seats fail this test.



Um no... our fuel mounting is not ready for that. The first upgrade was bracing for the Fuel Cell so we don't catch fire when the Spitwad gets punted by some knucklehead who came in too hot sending us rolling end over end through the dirt. Seen bellow, it is simply an angle iron halo around the top of the cell that is braced to the vehicle. I have to admit when I took the cell out and looked at our original mounting I did not feel so good about it. I feel better about it now.

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The second was the need to brace the head rest of the racing seat if it flexes, so I grabbed it and pulled and yes ours does give, so we needed a brace. I guess in an accident someones head rest folded back at a 90 degree angle which is probably not so good for the neck. Some teams made some fancy braces but I just kindly asked my pops to weld up a pipe behind the headrest which does the trick.

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Good thing my pops had a windshield being installed on the RX7 and was available to help. I can't fabricate or weld worth a damn and my other teammate was just returning from a work trip and was out of commission.

After this work was finished I found myself thinking more about safety. A complete rookie to car racing is racing the Spitfire soon and she needs to be safe. Time to reinspect the 5 point harness mounts, the seat mounts, put larger washers on the fuel cell straps, and go over the car and tighten things down. Then maybe I can move on to the fun stuff like the shocks and the shift light. Oh and I need to finish mounting the windshield mesh.

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There is always more work to be done, parts to order, and oh yeah GoPro HD Hero 2s have gone on sale $199.99 for the outdoor bundle. Gotta get me one of those so we can get video from both cars!

Monday, October 8, 2012

Work Days 10/5 and 10/6

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So my Pops helped me get the tow hook ups done on the truck and I took it for a test town run. It tows pretty well and should get the Spitwad to a few races.

My friend and teammate, Justin, came over and helped me out. We got the oil cooler back on and ran the motor a bit to get the cobwebs out. This will be the 5th race on this motor. It just keeps running, and I hope it will for another race weekend.

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We then got the new mesh windscreen built and opened up the motor that failed at the 24 hour race. The fly wheel mounting bolts sheared right off. The motor it still good but it will take some work to get this back in running shape. So we will have to bring one of our other motors as a spare for the December race.

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Quick Update - 9/10/2012

So the $63 pair of Monroe Air Adjust Shocks came in the mail. Did not get to mount them on the car yet. They could work... or they could blow out.. Who knows. Will keep the old worn out Konis as back up just in case. The idea is we can make a little bit of ride height adjustment with them to compensate for the Spitfire rear sag. It is ill advised, you should rebuild your spring and use proper gas shocks for racing, but when did "ill advised" stop anyone else in LeMons racing?

The first design and execution of Circle Track Mesh in place of the Lexan windshield was a failure. To weak, not enough support, and not enough mounting points. There are other ways I can design this and I just need to figure out a strong one. I was given some stronger metal mesh to work with, and this time I plan to build a frame for it to make it strong. It will then be mounted to the car using U-bolts. Safety is important.

Taking the old '88 Ford Truck in for the smog check this week, pass or fail, it needs to get done. I plan to use this thing to haul the Spitfire 3.5 hours each way to Chuckwalla in December and 7-8 hours each way to Sonoma Raceway next year. If it fails I will get a 2 month temp registration from the DMV and will keep throwing money at it like a it's a stripper till I feel it will make it on these hauls.

Saturday I plan to work on the Spitfire a little... and Sunday I am off to Puerto Rico for a two week work trip. Should be interesting....

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

New Team Driver - The Girlfriend

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So it is official....

These emails from LeMons and Car and Driver are really cool. I never get them because I am the team captain.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Short work day - 9-1-2012

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Well Justin came over to help me do some work on the Spitwad on Saturday. Pretty much I took off and cleaned out the Oil Cooler and he cut down our scratched up hard to see through lexan windshield and put on some steel mesh. At our last 2 races we had vision problems and this was the quickest cheap fix I could come up with. Also last race we had to swap the motor and stupid me forgot to hook up, take off, or plug the oil cooler. We then ran 14 hours and had a few off track excursions so the oil cooler was full of dirt.

With life being busy I took the time to speak to my teammate Ron, who is planning to turbo charge our 1300 motor for the next race. I told him I have a lot going on and I know he is a busy man so if he does not get the turbo charge set up done, we can just run the motor we have, or run the 1300 without the turbo.

We need to keep it simple and just go out and have a good time. This will be my girlfriend's first race and a new track for all of us. The only things we really need to do on the car is maintenance on the brakes, put different shocks on the rear, get the oil cooler hooked back up, and get our spares in order. I drove the car last and it was running fine.

I guess the shift light would be a good idea since my GF is learning how to drive stick... and damn, I could go for some good bacon right about now...

Friday, August 17, 2012

Off Season Summer 2012

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So it has been awhile... I have not done a thing to the Spitfire since the 24 hour race at Buttonwillow. Hell.. I have not even helped my pops work on the RX7, though he has got some work done on it alone. Have only spent 15mins looking at the race video.. never even got any of it uploaded. New job is taking up a lot of my time with travel; but damn the pay, benefits, and job security are great to have. $$

What I have done is pick up a cheap truck to help haul the cars, and make it easier to pick up parts. Well actually Spank picked it up while both my pops and I were out of town and he dumped it in my pop's driveway. A '88 Ford F-150 XLT Lariat V8. It is a deal though $500 for the truck and $390 to bring the registration up to date. So for under a grand, I got a useable truck that can easily haul the Spitwad or the RX7 plus a truck load. It runs really well, well maintained, and 120K miles. Just some fun quirks like it wont start in park only in neutral. The passenger side window regulator is broken so the window just slides down. Over all I think it's awesome, kinda old, beat up, loud and clunky. Great crap can race car hauler.

The picture makes it look nicer then it is, the paint on the other side is pretty jacked up. I could paint it primer flat black with spray cans like the Spitwad, but that would be only if I can find the spare time. For sure though a large LeMons racing sticker is going in the window.

This weekend I will be heading up to the house to do a little work on the truck and the Spitfire... with all my work trips and my pops working on the RX7, time is limited.

I am also looking for a street legal stick shift car for under $1900.00. This is help get my girlfriend more comfortable with driving stick shift.. and to be honest, give me something fun to drive.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Arse-Sweat-Apalooza true 24 hour June 30th - July 1st 2012

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Well it was one EPIC weekend. We finished the full 24 hour race. It only took an axle swap, a full motor swap, and some tuning to solve overheating at 3am to get it done, but we did it.

Honestly I have no idea right now were we finished.. but the Limo beat us hahah. That last one hour stint to finish the race was amazing. I managed to even pull our fastest laps during that last hour. It was a hell of an experience running a true 24 hour, and I am not sure if we will ever do it again, but I am sure glad we at least did it once. That is something I will never forget.

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After I collect all the good pictures and videos and find out our results I will make another post, but for now it's back to the real world.....