Chumpcar Chumpionship

[CarRacer]

Glad you guys won't be making a last minute push like us.

We do have a couple small bits of good news though. I got the car to fire on Saturday although I didn't have a radiator in the car so I only ran it for a second. Also, I finally got our classification for the race figured out and we are back in the hunt with everyone provided that we don't "stray too far from having a Chevette". I think we're okay on that front once they look at the car, although I'm glad they are waiting to pass final judgement. That means they're going to follow their own rules, which I like.

[s1ngletracker]

Awesome! Are you signed up for the practice session?

[CarRacer]

No, Iowa is pretty simple and I don't see any gain in putting more hours on the car than needed. We will be testing the car at Raceway park before we head to Iowa so that will be our practice session.

[s1ngletracker]

Yeah, we're mostly doing it to shake out bugs (hopefully none) from the car, and one of our drivers would like some practice on the banking.

[CarRacer]

Alright, practice is out for us at this moment. I just got the car to move under its own power so it's functional. There was a oil leak at the turbo drain, but I already fixed that. The front ride height was way lower with the heavier motor in there, so we are currently addressing that now. No sense in testing the car with a borked front end, so we didn't go today. We may test tomorrow buy I doubt it as we need to load up and that will be a couple hour process.


I'm not super mad at missing practice though as there was a question as to whether we could get the damn thing done in time. Now that it moves and runs I know we can make the race at least.

http://pics.roomsapp.mobi/kbNmMwFXiu.jpg

[s1ngletracker]

as i said in your project thread, awesome. BUT... I would try to get some kinda testing on the thing to make sure everything is functional. But from seeing how you did things, I don't see why you would have any problems. Maybe chumpcar would let you run half the practice session for half price? 3 hours, if you asked nicely?

[CarRacer]

FUCK FUCK FUCK.


3-4 gearset is dead in the transmission I picked up off of CL. If anyone has a lead on a T5 transmission out of a Mustang 5.0 PM me ASAP.

[s1ngletracker]

oh no! Post on mnstangs?

[CarRacer]

I looked, only one on there and I have an email out to the guy but he's near Rochester. Seeing if a shop can rebuild our trans this morning.

[s1ngletracker]

Well the mistustyle contingent wasn't without our troubles, but when we were running I think Shake and Bake, Team Chevette, and Slugworks were pretty dang impressive.

Shake and bake - maybe we should all consider cryo-treated hubs next year :)