Chumpcar Chumpionship

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Holy fuck that was a crazy race. Honda suspension components can suck my balls and so can Falken Azenis RT-615Ks.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Matt D was Jeff Gordan out there for a long time using drafting to get their car going way faster than it normally could.

[CarRacer]

We had a ton of fun in the Chevette. We ran 30 minute stints at the start so everyone on our team would have a good shot at driving at least once. We were amazed that our pile lasted the entire 25 hours. We had a few issues during the race though. The rain on Saturday leaked through our unsealed Lexan windshield directly onto the MPI relay. That got solved by wrapping a plastic grocery store bag around what we could and sealing it with copious amounts of duct tape. Our shifter handle is two pieces and bolts together, those bolts worked themselves loose and we had to spend 20 minutes fixing that. The most major issue came up with 2 hours to go. Something put a hole in our oil cooler mounted in the RF fenderwell by the tire. We had to loop the lines on the filter housing to finish. Also at this time, we had a leak in the radiator that we didn't notice while dealing with the oil cooler. I limped it around in 5th gear to close out the race, stopping to put water in when the motor started to stumble. Overall the car exceeded all of our expectations.


Also, did you guys check out the top speed section of the results? (http://www.mylaps.com/results/showlaps.jsp?id=2059589&perclass=0&pos=1) Because, holy fuck we went 144 in our shitbox.

[niterydr]

Awesome data to look at, congrats to all teams!

[s1ngletracker]

Those top speeds are not right. They were derived from the distance of the roval but the times of the oval.

I mean, our speedo should be mostly accurate and I never saw above 115 or so.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Chevette with 4G63T, Datsun 510 with Nissan Pathfinder engine in it, us in the white Civic, and then maybe a black E36 BMW.

http://dbptuning.com/slugworks/IMG_1159.JPG

Some night racing action. It was madness from this spot at night in person.

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[s1ngletracker]

I have no idea why Shane, but you get photographed in our car more than anyone else. Jealous.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Hello...

[s1ngletracker]

Did the autox on saturday with our chumpcar, was a ton of fun till it started cutting out...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6181/6134946465_1963be461b.jpg

we can't even make it through an autocross without problems!

[AJ]

Saw that car, was fun to check out and watch you guys put it through the cones. Had two people ask if I knew anything about the car, they had no clue what Chump Car was, but thought the concept was worth looking into.