Want to race for real??

[CarRacer]

Upgrading the brakes is looking to be harder than we thought. The lug dish on our 15" Bassett rims is hitting our calipers. I think we're going to switch from 10" Honda rotors to 11" Corrado ones. I didn't want to do that, as part availability goes to shit, but I don't have a choice.

Other than that, the car just needs a good once over to ensure maintenance is where it needs to be then it should be ready to go for next year.

Good luck to everyone and I hope a couple more cars get built, racing wheel to wheel is a blast.

[Speedfreak]

Who is following through on building a car for chumpcar? I believe that MATCHBX sold the car he was thinking about racing :( We're in the thick of improvements for the season, the interior is stripped/engine pulled and we're doing multiple winter projects on it.

We are, but are way behind schedule. I'm hoping a fire gets lit soon so we can jam away and finish it for the first RA race.

[turbotalon1g]

^Need crew?

[Speedfreak]

^Need crew?

Definite possibility.

[s1ngletracker]

ha, we'd definitely take anyone who wants to crew for us and is knowledgeable with cars.

[MATCHBX]

Yep, car got sold about a month or two ago. Funds are going to be used to finish the basement. Building an entertainment room down there. Picked up the old Atari Race Drivin' sit-in arcade game simulator. So I'll be racing on that one instead of at the track. It's cheaper that way.

[s1ngletracker]

and a whoooole lot less fun :) Seriously, nothing beats the real thing. But it sounds like a good financial decision, so kudos to you for making it.

[MATCHBX]

I hear ya there. Nothing totally replaces the real thing. But until I have the time (having a one year old consumes alot of it) and funds (see earlier comment) to do it, I'll have to settle for a state-of-the-art (weel, in 1991 anyways) racing simulator. Gotta love it when the wife tells you, "do what you want with the room. It's your room to set up how you want it." Go figures it would end up as a racing room.

I've been racing, and organizing races, nonstop for almost the past 10 years. I think I'm ready for a little break. At least for a couple of years. The wallet is thanking me already. It now has some company besides my driver's license, insurance cards and SCCA membership cards. It has presidents to talk to.

[s1ngletracker]

I made a pedal spacer! effective heel-toe here we come!

[CarRacer]

You heel toe for shifting? I tell our drivers to not downshift through the gears to save on clutch wear. Our pedal travel is about half an inch too with our goofy hydraulic conversion but I'm not sure we'd be much faster if we shifted like that anyway.

Our brake upgrade is basically finished, just need to bleed everything.
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