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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.

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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.

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^Need crew?

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Definite possibility.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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wait... whaaaa? how much did that cost? Does that seriously conform to the 2x rule??

we're downgrading our brakes :( Our setup last year was janky and caused more problems than it did benefits.

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Benefits of running a Chevette, parts are amazingly expensive because nobody makes them. They're Corrado rotors ($40 so actually less than standard rotors) and the Dynalite calipers are only $120. Pads are cheaper than stock too with better compound choices. We're still running rubber brake hoses, so we didn't add any cost there aside from a brass thread adapter for the caliper. I was worried that the upgrade would fit the rule too but after crunching the numbers it all worked out, it's kind of crazy.

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A few buddies and myself are going to give chumpcar a shot hopefully this season! What kind of life do you guys usually see out of a set of tires? Is most everyone using a hans device?

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We get maybe 7 hours out of a set of the tires we run. If you run a harder compound tire they will last longer and it depends on your car, alignment, etc.

Maybe half the people have some type of Hans style device.

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first race in the area (Road America) is in just over 60 days, get building!

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Any idea what the cutoff date is for registraion? I'm doubtful we'll make that race at this point. May settle for a track day or two before the next regional race in june/july.

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I actually can't find any info on that... they need to do a better job of publishing those deadlines. I thought it was like 2 months, but it seems as though it'll let me register for a race a month away...

We've already registered for Road America and paid our deposit.

Whats the status of the MKIII?

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Motor is back in the car, we were hoping to have it running saturday but the stars didn't quite align. And then my welder broke :( Anyone wanna lend me one for a few weeks?

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Its coming along. Had a good weekend last week. But RA is near impossible. May be a good thing as we need a little seat time before we jump into a race IMO. Will do some track days before the next close race.

Regarding loaning a welder, wish I could but not possible currently.

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Junaid was making it sound like you guys were going to make RA today.