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? Because, holy fuck we went 144 in our shitbox.