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.
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.
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.
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?
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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
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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.
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.
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