The Automotive Thread

[Supe]

A short video of my seat sucker moment. Keep in mind, entry speed into this turn is roughly 80 mph or so (GoPros tend to make things look deceptively slow with the wide angle).

http://s144.photobucket.com/user/Supermatch1813/media/Turn17Oops_zps87aa8fa7.mp4.html

 

[MA_PE]

neat video. thanks for sharing. Sounds great, except for that stuff when you hit the brush.

 

[Supe]

And here are some photos from the weekend from this guy Kyle, aka. Roadcone Photo. He takes some killer shots, had my favorite from last event as well. Quite a few shots of my car in there. When he said it was his favorite, he must not have been kidding! Made me happy to see so many people compliment on how the car was built as far as the detail work goes. The other nice compliment was after I wrecked, a guy made his run, and by the time he got back down, I already had it fixed. "How the f*ck do you already have a new nose on that thing?!"

http://roadconephoto.smugmug.com/Cars/Chasing-the-Dragon-V/31030178_GXWMnq#!i=2684049399&k=47HwS5S

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I liked that 1stGen Celica.

I'm really surprised you don't see more 2Gen Celica Supras at those things. Makes we wonder if the IRS is wonky for all out racing.

 

[Supe]

No, they're just becoming harder to come by. Most of the people who pick them up that aren't total rust buckets are drifter kids.

A lot of the guys who run TT/Club Racing are the ones that show up to the hillclimbs, so they tend to stick to the cars that are at the front of their classes - i.e. 8 billion Miatas who run the various Street Prepared/spec classes. Once you start screwing with forced induction/engine swaps/etc., you fall out of the national classes and into specialty regional classes like the one I run in (Street Unlimited.)

 

[Capt Worley PE]

No, they're just becoming harder to come by. Most of the people who pick them up that aren't total rust buckets are drifter kids.

I peruse http://www.celicasupra.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?51-Cars-For-Sale and wish.

The Pacific Northwest seems to be the locus of fairly stock cars.

 

[Master slacker]

I love the Formula Vee!

 

[Supe]

I love the Formula Vee!

Guy running it is in his mid 80's! Usually comes with his wife. He can run the whole course without lifting off the gas.

 

[Master slacker]

If I had the money... Formula Vee (Formula First... whatever) and 24 hrs of Lemons.

 

[MA_PE]

If I had the money... Formula Vee (Formula First... whatever) and 24 hrs of Lemons.

Formula Un?

 

[Supe]

Lemons is awesome, but I'd rather built a mega-dollar car for One Lap first.

 

[mudpuppy]

My boss' son did the 24 hours of Lemons this year. Sounded like they had fun, though they blew the clutch twice.

 

[Master slacker]

i got the car, but no money for anything else

 

[envirotex]

Update on the FJ60.

So, as it turns out...The refurbished brake booster that we got was bad. Replaced it with a new (refurbished) one and now it stops on a dime. Got an inspection today!

 

[Flyer_PE]

Looks like my little car ('91 MR2) has just earned itself a spot under the right wing of the airplane until further notice. While sitting at a red light yesterday, I look in the mirror and I could actually see blue smoke rising through the engine cover vents. It's had a couple of small oil leaks for a while but this one put it into mosquito-killer territory.

Now I get to figure out just what I want to do with the drive train on the little beast. I wonder how far I can up the power without ending up with one of those gawd-awful exhaust systems that sounds like a very large pi$$ed-off bumble bee.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^The turbo will mellow it out quite a bit. I know more than a few turbo dodges that ran 3" exhausts with no muffler and it was just a burble from the exhaust pipes, not the phart can sound.

 

[Flyer_PE]

The bigger annoyance is that the spare car just went off-line. I think I'm going to pull the trigger on a new truck. I've been nursing Ol' Blue along for a while on the theory that I had the car as a backup vehicle. Time to get something that has suffered something less than 14 years worth of Chicago road salt.

 

[Master slacker]

4A-GZE

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[Supe]

LSX or SBC

 

[Flyer_PE]

^That brings up the question of how much the drive train can handle.