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Up next: CCiS racing GR86 at Brands Hatch.

Wed 9/17 9:20 PM broadcast. link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_EqF0XXFRU

XSLR Season 10 race 2 report - LVMS:

I knew that full speed fuel consumption and staying green would require 2 stops. So I started saving right at the start. All was going ...

I bought a Dragy Pro and put it to work with the Caddy. Set up custom distance of 200' fairly easily.

When I put it to work on the dirt, there was a significant difference in measured time. I mounted it originally on the back on the seat. Once I see the discrepancy (about .25 second), I put the ...

Last night made it out to Dragway42 with BP and Markss327, along with some regulars from KMP to race on dirt. It was a beautiful night for racing, cooling to the high 50's by the end of the night.

I learned some things on this car it'll be posted on the Caddy thread.

Ran 4.5 street gas and 4/6 cyl ...

Up next race 2 XSLR season 10: ARCA cars at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on 9/14 at about 8:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/live/N_BRQRm3Nb4

Race 1 I qualified P3 of 14 and hung with the lead pack til about lap 20 where they were two wide exiting T4 and I didn't judge exit speed right and tagged the ...

What a disaster.

Up next: race 1 XSLR season 10 tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p066B0-IL-U

Broadcast should start sometime around 8:10 pm

CCiS VIR race report

Started P24 of 43 cars, ended P28. Got roughed up the first few laps, lost another 5 seconds slowing to avoid a wreck on lap 15. Ended up 93 seconds behind the leaders, and if you subtract out the 20 seconds or so lost due to incidents I would have been on par with other ...

https://zachpetersonmemorial.com/zach-p ... -car-show/

Planning to take the Challenger to this one as long a the weather looks decent.

Show runs from 12-5

Completed the list of repairs!

Had the car over to Kurt to get the patch welded in, and then I prepped and painted it.

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Also tracked down the noise in the RF. I tried swapping the brakes between RF and LF and sound stayed on RF. Then fortunately the car was making the ...

Not a fan of 17 year old brake hoses, so I replaced them

The truck has been out every winter but I was still able to remove all the brake bleeders, and was also able to remove the brake hoses from the calipers, and in the rear all the lines. There was rust on the bleeders, the flare nuts, and eye ...

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Exhaust is clamped up and complete. It is precariously close to the new sway bar with suspension at full travel, but it clears
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Front sway bar is installed.

Fuel line

I used the nylon lines from the junkyard car for the feed and return lines.
For the supply line I ...

The Vette did well in its debut. It finished P6 on Saturday and P7 on Sunday and won D class both days. About 35 cars in the field

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It’s still on the stock springs so there has to be room for improvement once he gets the Z51 suspension installed

It ...

The Corvette has been under construction with Troy and he has it set to debut this weekend at Ozarks in Missouri.

event entrant list: https://champcar.org/register/entrantlist.php?eventid=554

Unfortunately I don't see a live broadcast but I'm going to follow it on the Race Monitor app. Also these ...

Am I wrong... or do you guys almost always come out money ahead at these events?? Sure seems like it...


I'm still on the learning curve so I'm 1 for 5 cashing in the largest class I do - street gas 4.50 index. Some of those early ones were affected by the black car not close to the index and/or ...

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exhaust leak

Resonator had a hole in it. flange connecting downpipe to rest of exhaust was almost gone. Last Friday I was at pull-a-part and found a like new exhaust under an Impala. I had to get a 2.25" ID sleeve to connect it to the downpipe. Kurt welded that and one ...