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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 ...

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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 ...

I was already right outside the fairgrounds when BP called to tell me they were going to be quite late, so I just hung out. Since they were so late, we had plenty of time to figure out where to pit, and we ended up with a good spot along the fence near the entrance to the race area, and we actually ...

one drawback on the dirt drags is getting the timeslips. they don't put your car # on them so unless someone is there to pick them up they got lost. Dragy would help with that so I might be getting one soon.

XSLR Season 9 race 15 Phillip Island report
This is one of my favorite tracks on iRacing. Low car counts partly due to two of the top drivers not available. Qualifying was not great with mistakes on both laps, still started P5 of 9. With cold tires I managed a couple mistakes which put me back to ...

Recently my Mom's car developed an oil leak up front and based on advice from Ricky their mechanic she bought a new car. Rather than deal with driving it to the dealer for a nominal trade in, she gave it to me.

This car has 52k miles and looks pretty good. There is a bit of rust on the exterior ...

Car show prep

I didn't do a lot before the show other than wash, vacuum and a little touch up. Touch up happened after I noticed a few spots where the paint had cracked since I sealed up everything last year. I found at least a couple dozen spots like this which I marked with tape then touched up ...

Last night I made my first trek to race in the form of dirt drags at Lake County Fairgrounds.

I was a bit hesitant to get into many classes since I really don’t have the tree figured out yet.

BP says there is a set time from when both stage bulbs light to when pro tree shows the yellow. The guy ...