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Tonight running TCRs at Watkins Glen.

gonna try to avoid mayhem on lap 1 going up the climbimg esses and into the bus stop.

starts at 8:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJZ4xiyN2_g

I've got like 300 lbs of extra hand tools sitting around over here - not sure what u need but I'm dealing.

90 minutes isn't too bad but you can't just pop in and work on it for an hour. Nice chunk of land.

Big backhoe will tend to be cheaper than a compact tractor with a backhoe and compact tractors can walk off pretty easily too with a half decent full size pickup. The Chinese mini excavators are cheap but no warranties and pretty much a crap shoot as to how good they are.

What city is this in and ...

The ChampCar iRacing enduro featured 12 cars, and due to one disqualification we ended up P9 - too many mistakes cost us time and we had to use both fast repairs.

Last Sunday I raced again with XSLR on the rallycross track at Road Atlanta and not surprisingly I got wrecked again in T1 lap 1, though ...

Hard to believe its been over 4 years with this box. I still have over 300 lbs of extra tools from this purchase. And oh yes they are in the basement.

I think I forgot that Tiresmoke lives in the BASEMENT!

It was interesting that at least a couple guys who worked at the dealer said they wanted to hear it on the way out. I contemplated hanging around but figured I'd hear it plenty at some point in the future. Anyway walking down the hall to the other side of the building I heard it start lol. The exit ...

I ran a race on 11/29 with CCiS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86pfis5Mfc

Not much to watch here since its a team event and my teammate was sick and unable to drive. However by running more than half the laps I was able to improve our points by 1 to 13 (vs 14 that we got at VIR).

I ran a race ...

Up next on Sunday 11/23 at 8:10 PM is rallycross at Sonoma with XSLR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i45f7FV5a4

VIR last weekend ended up with 17 cars and a track that was wet, then dry, then really wet. My co-driver was in the wet at the end and wrecked the car twice which cost us some spots. We ...

Fix the seat cover - item # 8

This turned out to be an inexpensive fix. There are plenty of Silverados at pull a part. After a YouTube video on how to remove the cover, and about $7 I had a replacement. The seat back seems to wear well and the odd split of the airbag seam is not common on ...

Race report for XSLR @ Daytona Rallycross:

Qualified 3rd, lost that advantage in my heat race when netcode decided my car made contact and pushed me out of shape lap 1 turn 1. After that in the consolation race and the main I ended up with someone spun out directly in front of me on the first turn ...

I've had trouble with the radiator overflow hose obstructing the passenger side headlight. from the factory there are several loops to hold it in place but if any have been removed the hose can shift.

The replacement subframe was installed with the R/T swaybar. With this setup the weird suspension wiggle in the back was eliminated. Sadly I was not out of the woods with this project. I could not get the rear end to track correctly behind the front. One issue was the LR was at max adjustment on the ...

At Lanier I had a legit shot at the podium until 3 to go and I pushed it too hard on corner exit. I saved the car but lost three positions.

Catching up:
Last Saturday 11/1 I did a 3 hr enduro At Daytona road course with Gt4 cars with ChampCar. I split drive duty with my friend Aaron: https://www ...

the first thing I would do is find the ground wire connection and clean it. there is some notoriety with bad grounds on C4s

you can also turn it by hand to raise the light to make sure nothing in the mechanism is bound up