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When my detached garage was put up they sprayed the concrete with clear which seemed like a great idea until the first time gas spilled and ate through it. I’m sure some of it still has the clear.

It’ll be interesting to see how your experience with jacks and jackstands go - that would probably ...

The bed

When buying this truck we could see the cross braces under the bed were rusted. Walking in the bed I could hear them crunching under there. It also had rust at the tops of the wheel wells but looked pretty salvageable.

To fix this the bed had to come off. This was not a very complicated ...

If you do some digging you can probably find someone who has fashioned a baffle in the tank - assuming you want to run it with less fuel to save weight. In my Saturn we took an STP gallon oil jug (very rectangular), cut off the top, and drilled 3/8 holes in the front and back at the bottom of the ...

Again I ran a race in Alpha Touring Challenge on Monday that they broadcast on Tuesday: https://youtu.be/Yc5pv5zBFSY?si=YnF81ARJQHfW51ak&t=2055 All the practice was dry but the rain came for the race. Luckily I practiced in the rain a little.

The American Muscle Series Brands Hatch race was decent ...

Sounds like some good upgrades. Where does it get on track? Autocross? Track days?

Last Monday I ran in Alpha Touring Challenge at Charlotte Roval. Video link here: https://youtu.be/G5OP5EJXeYI?si=1IxOgUJDBh6YZk9P&t=2044 Standing starts were awful I have to learn how to launch the car, but lots of respectful driving in these two sprint races. Admittedly I don't get much coverage ...

WGI ended up being a clean race, with no mayhem on lap 1 so my early pit strategy didn't save much. I switched from the Elantra to the Audi RS3. The Audit steers like a tank but it's faster on the straight. I was about .3 faster per lap with the Audi. I tanked qualifying so I could pit coming to ...

There have been several delays not related to the truck, and a lot of time put into the bed repair which is not done yet. I do have a few items to report.

Tow hooks

Acquired some at pull a part, which were cleaned, painted and installed. While I was under the front I noticed the air dam was ...

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 ...