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Added the Caddy to my list

Acquiring parts: * Went to pull a part to fetch the differential. Also secured a wheel center cap, exhaust tips, special washers for the rear suspension camber adjustment, and three the door handle trim pieces. The rear bolt was gorilla tight I had to use leg power on the pipe extension on the ratch...

Up next is ChampCar iRacing on Wednesday at 9:10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/live/SwVgi6dBBc ... T7v2LEOYnY

I was card dead most of the night, I've run good at Chris's for a while so I was probably due for that. The royal flush draw also implies a flush draw and a straight draw. As it turns out an ace would have been enough as well. When none of that materialized on the river I couldn't put Dave on two pa...

Last race of current season for XSLR - finishing up on dirt - coming up shortly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO6QUfmE3A

Had to learn how to jack up this car to pull the diff. Differential is out - literally just unbolt the halfshafts and six bolts. I wasted some time because the rubber u-joint had metal sleeves that were slightly pressed in and I didn't understand this. After reviewing some videos I applied a few ham...

Few updates: 1) Differential 3.27 gear can buy a kit to replace the bearings and seals for as low as $70 can buy a new diff (Chinese I gather) for under $600 I found an ATS at local pull a part and it still has the diff in it. The car is wrecked in the front and the diff shows no sign of leaking. Th...

Avoiding bison licking the car?! That's a story to tell

I've read somewhere in the past most people get uncomfortable when lateral g's go above .33 and if I recall correctly that is part of the guideline for recommended speeds (yellow signs) where there are bends in the road.

Hopefully I'll have it in racing condition for the opening Wednesday at KMP. And I kinda want to run it on the dirt dragstrip as well. The Corolla has needed like nothing other than tires, air filter and oil/filter since I got it. That part will be missed. To be fair it did need some work when I fir...

Apparently its time to replace the Corolla with something that has a little more zip. https://www.primeautosalesllc.com/details/used-2014-cadillac-ats/102223515 This car has a couple dings but its clean rust wise. It has 117k, brakes look new and are very responsive, and suspension is firm. I took a...

LF frame rail/firewall/floor assembly • Fit this into the car. Required multiple test fits and some adjusting of the car. As it turns out the driver side of the transmission tunnel was moved inward slightly during the crash. Also, as I lined up some sections, others would get out of line. Measureme...

After an improbable win on the dirt the prior weekend, on Saturday 3/30 I participated in a 4+ hour iRacing endurance race with a new team called sLowered Expectations. I'm 3rd in driver order for this event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w75OaH6ujmk

I was thinking Pike's Peak

After P2 last week we're off to USA International dirt oval for more sprint car action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XpYsR9tmU

Thanks Walt. Here is the latest video: https://youtu.be/x3mvDOpJxPk