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XSLR Season 8 Race 14:

Legends cars at Limaland starts about 8;10 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgePC5V1as

Here’s a little better after pic - compare to the pic in the first post

My suspicion was these two were not that far apart in value, just in price. What are your thoughts on how the green one is worth twice the red one? Seems the color is preferred and the oil leak on the red one are the two things I heard/read. IAA charged me $600 to ship from NC to my house, $800 from...

Well the red Caddy made it's 1/4 mile debut last night to good success. Best ET was 14.13 at 97.48, and it was the last run of the night as stock class had the highest car count and I was in the final. I won two races outright, won one when a slower car redlighted and got a bye run to the final. Sad...

Updates: Finished up the bodywork and painted the LR quarter panel. Took the buffer to the scuffed up areas on the bumper cover, and applied touch up to them and a few other nicks on the car - base, mid coat and clear. Also did a little straightening on the LF fender. Cleaned up some of the overspra...

Lol all the broadcast races I participate in now have overseas commentary. XSLR Season 8 Race 13 report: First race with the Legends car. These are like 3/4 size purpose built race cars with no downforce and motorcycle engines. They wind up to 11,000 RPMs. Shaking off the rust on dirt ovals, I got i...

Recently I noticed the right rear of the truck sagging under load which got me thinking there is a broken leaf. Since this truck is occasionally carrying heavy loads I decided to get some heavy duty springs - these are stock replacements for some heavier setup than this truck was originally equipped...

Got snow tires off and a decent set of tires on. Couple more cosmetic items and I’ll start the official selling/ads

XSLR Season 8 Race 13 broadcast starts at 8:10 PM tonight: https://www.youtube.com/live/zu9u3SWGRb ... HvdyuB_rZP

We are racing dirt ovals with the Legends car for the rest of the season. Tonight we're at Knoxville. I'm 3rd in points with 2 guys close behind.

If you are ruling it out due to the oil leak, you might see what common oil leaks are on these? Could be something simple (as opposed to the rear main). Since that car is sitting there for so long you have to figure they will take a lower offer though I don't believe that will move the needle in you...

XSLR Season 8 Race 12 Report: The Knockhill race with XSLR was a disaster. By some fluke the other cars in my qualifying heat crashed and I won that. Well that put me on the front row for the main. This track is narrow and I was hoping to let the carnage happen in front of me. Well starting up fron...

Do you know the weak points on these cars yet? There has to be some. If you plan to pay up it might help knowing the weak spots so you can confirm they've been addressed on any potential buy. V12 Jag sounds so you can hear for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOal50E2fpk https://www.youtube....

For reference, rules for Drag Week are located here:

https://www.motortrend.com/uploads/2022 ... -FINAL.pdf

Interesting that only Street Eliminator (Tiresmoker's class) and stick shift class have the eliminations on the last day.

My first thought on the red one is its an outlier for a reason. However not really knowing the market for these it might be that this seller is the only motivated seller. Even though I don't see any obvious problems I'd probably get a carfax on the red one. I was looking at this platform for a while...

All the passes were done with T/C and Stabilitrak off. I will try checking the stall speed with those off though to see if it changes anything. Can't recall if my original test was with it on or off. Based on the amount of pull on the brakes at 1500 (with T/C off) I'd say it's not going to change an...