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Not as much time on the car this week. Started interior disassembly to get access to the floor. This uncovered a bunch of small messes - a ketchup packet that got to the inner cavity of the console and blew up, several dollars of change, residue from a giant spill of a red drink (?Code Red Mountain ...

Mid Ohio was a decent race. Didn't put in a lot of practice - felt pretty quick but made a couple mistakes on qualifying laps and only managed P24 of 28 cars. I only recall making one on track pass for position, but was able to save fuel and this paid off as I had the fastest pit stop of anyone in t...

Fresh from Cut ‘n Paste - IAT bung welded to CAI

Cleaning up the work space - remove brake lines across the front, the ABS unit - migrate various parts of the wiring harness up to the windshield IMG_0191.JPG ^ almost there - the wires and ABS unit were moved after the pic Cutting and straightening on RF - remove portions of fender support - outer...

Race 1 season 14 is tonight at virtual Mid Ohio, coverage should start around 9:15 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p87wVq8xEDI

Removed the engine, transmission and front subframe as one unit - Of course there was a lot of disconnecting things to get there - wiring, cooling, fuel, front suspension, driveshaft. - Repeated the process I used to remove the refrigerant from the Charger. Got sidetracked a little since the Challe...

My race is canceled for today.

I had invited Ken to my team but he had not accepted it yet. Since he accepted after I registered the team iRacing would not allow him to participate in the event.

So that is the lesson learned here today. Grrr.

Today I'm doing the 4.5 hour enduro at Mid Ohio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYSTZHmETnw Coverage starts at 1:45 PM, race should start just after 2. Expecting low car counts similar to last two of these. For this race Ken will be my co-driver so I'll definitely be the slow guy in the car, and we...

Indy was a mess. Lap 1 of a 90 minute race there was a deliberate incident ahead coming on to the back straight. While I saw and was checking up the guy behind did not and punted me into the fence. Car was terminally damaged so I had to take a tow and use my fast repair. That was followed by 88 minu...

Finish up the back end work - install (had Kurt weld) in the metal windows I had cut into the trunk (there is an extra layer of metal about 2" away behind the rear fenders - finish up with some black paint on the weld work - re-clean the spare and the jack as there was still evidence of corros...

These parts are installed. Upon opening the water pump box the first thing I saw was a note on a yellow piece of paper that said to flush the cooling system since leftover debris from the old pump is the top reason replacement pumps fail. With this info I removed the lower radiator hose to drain out...

Were you able to put this to use?

This is Rhonda's truck which showed up here in 2010. IM004219.JPG It has been relatively trouble free - some of the stuff done since purchase: - under warranty one of the injector or ignition wires to the coil needed replaced - catalytic converter heat shield broke free and would make noise vibratin...

This is sold. Parts from the rest of the car are next

Zandvoort ended with a good result. Did my best in qualifying which had me starting P20. Bad news is there were only 20 cars. Nonetheless P20 was better than my worst drop week and any improvement in position could only help. The guy fourth in points did not attend so this can only help. There were ...