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[MostMint]

Landscaping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7niHBsuMfd4

[Fred32v]

It was a "Fun Day" at Nelson Ledges Raceway. That landscaping above was done by Mostmint
shortly after the Track Car left us on our own. I was riding with Tiresmoke and was able to
capture the moment. Nice save!

Pre race ...........................1st on track...................chalk talk


Beefstro..........................Diploma...........................safety


I was given access to the control tower, cool stuff.
Here is a video of the Mostmint Race Team's car in action on the front straightaway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vtug2XycU4

Good fun!

[TireSmoker]

Great clip Fred! That thing sounds good!

-Dave

[MostMint]

A couple laps from the tower:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WxFDR3_cXY[/youtube]

[TireSmoker]

Here's one of my sessions in the car. Andy, you can see where I dropped the left side off exiting the carousel at 2:30.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5o1D7_1QF8[/youtube]

[MostMint]

Nice save. You still had most of the car on the track. The sounds were very similar to mine - just less of them since yours was shorter.

I haven't looked under there yet to see if I did any other damage (other than possibly the tire) in my off track experience. I can't see how yours could have hurt anything.

[GMJohnny]

Is the Shoo-makka Landscaping Company one of the sponsors of this forum?
Most Mint gave a brilliant display of driveway edging at speed!!!

GM

[GMJohnny]

Oh Dave, I found you another car to drive on the race track!!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/cto/2333037014.html

Too good of a bargain to pass up!!

GM

[TireSmoker]

Oh Dave, I found you another car to drive on the race track!!

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/cto/2333037014.html

Too good of a bargain to pass up!!

GM

I think I need a sponsor.

[MostMint]

Over the last couple days I have made some interesting observations about the cars we did not pick:

1) The Fiero
Spoke with a west coast Fiero team and he pointed out the troubles with inexperienced drivers and the wet, he also mentioned inherent problems with the brakes (the rotors are not vented - design taken from the Citation he said). Furthermore the Fiero we looked at was one of only a few to have a best time at Nelsons over 1:40 per lap. Most were in the 1:30 range, about 20% in the sub 1:30 range. Pretty sure we saved ourselves a lot of work to bring that car up to speed.

2) The Escort
Looked at the lap times from the Charlotte race. The batmobile (Saturn SL2) turned a best lap of 1:38 and finished 14th. The Escort turned a best lap of 1:53 and finished only 18 laps - in 45th second to last.

[TireSmoker]

I'd have to think the Fiero near you was hampered on lap times by the automatic, either from sub-optimal gearing with a 3-speed or a crummy torque converter, or both. And we were right to be suspicious of getting a Ford product!

Its not often when buying a used car that you have after-the-fact info to validate the decision, and its obvious we've made the right one so far. Yay us!

So when's Bridgestone Day?

-Dave

[MostMint]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawWVrFbR0o[/youtube]

The sun glare is pretty bad with this camera, but if you start watching at 6:25 you can see Joey chasing me down. I believe part of the reason he is closing so quickly is I was working the outside line on several corners as he was approaching.

[MostMint]

here we are on Friday night:


and on Saturday

windows got installed too

Sunday started with installing the head:

and ended like this

[MostMint]

Here is some interesting info on the Saturn:

http://www.saturnspot.com/showthread.php?t=28298

Here is the content from the thread:
Here's the details:

1992 Saturn SC
156,000 miles

Engine
1.9L LLO 4 cylinder, Multi Point Injection, DOHC, chain driven
4-2-1 tubular exhaust header wrapped with DEI header wrap
Hand bored throttle body
Hotshot short ram intake, wrapped with insulating material with K&N cone filter
Prothane polyurethane motor mount inserts
Odyssey PC680 battery (680 CA, 12v, weighs 14.5 lbs)
Air conditioning system removed
2” mandral bent cat-back exhaust through a Thrush Magnum Glasspack and tunable SuperTrapp muffler

Transmission/driveline
Fidanza 8 lb aluminum flywheel
ACT 6 puck race clutch
New clutch hydraulics
Corvette lug studs on front axles (to be used with spacers if needed)
Hardened roller tapered front bearings

Suspension
H&R Sport Springs 205 in-lbs front/195 in-lbs rear
KYB GR-2 gas charged struts
SPS 3 way adjustable 16mm rear sway bar
Energy Suspension graphite impregnated polyurethane master bushing kit
Adjustable front and rear strut tower braces
Saturn factory 13 lb “sawtooth” 15”x6”, 4x100mm, 50mm offset, 56.1 mm hub bore wheels
205/50-15 Toyo RA1 tires- shaved. I picked these up used at the Run Offs in ’06.

Brakes
Front pads- Duralast for street and autox, Hawk Blue for track use
Goodridge stainless steel brake lines
Russell Speedbleeders on front
ATE Super Blue DOT 5 brake fluid

Interior
Most of the interior has been stripped- carpet, padding, trim, headliner, radio
Corbeau Forza racing seat with FIA Homologation
Corbeau non-height adjustable seat track slider
Sparco Clubman 4 point harness
MOMO drill on pedal covers
Manual radiator fan switch

[TireSmoker]

Here is some interesting info on the Saturn:

http://www.saturnspot.com/showthread.php?t=28298

Am I crazy, or is that *our* car?? I mean all the descriptions sound like everything we have. (when we bought it)

-Dave