A special thanks

#1

The southeast E30 group is truly top shelf. On Saturdays practice at RRR my car died on the second lap. Thanks to Patton, Ranger, Jim, Daniels and others, the car was back running for the afternoon race (turned out to be a bad wire between the fuel pump relay and fuel pump). What would have taken me 8 ours to figure out, they had fixed in 1. Really enjoying racing with you guys.

#2

It was great seeing the E30 group come together to trouble shoot it. Did you ever find the bad wire or are you just going to wire up a switch for the fuel pump?

#3

Robert Patton and Chuck Taylor kind of set the tone for the SE SpecE30 culture.

Turn the clock back to Feb09, 48hrs before the first race of the year at CMP. 48hrs… Not a week, not even 4 days. 48hrs before the first race of the year.

Ranger:“The cops helped me get my car back, but the engine is really screwed up.”

Robert and Chuck: “Find a motor and get it to CMP. We’ll do a motor swap at the track”.

Ranger: “Ya, right”.

Robert and Chuck: “We are serious. This is do-able”.

Ranger: “That’s crazy”.

Robert and Chuck: “It’s not crazy. We’ll figure out everything that we need and we’ll get it to the track. You find a motor and get it to CMP Sat morning”.

Ranger: “That’s crazy”.

Robert and Chuck: “You’re wasting time. Find a motor.”

The whole SE group worked furiously, here on the forum, to put together a master parts and tools list, and I found a motor and a way to get it to CMP. Significantly, I had not a clue how to do what Robert and Chuck planned. I was good for changing the oil, and that was about it. These guys were spearheading an effort to entirely swap an engine for me. Not “with me”, because I had not the first clue how to swap a motor. This was blowing my mind.

We turned to on Saturday morning after Qual. In addition to Robert and Chuck, Fred, Jim Levie, JP Coates, ScottM, Bob Shields, and others all helped. We swapped the motors at the track in 4hrs. Everyone worked furiously hard. It was an epic effort.

That’s SE SpecE30. And I owe a lot for that effort, and help since.

Re. Roebling. It’s kinda fun to troubleshoot problems with smart guys like Robert, Chuck, Jim Levie, etc. The good ideas and detailed understandings that come out, in rapid fire like a machine gun, make it…I dunno, kinda fun.

That idea to hot wire the fuel pump…Genius.

#4

The Engine Swap at CMP still brings a lump to my throat. Seriously.
Then there was the Ride Along at Barber.
Toys For Tots.
NASA-SE is made up of good people.

#5

DDO wrote:

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NASA-SE is made up of good people.[/quote]

Enough said. See you all at RA.

#6

King Tut wrote:

I halfheartedly looked. Its tricky because the mental midget that painted the interior of my car painted all the wires white. I finally just ran a switch. It kinda makes the dash look like one of them there professional race cars.