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mskeen wrote:
Hmmm. I don’t get it. That’s exactly what the video would look like from my car if there was a camera. Skeen, when are you getting on the NOS button? It’s hard to see in the video. I’m only using a 50 shot… Is that my problem? Need to step up to a 100?
Where to start…Left Thursday mid-day for RA and had a blowout in Greensboro. Big Al quickly popped off the old tire and threw on the spare. We had to stop a few times to put air in the spare, but eventually got there around 10PM.
Friday morning Indy Jim showed me around the track before our test/tune session started…THANKS JIM! That night we went to a Mexican restaurant…I just remember the acoustic guitar dude playing OZZY for us and some kind of projectile in the parking lot…
Saturday qualifying was good. Put the smack down on Damion, but he, Cullen, Robert, and Chuck all got past me in short order. I did have a good battle with Chuck for a little while. I ended up 6th, which was AWESOME. I now have some Geiger mantle-art and $50 Cash from Grand Turismo East :woohoo: The after party was great…I think…or so I was told…
Sunday was good, even though I ran by myself all race. Chucks incident was scary in that there were no flags for a couple of laps and we were racing past it.
When we loaded up to go home, the spare we had on was flat, and losing pressure fast. After dealing with a total B!tch at the Wal Mart I made the call to roll on home and take our chances. 50 miles later, another blowout. It was 6:30 Sunday evening in the middle of nowhere, and somehow we found a junk man that spoke broken English. We gave him the Grand Turismo East 6th place prize money, and he gave us a tire that would get us home. Got home around 8 hours after we left the track.
Oh yea…I apparently wrecked the pit bike Saturday night (according to my black/blue/road-rashed leg). I think it had a BeerTech sticker on it.:laugh:
TheRedBaron wrote:
[quote]mskeen wrote:
Hmmm. I don’t get it. That’s exactly what the video would look like from my car if there was a camera. quote]
I think you meant "Thats exactly what the video would look like from my car if there was a camera - and it got stuck on fast forward"
Exhausted but had a blast at Road Atlanta.
We wrenched all weekend on the car but it was well worth it in the end. (Earned a beertech sticker)
One thing that drew interest in building an e30 was how tight the SE group seemed to be; this weekend we found that to be more than true.
We suffered from fuel starvation all of Saturday (rusty tank), Lost a windshield when a lug nut came off of someone’s car, worst of all missed the Beer Party!
While everyone else was at the beer party we drove down to Summit Racing and picked up a fuel cell, pump, fittings, braided line, ect to solve the rusty stock tank problem for the weekend. When we got back at 10:00 the party was just getting good.
Golf carts do awesome on the skid pad (when the blow up sheep don’t run out in front of you) and sound like a showroom stock race, hope you guys brought spare golf cart tires!
While some guys were passed out in Ant Hills and others passed out while they were looking under our car, we continued to beat the new fuel cell in place.
just when we were feeling confident about finishing by the next morning, Malt Liquor Tech noticed 2 broken motor mounts.
At that point we were ready to forget it, sleep in and just load the car up the next morning.
When we arrived at the track Sunday morning however, Chuck Taylor had already installed a new windshield, Al had arranged for us to borrow motor mounts from indyjim and the sound of cars on track gave us the motivation. While we finishing the fuel setup, Chuck Taylor jumped right in and did the motor mounts and the car was ready for Lakos HPDE followed by the race.
Thanks to everyone involved including those not mentioned. This is a great group to be involved with. I don’t know about a BEERTECH curse, at least for this weekend we could not have pulled it off without their help and the knowledge of Malt Liquor! Hope to leave the wrenches at home and party with you guys instead at Robeling!
Thanks Mike for the video. It was a great reminder that there is race track out there that I choose not to venture onto this past weekend. I’ve lost the balance of any fast mojo that I might have once had… So much so, that I brought in a different car for Sundays race. To no avail, it puked a brake master cylinder just as the race went all caution, but not before Laura and Craig went blowing past. I held on for 10th and Laura has finished better than the old man in 2 of the past 3 races. Go girl. And, congratulations to Mike and Damion for their consistancy up front.
It was great to see so many in the field, with only one incedent of car-to-tire wall. Chuck had it dialed-in during Sunday’s race, but the narrow confines of Road Atlant make what would normally be an innocent spin into a sheet metal bender. No frame damage, no involvement with other racers. We’ll fix it and have him read for Roebling.
It is unusual that every racer was able to share a good report…I got a good start here, I moved up in finish position, I had a great race with ///, I got some good experience, I can’t believe you can do that, good draft, good pass, better race time, better qualifing time…the list goes on and on. Thanks to all the racers for a clean, cooperative weekend. Can’t wait to see all of you at Roebling Road.
Is it time to talk smack about Roebling yet? Somebody start a thread. I can usually hold my own at Roebling.
Regards, Robert (looking for the lost mojo) Patton
It’s official, Malt Liquor Tech is going to focus it’s energy on whupping yall on the track, we feel that we no longer have anything to prove in the party department. We may still arrange for some "adult entertainment" at the track in the near future. We figure that may be the only way to get Damion to hang out longer than 10 mins.
I told Scott to get the liter of Jager…of course the fact that he got the 1/2 gallon doesn’t mean we saved any of it.
AL
FARTBREF wrote:
[quote]It’s official, Malt Liquor Tech is going to focus it’s energy on whupping yall on the track, we feel that we no longer have anything to prove in the party department. We may still arrange for some "adult entertainment" at the track in the near future. We figure that may be the only way to get Damion to hang out longer than 10 mins.
I told Scott to get the liter of Jager…of course the fact that he got the 1/2 gallon doesn’t mean we saved any of it.
AL[/quote]
Al I didn’t know I was so special to you. I’m flattered. Tell you what, Me and you are going to spend some quality time together at Mid Ohio;)
DMoses wrote:
Al I didn’t know I was so special to you. I’m flattered. Tell you what, Me and you are going to spend some quality time together at Mid Ohio;)[/quote]
Damion, “Quality time with Al”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? 
Now, had you said spend some skank time with Al, I would understand.
It was great meeting some of you guys this weekend. I had a blast watching the races, and my car was flawless in DE up until the very last run on Sunday. With about 5 min. left I was coming up the hill into turn 11 and it just completely lost all power with no warning. Luckily I was able to swing into the pits so I would no come to rest on the front straight. The motor was still running as I came down the hill, but nothing when I hit the gas. When I finnaly came to rest it died with one last backfire and won’t restart. I have been able to avoid the fuel pump/starvation issues so far, but I think the fuel pump is the culprit. I was also thinking maybe the coil. Any ideas?
Hope to see you at RRR.
Greg Moberg
Greg, start a new thread, but in the interim, check the DME/Main relay and it’s electrical connections. Maybe even go further upstream from that and check the power on the junction block.
Gasman wrote:
[quote]DMoses wrote:
Al I didn’t know I was so special to you. I’m flattered. Tell you what, Me and you are going to spend some quality time together at Mid Ohio;)[/quote]
Damion, “Quality time with Al”? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Now, had you said spend some skank time with Al, I would understand.[/quote]:evil: cue "the deliverance" music!:woohoo:
Here is Sunday’s race video from a little farther back in the pack…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9162217171241329956&hl=en