Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by last night’s tragedy at the MDR California 200.
We’ve made a small donation to Fast Aid, which was established to help racers and fans in situations like this. If you have anything you can spare, it will be greatly appreciated.
No oil spewing all over everything = “success”
At the Fallon 250 desert night race, where we finished last because I’m an idiot, we had a problem with an oil leak that required us to add a quart of oil every 40 mile loop of the course. In a regular car, that’s reason enough to pull the car over and call the mechanic, but this is racing and you just put more oil in until you finish the race or the big red light comes on and stays on. We opted for the former.
Anyway, so now it’s two weeks later and we got under the car and figured out that the majority of the leak came from a failed valve cover gasket. Richard and Scott swapped it out for a new one and then Crusty (seen in the above video) followed out with swapping out our yellow rubber oil lines with braided steel ones. Much stronger and they look cooler, too.
Probably tomorrow I’ll get the new radio mast from Skid and we’ll see what kind of range we can get between the car and the pit radio.
Three weeks to the Hawthorne 250.
Crusty and Scott, hauling the mail at the Fallon 250.
This is a screen capture from the Bower Media coverage of the Fallon 250. Many thanks to Two Larrys & A Megan Racing for bringing this to my attention.
Here’s their video of the race. The good stuff happens 41 seconds in:
Everyone uses their gas bbq grill as a mobile work bench, right?
I pulled everything out of 1107 Sunday and started cataloging what needs to be done to prep for the Hawthorne 250. Main things are fixing the oil leak (probably a big deal), replacing the brake fluid reservoir (it leaked everywhere and we had very little brake pressure), checking the wiring on our transponder and installing a replacement spare (Scott and I really taco’d one on the last lap of the Fallon 250 night race).
Who are you people?!
For a while there, iPhone downloads had a slight lead but for whatever reason, Android downloads have gone through the roof. Here’s a special shout out to whomever is following us from Campina Grande, Brazil.
Team meeting tomorrow night at Bob’s place. Something interesting might come of it.
