Dusterbd13 wrote: In reply to java230: If you ain't gonna buy it, can I get a link so I can?
Added up the finds it would really require to get it going. I was looking ~8k, could be done less I think through.
Don't have that kinda budget right now, so here you go. http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/snw/4961035124.html
Hope you actually do get it. Sorry for the hijack Kevin!
My wife is probably happy it's on the exact opposite end of the country.
Kevin, thanks for inspiring guys like us. Someday I hope to be as cool as you. And pick your brain for setup tips.
I'm sitting here smelling like gasoline and you might think I was working on the race car fuel cell but surprise (to me) the motor-home refuses to start and it looks like the fuel pump is bad.
So I'm not working on the race car fuel cell but spring is here and I need do to that.
But for now I did just manage to get the drain plug on the motor-home fuel tank free. Now to drain 55 gallons of fuel so I can drop the tank.
For the most part I hate working on cars that are not the race car but I'm sure I'll save at least $1000 doing it myself given the towing charge on top of the parts and labor. I need the motor-home since that is where we live during the race weekends. Not to mention it is usually to tow vehicle.
In reply to KevinGale:
I completely understand the desire not to work any thing other than the racer. I have my daily driver needing a complete exhaust system replaced and I look at it and say "It doesn't sound that loud and walk away." 
I keep thinking an IMCA modified would make a killer autocross car or a Late Model with a mod body so a guy could see the front tires and the cones. Can pick up a newish roller of either around here for 5 to 10K a turn key car for 15 to 25 thousand depending on engine and how close to the front it ran in it's natural habitat.
I have zero experience in autocross so wouldn't really know. People have told me however that my modified probably wouldn't make a good autocross car because it is just too wide.
Modifides are very nimble, but you already know that 
Way to big for a SOLO car. I run my Mustang which just about the right wheel base. Some guys run old open wheel road race cars like Formula V and others of similar size.
I've always had visions of mowing down a forest of cones. I'm used to avoiding trees, rocks, ditches, 1000' drop offs. I'm not sure I would have enough respect for the cones to slow down. :-)
In reply to KevinGale:
Well said sir
Finally getting around to pulling the fuel cell to fix that fuel pick up problem.
I have a another bladder for the cell I bought off a modified racer. For his purposes it was out of date. Our series doesn't have date limits on fuel cell bladders so it is good for me. It's newer than the one it is replacing and it should one way or another fix my fuel pick up problems.
You can also see in this picture one of the modifications I've done to the car from it's circle track days. The fuel cell is normally all the way over to the left but I've moved it to the right.
How much gas do you usually go through in a weekend?
Of course it depends on the course and the number of runs. But I usually allow about a gallon a run up a NEHA hill. Most of the time I think it is using less than that but it gives me a safety margin. So maybe 10 gallons running the hill on a weekend where we get 4 runs and a fam each day. Then another bit for driving around to staging, going to tech. Probably less than 15 gallons on a big weekend. Most of the time I don't even take all the runs so it might be 10 gallons or less many events. The cell holds 22 gallons. For Washington I just filled it up and ran the whole event without adding any fuel.
When I got the old bladder out I found that the crash at Washington on the last day had twisted the foam in the cell about 90 degrees lifting the pickup with it. So the rest of last year I was filling the cell so I had 14 gallons I could use before it would "run out" with 8 gallons left in the cell. So the car will be a bit lighter this year since I won't have to lug around the extra fuel all the time.
KevinGale wrote: I've always had visions of mowing down a forest of cones. I'm used to avoiding trees, rocks, ditches, 1000' drop offs. I'm not sure I would have enough respect for the cones to slow down. :-)
Hey I have the same thoughts of mowing them down. In fact I do once in awhile. Not very good for my times, but what the hell! 
Fuel cell is back in and it runs. Still need to put the rest of the body work back on and decide if I am buying and mounting tires this week. First event is next weekend at Mt Ascutney.
KevinGale wrote: Fuel cell is back in and it runs. Still need to put the rest of the body work back on and decide if I am buying and mounting tires this week. First event is next weekend at Mt Ascutney.
Good Luck, post video if you get any. 
Fresh Rubber!
That is one hell of a contact patch, Light em up
Updated speed calc with the new rears. The size of the rear tires changes slightly each time I get them.
The two gear sets are the two I use for most of the hills. The 5.04s are Ascutney and Philo and the 3.93 gears are Okemo. Burke can use either. I launch in 2nd gear with the 5.04s.
The blue is sort of the sweet spot between hitting 500 ft/lbs to when it drops below 500 hp. Although it pulls just fine down to 2000 rpm in any gear. I ran the 5.04 gears at Washington and the whole hill was 4th gear. I never needed to shift.
If you look at the picture of the new tires above you will see one tire that is concave instead of convex. Probably something to do with how it was stored in the stack of tires. But it gave me fits. It wouldn't bead up once it was on the rim because both sides were this way and just wouldn't reach the raised sections of the wheel. I finally used the old trick of lighter fluid and a lighter. One loud bang and some flames and it was mounted. I still have my eyebrows so I guess I did OK for my first time using this trick.
Stang_guy03 wrote:KevinGale wrote: Fuel cell is back in and it runs. Still need to put the rest of the body work back on and decide if I am buying and mounting tires this week. First event is next weekend at Mt Ascutney.Good Luck, post video if you get any.
Bad luck on the video. Someone (yeah it was me) forgot to pack the GoPro.
But other that that it was a great event. A little rain Sat morning but the rest of the weekend was great. My friend Luke Moultrop is getting faster and faster in his "Howe Mod Heavy" (the Heavy was a play on Sherman Baumanns' "Mod Lite").
Luke pushed me a bit. I probably would have been happy with my 2:46 for but Luke was right behind me so I took the last run of the day and pushed a bit harder and got down to a 2:43. For reference that is about the fastest any two wheel drive car has gone up Ascutney in the last 20 years. I say 20 years because there are rumors of formula cars doing it faster before that. I haven't see those rumored fast times and in any case the pavement was probably much better back then. There is also the fact that those cars wouldn't even be legal today since they had about as much structure as a beer can.
And finally credit to Paul Tingaud for the event win in his AWD, Alcohol burning, Super Chicken, mad machine. It is for sale if anyone is interested in a car that wins events and holds hill records.
Super Chicken 237
Here is my the car loaded and ready to leave for the event. And it came back the same way, in one piece!
Oh and I achieved a new low on shifting. At Ascutney I run the 5.04 rear gears which usually means I launch in 2nd then shift up to 3rd then 4th where I leave it for the rest of the run. But even with the new sticker tires I was really burning up the tires at launch. So I decided to try 3rd gear. I found out that at Ascutney at least the car launches even better in 3rd. Less tire spin and I don't have to immediately shift. So now I am launching in 3rd and shifting once to 4th.
Sunday overall results:
KevinGale wrote: Sunday overall results:
i would like to see this "audi super chicken"
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