How about Tempe, tonight at 8pm
F1 Race Factory.

 

Wheres my Happy Meal?
You lost.

 

first time on that track, in a kart horribly too small for me, and a 100lbs heavier than anyone else out there. What did ya expect? Honestly, if I beat you, you would have killed yourself.

 

...the toy (snicker).

To some people that's more important!

 

^Damn straight.

I didn't blow any welds on the go-karts intake but Erick broke his axle when his Nawzz was too powerful

 

Geeze Erick, you couldn't live with smoking poor Dave and had to spray too? Talk about adding insult to injury!

 

I was using laughing gas too, but it was from the chicken tenders and diet Coke.

 

Eeeeewwwww!

 

Ok...ok...enough with the bantering. Who won? Results please

 

Ahh, we never got head to head. We were all split up.

 

Sounds like a rematch is needed.

Maybe the timing will be better for me, if there is a next time...

 

it was a drive for me as well. I'm at Central and Bell

They split us up so we never got to race head-to-head. Me and Erick did, tho.

And there was this one girl who was taking the last hairpin flatout. She had some ***** and/or her kart had some serious traction. And this one guy apparently had the turbocharged gokart because he was at least 60lbs heavier than Jeff but he would pass him on the straights! He had a good kart.

My karts front end pushed all over the place. Even with my *stragetically placed ballast* the rearend of my kart was squrilley. And I had no brakes, and was sitting ON TOP of the seat! It would fun if they had a larger framed kart.

Anytime you old farts want to go road race some crotch rockets, I'm game. The outcome may be different then

 

Abbid, I am open to caravaning down there!

It doesn't matter if you have brakes or not, if you use them, they flag you for riding the brakes!

It would be nice to prep the cars a little before using them. It is pretty obvious some are better than others. I want to take the tires out and leave them in the sun for a while. Or maybe a hand torch would warm then up a little.

Maybe hiding a little NOS under your armpit is a good idea too... just enough to get a good launch out of a corner.

 

Solo event at Firebird Sunday, all the head to head competition you want

 

Good to see you around here Chops. How's your racing these days??

 

It's always good! (Albeit occasionally frustrating) Nothing like legally being able to flog the **** out of a vehicle

Anyone thinking about heading out to the next Solo Event at FIR? (9/16/07)

 

Well I made it to Sunny and COOL California. (85 degrees)They have a 'puter in the lobby of the hotel so I thought I would take advantage of it.
Got me a Chrysler 300 with a Hemi and this thing is FAST.

 

Been putting around scenic Smithfield, Utah for the last 4 days. Only low 90's here and low 60's at night.
The altitude is playing with my mind as it has dropped the idle vacuum (as reported on my E-01) into the 40 kPa range. Normal is nearly 60 kPa. There is a 4 in/Hg difference between Phoenix and Logan/Smithfield and that should account for the 20 kPa difference. I spend almost all of my time in boost around the hills. Car is running fine, but I ran out of Idemitsu, so I will have to use Chevron 2-cycle for the trip home. I didn't think the trip around the Grand and Bryce canyons was going to eat so much gas, but it did amount to 17 hours of driving.
The trip home tomorrow should only be 11 or 12 hours. Over 1700 miles on the car in less than a week. I haven't driven that much since I moved to Phoenix from DC and put 2700 miles on in 37 hours.

 

Wishing you both safe travels back home (Easy & Maniac). Nice temps Easy; it's a mere 113 here today. WTF!

Chops - do you have to have experience or anything to go to that event? I always worry about getting cone smudge marks on my car. I've never tracked it...

 

Hope you made it back in one piece, Jeff. I need a vacation soon, too. Hopefully I can make SSX.

Chevron 2-stroke, say it ain't so!!

we had a pretty productive mod meeton Saturday at Tonys. Two sets of springs, one on an 8 and an a 6, Scotts rad, Karls short shifter (well, he did himself in 4 seconds), and Todd changed his oil.

I think we set a record for doing springs on a 6- only 30 minuets. We were flyin'

I haven't done anything to my car in a while now- I'm itching to buy something.

Jeff- you'll help me install the Mazsport Type-3 kit, won't ya?

 

Yeah, it was short, but it was fun putting nearly 2k miles on the car in a long weekend.

Unfortunately, you gotta do what you gotta do. There were sections of the trip is was continuously in boost for minutes on end. I wasn't going to do that with no pre-mix!

What? Like a tank of gas?

 

hardy har har

 

As far as Pre-mixing goes, it's kinda hard to do from over here. I know the wife has filled the car up at least once since I've been gone.
I suppose it'll survive till I get back tomorrow.

 

She's probably making carbon (not friction), anyway.
Hot as hell this week.

 

Yeah, I feel for you Eric. The Odyssey is in for a new transmission (talk about famous replacements, it's not just Mazda) and the wife will be driving the 8 through Friday.

I am grounded! Transportation free! Who knows what is happening to the 8! Ack!

At least she doesn't drive during rush hour...