Chump Car - John Allen Special USFail1 Race Team Build

[Farbin Kaiber]

Awaiting more gold vinyl!

[dinanm3atl]

Me too! Can't wait for the exterior to be tied together with the addition of the livery.

[Oz10]

Looks like a fun build.

I'm guessing you guys are pretty close to me. I'm in Kennesaw.

Keep up the good work!

[dinanm3atl]

Yup... we wrench in Kennesaw and Alpharetta. You should stop by sometime and meet the team... we love E30s.

[dinanm3atl]

Someone mentioned more gold was needed? A small teaser...


Teaser Livery by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr

[FunfGan]

Racecar stickers :D

[2mAn]

those stickers are worth at least 25hp. that eta will fly now!

[tH16]

looks awesome! can't wait to see more.

[Dj Buttchug]

moarrrrrr

[dinanm3atl]

Tomorrow :)


It looks like we are going to M20B25 swap it...

[dinanm3atl]

Outside of the first build day this was the most exciting day for the team. We were almost at full capacity in terms of team members and even had some extra help from our crew! The first and most important item would be the intermittent no start. This no start had turned into a never start. For a week the team has been assisting via our forum to the owner of the house we work at. Try this. Try this. Try this. Nothing worked.

Today's first mission was the 100% find out why our ETA is not starting. So we got to work. Bentley in hand. Some good sensors. A DVOM and our endless e30 brain power we got to work. We pulled the old pulse reference sensors and they were outside the acceptable range. Replaced them. Crank. Nothing. ECU Swap. Nothing. We started harvesting parts from our running E30s... nothing. So we decided to install Chris' new wheels/tires on his e30. Technica hooked him up with the CR1 and Dunlop Star Specs... then we went back to work. Found out the C104 had been unplugged during our dash removal... Damnit Josh(87shark just FYI) he really tried to screw us there offering up lackluster volunteer work! hahahahahaha

So we were back up and running. Instant fire. The ETA IS ALIVE!




John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 01 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 02 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 04 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 05 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 06 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



Then some goodies arrived and John with MashedUpDesign showed up. I'll let the photos dot he talking. Needless to say while we worked on other things like installing all new ignition system on this engine he got to work!




John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 07 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 08 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 09 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 10 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 11 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



Another batch of parts arrived. This is for our M20B25 swap... stay tuned!



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 03 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



And then it was time for brakes. There was a little meat left on those bones! Not sure we really needed to change them? We have some newer calipers we installed. New rotors all around. We are going with PFC06 pads and their new brake fluid. Should be great for endurance racing!




John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 12 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 13 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 14 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 15 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 16 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



And what we have all been waiting for! This is ~75% of the livery completed. Exactly the look we were going for!



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 17 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 18 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 19 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 20 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 21 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 22 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr





And the crew... kind of an E30 team I guess...



John Allen Special Build Day 5 Technica Motorsports 23 by MotorSportMedia - www.racemsm.com, on Flickr

[FunfGan]

Going awesomely, good luck with the rest of it all! :D

Edit: And I'm still in love with the JPS inspired livery.

[acolella76]

That looks fucking good. So upset I had to leave to get some homo-hipster burgers.

[dinanm3atl]

Sorry bro... maybe next time.

[KenC]

You guys are goin to be pissed after a half day when the sides of your car are all rubbed from other cars.