racing this weekend at lemons at NHIS

[mach schnell]

Nice work, brother. Bet you had fun!

[M-technik-3]

Yup car goes on a diet ie take out more glass and skin the doors, put some proper springs on it. Remove factory exhaust and put in a new muffler, gut cat out. Add 5 speed and an electric fan since we had no fan of any type for cooling, because the ac fan was working intermittently.

Have a 5 speed set up will need a flywheel and clutch though.

[n0m4d]

You had considerable more hp than we did. How many races have you guys done?

Many thanks to our camp neighbors they helped us out in two jams with parts.

They finished third overall. 133 entries, we were told 120 makes me happy to know that since it was our first event we can't complain at all.

We have done 7 races with that car and its coming apart at the seams. I bought it with 260k on the clock and it was too rusty to pass inspection. What we didn't know was in a distant past life it had been in a serious accident and a new front clip was grafted on. Between many winters and our abusive driving it's ripping itself apart so this was its final event.

The engine is pretty tired also the rear suspension is super sloppy. The car shakes wildly when applying the brakes due to the extreme camber and a little toe forcing the wheels to dive into the center of the car when under force.

I heard Jay mention 133 entries but it's likely that there were 13 less starting Saturday due to no-shows or cars that died on Friday.

In any case, I hope we were well behaved while on the track with you. We try to balance between holding a decent racing line and carefully passing/getting passed. I found it hard Saturday to hold any kind of line as some of more powerful cars tended to bully their way into my apex. Sunday seemed a little better.

That green BMW was FAST. I'm thinking that wasn't a M42 under the hood.

[M-technik-3]

They are hybrid powered m5x something. Wouldn't tell me what displacement they were. They have done 12 events. We will be back come spring

[FredK]

haha, awesome! I bet a full diet, a manual trans swap and a medium case 3.91 would make that 318is scream.

[cheapthrills]

I really need to drive in a LeMons race. 120 cars at NHMS must have meant 3 wide the entire time. I would have gone to this race as a spectator but I ran with NASA at NJMP instead.

[M-technik-3]

It was a great time weather held out and was a gorgeous weekend. The fact that we didn't have to wrench on the car at all on Friday nor Saturday made it even better.

Till the mounts sheared.

[M-technik-3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xowINE_aug&feature=youtu.be

these guys were hilarious

[M-technik-3]

Not recommended to have mounts that look like this.


Pathetic team doing some installation work.

Sunday morning with a hangover, No comments. I could be most of your Dad's age.

Just trucking along.

[M-technik-3]

http://fastfotos.zenfolio.com/p1071661793/h5ae83916#h5af01f96

[M-technik-3]

5 days to go!! Whose coming to NHIS 11-12 of May. We will be in the garages this year about 6 stalls down from Lemons HQ.

Let the craziness begin.

[n0m4d]

We will be in Center Garage stall #25 about zero stalls down from BBQ HQ! Bringing 100lbs of meat for Pork and Chicken tacos tonight. Look for the lemonade stand and the smokah.

[M-technik-3]

Got your engine you guys have cherry picker