Temp- 33 F..... Fucks given- 0 . We are going racing
People talk about addiction , well this is mine.
It's cold, windy and just generally miserable but when i hear that engine crack to life nothing else matters. I know we are going to war for the next 5 hours against the best drivers and pit crews for a 200 mile radius. Best part is? We are advertising steem and steemit.com on top of everything else.
Today we are loading up and traveling 2 hours south to Humboldt KS. This is a 3/8 mile clay oval track. Average speeds around it are in the high 80's to low 90's while turning...... on dirt. I am quickly writing this in the truck. When we arive we will fire this monster up. There is nothing like the smell of the burnt off fuel making your eyes water and the way a freshly put togeather motor smells as it breaks in. It is amazing what you pick up on with years of experience. Watching a car back out of a spot and seeing how much camber / caster he has when he turned the steering wheel. To the trained eye the cars movement reveals all the secrets that they covered with tarps to prevent prying eyes.
I may update this post throughout the night depending on how much work we have to put in between hot laps / heat races / and features. Wish us luck.
Update 1 : I can already tell i am going to like it here. This is the sign on the front gate.
Passing for first in our heat race and the guy came down into us and snapped the right front spindle
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Bought one from a guy and set the front end back up. Bad news is we gotta start dead last for the feature race. We can only go forward from here.
Last update. We ended up with 10th i believe . We have to do better next time. No excuses. We will take the whole right front apart and check for anything bent. Till next week .
:)
You should use the tags #promo-steemit & #promo-steem for these posts :p
Done
I need to get better at this tagging stuff. Is there a good list of tags somewhere? I ussually look through the list over on the left side of steemit and try and pick out relevant ones.
Is there going to be some video coming?
I will try to get one . I will upload it in the morning.
i was recording and my phone died. I will make sure it is charged next week.
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looks fun as hell!
Oh it is. Right up untill the front got knocked off lol. We will be back better and stronger next week.
LOL
gotta fix it to break it again.
:D
im jelous, gotta be a blast!
Oh yes. I just wish we would hsve done better in the feature race. Getting through traffic is rough.
:D
we were talking about it on the way home and we are going to prep the tires differently next race. we tried something new and it was not as good as what we were doing last year.
i didnt realize you prepped tires for oval track, thought that was just something people did for drag racing.
i never drove on a track (go cart track i dont count) before so no clue about any of that stuff.
Oh yeah, we do a ton of tire prep ussually. we slipped up or just got lazy today. we should have stuck to our normal routine. i will ussually spend about 45 minutes to an hour per tire grinding, grooving, siping and needling it. I made a post about it when i first got on here a while back if you want to check it out here
There is a video in there at the bottom where we made our tire machine for an entry to win a high dollar tire machine that shows our tire machine i made out of a treadmill. :)
we did not win but i love our invention. cuts about 15 to 20 minutes off of prep time per tire.
It works like a charm and everyone at the track loves it. Great conversation piece.
Good luck out there ! P.S. remember you are having fun.
Looks like I miss this one. Good to see yous guys started racing already. I like these kind of post.
I am trying to find a video of our heat race. Now that we got it home we found a bent shock on right front and right rear . That would explain why we sucked in the feature race.
Yes that would not be good
yeah we went form passing for the lead in the heat race, to broken, to sucking in the feature. all the bent shit would explain a lot. That is why we are so agressive with maintenance though. run the shocks on the dyno m check range of motion on everything, if it don't move right, fix it.
Yes sounds like fun to me haha
The car was bad fast in the heat race till we broke. There is a video somewhere because someone called my brother in law and asked him what happened. he said he seen it on a video so i am trying to track it down. I was not a happy camper when it got ran over.
Yes it would be nice to see the video