Rainy Saturday's car work
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:37 pm
Hi Guys,
When I saw the rainy weather on Saturday afternoon, I decided to catch up on some more car prep work. I ended up working on a total of thirteen cars before closing shop at around 11:00 PM. Here's a shot of the cars:
Do you see all thirteen? No? Well count the six Porsches in. After Luke and Steve had balanced the magnets last week, it was so late that there was no time to re-solder the motor leads and put on the bodies, so I started off my work with them. After that I worked on the seven cars on the workbench. Here's what I did on each car (L to R):
Gordon
When I saw the rainy weather on Saturday afternoon, I decided to catch up on some more car prep work. I ended up working on a total of thirteen cars before closing shop at around 11:00 PM. Here's a shot of the cars:
Do you see all thirteen? No? Well count the six Porsches in. After Luke and Steve had balanced the magnets last week, it was so late that there was no time to re-solder the motor leads and put on the bodies, so I started off my work with them. After that I worked on the seven cars on the workbench. Here's what I did on each car (L to R):
- Ford Mk IV - minor undisclosed work.
- Chaparral 2E - Re-located the stock magnet, installed Scaley F1 chip and added some weight to front.
- Ford Escort - Removed body and looked real hard at the motor, but had nothing to improve it with so just closed it back up.
- Triumph TR4A - Replaced F1 chip with new one in hopes of fixing inability to change lanes.
- Ford Focus WRC - Chipping this with an F1 chip took the majority of the time, but its finally ready to hit the track for testing. The first rally for our Rally Class is coming soon! Do you have a contender as yet?
- Subaru Impreza WRC - Did basically the same thing I did with the Escort, just looked at a different part of the car, removed it, reinstalled it then closed it back up without making any changes.
- Ferrari F430 - Fixed the broken motor mount in preparation for the serious competition now prevalent in our GT class.
Gordon
), I just had to race so I set up about 30' of track in the living room. Njeri (Mercedes-Petronas) and I (Mercedes-McLaren) had a great time dicing (Both cars stock except for rear tires) against the Scuderia Teelucksingh Ferrari that I set to run as a randomly lane-changing pace car. Then my nephew showed up, grabbed the other Mercedes-McLaren, and it was on! I actually limited power to 33% for our cars and 50% for the pace car on the 6-car Advanced Power Base to minimize damage, yet the racing was pretty furious and exciting! 
You got me GG. But after pumping out the over-filled pool 3 times, sandbagging the front door, and dealing with an over-saturated septic field, I'm quite willing to refer to her most respectfully as "Mistress Deborah, ma'am" !!! 