OK, so we bought this 928 for $250, and we're racing it (Page 4 of 6)

We're looking at ~1400lb...why are your cars so heavy

Just weld up the diff... no more "one tire fire".. I'm thinkin about that for my Lex.

If there is any doubt who is the expert on shitty, $500 cars, there is now no doubt.

I think they just price 'em at $250 per faulty head gasket

It wasn't 'til after the trip into the local tractor hydraulic store in Willows and the subsequent repair at the track that someone mentioned that the car had gone 4 laps, then I realized that the car failed in turn 2.  I did the math, yep, about 4.3 laps.  The man's a sage...         We sorta pissed off the rest of the people at the track day-   First we oiled down the track from the straight before turn 2 through turn 3 with 1.5 gallons of ATF..  The track's auto cleaning machine was inop, so it had to be cleaned up by hand (Yeah, we got a pile of heartache from the track personnel), that was a 30 minute delay..   While I was at the tractor store, trying to decide between a sweet used tomato harvester and 3 feet of -6 pressure hose, I got a call from the track,   the V8olvo just blew out its speedo drive gear and oiled down a different part of the track, you guessed it: another long clean up and more anger directed at our team...     So, with hose, an expanding rubber plug for the T-5 and a case of  ATF, I headed back to the track.  Sitting as low in my truck as possible I drove by all of the drivers standing by their idle racecars, as track cleanup was still in progress.  Repairs made we hit the track with a vengeance.   We found out that the car sounds like ass, the fartcan exhaust is too restrictive and it has the plugged up hissing sound, very uncool. We had over-lowered the front and the car was running on the bump stops, It seems that we'd been over aggressive on cutting the springs.  Bang, Crash, boom.   The suspension was bottoming out... Yikes!  Fortunately, we'd freed up the corroded adjusters and we raised it up to where is started working.    The car ran flawlessly the rest of the day...   Turning a 2:14 flat, with Dean from the V8olvo team driving.   

   The Killer Bee MGB was there and it ran without a hitch all day, and the V8olvo had huge handling issues, They'd cut the rear springs to lower it and make it handle better and it got WAY worse.  With no money in the budget and no way to make them longer, it seems that it'll have to stay that way, they're hoping that a switch to Falken Tires will help.  The Hancooks that were on the car were dead from running 4 races and are no longer available. 

    So, it looks as if the Kraut-Mobile may make it...

Odd slip.  "728" is the union local number of hollywood electricians.  ooooooo  erie....

"Flawlessly"  is not quite true.   There are a bunch of leaks we were chasing.  Pretty much every seal on the front of the engine is seeping.  The filler neck/oil separator was loose and has a bad o-ring.   The engine valley was filled with boiling oil.     

    We will have to buy about $45 worth of seals/o-rings/gaskets to keep it from turning into 928 flambe' during the race.   Unfortunately, the repair means taking apart the front of the motor, including the timing belt and oil pump...  Less time to work on our theme...  This car has used up more man-hours than the building of Hoover Dam   

  We still have room in the budget!

Ask and thou shall receive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qptfVecjKwc

yes we had some "issues".......but Richard Wolff and I were able to get some quality lap time in....we would have been out longer if the worn stock brake pads weren't down to backing plates

The most important trackside accessory for our team in Houston a couple weeks ago turned out to be the huge bags of oil dry that I picked up on sale at Northern Tool a few days before and threw in the trailer mostly for ballast. So go back to the tractor store and get that used tomato harvester, and some oil dry. Good luck!

Fast, leaky 928?  Probable rain?  We are doomed!

Please get in-car video, with microphone placed for optimum engine noise.