See you in Buttonwillow... CHEATERS! (Page 1 of 2)

I spend a lot of time in junkyards, and finding decent Bilsteins in a junkyard is sort of like finding a Sex Pistols 8-track in the thrift store. Hardly ever happens, but really makes your day.

Yet, somehow, Lemons racers- particularly those who drive E30s- usually manage to find their local junkyard virtually paved with Bilsteins. Not that we don't believe their stories, mind you, but our BS antennae get much more sensitive when we hear about the alleged junkyard origins of such parts during an inspection.

But show up in a Sephia and we won't even make you stop for inspection- rubber-stamp time!

Okay... Well this car is being well documented and it was purchased with Koni combo... but you won't see this monstrosity until Houston... next year.

(edit: I forgot the vette has the bilsteins... the pontiyota hybrid is all koni)

Fortunately it is wretched enough...

Unfortunately you all won't see it til either late next year or even later. Funding is going into the Fiero.

Way back when I was junkyard cruising for SHO parts and guess what I found? 4 Konis for $100. So it CAN happen, but not very often. BTW, those Konis are on my daily driver. Really.

Wiat?! It won't?

Anyways, I still don't follow the "clean means new" ideal. I am pretty maticulous when it comes to building cars. Not matter how potentially crappy they may be. I like to break everything down and clean it to make sure the pieces are servicable... and yet i have the feeling if I do such a thing to alot of the parts we are using... our team will get knocked for it.

I don't want penalty laps just cause I am a neat freak.

neon freakin pink might do too. Make it so intense it blinds them...

Wait wait wait... doesn't that fine British machine have a V12? Everyone knows you can't get an XJ-S for less than 10 grand! 5,000 penalty laps! 10,000! We're going for the record!

I guess we just have to hope during out testing that it will get dirty enough to warrant overlooking. Probably not though...

*preps to bring alot of 'gifts' for the judges*

side note: The nested quotes are an irritation. Any chance the webmaster can fix that? It should be an option.

Uh huh... they'll knock you for it.

... and another inequity is that one car may get a $200 valuation when a second, identical (or even worse shape) car gets $499.99.  As you can see, I'm not a huge fan of the residual value rule.  You either have a $500 crap-can race car or you don't.

hehe....my sorted e30 is a 1986, 325e, saloon, automatic. Our team is sticking to the $500 rule. Stafford was our first race and the BS judging really seemed odd - too easily passed. We had real documentation. We picked the car because it was a saloon and had more stuff to sell from it. Our BS experience with Jay has him only concerned with the differential as we cleaned it to try to get the speedo working. Jay never lifted to hood. He did start out saying "Oh, here we go, the first E30" with a negative twang. But we had the docs at $507 and got 1 lap penalty.

But my concern is the residual. Is this a favorites scheme? I can easily see that it is and will be abused. I do agree that our car will get better as time goes on if we can keep it running. It really should not be the case that a crap can can with more races become a more solid race car. Our car took some damage and $100 seemed fair but maybe it was too generous.