Cheating bar raised at CMP (Page 2 of 17)

Were you the Burgundy or the White Taurus?

I almost rear ended you guys on Sunday in T12 because you picked your left rear tire up what seemed to be a foot in the air.  I had seen VW's do it but not a freakin' Taurus!!!  I kinda stared at it for a second and then was like SHIT, I gotta keep driving!

Hey Mark! So who was in the white SHO? Did they drop out with 3 hours to go? It's fun racin crap cans.

My muscle memory/vision memory/speed index for CMP is in a C5 Z06 running Hoosier A6's. 

When I threw the SHO into the 1st corner at race speed, I went 4 off.  LOL.  Wow this thing doesn't turn.  Been awhile since I was in a SHO saddle

the white SHO was team CMP.  they were really fast up till they blew up.  talked to the guy who set the car up, nice guy

yeah we lost a lot of time rotating tires.  left front edge was taking a beating.  even with the decent neg camber, it really chews on the edges.  I guess we'll just crank in even more camber if we do it again.

overheated/rad according to the guy who built the car

I sent you an email last Monday but never heard back.

don't know either, but did you listen to that motor and see how hard that barge would pull in a straight line?  I think yates was testing the next gen Ford Cup engine in that thing

Loren wrote :

<<<I got a kick out of the class-winning Saab that got towed home Saturday night (we followed it as we were going out for dinner) and apparently received turbocharged power for Sunday that it didn't have Saturday.  If that rumor is true... now THAT is cheating!>>>

Loren,

I find your comment about Miss Piggy rather entertaining...wish you'd have followed us back to Greenville to help fix her.

Our car is a turbo 900 which is exactly the way it was at tech.  Once we fixed the injection problem found on Friday afternoon (by driving back to Greenville for and returning at midnight), our car actually made a few horsepower.  Unfortunately we then discovered once racing started on Saturday morning that the clutch was slipping.  Our first pit stop confirmed we were losing tranny oil.  I ran my entire first session almost exclusively in 3rd gear to minimize clutch action and had to feather foot it.  The rest of the team did the same.

Mid afternoon we blew a coolant hose.  My daughter saw the gauge going up and came in saving the motor.  We did a field fix and I took it out for final hour or so.  For reasons unknown, maybe the hot water bath helped, the clutch hooked up and I started to hammer it.

We suspected a failed clutch shaft seal and towed home to use whatever we had at home to fix it...note we did not have a seal.  Pulling it apart, starting at 10:30, we found the moron that previously owned this car changed the clutch, couldn't get the seal out, and trashed the old one trying.  So we had no seal.  Perhaps this explains why we went thru 6 quarts of oil in the gearbox on Saturday, adding at least 1 qt. on every stop.  With no seal we used seal rope for packing inboard motor prop shaft and rudder stuffing boxes plus RTV to fill the seal area then put a large washer behind the slave cylinder to cover it.  Work complete at 2:30 AM.  Up at 5 to drive back & make driver's meeting.

Most of the first session on Sunday it was OK, late in that round a slip slip started again.  By afternoon it slipped at anything over half throttle.  Unless the previous owner hot rodder this car, it is stock, still with the original Sachs shocks on it.

Our hose failure was one of the examples of something I didn't change because we spent as little as possible on this heap, as I truly enjoy the Lemons philosophy of keeping it under $500.  If you or anyone else thought we were cheating after overnight work, you should have stuck you head under our hood.  I'd happily show anyone any part of our car.  Heck I'd give rides and show how low our boost actually is!

Perhaps you didn't notice, but I made a lot of my time in the traffic and corners, we had fantastic brakes and good handling.  In spite of too little sleep and too many car problems we had a really good time and will be back next Spring...with a new clutch seal...10 quarts of oil went thru the box by the end of the weekend.

Still under $500 after buying so much oil.

Cheers,

Ken
Team Captain Car 900
Koenigspigg 900 Turbo

Sorry, Ken.  Rumors are a vicious thing!  Truth be told, I was too busy watching our car (until it blew up) and the other Tampa area teams (we have a bet with them), I didn't watch your car much, just heard some people comment on how much faster it was Sunday... and one of my team members (a Saab guy) insisted that you'd added a turbo where one wasn't before.  Can't believe everything you hear in the peanut gallery, I guess.  Thanks for putting the rumors to bed.

We'd have followed you back to help fix it, but... uh... we were hungry!  That Mexican joint in Lugoff is awesome!

I for one REALLY enjoyed seeing the Sweede lil Pigs on track!!  All of your drivers were giving all your poor little car coupld muster through every turn! I was very thankful that you all realized that you were limping your car around teh track and kept your eyes on the mirrors and were very fast to let people by. I never had to "tango" with you to get around.

Thanks for the clean racing and hope to see you all out there again!!

LMnsROOkie....See you at Miller in a few weeks?  Since we are all honest and at full disclosure, how much input did the mighty and legendary Bill Riley have in the construction on the #91?  Inquiring minds want to know! 

I think your shock work on the Probe was sheer genius.  Your mistake was in the execution.  Too professional!  Slap a bolt in that hole that you drilled instead of a schrader valve and call it a day.  Would prevent gas-charging them, but... this is Lemons, after all.

I'm really surprised that more Lemons racers don't change shock oil as an alternative to replacing shocks, or running on ineffective shocks.  I've never done it, but I know people who have.  It's certainly simple enough, and the theory behind using heavier oil is sound.