Chevy Sprint Turbo to debut at TWS, condition yet unknown (Page 2 of 3)

MTU grads FTMFW!

There's something about blasting down Agate street at 3AM (before there were stop signs) trying to catch air in a 1983 Furd Ranger that makes better drivers out of us all.

...or we were just idiots due to the excessive beer consumption and lack of females.

Yeah... Nothing like doing engine swaps without a hoist. 

What the hell did they do to the Colorado?  I flat towed the Futura on a Uhaul tow dolly nearly 200 miles with mine and its a much heavier car.

Let me start by saying that as I was typing this update, the race car got a flat in rear, and now we are on the side of the road putting one of the race wheels on.  Yes, the Colorado is dead.  This is disappointing because it was my reliable car.  (Also, my weekend car, an 06 miata, got rear ended last week.)

The truck is in Portalis with a trans man but he says the remoteness of the location means they can't get parts until at least Monday.  I don't know what the Hell happened, but it only has 90k miles and the rear end seems to be cooked.

In related news, ill be trying to find a junkyard rear end for the truck while in Texas, so any help there would be appreciated. 

The econoline van... that's a story for another day.  All I know is it will take a while for my bank account to recover from this month.

Are S10 rears interchangeable? This is in college station: http://collegestation.craigslist.org/pt … 26394.html

3.42 ratio?  Car-Part lists one in Houston for $650 with 28k on it.  Wonder if I can fit it in my rental car if I fold the seats down.

Pretty sure the Colorado is completely different from the S10, rear end wise.  My research says it is a Torsen 10 Bolt, same as the Trailblazer/Envoy.  But that won't really help you, since you will need the whole thing out of a similar truck to be able to do a simple swap.

Seeing Sprint Turbos become the E30 of Class C would be like a dream come true.

Well, it all came to an end today.  One of our guys rolled the Sprint.  First time racing, not on the forum (not currently, I don't think).  It was extremely minor; the car tipped more than rolled, and everybody was fine, but when it comes to the "why is my car on its roof" rule, there are no exceptions.  One spectator told me it was the slowest rollover he's ever seen.

The car snap oversteers on lift-off.  It's very sudden and hard to control.  It caught me once earlier in the day; I got into a tank slapper coming out of 9 going into 10 and couldn't recover, ended up sideways on the oval where it crosses the road course.  I was lucky and was able to drive the car back to the penalty box.

The guy who rolled it did the same thing in the same place, but caught a rear tire in the dirt/mud off the pavement, and from what I'm told the car basically just tipped onto its roof.  All but one of our drivers did the same thing in the same place on the track; he was just the least lucky of all of us.  The only damage to the car is a cracked up windshield and a few dents.  The cage is fine and worked perfectly.

This came just after we finally got the motor running the best it had all day.  It still wasn't right, but we weren't hitting fuel cut in the ECU like we were earlier.  The unrestrictive exhaust was allowing the turbo to overboost the car, which maxed out the crappy trap-door MAF in the intake and caused the ECU to cut the fuel whenever we got on it too hard.  We "fixed" it by taking a vicegrips to the exhaust tip and crushing it until the orifice was small enough to restrict flow like a stock exhaust would, at which point the car only boosted to 8-10 lbs like it should and didn't cut out anymore.

Oh well, we got a nice room at the Holiday Inn with a nice warm shower   I'll be bumming around the paddock tomorrow, so if anyone needs an extra wrench hand, let me know...

This is my fear on our current choice of automotive fury.  FWD, short wheel base and light weight. 

Our car is actually starting to shape up.  We did a burn out in the grass yesterday and didn't blow it up.

Hope you guys have a good time Sunday.

b

I heard that if you make a metro-like car have a "rear wheel drive train and more weight in the rear", you.......well, you still have those problems.