Kurrent "K" Kar Komitments (Page 4 of 14)

This was your effing idea to begin with, sadist!!!1!

Here's our plan.  5 races w/ 4 2.2l engines and 5-6 races w/ one 3.0l engine.  It's getting another 3.0l.  Not a rebuild as we now know old & new parts don't get along on this platform.  Fuel delivery probs?  CARB IT!  Charging system issues (ECU apparently is the alt's volt meter)?  CARB IT and stick a normal ALT on the beast.  Front CV axle issues?  Don't DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT... raise that bitch back up!!!1!  All our suspension gurus have dropped it so low in front that the cv/axle geometry is WACK.  We, at NSFIRHQ, are going to un-WACK that shit.

Rally Baby is going to pay for all of this and we'll ship it northward.  Otherwise we hold it hostage and ship it to Sonoma for the year-ender.  All will be at peace in the universe and someone will finally win that effing IOE.

Hate the car, believe in the program.  K-it FWD my brothers.

btw, I've towed this car something like 8,000 miles and I'm done with being a mule.  We'll need a little help with two journeys.  Florida to PA and PA-ish to Wisconsin for Road America.  Speak up and earn your K-it FWD patch.

The bar for this car to win the IOE is now set pretty low, but it still needs to get close to the top half of the standings. And it needs glitter.

Did they make a carbed version of the 3.0L? It would probably solve, or at least reduce, the fuel and electrical issues...

Seems like you got 5-6 races out of it and tons of street time with it fuel injected, so carbed must be able to deliver 10-12 races out of one engine!  C'mon!!

Mike, as much as I hate working on this damned car (why does it keep coming back to me???!?) I still think the best bet for Rally Baby is that we do the work early and work to get you the car as opposed to getting the still eff'd car to you a few days before NHMS for you to deal with.  Based on the community resources and responses these are the two alternatives.  The last thing we want is to work on this heap and have you boys fail at NH.  Bad for you, bad for us.

Should retrieve it from points Gulf on Tuesday; looking to have a replacement engine this weekend.

Rocket Surgery will be taking the Checker to Sears from Denver. I'll help drive the K if it shows up in Denver in time to join the caravan. I'll even put a heater in it, if none exists at that point.

Now that Anton is involved, I feel much more confident about the K making it.

So it's gonna have a carb and a 1-wire alternator? There's hope yet!
Don't forget the 5psi fuel pressure regulator.

This is still the dumbest idea ever, pretty much. :-)

Such a thing as a HEI type ditsy for the 3.0???!?

So I need to know where it's going to be after RA and if it still has title/tags for street driving.

I was thinking possibly about driving it back to CA right after the RA event, but that's probably ambitious. If it is going to live somewhere within a few hours of RA, then I can figure out where I need to fly to to pick it up and start the trek across country.

It's still tagged & titled.  Anton, you need to coordinate w/ Mike Tayor and Phil on this.  It would be a fantastic adventure and a solid bit of logistics fixin for you & Sofie to roll the K westward, but Mike and Phil also signaled a strong interest in doing the same.