Cmp Southern Discomfort-Post a brief synopsis of your weekend. (Page 1 of 4)

#30 e-30ata

The only thing that helped us place as far up as we did was having 0 black flags all weekend.

We put the car together and the only thing we changed strategy wise this year from the SR71 Miata was we would do gas and driver changes on pit lane, last year we did it all in our garage space we ended up 25th back in April and were happy about that.

So we had a goal of 15th this year and by everyone racing us clean and us staying out of trouble and doing 2 hour driver stents .... we ended up 4th!!!

Wanting 15th and ending the race in 4th was just awesome, shocking for us, but awesome.

Like last year we brought lots of food, a keg, some heat and had a great weekend meeting new teams.

Not on your car, that would the weirdest thing ever!

This was the second race for the number 49 riverrat racing 318i.  The little 4 banger held on until about 10 minutes to go on sat and then blew up in the pits so we were out for sunday.  Other than that we had a great time.  Just need to source a new engine for the may race.

rbankracing.com # 911 SAAB 900 Turbo. No black flags! Shredded a front tire Saturday around 2pm. Car wouldn't start after Saturday racing was over. Thought we had fixed the problem over night, but again the car wasn't getting spark Sunday morning and we missed the green flag. Had flat spots on tires midway through Sunday and finished the race with the belts showing through and a big blister where the tread should have been. Terrific racing all around and had a blast all weekend!

Team Top Gear. #78 1995 Nissan Sentra

We started strong on Day 1. Car had great power and handling, but the brakes were very weak. Did a great driver change and fueling at 2 hours. We were half a lap behind the leader. New driver goes out and puts us in the lead. Radios in that it won't go into third. Then that it's now in third but won't come out. We figure out that it's the clutch not disengaging. Brought it in under green to replace, lost a lot of laps and didn't fix anything, something broken in the clutch. Brakes went totally dead after third driver and we swapped under green. Finished the day in an amazing 10th. Car is stuck in third gear on track, starting car in gear to get going.

Went out to get new front rotors and pads all around. Put front brakes on with cheap pads and go to do the rears but they gave us the wrong pad.

Day two we started strong and gained some spots. Gas gauge was showing very low and when the full course yellow came out with 15 minutes to go we decided to pit for a splash and get back out to finish the morning. After we took back off, they threw the yellow! We lost 3 laps there for no reason as they ended the morning session early. Suck! Checked pads during break and fronts were dead again and rear were metal/metal. Reeses driver had already went to Camden that AM to get new rear pads, but they were wrong to so off he goes again. We got it fixed about 12:40 and lost about 30 laps. Those new front pads lasted about 3 hours before we had to put the stock pads that came on the car. Finished the day on those and 16th overall.

Amazing first outting for the car and great showing for our team. I can't say enough about how well rounded our team is. We work great together, we all drive clean, and we all drink a lot. Only down side is we all need to lose about 40 pounds.

You will see our team again, but not likely as Team Top Gear. As with the SVX we will swap up the theme again for every race. Maybe something real witty like a cop car or one solid color with a number on the side.

Team Drinking and Driving, #22, 28th

Saturday - Went off early on the oil slick from the Volvo, then ran pretty clean for a few hours. Third gear exploded, taking out the rest of the trans, so we replaced with a $50 CL trans, and a brake rotor cracked, so we got new ones at NAPA and replaced them. That actually only kept us off the track for an hour, so not too bad. Motor started smoking and using oil, but mostly on decel, so probably just valve seals.

Sunday - Many black flags, mostly driver carelessness, spinning it and driving off track. We were one flag away from being kicked off the track. One of our drivers was having trouble getting used to the brakes and kept going off at the end of the straight. The CL transmission got progressively worse until we could only use 3rd gear for the last 1.5 hours, but we drove it under the checker and it felt great!

#84 Team FusterCluck.

two connecting rods thru the oil pan in the 2nd hour saturday morning.  Trip to Monroe NC for a motor that had more oil on the out side of it than was ever in it.  Then swapping it out until 2 in the morning in sub freezing temp.  Throttle hung up and put Knox into the tire wall sunday.  (scary)Getting the most black flags in the least amount of time for leaking something we couldnt find, sucked. 

Thanks for the Heroic fix Award.  Our team never gave up.  Big thanks to all of you guys that came over to help us.  Thanks Disney for the tech help!!

all this equals a GREAT time with a bunch of GREAT racers!!!

#24 Track Pillagerz!

seriously? we were running a FWD buick. Winning IOE was the shocker of the century to me. someone mentioned we were in the running and i shrugged it off as a joke. Boy was I surprised! Getting to hang out with some more infamous guys from on here was a treat too.

Thanks!

#16 Swede Sixteen Racing - 1985 Volvo 740

Test day track time cut short by a leaky Fuel Pressure Regulator, had to run to Camden to get a replacement.  Car ran great despite the crappy track conditions.

At the end of our first driver's (1.5hr) stint on Saturday, we got a report that the oil light was on.  Brought the car in and had no oil on the dipstick, had to add ~3 quarts.  Probably added a bit too much as when we got back on the track we were laying some serious blue clouds.  Got black flagged for it, went back out, smoke died down.  We went to thicker oil which helped a bit, still had to add a few quarts every driver change.

Sunday started about the same.. got our 2nd black flag for blue smoke after the first driver change but also had to come in for a stuck open throttle.. a bolt holding the throttle assembly in broke off in the intake manifold.  Kept us off the track until lunch.  We were back out there burning oil for the rest of the day, crept up to 24th.

Had a great time.  Lots of good driving out there, very little contact compared to South Fall.  Ran clean other than our mechanical black flags.  Thanks to our neighbors who lent us some gas at the end of the day Saturday, the Duff Beer guys for all the homebrew and the Downforce folks for a good time and some paint-swapping.

ya'll get any video of my spin in front of you guys Sunday morning?

I vote for you guys for "Best use of a Wiper Motor"