Scrotium? Who's going? (Page 3 of 4)

What Honda motor? What do you need? I have a shop full of various Honda bits and am close to Road Atlanta....

Never mind. eBay sale fell through because interwebs.

OLPD and Turbo Schnitzel will both be there.

I think OLPD is going to run on the test day too, so we'll probably get a bunch of laps in on Friday ...and then the motor will grenade all by its lonesome Saturday AM before the green.

I hope we're all planning to give extra space on this one.

Love you mean it.

Sad to say but Pro Crash Duh Nation and the #26 Black Alfa is out of this one. I withdrew our team a few days ago. The Dually tow vehicles motor is still apart and some other issues are keeping us from this bucket list race / track. It sucks.

I've towed down to Sebring Florida from New York to race a few times before in the winter and there is something everyone should be aware of.

Its real easy for your water filled motor to freeze up and crack the block on the way south. Do yourself a big favor and take the water out and put in some antifreeze. Bring along some jugs to swap out the antifreeze with water at the track. Ask me how I know this.....

The interwebs says the average temperatures at Road Atlanta for the weekend is 55 /34 and there's the potential for overnight temps going to as low as 28 degrees so bring some antifreeze.

Good luck guys and have a great time. I thought about doing an arrive and drive but I really wanted to be driving Angelina.

Wish I was there.

Greg

The car runs now.  I put in a plug in block heater to try to keep it from freezing up at night.

The plan is to leave tomorrow when Chrissy gets home from work, probably around 4:30, then head out down 81 and see how far we can get before we get too tired.

I need help. 

How would I get a hold of Jay or a decision making individual for the Road Atlanta race.  Thinking of diverting from our plan of WRL this weekend in Virginia to  Road Atlanta.   Currently in Columbus, Ohio.

TeamLemon-aid - I am with Kim Harmon right now and she says " As long as it is the TeamLemon-aid that we know, bring it on!"

All delta flights to ATL cancelled from SoFla and nothing available until Sunday... nothing to charlotte or Birmingham worth a damn either.

F. M. L.

All assorted race, tow, and personal hoopties are back in their stalls at Scuderia DuffBirra. That was brutal, even more than that Friday at CMP when it freezing rained all day. I really need to figure out what's wrong with the heater in the race car, my toes were blocks of ice and I couldn't feel the accelerator stick. I'm going to crawl into bed with my jagged metal trophy and take a nap. I don't care what my wife says, this one is going over the fireplace in the living room. Maybe if I paint it.

We had a great time racing with everyone at Road Atlanta this weekend.  What an amazing track!  Thanks, Jay and all the Lemons personnel that made this happen!

A big thanks to Toyota PE Motorsports for lending us their spare radiator after we (I) twisted off our radiator's drain plug bung while prepping for the 24 deg. overnight temps!

Can't wait for next year!

Road Atlanta was everything that everyone said it would be and then some. Difficult, challenging and an absolute blast to drive on especially second time out once your brain has had time to process it all. Also the words of advice from Mental on Saturday night were very helpful. The weather added a massive curveball to the weekend but I’m happy now to have been through it all. I’m getting more and more confident in the rain and can add snow to that now.

Our race didn’t quite go as planned. We lost  the rear brakes early Saturday due to a cracked brake line and it took two stops to get them locked out and we raced on with fronts only. This made a challenging track downright terrifying at times as the pedal was rock hard and fronts a bit grabby. It got better as the track dried out but left us having to leave bigger gaps to other cars and brake a bit earlier than we would have liked. For the Celica we need a perfect race to hang with the top A class cars and to take advantage of our fuel strategy so I was bummed that we would not be racing for a top 5 but it did take the edge off a bit and allowed us to cycle drivers a bit more.

Sunday was sooo much better, dry track and working brakes front and back. We all dropped our lap times and were able to have some solid battles with the faster cars out there while trying not to ruin anyone’s race. My highlights were getting a 1:52.5 lap and racing with and passing some of the legendary east coast and southern cars that we don’t get to run with very often. Also pitting with our friends in the Ranbler and seeing it finally achieve The class C win. It took an All Star line up behind the wheel and in the pits to get the win that was shared by everyone that has raced, wrenched on or just followed the progress of this true LeMon.

Always a good time pitting with Knox Vegas and also some great battles on track with the HooptiCorn and Geo.

Thanks 3PM for feeding us Saturday night and being so clean and professional on and off track. The podcasts are a blast and kept me entertained on the drive down and home.

Thanks Jay and team for putting RA on the schedule.
Apocalyptic Racing will be back in 2018!

Definitely agree with you on the conspicuous fuel consumption aspect of RA. Bert can normally do at least two hours on a full fuel cell, but for our only planned two hour stint it only lasted 1:45 before sputtering set in. Luckily a black flag near the end of that stint prevented running out of fuel on track. That's on a 22 gallon ATL cell that we routinely can suck 19 gallons out of, so that's close to 11 gallons per hour consumption. Turbo Bricks are thirsty but bewst is fun.

Our weekend was excellent, and though we weren't going for a competitive finish we managed an 18th overall despite lots of driver changes, two black flags, one minor contact incident, and a couple of other quick, unplanned trips off the race circuit. On Friday the car wouldn't start with a power-to-the-coil-but-no-spark condition. After throwing lots of parts at it and fussing over wiring diagrams in the cold and snow, we took the advice of Bert's main owner in Vermont over the phone and hooked up a jumper cable to the intake manifold near where the ignition and fuel injection computers ground themselves, and hooked the other end of the jumper cable up to a good earth spot on the chassis. Bert then fired right up. We proceeded to make a Lemons-appropriate ground cable and the car ran like a top all weekend after that.

Saturday early in the wet the car was not as bad as it usually is in the rain, even though we still needed to tip toe around the track with our welded diff. As the track dried we of course got progressive faster, culminating with Craig Harmon's (Kim's brother) turning a 1:51.0 in the coldest air on Sunday morning. At that point Randy Pobst hadn't driven his Volvo in the dry yet, and we had dreams of Bert being faster than his 740 with him in it (yeah, right) but on Sunday between 4-5 pm he obliterated our best time by 4 seconds (!)... while wearing a dress of course.

RA is a very fun track and I hope to get back there next year and do some dry laps without the sun shining directly in my face from Turn 1 exit to Turn 5 exit. That section was very sketchy as all you could really see was the brake lights of other cars, but everyone seemed to slow down appropriately and no one tried to barrel through the blind spot blindly.

Thanks to Jay and Kim for a great event and for trusting us Yahoos on a big boy and big girl track like RA. Looking forward to next year's edition of the Scrot500.