Death Cab and EyeSore Enterprise - Inseparable! (Page 2 of 2)

I can see you're still shifting at 4500 and saving the tires...

This video is actually really helpful for diagnosing our oil consumption. Our poor engine is drinking about 3/4 quart of oil with every tank of gas, which is causing some concern among the paranoid elements of our team. But I can see big puffs of smoke with every shift, which I'm taking as good news.

That means the oil is getting sucked in under vacuum, which probably means valve stem seals/guides. I can't think of many ways dead valve stem seals could make our engine explode (that's what I'm telling myself...)

I'm pretty sure the valve stem seals (and, in fact, most of the head) came from an engine with over 230,000 miles on it, so this is really no big surprise.

-Dave

Yes, but I occasionally throw the car sideways just for effect...

Hahaha, your wife held our guy back pretty good then.  We were wondering why you guys were only turning 2:24s for those first laps.  My vids are encoding now while I'm at work, I'll post them tonight when I get back home.

Eyesore got a black flag????

So that's what it takes to make Eyesore barely come in 2nd - 3 penalty laps and a black flag!

With three penalty laps and a black flag I think I would have been about oh... 80th

This was early Sunday.  We were following them through lap traffic right before start/finish when we caught sight of the yellow flag.  Eyesore went through, we locked them up.  They got caught, and we didn't catch one. (you'll hear my guy saying "No flag on 11" in the first lap of the vid)

I like her comment at the start of one of the videos you already posted. You're approaching T5 and Eyesore is right behind you, "Don't hit each other."

What, NO German Competition?   Hmmmmmm.   

Holy Crap Pendejo, 2:16 in that beast?  I remember when it would roll like a hippo around the turns.  You guys have done an amazing job with that car. Three Cheers ole Chap.
   Sorry I missed all this action at TH.  The Sharks are a bit dysfunctional and dispersed.  But we are tryin to rally for ButtonWillow. Trying to hit the blood and sperm banks as often as I can to build up that bank account.  Unfortunately visions of Dean in a skirt is really killin the income.

Legendary race cars:

McLaren MP4/4
Ferrari F2002
Toyota IMSA GTP Eagle
Auto Union Type C/D
Death Cab V8olvo

Sadly, cars based on factory machinery (e.g., the V8olvo) always do better than Frankensteined contraptions like that crypto-Model T. But guess which type we'd rather see on the track?

It brings a tear to my eye to see the seat-belt hood tie-downs flapping in the breeze in that video.  I always found those to be one of the most elegant demonstrations of the zero-cost but super effective bits of engineering that Dave put into that car.  Of course, that doesn't explain why I so callously ripped them off in the process of T-boning a TR-7...

Another one of my favorite V8olvo photos. The roof wasn't even dented.