Tires

"we're lookin' to do Nelson with a minimum of work / tire changes"    say what?

You are going to have to change tires.
You are going to have to work on your car when, not if, the piece of crap breaks.
You are going to have to work on your car when one of your foolish driver hits something.
You are going to have to work on your car when another foolish driver (hell that's all of us out there) runs into you.

How else do you plan to do that heroic fix that gets you out of the pits and back on the road to glory?  Are you going to just talk to your car and tell it to fix itself?

Get ready to work you ass off (and have more fun than should be legal).

In upteen years of doing the Longest Day at Nelson's I can remember a Fiat X19 doing the race on just 5 tires.  EVERY other car uses 8-10 or more tires in 24 hours. Big cars eat left front tires.  Bring plenty.

Spud

Thanks Riktor for the link. It's exactly what I was looking for (it was late & I didn't want to search... there; I've admitted it... I feel much better).

I'm not worried about working on the POS, we expect it... mechanical, damage etc. is anticipated... just lookin to limit the time spent in the pits that can be limited.

Thanks all!! Looking forward to this one!

Well we are back!!!!!!!!!!!!

We did change the fronts " once"

Nothin broke !

We did hit something, but it made the car better!

No body hit us "Cause we know when to duck!

Aside from installing the cage. The fire extinguisher and belts, the only "work" we did was, change the oil, and put water in the radiator, check the other fluids, we also put new brake shoes on and painted the numbers on the car" Before " we arrived in Ohio!

We actually came with more Beer then Gas! Cause we thought the thing would brake down and we could drink beer all night and watch the antics, One thing we were not gonna do is Work our assz off...So much for plans!