Our 1st Lemons attempt, MSR 18, and my cars failure to appear....

*Shudder*...  another K-cousin.  ;-)

Bad flashbacks aside, one of the best handling improvements I made on my old P-body (Sundance) was raising the roll center. You can't really lower these cars much before getting into some really undesirable control arm angles. 

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Good luck!

Ok, so 4 or so months prior to race day....

I have a shell with a roll cage on jack stands. No problem...plenty of time....

Life goes by, work, kids, family, team implodes a time or 2 and people leave...keeping a team together is absolutely one of the hardest parts of doing this. By the time the race rolled around, only one person who joined at the beginning of the year was still on the team with me.

That guys is John Spicer, who saved our butts and allowed us to be at the race and have fun.

Anyways, car....yeah, so I traded a guy with a totaled 90 shadow and a rear ended Daytona the unbent rear axle from my Daytona for the undamaged disk brake rear end from his shadow. Spicer figured out that 90 Caravan front calipers and brackets will fit our cars front knuckles and after a few weekends we had a junkyard swap bigger front brake and rear disk brakes. Cool!

New brake soft lines lines, an adapter or two, and we have a functioning brake system, at least on jack stands....

More life/work/bad weather/ and we are 4weeks out. time to put the powertrain back in...

Had some professional help from my little one...

Almost a year later.... the car comes back together...

Over the next 3 weeks I spent almost every day trying to get the car to run longer than 2 min. She would fire on starting fluid, run a few seconds and die. Pumped out all the bad gas, fresh gas, new plugs, timing checked, same problems. Started fixing vacuum leaks and even built my own vacuum block....now it will fire most of the time and run until I turn it off....but then it wont re fire, just spin over and sputter....

So 10 days out from the race, John Spicer offered the team the use of his 2005 Spec Miata he was building. We begged the judges, I explained my plight....car passes tech, it can race.  I threw together some last min decals to turn the Miata into a Dodge Daytona, at least as much as I could....Had several people very curious about what was under the hood due to the stickers....that was kinda fun...

Not the best start to our Friday morning....but car was ok...We pitted in between the Tetanus Racing conglomerate and the Squirrel Killers.

So, we got to race, the judges put us in class A and docked us 28 penalty laps in our cheaty spec Miata. The team had a good time, got a few penalties/black flags but other wise the weekend for the team was great.  I had the flu and other than the 30min I ran in practice friday, I was laid up at my parents house in pearland being sick. So life goes...I'll be back, hard at work on getting my actual Daytona running consistently and in one piece. Hopefully I can make the NOLA race and MSR this upcoming season.

Thanks for an awesome event and the chance to make a lifelong dream come true...eventually....Lemons is awesome, the people are fun, and the racing is great. See yall in the paddocks soon!

-Bryan

Team Safety 3rd Endurance Racing
L to R  Eric Orme, John Harms, Bryan Kelley, John Spicer, Ramses Martinez

2 wire dist.  New pick up in dist. I’m gonna toe it up to my shop where my 2 master techs can mess with it in their down time and help me sort it out.

Hey, I know the folks in that camper behind you!  One of them was me!  LOL

Glad you were able to get a car on to the track at least, for many, that's more than half the battle.