Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

The yutes and I have got our Dayton and Pitt accommodations nailed down. Like last year, we're going the AirBnB route.  So far, we have managed to stay within a 5-10 minute radius of the recommended hotels. Just waiting on that Buffalo finish-line to drop. I'm thinking that the kiddos and I will be spending an extra day in the Niagra Falls/Buffalo area.

Also, a "heads up" for those of us that will greatly benefit by coming home through Ontario.  DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON CANADIAN COVID REGULATIONS.  They have a different deal going on there. And it's changing constantly.

Jim T, Chief Check Writer @Granny Motorsports (@granny_motorsports on the instagram machine)

'77 Ford Granada (Have you driven a Ford lately?)
28th place-'22 Rust Belt Ramble

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Jimnayzum wrote:

The yutes and I have got our Dayton and Pitt accommodations nailed down. Like last year, we're going the AirBnB route.  So far, we have managed to stay within a 5-10 minute radius of the recommended hotels. Just waiting on that Buffalo finish-line to drop. I'm thinking that the kiddos and I will be spending an extra day in the Niagra Falls/Buffalo area.

Also, a "heads up" for those of us that will greatly benefit by coming home through Ontario.  DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON CANADIAN COVID REGULATIONS.  They have a different deal going on there. And it's changing constantly.

Had it the end nailed down, but had an unexpected change regarding it, so that's likely to change. Rally should be essentially complete by next week with relevant details posted before I'm off to Thunderhill.

Also, there should be a BIG 2023 announcement in the next couple weeks.

Eric Rood
Everything Bagel, 24 Hours of Lemons
eric@24hoursoflemons.com

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

therood wrote:

Also, there should be a BIG 2023 announcement in the next couple weeks.

Polaroids will once again be accepted for checkpoints?

1982 MG Metro 1300: IOE 2015 Pacific Northworst GP, Longest Distance 2010 Cd'L Box Wine Country Classic
1980 KV Mini 1: Worst of Show and Fright Pig Supremo 2009 Concours d'Lemons
1978 H Special: Second-Round Elimination 2010 Lemons Pinewood Derby at Sears Pointless
1967 SAAB 96: IOE 2012 Pacific Northworst GP, Organizer's Choice 2022 Hell on Wheels California Rally

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

therood wrote:
Jimnayzum wrote:

The yutes and I have got our Dayton and Pitt accommodations nailed down. Like last year, we're going the AirBnB route.  So far, we have managed to stay within a 5-10 minute radius of the recommended hotels. Just waiting on that Buffalo finish-line to drop. I'm thinking that the kiddos and I will be spending an extra day in the Niagra Falls/Buffalo area.

Also, a "heads up" for those of us that will greatly benefit by coming home through Ontario.  DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON CANADIAN COVID REGULATIONS.  They have a different deal going on there. And it's changing constantly.

Had it the end nailed down, but had an unexpected change regarding it, so that's likely to change. Rally should be essentially complete by next week with relevant details posted before I'm off to Thunderhill.

Also, there should be a BIG 2023 announcement in the next couple weeks.

Uhoh, full one lap of america style rally/track racing nightmare?

Mistake By The Lake Racing (MBTL)
88 Thunderbird "THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!", Ex Astris, Rubigo / Semper Fracti
A&D: 2014 Sebrings at Sebring (NSF), 2014 NJMP2 Jurassic Park (SpeedyCop), 2012 Summit Point J30 (PiNuts)
2018 Route Sucky-Suck Rally Miata, 2019 World Tour Of Texas 64 Newport

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Yeah, nah.

Eric Rood
Everything Bagel, 24 Hours of Lemons
eric@24hoursoflemons.com

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Good because that always seemed cool, but miserable.

Mistake By The Lake Racing (MBTL)
88 Thunderbird "THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!", Ex Astris, Rubigo / Semper Fracti
A&D: 2014 Sebrings at Sebring (NSF), 2014 NJMP2 Jurassic Park (SpeedyCop), 2012 Summit Point J30 (PiNuts)
2018 Route Sucky-Suck Rally Miata, 2019 World Tour Of Texas 64 Newport

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

My guess is the return of RT 66 (and I'd be all in on that), but I don't feel that that's big enough.

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

I just hope this "big announcement" is Monkey Pox proof.

The return of Mistake By The Lake Rally?

Jim T, Chief Check Writer @Granny Motorsports (@granny_motorsports on the instagram machine)

'77 Ford Granada (Have you driven a Ford lately?)
28th place-'22 Rust Belt Ramble

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Announcement might get pushed a couple weeks while I sort out some particulars with a couple of people who are helping us, but we promised to do a(n ill-advised) rally a couple years ago and we're going to do it next summer.

Eric Rood
Everything Bagel, 24 Hours of Lemons
eric@24hoursoflemons.com

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

therood wrote:

Announcement might get pushed a couple weeks while I sort out some particulars with a couple of people who are helping us, but we promised to do a(n ill-advised) rally a couple years ago and we're going to do it next summer.

As long as it doesn't involve any international border crossings, I'm in.

And even if it does, eh, I've got time.

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

therood wrote:

Announcement might get pushed a couple weeks while I sort out some particulars with a couple of people who are helping us, but we promised to do a(n ill-advised) rally a couple years ago and we're going to do it next summer.


mmmmm.....i'll advised car events. If you are running short of staff Manny and I have been wanting to do a rally

1992 Saturn SL2 (retired) - Elmo's Revenge -  Class B winner, Heroic Fix winner x2
1969 Rover P6B 3500S(sold) - Super G-Rover - I.O.E Winner, Class C Winner
1996 Saturn SW2 - Elmo's Revenge (reborn!), Saturn SL1  Dazzleshipm Class C x2 and IOE winner
1974 AMC Javelin - Oscar's Trash heap - IOE,”Organizer's Choice" and "I got Screwed" award winner

37 (edited by The Hooptie Garage 2022-06-03 12:44 PM)

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Jimnayzum wrote:

Also, a "heads up" for those of us that will greatly benefit by coming home through Ontario.  DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON CANADIAN COVID REGULATIONS.  They have a different deal going on there. And it's changing constantly.

Anyone without an enhanced license or passport is free to take the Gordie Howe Bridge across the river.

I have my rooms dialed in at cheaper hotels each night but chances are I may decide to pass on the RBR--I don't register up until the week before the rally start, so I'm not out anything yet.  RBR sits between two longer road trips we already had planned (Charleston in two weeks, Utah/Colorado the first week of August), and with hotel prices getting insane and gas prices insaner (that ain't a word?), and using my hotel reward points already on both, the budget might not accommodate it.  My "against better judgment" gene may kick in at the last minute, though.  big_smile

I'd have to take the less turd-worthy of hoopties since it gets way better gas mileage (35-38 mpg). But that might be good, since the ultimate turd-o-rific vehicle I'd planned to run may not even be safe to run on the road anymore.  Breaking down is OK; parts breaking off is too dangerous. But man...it would have been epic...

--Rudy

Driver of soul-sucking appliances in the Rust Belt.
Instagramz: @thehooptiegarage

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

I'm still at least 90% in on RBR, but now it's a question of how much work my intended rally car is going to need.  It could need anything from an ignition coil (or two) to a whole new engine.  And since I'm currently without a partner, I've been trying to cajole my girlfriend into going along with me, and if she goes along, then we're going to have to bring our Odyssey (because what's a Lemons Rally without a Honda?)  Either way, it'll be a good time, and most likely the last RBR I run for a coupla years.  Starting next year I plan on running the most epic rally I can afford to do.  This year would have been the Great River Road, but for some reason my partner from last year's RBR is dead-set on running Fall Failage.  Whatever, that'll just leave me with more money to run RFM next year.

39 (edited by Sonic 2022-06-05 06:23 PM)

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

We got the RBR 84 Corvette out of storage today.  It was fine.  Chrissy will take it to work tomorrow to see if that continues. 

The fact that the tow vehicle just broke, 4 days before we need to leave for the NJMP race and 1 day after I bought (but did not pick up) its replacement, is irrelevant.

Chris from 3 Pedal Mafia

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

puttcharlie wrote:

... and if she goes along, then we're going to have to bring our Odyssey (because what's a Lemons Rally without a Honda?)

Well, that'll be two of us, then. big_smile  All we have here for now are Hondas and Acuras.  My "deadest of dead" hasn't been driven since 2017 and is the one that needs so much to get back on the road. But it's also the most "art-worthy" as the paint has mostly failed, and it has serious weight reduction, so it's a perfect canvas for the theme I really wanted to do for the RMB rally but couldn't work on due to weather (my garage is all storage space right now).

Tough call though, since before all this hyper-inflation started, I wanted to get rid of this most turd-worthy of vehicles to make room for a 4x4 build (I wanted to have something ready for the Winter 4x4 Jamboree next January), or to get a convertible project car (something my better half and I would use all summer).  I really don't know if I want to keep this old thing, only to use it a few weeks out of the year.

My other option is the spare car, but I can only decorate it in removable vinyl stickers, many of which I'd have to cut myself since nothing exists for the theme I have in mind.  But the gas mileage is 35-40 on the highway.  That's lookin' really good right about now.  This one needs the piston rings replaced, cylinders honed, valve seals replaced, AC compressor replaced, and the headliner fixed (tired of it floppin' like a big ol' interior wind sail)...and dang it, the brand new ball joint from last summer is already going bad.  But I have everything but the valve seals and ball joint already on hand and ready to go.

Yeah, I wanted to do the Great River Road also.  But I've seen hotel prices go up 50% or more over the past few years, and gas is getting unreasonable, so the RBR may be my last one for the year if I do it.  Hopefully if things look up and I can get time off next year, I can try to do the GRR.

--Rudy

Driver of soul-sucking appliances in the Rust Belt.
Instagramz: @thehooptiegarage

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

I'm working to get this 89 Escort back up to snuff.  Right now the stupid fuel pump kicks on and never stops priming.  If I can get this fuel issue resolved, I just need new tires and to install the radio.  I was REALLY hoping to use the Cassette Deck and 12 Disc CD Changer that came with the car, but alas..she's dead.  Or at least not worth working on in the short term.  I need to get this sorted so I can settle on a Theme. I have a great Idea, very 90's, but man I don't want to invest in this until I have the car sorted, and I am running out of time!

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Don't get me started on tires...

My better half's daily driver is near the wear bars--time for a new set.

I got a bad alignment at Belle Tire prior to the Rocky Mountain Breakdown on my daily, and the rears were howlin' by the time I got home.  Rotated, took another road trip...howlin' worse.  Sooooo....with a road trip to Charleston in two weeks, need another new set. And can't find an honest place aside from the dealer$hip (I have a trustworthy one near me) to get a good alignment to factory specs.

Spare car/near-hooptie/likely RBR car got new tires in January. A "fix the d@mn roads" Michigan pothole killed one, and they were seven years old anyway.

That's going to be three new sets this year.

Ultimate hooptie/blank canvas Lemons-worthy rusted out POS has tires with only a thousand miles on them...from 2016, when I parked it.  Probably flat-spotted, But, oh well--as long as they don't blow out, they're staying.  Either for a Lemons Rally run, or abandoning it at a junkyard...or, free to a good home, seriously. We need it gone.

Maybe Yokohama should "unwisely sponsor" a new set or two here at Casa Rudy. They already got me once this year.  big_smile

--Rudy

Driver of soul-sucking appliances in the Rust Belt.
Instagramz: @thehooptiegarage

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

The Hooptie Garage wrote:

Don't get me started on tires...

My better half's daily driver is near the wear bars--time for a new set.

I got a bad alignment at Belle Tire prior to the Rocky Mountain Breakdown on my daily, and the rears were howlin' by the time I got home.  Rotated, took another road trip...howlin' worse.  Sooooo....with a road trip to Charleston in two weeks, need another new set. And can't find an honest place aside from the dealer$hip (I have a trustworthy one near me) to get a good alignment to factory specs.

Spare car/near-hooptie/likely RBR car got new tires in January. A "fix the d@mn roads" Michigan pothole killed one, and they were seven years old anyway.

That's going to be three new sets this year.

Ultimate hooptie/blank canvas Lemons-worthy rusted out POS has tires with only a thousand miles on them...from 2016, when I parked it.  Probably flat-spotted, But, oh well--as long as they don't blow out, they're staying.  Either for a Lemons Rally run, or abandoning it at a junkyard...or, free to a good home, seriously. We need it gone.

Maybe Yokohama should "unwisely sponsor" a new set or two here at Casa Rudy. They already got me once this year.  big_smile

Did you give Leslie Tire a shot? Or (I know it's a bit of a drive), Van's Tire here in Richmond. Van's has always been good to me.

Jim T, Chief Check Writer @Granny Motorsports (@granny_motorsports on the instagram machine)

'77 Ford Granada (Have you driven a Ford lately?)
28th place-'22 Rust Belt Ramble

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

I found a good alignment shop!  Took my mustang over and they were affordable, and replaced the tie rod end on that car for like $150 which seemed fairly reasonable!  Think I figured out the fueling issue.  Ecu was suggested as a problem to check, so I pulled it and it has a bad capacitor, so I ordered a take off ecu from ebay to see if that helps, and a pack of capacitors from amazon so I can fix the stock ecu and see how she does!  Fingers crossed.

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Trusty soldering iron and a new capacitor has the pony running like a top!!! I was shopping for a new car for the rally last night, but today....I'm on the right track!

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

cool!

I Survived Hell on Wheels, Car Weeeak, Route Sucky Suck, etc.

Re: So excited for the Rustbelt Ramble 2022

Jimnayzum wrote:

Did you give Leslie Tire a shot? Or (I know it's a bit of a drive), Van's Tire here in Richmond. Van's has always been good to me.

I might have to check Leslie Tire if I decide not to go to the dealer. I only have two days to do it this week (Wed or Thurs), and the tires are scheduled to be mounted Friday.  (We leave Saturday.)  Leslie has a location in Harrison Twp. which is probably the closest. 

This is something I wish I could do myself, but obviously I don't have the equipment for it. I may check the toe-in on the rears tomorrow, as I think that is the problem with the alignment now.  (I've corrected front toe-in before, but never rear.)

--Rudy

Driver of soul-sucking appliances in the Rust Belt.
Instagramz: @thehooptiegarage