Thank You Cain't Git Bayou!

Despite the car being a complete pile of crap this weekend and constant presence in the petal box (I think they were going to start charging us rent at some point) because of it, we had fun.  Thanks for the patience of the Lemons judges and crew, the various fellow races who loaned us stuff (batteries, bolts, tools, ect.), and the rock'm food from the S&B team!

It takes a special type of person to hydro-plane 4 wheel off on the victory lap!  Thanks again Judges for your patience.

Woot! Great time. One blown up KA motor chalked up for me! Turns out headgasket problems can really mess up quite a bit.

We were in the 1995 nissan Altima (GO MEXICO) with the La Cucaracha horns. We had a great time in a car that we finished AT the track on Friday. THANKS FOR PASSING US IN TECH INSPECTION! We learned a lot by building our own car and we'll be ready for the November race (maybe even Houston, who knows?) with recommended fixes from the safety guy.

BUT, to my dismay, I have a few areas of question / improvement / lessons learned:

1) I didn't know that if ANY fuel spills from overflow etc of the tank while it's filling in the designated area that it's a black flag? This happened in the fueling area and I was trying to be careful with fueling, but it "gurgled" out of the overflow (I think from just filling it too fast - not from being totally full) and some got on the ground...turns out it was a BLACK FLAG! They were easy on us, and we were out of the running for any decent finish anyway (sorry I'm not putting a 23 gal fuel cell in the car or wearing diapers to run 3.5 hours), so it's just lesson learned.

2) Our 230k mile Nissan Altima was considered "Typical Japanese Cheaters" ?? (http://jalopnik.com/5528603/baksheesh-j … you-lemons) Wow! Team mate / friend of mine (read NO track experience) bought the car for the parts off of it (advertised ROD knock - doesn't run - no title). I actually wanted to put the stock intake, header, and exhaust on it for more mileage, but we really didn't have time to swap them from his daily driver Altima. SO, typical japanese cheater is a FWD 4-door family car w/ blown headgasket, that smokes constantly, is hard to start, can only finish 10 laps at a time before having to pit and refill with water and oil, and can only survive one day at that before throwing a rod through the block?? I saw a LOT of cheater cars out there...and ours wasn't one of them...We didn't even change the spark plugs for crying out loud (otherwise we might have caught the headgakset ). I guess I'm just confused by this comment...ahhh nevermind.

3) Where might we find published lap results? I'd love to know what times we turned and how many laps we were able to squeeze out of the altima before catastrophic failure.

Had a great fun, until next time!

Patrick ALTIMATE ANNIHILATION

Hi Harris, I did not think the Black Flag was for spilling in the proper area unless you just blew it all over you and other drivers.  I thought it was a call of you overflowing on the track/cars behind you that prompted the black flag.  It happened a few times over the weekend to a few cars, i could be wrong but thought one was you.

On cheaters, don't fell special, I call everyone cheaters.  It's more of a blanket statement you may have taken to heart.  Trust me on this, after you ran 3 laps, not a single person in all of Gods green bayou called your car a cheater car. :-)~  I'm glad you had fun, I saw a few nice moves and a well placed thank you wave so it look like you were having fun and I'm glad you came.

Lol. Sorry didn't mean to sound whiny. Yes it was some spilled fuel in the gas fill area. Now I know, just posting it here for other people FYI.

We had fun and sorry we couldn't pull the motor from the daily. Next time we know what to expect and will be at least as "reliable" as we were this time!

(btw race is over you can quit being a judge now).

Thanks a million for the plug. Made a crawfish stew last night with the left over crawfish, it was very good. Thanks to everyone that hung out with us, makes the $1,600 grocery bill worth it.

Also thanks to the people that helped fix the 911 car after I wrecked it 5 seconds into the pace lap. "NOW THAT IS SOME FUNNY SHIT THERE". After the 40 minute repair the car was still up to speed and in 10th place for a couple of hours when the drive shaft broke. If  you were not there to watch the repair, you missed some good entertainment. Also thanks to the Lemons guys for the Most Heroic Fix award. The other car finished in 5th place which is like winning the Indy 500 for us.

I still have my Whistle and plan to use it again in Nov.
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