EyeMWing wrote:... Did anybody at any point bother to tell them that spray paint isn't a very good conductor of heat?
Hey, at least they didn't Bondo the radiator, to make it stronger. Here's an illustrative tale about these guys and their approach to car prep:
At the Southern Discomfort race, I figured the Diamante would be a good candidate for the PillarCam (tall, softly sprung, slow). The PillarCam's uses some 10mm lag bolts for its super-high-tech mounting system. When I asked the Diamante guys if I could borrow a 10mm tool of some sort to tighten the bolts, they didn't have a socket or wrench in the most common size fastener on their race car. What they did have was a bucket of random carpentry tools, fishing tackle, Bud Lite cans, etc... and an entourage of about 40 friends, all having a great time. I'm pretty sure they also lacked tools in 12mm and 14mm sizes as well. This would explain their difficulty in performing basic brake-pad replacement, among other things.
This Keystone Kops performance was actually sort of a breath of fresh air after experiencing some of the super-uptight California teams who get Herr Überleutnant Team Kapitan (note that I'm not mentioning any E30 teams by name here) keeling over from a stroke when the white zip-ties get mixed in with the gray zip-ties.
