So.
Friday sucked.
Thursday my brother flew in from FL. I picked him up @ the airport after an already full day @ the shop & running all over town getting all our shit together (on 4 hours of sleep).
We went straight back to the shop. Worked all night & all Friday morning with a little help from friends & got the cage done. As we were returning the borrowed MIG welder trying to figure out what was left to do to pass tech & how much time we had to get there, we figured we could probably make it. One of the last things was the battery cutoff switch. While I as @ the hardware store getting grade 8 bolts for the harness, my brother was installing the switch. He dropped the hot lead from the battery onto a steel braided fuel line, sparking & cooking a hole into the line. Considering we still had to install our seat belts & a muffler & now had a fuel leak & nowhere to get the special VW line in 15 minutes, we gave up.
I still feel like puking. So much time, effort, money & favors called in to scramble this thing together...
I missed a lot of prep time from being in the hospital for 2 months+ while my daughter was being born & was only able to get on it for the last 10 days or so. We were so close...
Then tonight, like an idiot, I searched BFE GP on google & saw this:
http://jalopnik.com/5583797/vw+powered- … -gp-lemons
Clearly, we should have gone anyway. I didn't know you could show up to tech unfinished & still get to race. I thought we'd be driving an hour to the track to have them laugh us outta there. I guess the delirium from the lack of sleep got to me.
Now I really feel stupid. I wanna puke again. So fucking lame.