who has their car finished????

The Rocketbird has ditched the V12, and will make do with a rare whistling, clattering, Cavalier-engine-sized replacement. The engine is bolted in place, and that's as far as I've gotten. I have two days to finish the fuel system, add pieces of the butchered wiring harness from the donor car, figure out the radiator mounting, rig up a cable throttle/pedal setup, mount an exhaust, and try to make it all work in a car decades older than what it came in. Of course, I'm used to pulling all-nighters leading up to a race, so this is nothing new.

BTW, the donor car was purchased less than a week ago, hence the rush. We were originally gonna run the Lincoln for the overall, but lost two of our skilled drivers, so the Rocketbird will see race and drivetrain #3.

Jay was joking about that at Summit Point. At Gingerman, all 4 drivers had hour-long turns, wiith the trans failing as the last driver was about to head in. After the epic repair, I got another 25 minutes or so. At Summit, I spent two months building the car, with help on 5 weekends from "CaddyWrecker"cousin Dave. I got two slow, smoky laps after hundreds of hours on the build, not to mention paying for it all. Dave got the "I Got Screwed" trophy.

This race, I'm still doing most of the work, but I'm having Dave drive first. He wants to help more, but he has a new job, and lives 2 1/2 hours away, so that's kinda tough to do.

We're done... The Fiat 131 Abarf looks rock solid.  I'm sure it will last for at least several minutes.  No concerns whatsoever...

I'm hitting the wall right now. One problem after another. One step forward, two steps back. Spending all my time fixing stuff that was working before. Getting REALLY frustrated...

We're basically done.  One thing is missing that we don't REALLY need but would like to have.  If we don't its no big deal.