• erdero
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Topic: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

We all just want to say thank you to everyone at the Chicago race for making our first one so awesome, especially teams #1 (wooden Wacky Racers car) and #240 (Keystone) for helping out when our cooling system decided it'd had enough.

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo327/erdero/24%20Hours%20of%20Lemons/20101022-IMG_0747.jpg

Who knew such a gigantic piece of heavy crap would do so well in the rain with summer tires, that it would come in for its first stop in 3rd overall?  Even more so, that it would have a class lead of 7 laps at the end of day one.  In the end, the racing gods decided it was not to be, so we spent most of Sunday trying to fix our cooling system.  Issue's still not fully resolved, so we (fortunately and unfortunately) weren't able to drive it back to Massachusetts, but we're getting it trailered back so we can figure out exactly what went wrong.

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo327/erdero/24%20Hours%20of%20Lemons/20101024-IMG_3336.jpg

We just want to thank everyone again for a great time.  We'll definitely be back (assuming it's fixable), and hope the racing gods will be a bit kinder next time so we can shoot for a class win!

http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo327/erdero/24%20Hours%20of%20Lemons/20101024-IMG_0836.jpg

We've got lots and lots of pics of the whole build here if anyone's interested: http://s388.photobucket.com/albums/oo32 … %20Lemons/

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  • Registered: 2010-10-25
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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

Hats off to you guys!  We ran the yellow Metro and were losing all hope after witnessing just how impressive your car performed.  You got a great mention from Jay! Hope to see you guys back at another event soon.  Cheers!

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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

Great car! Guys, check your head gaskets. Northstars are infamous . Siamesed cylinders, deck distortion, only four bolts per cylinder, it's all there. It might be worth swapping for a good aftermarket multi-layer set and get a bigger rad in there! I think the head bolts are TTY...can't remember. If so don't reuse them! Love to see that car finish well...

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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

We loved you guys! We were so excited to be in the hunt with you on day one - we had our own disaster to attend to saturday afternoon, so we know the feelings. But what a riot you were - great car, excellent theme, cool guys!

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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

Two things:
1.) That isn't a heavy car. Bring a '61 Fleetwood or a '71 LTD and we'll talk.
2.) I love that second pic. I really do have to get an IS lens.

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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

ronman wrote:

Two things:
1.) That isn't a heavy car. Bring a '61 Fleetwood or a '71 LTD and we'll talk.
2.) I love that second pic. I really do have to get an IS lens.

However, if you compare it to a Bradley GT or CRX, it's huge.  It had to be at the far end of the 4000# limit.

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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

As someone that has "raced" a 4100 lbs Q45a with a couple hundred more pounds of soggy cardboard attached, I can say it is a whole different scene racing something small and agile-ish.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/12/2009/10/500x_Saturday_Early_Post-500px.jpg

We figure the Poorsche weighs in at half of that.  Scary, going from one of the biggest in the field to one of the smallest.


Good work and continued success with the Nimitz.

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  • erdero
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Re: A huge thank you from the Nimitz

LemonAid wrote:

Hats off to you guys!  We ran the yellow Metro and were losing all hope after witnessing just how impressive your car performed.  You got a great mention from Jay! Hope to see you guys back at another event soon.  Cheers!

Thanks, and congrats on the class win!

jimeditorial wrote:

Great car! Guys, check your head gaskets. Northstars are infamous . Siamesed cylinders, deck distortion, only four bolts per cylinder, it's all there. It might be worth swapping for a good aftermarket multi-layer set and get a bigger rad in there! I think the head bolts are TTY...can't remember. If so don't reuse them! Love to see that car finish well...

Yeah we ran a quick test during our cooling problem solving to see if there were any leaks, but it seemed good.  Fingers crossed!

atomicalex wrote:

We loved you guys! We were so excited to be in the hunt with you on day one - we had our own disaster to attend to saturday afternoon, so we know the feelings. But what a riot you were - great car, excellent theme, cool guys!

Same to you!  Shame our problems lasted all day, we would have loved to have gotten back out to the excitement!

Sir Thomas Crapper wrote:

However, if you compare it to a Bradley GT or CRX, it's huge.  It had to be at the far end of the 4000# limit.

We never had it weighed, but it's around 3700-3800 stock, and all the weight we stripped out was probably put back in with the cage, so it's still somewhere in that range I would imagine.

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