Whats the deal with spares?

that being said don't go through BS then claim that the engine stopped working but luckily you had this race engine sitting on the trailer.

The last race has an Olds Achevia in Lemons form right next to a stock Acheiva in the paddock. You often saw them working on both cars.  Likely swapping parts.

We drove our parts car to PBIR, fortunately all we swapped was a rotor.

We bring head gaskets.

We've decided it's easier to swap our motor than a head gasket so we've put together a spare motor from semi trashed parts.  It should run and even make decent power but we are figuring it will use oil but hopefully not be a complete bug fogger.

The amount of crap we bring depends on where we are racing.  When we race in Houston, we bring less crap and make plans to go to the shop if things get really bad.

When we had a catastrophic engine failure in the fall, we decided to just call it and had drinks and relaxed instead of wrenching.  We all had a good time and got decent seat time.

Spare parts are great but you gotta have a place to put them.

We ended up doing an engine swap from our team captain's daily driver, which he'd driven to the track. While he was pretty well done with the car at that point and willing to donate some (easily interchangeable) parts, it wasn't really our intention to have the car for a spare drivetrain.

http://teamresignation.blogspot.com/201 … 00_02.html

In any case, we won the Heroic Fix trophy for our stupidity/willingness to sacrifice a second car.

*EDIT* The only spares we'd really brought were tires, crappy brake pads, some wiring supplies, a huge assortment of nuts and bolts, a few hundred zip ties, and an air filter, which we replaced (our intake stuck up through the hood, and the rain on Saturday morning soaked the filter). For the next races, we may bring a spare drivetrain and a folding hoist.

At Summit Point this year I had to fend off several teammates who wanted to start pulling bits from the SC 3800 under the hood of my Buick to help keep our SC 3800 GTP running.

Their pleas of "But we'll put them right back after the race" fell on deaf ears.

But it was just a fuse! Not even an important one!