 Update on American Iron West #29, Going from broke up to fixed up |
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 Jan 29 2008, 06:09 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Advanced Members Posts: 813 Joined: 21-January 04 From: Santa Barbara, CA Member No.: 141  |
A little background. My wife was driving at NASA Nationals at Mid-Ohio in September '07, and in the main race her panhard bar mount broke, she spun, and was hit in the driver rear quarter panel. We took it to the body shop on January 14th, and told them it was no hurry.
So, good news. The car is apparently ready for paint. I'll take and post some pictures after we go check it out this afternoon. The body work guy said we should discuss how fancy we want to paint it. Fancy? Um, not. I put this in GD - I notice we don't have a broke up car specific forum. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Jason |
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Jan 30 2008, 02:21 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 813 Joined: 21-January 04 From: Santa Barbara, CA Member No.: 141 |
QUOTE Are you going to bring the BMW or SER? Pretty unlikely that we'll go actually, but if we did it would probably be in the Miata. BMW is retired from track duty, and the se-r is getting the aftermarket parts removed so that it can be sold cheap. So good luck out there! We are leaning pretty heavily towards fuel cell at this point, probably the 15 gallon enduro cell: http://www.ioportracing.com/Merchant2/merc...ategory_Code=ED QUOTE Looks like she is going together instead of the other way around.....I LIKE when that happens! Amen to that Randy. Fortunately not a lot had to come off before the bodywork started. Now once the suspension stuff starts, that's another matter.... Jason This post has been edited by JKnight: Jan 30 2008, 02:23 AM |
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Jan 30 2008, 03:54 AM
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Veteran Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,511 Joined: 14-November 04 From: Homer Glen, IL Member No.: 540 |
QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 29 2008, 08:21 PM)  We are leaning pretty heavily towards fuel cell at this point, probably the 15 gallon enduro cell: http://www.ioportracing.com/Merchant2/merc...ategory_Code=ED Jason, just a little input for you but I have a 15 gallon cell and if I had to do it all over again I would go with a 22 gallon. I got a deal on my 15gal as a blem. through ATL, but the 22gal does have it's benefits. Such as, being able to ballast the car with fuel. Also, during a 40 minute race at Road America, it is possible to start sputtering even with the cell packed full. One of the Mustang guys out here had that problem with his 331 cube motor. I was having other issues last year so I didn't run into that issue and I'm running a 310 but it is making me wonder. Not sure if there's any tracks on the West Coast comparable to RA (big straights), but a thirsty 350 could suck it dry. This post has been edited by nape: Jan 30 2008, 03:54 AM |
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JKnight Update on American Iron West #29 Jan 29 2008, 06:09 PM
trackbird QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 29 2008, 01:09 PM) I... Jan 29 2008, 06:21 PM firehawkclone I want to stay away from that forum really bad... Jan 29 2008, 07:35 PM JKnight There's a remote chance we'll be at WSIR F... Jan 29 2008, 10:02 PM
trackbird QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 29 2008, 05:02 PM) N... Jan 29 2008, 11:29 PM
firehawkclone QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 29 2008, 03:02 PM) T... Jan 30 2008, 12:29 AM roadracetransam QUOTE (firehawkclone @ Jan 29 2008, 04:29... Jan 30 2008, 02:35 AM JKnight We'll still have a frrax.com sticker on there ... Jan 30 2008, 12:02 AM rmackintosh Congrats!
Looks like she is going together... Jan 30 2008, 01:20 AM JKnight TJ, thanks for the data point. We were going with ... Jan 30 2008, 04:46 AM trackbird QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 29 2008, 11:46 PM) B... Jan 30 2008, 05:30 AM CMC #37 Looking forward to seeing #29 back in action very ... Feb 1 2008, 09:05 PM JKnight Yeah, we're looking forward to seeing it in ac... Feb 2 2008, 02:49 AM firehawkclone That looks great!I know Sutton Motorsports can... Feb 2 2008, 03:13 AM JKnight QUOTE How big was the can of Bondo?
I think it wa... Feb 2 2008, 07:27 AM firehawkclone QUOTE (JKnight @ Feb 2 2008, 12:27 AM) QU... Feb 2 2008, 08:14 AM JKnight QUOTE He didn't weld it the last time did he
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