[firehawkclone]

Well i will keep it simple.... I blew the motor up in the second session of the day on sat (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

I just had this motor rebuilt 10T mile's ago (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif) A few rod's went through the Canton pan! I will post some pic's later, but im sure all of you have seen hole's before!

Im just in a daze still.........I expected something to happen(do this) just not the motor!


I WAS still the fastest guy on the track, turning a 1:37.5 a lap before she went!

[JKnight]

I don't want to steal John's thunder, since his problems are much worse than ours, but wee too had a crappy weekend. I'll run down the highlights reel.

A/C didn't work Friday night, so we slept in a sauna, and were going to sleep with the door open (since the window in our room was screwed shut), but the Dessert Inn isn't in the nicest part of town.

Saturday at the track, Chris runs her session and I passenge, and the car feels nice (first time out with the rebuilt engine). Our groups are back to back, so we go in, Pit Bitch is there with the tool to adjust the seat, I get in the car and start to put on the harness (for the first time ever), and now its well into the session. But I figure a couple of laps is good for starters. Get to entrance to the hot pits and the car dies and won't fire, and they tell me it's dripping fluids. Push the junk out of the way and find a water leak. Hose clamp on the hard line that comes from the back of the block and goes to the radiator.

Fix that, and then I get a full session. The car really is a blast. Plenty of power, it handles better than I thought it would. The M3 doesn't really allow for hanging the rear end out, so I'm not used to that. But it's really fun having the rear step out a tad and knowing it will come back if throttle is maintained. You all probably are well aware of this, but it's new to me. I turned a mid 1:46, which isnt' stellar, as I've done 1:44s in the M3, but I know I have a TON of time I can find. Turns 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9 for sure. I imagine the rest as well, but I can picture getting a lot faster in those turns.

Car dies before the parade laps, we flail for a while and find out that the fuse isn't up to running the fuel pump and the fan (new fuse panel and fan, so no surprise that there are issues). Fight some intermittent problems of the car dieing for no reason Saturday. Park the junk and hang out at the track, then back to the hotel, where I get a little lit and get progressively more irate with the hotel staff, as the A/C still ain't working, get a new room, head out to Club D.I. and jang out with friends, offer Pit Bitch $200 to ask the chick with the glass eye if she wants to dance, Chris does a tequila shot and gets a little more than tipsy, order some pizza and pass out.

Get to the track on Sunday and the car fires right up. Chris takes it for a couple of laps, comes in and the thing won't fire. Pull the hood off and finally find that the water pump is leaking on the optispark and causing lack of spark when the opti gets wet. Hook up the rig and push the thing in there and head for home.

We figured out a lot of issues that we expected to rear their heads after 10 months of work on the car. We sweated a ton (did I mention that it was hotter than sin and I forgot to recharge the battery in the trailer so we didn't have any a/c), had some fun, gave my 85 year old grandma, who was out from Florida, a lap in the Camaro, and I got the most expensive 15 minutes of track time that I've ever had.

Why do we do this again? Oh yeah, because it's more expensive than crack but twice the fun.

Jason