It was great meeting you Bock and little Bock. I wish I'd have arrived sooner, sorry you had to run as we rolled in.

I'm not sure the car is "looking good", but it made the trip and no parts fell off of it. I'm going to take that as a success considering the build time we had, or didn't have. It came, it ran and it went home in one piece with a list of things to attend to. I'll call that a good weekend.




If you'd have smelled us this weekend, you'd reconsider letting us do that. However, a garden hose and a hanging tarp might be a kind gesture. Otherwise, we'll have to just hose off at the car wash.

Next May is "Pit Happens" at Hallett, a run what you brung kind of race. The racing is clean, the track is sweet and the track owners are even better. Weather is usually very cool.

The amenities are somewhat primitive, but clean showers and restrooms. RV hook ups, a nice and reasonably priced grill and in the middle of freaking NOWHERE!

And the trip is worth it for the chicken song.

Hallett would be a very sweet deal ...

I'll pass the word around, Mitch.

Either way, I'd like to come race with the Texas boys once next season. My cousin will graduate high school in Flower Mound next year, so there will probably be a graduation party in July or August if I had to guess. So, hopefully there will be something close the weekend before or after. I'll have to see how the money tree grows in the off-season.

I might have my car back up before next May... Hallett would be fun.

LME has a 454 LSX block on sale

ANDY! Where's the VIDEO!

You know how long it takes to upload mega files on an Aircard?

I am working on it!

If you need some place to dump it, PM me. you can upload it to my web or FTP site.

The second one is ginormos.

Kevin drives, the Brutal Bird, a car filled with grass and dirt


Nashville at Night-- A series of short scenes AKA Chris rides along AKA There is liquor on the bus

Sweet!

First video is about 30 seconds before my motor ate itelf...

*sniffle*

May it RIP.

Thats not me in your car.. really.. (embarrased... DOH!)

I think I said 'straight line' a couple too many times when what I wanted you do is let the car flow around the track and not fight to put it on a line that wasn't natural... When you hit the cones right on the lines that I liked, it felt good to both of us. The car just naturally flowed around the track.

I need to work on my instruction vocabulary. I think got my point across however

Proper apex cones would have helped out a bunch of other open track guys as well. I guess we were technically guest and the track wasn't really setup for HPDE instruction.

That video was a good laugh

I think it is obvious we were having a good time. What else is there to say?

Preceeding some instructional strings with the F-Bomb gets folks attention.

These help as well ...

"Do that again and you'll have blood on your hands."
"You are to the anti-driver."
"We have Vettes, Scions and a Yerf Dog. The dog fits your driving style."
"I've never seen that done in a vehicle with just 4 wheels."
"Can you discern between asphalt black and lawn green?"

http://www.ruethracing.com/index.php?optio...2&Itemid=32


This is for the 2K7 event which was Mother's Day weekend.

We could have used you this weekend.....

And, when parking a trailer at night, this one is particularly relavant:



After loading up the car, I backed the trailer in and lined it up, and then realized that I was on the grass and not the concrete pad. I was looking through a tinted rear window in the dark and could only see the outline of the concrete pad. I just picked the wrong side of the line to park it on (the grass was darker, so I assumed it was asphalt). Oops.

WOW Looks like you guys had fun!!!!

If you ever want to do a East coast deal, we could doing something piggyback style with a couple of groups we run with @ Watkins Glen.

I promise you a good time and we are not predjuce...........all our friends ( yes Texas too!!) would be welcome.

Sounds like a great time, congrats!

Ya know, I remember being real tired and asking you where you were going to put the trailer. When you proceeded to line up perfectly on the grass lane between concrete pads and shoved her back... I thought "smart ass". Apparently you're just blind as a bat...

I had just said "Screw it, I'll park in the grass if I have to"....

Factory tinted glass and it being dark outside are my excuses. I'm not too blind, I lined it right up....just on the wrong side.

And, yes, we did have a blast. I wish that more of you guys had made it out (up, down, over, etc) to play. Maybe next time. I'm up for doing it again, I just have to see when and how much my fuel cost will be and cross check that against the fun money budget. I spent $450 on fuel in 2 days and I know Chris (CJ-TA) had to have done far worse than that (and Andy too).

$650 in fuel for me

Wow, I thought the expensive part of owning a truck and trailer was the truck and trailer.

And you would be incorrect.... I towed just under 1,000 miles and 11 gallons for the track (50 minutes of track time and about 120 gallons of fuel total).

Stan,

The main reason I skipped the Nevada ORR races this year was fuel costs. 3200 miles round trip to Northern Nevada is between 400 and 500 gallons of diesel. Then I burn 12 gals of propane a day running the generator on the RV when I am there.

It gets expensive.

Ok, more correctly, the expensive part of owning a truck and trailer is the new desire to go to track events that are +1000 miles away

I guess it's the price you pay to live fast

I won't even dare try to guess how much I spent in gas.

I know that I filled up 4 times from ft worth to harlingen on the way home. headed into a 30mph head wind, the truck was barely able to maintain 60mph with ~1150* EGT's.

ok, a random guess.. a 'fill up' for me is both tanks on my F350.. lets call it 34 gallons bone dry. I was running one tank 'dry' and tried to not go below 1/4 tank on the other.

3 fillups from harlingen to dallas
4 from dallas to nashville
4 from nashville to dallas
4 from dallas to home.

15 tanks at ~$80 average = ~1200. ouch.

I had planned on $1500 in fuel alone.

next time, ill ship the car for $500 each way, and fly

Ok, I'll bite, what the hell is a Yerf Dog?



TJ's High-Speed Landscaping, at your service.

Nah, you paid your entire entry fee, you're just trying to get your money's worth by using all of the facility.

Greens fees, get your moneys worth

http://www.yerf-dog.com/main_gokart.html

Aww crap Mitch, when did you see me drive? How did you know?

Trust me .... I'm pointing no fingers

I should stay and camp there. Nice pix..

Chris had fun time to drive all night....I jealous of both of you ...

I just read the last post, I didn't loop Andy's car, I left that to Andy..... I just took a few easy laps to get used to it.