Finishing the racecar blog. Yes?

[Horsewidower]

Just set the appointment for the final inspection and logbook issuance for Feb. 23. Now I just have to make sure its finished!!

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Got the tranny back together and in the car this morning. Rog, Geoff and I worked all day on finishing all the little nit-pick items. Loaded it up and took it down to the airstrip.

WOW!!

LET ME SAY IT AGAIN

WOW!!

This is an e-ticket ride.

Tracks straight, even under braking. The manual steering is just right, I can't imagine having power steering on this thing. Nothing fell off, or broke. The 5.5 clutch pretty much requires you to rev it up and dump it to get the car going.

With the big injectors it loads up at anything less than 4,000 rpm. Shifting at 7,000 keeps you from having that problem.

Geoff's daughter took some video, we'll see if our computer inept selfs can get it posted.

Now its off to Thunderhill next Friday for a track day. That will be the true test.

Bob

[Raven855]

Congrats! You sound like a kid in a candy store! Did Rog and Geoff get a chance to drive?

[Horsewidower]

Geoff actually drove first. Rog, is shorter than Geoff and I so the seat and pedals weren't set up for him. We have to make a seat insert for him for the endurance races we hope to compete in.

Bob

[8T6 SVO]

Party On, Garth! (err - Bob)

[vrinner]

Congrats! Glad to hear it's finaly doing what you built it to do!

[Horsewidower]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.

[CP86SVO]

Remember to install an in-car camera and post up some videos too!

Have fun!

WS

[Horsewidower]

Well for various reasons the track day is off this Friday. Work is getting in the way of my fun!! I did lay down the coin for HPDE 4 at Thunderhill on May 8th, Geoff will probably run on May 9th and we'll do a full blown test day for Roger at Thunderhill on the 13th. The goal will be to have Roger ready to run at Sears for our first AI race in April. I've got some licensing issues that will probably preclude me from W2W until the fall. Roger's 30 years of driving experience from Southwest tour series to former SFR GT-1 champ to Super Production is certainly going to catch some people by surprise, now it'll be making sure the car is up to the task.

First time I went racing with Roger, he hadn't pulled his car out of mothballs for 6 years. We cleaned it up, went down to Willow Springs where he proceeded to qualify on the pole. During the race he spun it into the infield gathered it back up and still won the race. He is incredible.

Looks like we also picked up a paying sponsor, American Chiller Service. They are Geoff's long time employer and have been fascinated by the effort. They been kicking in spent high tonnage chillers that we scrap for the metal value (do you know what copper goes for per lbs these days!) and will kick in some cash and uni's for the team.

With the rush to get ready for Friday gone, I'll spend the next two evenings getting the car all prettied up for the logbook inspection on Saturday. I'll post pics of the car all decaled and striped this weekend.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

We have a racecar!!

Today ranks as number 4 on my list of the absolute best days ever. Only my wedding day and birth of my two sons rank higher. What a rush.

John Lindsey came over, teched the car and issued the logbook. After 3 1/2 years gestation period, we have a racecar. The rollbar has been stamped with our official chassis number.

He flat loves the car, asked me to e-mail some pictures to him and will try to get John Thawley, a writer with "5.0 Mustang" to do an article. Wow, that would be a riot.

I'll post pictures later, we worked late last night getting the car ready and got up early this morning to make sure we had everthing together. I'm going to take a nap.

Bob

[larry_s]

Today ranks as number 4 on my list of the absolute best days ever. Only my wedding day and birth of my two sons rank higher. What a rush.

John Lindsey came over, teched the car and issued the logbook. After 3 1/2 years gestation period, we have a racecar. The rollbar has been stamped with our official chassis number.

He flat loves the car, asked me to e-mail some pictures to him and will try to get John Thawley, a writer with "5.0 Mustang" to do an article. Wow, that would be a riot.

I'll post pictures later, we worked late last night getting the car ready and got up early this morning to make sure we had everthing together. I'm going to take a nap.

Bob

Congrats!!!!

[Pat_in_L.A.]

John Thawley is still alive?

[Horsewidower]

Damn Pat, I don't know the guy. That's what John said.

Well in the interest of throwing far too many photos at you, I've put it in a slideshow. I need to figure out how to edit it, but in the interest of time, here it is:

http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q181/horsewidower/Late%20Build%20Photos/Lipstick%20on%20the%20pig/?albumview=slideshow

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Some Pics

Here are some pics I'm sending to NASA. Let's see what comes of it.

Bob

PS, Pat, its E. John Thawley.

[1HOT4OT]

Man that is sweet!I hope you the best!

Tim