Wednesday, July 29, 2020
IMSA and Spec Miata Charity Race at Road America 8/1 & 8/2
Looking forward to racing at Road America; it is a fund-racing event? Fund-raising-racing event? :D Over 50 Miatas to race with.... the race will be a 1 hour mini-endurance race! This should be fun! Not only that IMSA is racing there as well! I have room for a crew person or two if someone wants to go along!
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
SCCA race at Brainerd International Raceway 07/10/2020~07/11/2020
Sponsor shot of assholeconsulting.com
Simplified screen shot of data
I love my QuickJack; even though it isn't recommended, it works well on the flat and hard sandy soil.
TransAm lining up in the false grid.
Some of the cars that showed up for "lunch time touring/Spectator laps"...aka, donate $10 and anyone can take their car out on track during lunch behind the pace car.
Saturday's race
The start of Sunday's race, sadly the camera quit working after the first lap.....<sad face>
The TransAm race was streamed...here is the TA2YouTube link and the Production Classes race: YouTube Link.
Rick Corwine Gallery of pictures
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
More Spec Miata race prep
The SpecMiata visited The Alignment Guy to get a check on the alignment, and bit of tweaking after adding in all the ballast weights. The car needs to weigh 2400lbs when pulling off the track, with just below 3/4 tank of fuel we are at 2423 lbs. Which is pretty close.
Monday, April 13, 2020
so long parts car
Many moons ago I bought a Miata off of Craigslist, it was totaled out due to a front end collision, sold at an insurance action, a guy bought it, tried to fix it and figured it was beyond his talent level. I bought it, and put the motor into the Spec Miata, then the transmission got donated, and several other random bits to both the race and street cars. Well enough items have been picked off the chassis and I need the space, so......off to the recycler!
Sunday, April 5, 2020
More Progress on Spec Miata
Rear differential is back, all of car is back together. Tried to straighten out the frame rail jacking points and welded in proper re-enforcement for jacking and four 10lb plates for ballast.
Thanks to Darrin at Lenksters Custom Garage
Monday, March 30, 2020
Progress on the Spec Miata
Took some time to work on the race car.
Front sub-frame gussets
Rear differential bushings & the rear differential gusset
Special thanks to Lenksters Custom Garage!
Friday, March 20, 2020
ChampCar @ Harris Hill RaceWay 3/14~3/15
This post is a mess, I wanted to get something up, will update later.
ChampCar Endurance race at Harris Hill Raceway in San Marcos, TX
Saturday we worked our way up to P2 overall, first in class, fourth driver went out with the tires looking really wore down on the outer edges but we sent him out anyways. He made it just under an hour with before coming in saying the car was unstable, driver change, four tires, fuel, and ice for clear shirt cooler. Then the car decided not to start!! We spent the last hour of the race trouble shooting the car. For some reason the car lost power to both the ECU and the fuel pump!
Sunday
ChampCar Endurance race at Harris Hill Raceway in San Marcos, TX
Saturday we worked our way up to P2 overall, first in class, fourth driver went out with the tires looking really wore down on the outer edges but we sent him out anyways. He made it just under an hour with before coming in saying the car was unstable, driver change, four tires, fuel, and ice for clear shirt cooler. Then the car decided not to start!! We spent the last hour of the race trouble shooting the car. For some reason the car lost power to both the ECU and the fuel pump!
Sunday
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Friday, February 7, 2020
Saturday, January 25, 2020
New toy: Quickjack
After debating about it for roughly two years, I finally gave into temptation and bought one. So far I love it! We will see if it is worth while bring it along to the race track. I mean if everything goes according to plan, I am doing nothing more than rotating tires, but really who am I kidding, sh!t breaks all the time!
After much debate I settled on the 12 volt vs the 110 volt version. Simply because I can't always be sure of what source of elections will be available.
The first car I lifted was a friend's Infinity, which officially is to heavy and long for it. The jack did fine, I don't plan on making a habit of going beyond specifications, this car was just easy to do a test. FWIW those of us with early Miatas need to get the 3500lb version. The 5000lb version is too long for the Miata wheelbase. Also Costco and Home Depot sell the 5k version. The 3.5, 5,and 7k versions are available at www.quickjack.com and other re-sellers.
Friday, December 20, 2019
I was on a Podcast!
I was a guest on an automotive enthusiast podcast called B-Squad Hot Rod! It's a podcast about armatures getting neck deep into automotive culture. We had a fun time talking about winter tires, Miata's, racing with Land O' Lakes Region SCCA, NASA, and IIRA Ice Racing, Minnesota. For being a live interview, I don't think I put my foot too far in my mouth! 
For new listeners,to this show, some of the humor is kind of is specific to the podcast; for instance: an orange cone means the topic has been brought way off topic.
For new listeners,to this show, some of the humor is kind of is specific to the podcast; for instance: an orange cone means the topic has been brought way off topic.
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