Archive for October, 2007
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Work Day Fifteen
There’s a “cut the blue wire” joke in this picture someplace.Seats and harnesses are in. We’re putting in the sections of roll bar that will also support the seats. We’re wiring dash instrumentation. Skips is mounting tires on our cherry rims on Monday. We have a great new sponsor I’ll be announcing shortly.
I couldn’t [...]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Pop quiz
I downloaded the 27 pages of driving directions from the SCORE website. All I can say is that we’re carrying two GPS units in the car and hoping I never have to crack the binder that the print directions will be in.
Take a look at the three instructions above and try to guess what [...]
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Work Day Thirteen
Check out the cherry race rim.Richard has headed off to Southern California to pick up the engine. The rims are back from the powder coater and they look fabulous. We opted for red in honor of Eric Solorzano’s car, since he’s been such a major help for us. Also started work cutting the new dashboard.
It’s [...]
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
DD feature on World Diabetes Day website
The International Diabetes Federation has posted a feature on the team on its website. It’s part of the donation page. You can check it out here.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Eric’s new paint job
Eric Solorzano got a new paint job for his Class 11. Very snazzy.
Photo originally posted by Chromoly77.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
We’re registered
Put down the deposit for the race registration this morning.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
GPSing the race
If we’re going to the coast, I’m pulling over for some whale watching.
SCORE released the official GPS track for the race and Seth switched it to a .KML file to work with work with Google Earth. It’s makes for an interesting tour.
Download the .KML file here.
Work continues today. I’m driving the Millennium Falcon’s air cleaner [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
29 days and counting
Shawn lounges on a cruise ship with a blue drink.*
I spent the evening with Seth “Blue Cross” Schrenzel tonight in San Francisco. In addition to providing our chase vehicle, being an emergency room nurse (who will quickly tire of my “Seth, it hurts when I do this” joke), he’s also a master logistician and has [...]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Work Day Twelve
Wasabi supervises Skid as he buttons up the rear suspension.
The UPS truck is making nearly daily stops with equipment for the car. More work on the roll cage this weekend, along with work on the suspension. Seats are due any day. We’ve scheduled a meeting with SCORE on October 26 in SoCal to give the [...]
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Donaldson lends us a hand
Donaldson Company, Inc., is a leading worldwide provider of filtration systems and replacement parts. The company is providing us with an industrial air cleaner and filter for the race engine.
