Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Fenderless
The shocks aren’t on. Nor are the fenders. But check out the clearance we have now, courtesy of Eric, Sam and Crusty.
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
“Because engines want to have fun, too.”
One of the last things Eric and Sam did before buttoning up the car was to tune the engine. Adjust the valves. Check. Adjust the timing. Check. Pour a bottle of beer in the carburetor. Check.
(Note that this Corona has a slice of lemon in it).
For the record, the engine ran remarkably better […]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
A weekend of work on 1101
Crusty and Sam work on hammering out the front end of 1101.
Eric Solorzano and his longtime friend and co-driver “Yosemite” Sam drove up to San Jose this past week to work their magic on 1101. By the time they buttoned it up on Saturday afternoon, we had a good 3-4 additional inches of clearance on […]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Max designs a DDR decal
Max Davis dropped off a big batch of new decals he designed for us. We’ll probably do a big run of these in advance of the 1000.
(To anyone who wonders, it’s a cow, not a deer.)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
What breaks. What they carry.
A couple weeks back I posted on the Class 11 Coalition forum a question - “What breaks, what do you carry?” One of the greatest challenges for racing any desert class is what tools and spare parts you carry in the car and what you carry in the chase vehicles.
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