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A month of work reviving an old Mazda culminated in a successful SCCA National Tour event. I’m happy. Back in February, I bought a 2004 Mazda RX-8 off a friend. He had bought it off a guy in Tennessee a year or two earlier, and just hadn’t had time to mess with it. When I …
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It happened. The new pistons for the Probe’s engine have finally arrived, and boy are they pretty. These puppies are 85mm in diameter, 9.3:1 compression, forged aluminium copies of the OE piston. They feature improved quench areas and reinforced pin bosses. CP Carillo even sent back the rod and piston I sent them so they …
I was honored to be featured on the latest episode of the Classic Car Corner Podcast! Check it out! https://gdherring.com/journal/the-buick-grand-national-with-andrew-scott/
I bought another Mazda. This time it’s a genuine one, and it’s in good shape. Quite the departure from the Probe when I brought it home. So, without further ado, meet my New-to-Me Mazda RX-8: It’s a 2004 Model, dark green metallic. The tub is rust free and all original. The car does have a …
After over a decade of serious competition that included one Kentucky Region SCCA CAM-T championship, five top-ten GTV finishes at Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car qualifier events, two Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitationals and an amazing trip to Saudi Arabia, we blew both head gaskets in Vegas at the 2021 OUSCI. It’s time …
In our last post, we mentioned the car wasn’t running right beginning in the second road course session. Once we got home and had some time, we compression checked the engine and got a nasty surprise. Yes, positive evidence of a blown head gasket. Unfortunately, I put ARP head studs in this engine. That means …
Well, I’ve been home less than 24 hours as I begin to write this and I’m still sort of flipping through the week in my head. The last time we made it to the OUSCI was 2018. Pre-COVID, SEMA was a full-strength show with nearly 200,000 attendees. Fast forward to this year, and attendance was …
So, I’ve done at least half a dozen recaps of events at NCM, you can go digging into the archives if you want more nitty gritty details. I’m going to give you the final numbers: Finished 7th in GTV at the event.Finished 8th in GTV Overall for the season. Here’s a great picture that drives …
We’ve started the reconstruction! If you’re bored due to the Facebook outage, we have about seven minutes of stuff to keep you occupied! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6q6FAMGm6k
What a weekend. With the demise of the Probe’s second engine at Time Trials, we’ve been campaigning the Buick. We had an encouraging event at Atlanta Motorsports Park, with a solid 385 point performance despite the car giving us fits, basically refusing to run properly at wide open throttle. But, we did well enough, and …
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