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I dropping this blurb here because I had a heck of a time finding information on how to service this thing. All that came up with the google goggles were were parts suppliers and some Youtube videos that were WAY too long. So, the long story first is I have a 2016 Cadillac CTS-4, the …
This post is going to be a sad one. We’re scrapping the 2025 season. At least as far as we can tell. The reasons are many, but the biggest is we lost another engine. The Buick did really well this year, no major problems until the Time Trials Nationals in October, where the only problems …
Read More “Looking forward to 2025 and a season that might not be.”
We just returned from NCM Motorsport Park and the 2024 SCCA Time Trials Nationals. The recent announcement that the event would be moving to PittRace in 2025 put a bit of a period on this year’s event. So this could be the last time to lay down records at NCM for this event, at least …
In what was easily the most ambitious automotive venture of my career thus far, I towed all the way to the legendary and historic Laguna Seca in Monteray, California, for an Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event. When they announced this year’s schedule, I couldn’t ignore the two bucket list tracks that weren’t …
We’re back, baby! Well, maybe not totally, but we made it through an event and the car is still running and at no point during the weekend was it on fire. We traveled to the Big Easy for the second round of the 2023 Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car. The NOLA event is …
Well, we’ve had a few weeks to dig into the project Corvette, and we have a good bit of stuff to report. This thing is a mess. Rust, rodent infestation, water damage, mechanical issues, bad paint, destroyed seats, old tires… this thing has almost everything wrong it possibly could have wrong. It’s perfect. The first …
Read More “The Assessment (boy howdy, mountains of work to do!)”
For the last twenty years, I’ve been doing more with less. I’ve turned a V6 sedan into a track car that’s made it to the top of the Pro-Touring heap twice with trips to SEMA and the OUSCI. Managing that required overcoming deficiencies inherent the platform itself. The Buick Regal was a sedan designed in …
Read More “Let’s try something more appropriate for a change!”
2022 was a rocky mess for us. Breakage in 2021 ran into the supply chain COVID mess, leaving us with just two major events, at which we broke at both of them. The RX-8 experiment ended at the Time Trials Nationals with an exploded clutch, and the Probe’s post-rebuild debut was marred by an oil …
So, 2022 was a thing. From a racing standpoint, it sucked. No wins. Broken stuff. Embarrassing track oildowns, and general carnage. I started with a disappointing finish at the Pine Mountain Hill Climb, followed by the explosion of the clutch in the RX-8 at the SCCA Time Trials Nationals. Then a few local events where …
This will be a long one. Finally here. After over a year. We’ve arrived. Before I tell you where we are, let’s recap where we’ve been. At the SCCA Time Trials Nationals last summer, on June 9, 2021, during the first lap of the first practice session on Thursday, the $300 junkyard “JDM KLZE” engine …