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I sold the RX-8. That experiment didn’t work out like I wanted. The car made it through the Pine Mountain Hillclimb without incident, but the clutch failed at the SCCA Time Trial Nationals. During the TT Nats, I also found out the engine was hurt. The combination of busted clutch and the need for a …
Event Prep With the Probe still laid up waiting, and the Pine Mountain Hillclimb fast approaching, I made the decision to outfit the RX-8 with the proper safety equipment to run the event. That means a four point roll bar, harnesses, and a fire bottle. Since the factory seats don’t have provisions for a harness, …
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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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 …
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
It’s been awhile since we’ve updated anything here. Time for a long post. The tldr; Turbocharged the Probe Tuned the Probe Raced the Probe and broke it Fixed the Probe Race the Probe again and really broke it Switched to the Buick Raced the Buick, broke it Fixed the Buick Raced the Buick again That’s …
Read More “Huge Update! Time Trials, Optima, explosions, fire!”
The Buick hasn’t had much done to it in the last year or so. With it being gone six months to Saudi Arabia over the ’19-’20 winter, and me racing the Probe mostly last year, the Buick’s been basically sitting and doing a great job of holding the garage floor down. But that changes today. …