How was Buttonwillow? Great! More details to follow but in a nutshell:
Joe and Randal left the Snowspeeder home for this race and drove V-RAM with me. We were also joined by Dan Barnes, a friend of the Eyesores who we met at Thunderhill last winter.
Overheating was not resolved. The new water pump helped but we were still getting air in the cooling system. Saturday Randal rigged a weed killer spray bottle to our cooling system (little idea we borrowed from Eyesore) and strapped it into the cab. We could pump water into the system while driving down the front straight. It worked GREAT and we didn't overheat once on day two.
We stayed up until 1AM replacing our pogo-sticks with new struts. They were an immense improvement.
I rigged a cardboard radiator scoop that was surprisingly durable.
We melted our ignition coil Sunday afternoon leaving Joe dead on the track right in front of the observation tower.
(That's all I have time for now. Pics and more details to follow.)
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