That Ruled.



I had my best race yet and Snowspeeder ran like a champ for most of the race. The trip from Salt Lake was smooth sailing and got to enjoy the company of both Joe's Snowspeeder team and thh Knights Of The Round Track. This was among my favorite racing events.

Rain poured as we set up Friday, but skys cleared in the afternoon and we had great weather for the rest of the weekend.

During the race I accomplished my goal to keep the car on track and out of the penalty box. I probably deserved a couple flags for two wheels off and passing under yellow, but the workers either missed them or were too busy with more serious infractions. I felt great about my relaxed, defensive driving, and even managed to hold our team's fastest lap until Randal got his next turn.
Joe's car was pulling strong and the suspension felt perfect.

Mid-Sunday though, problems started. First we burned through our front brake pads and wrecked a caliper. Paul had a whole front hub/brake assembly for us and we were back out in minutes. Then Joe came in with a shaky wheel that turned out to be a rear axle snapped at the hub. The wheel was only held on by the brake caliper holding the rotor. I'm sure this was cracked back at an Altamont race and finally gave completely. Another spare from Paul again had us back on the track in minutes. Then we started overheating. We saw a lot of air under the cap and it looked like there must be a decent leak. We borrowed Eyesore Racing's weed-sprayer coolant injector and hooked it up the way we did in V-RAM at Buttonwillow, but this didn't help as much this time. Unfortunately by the time we recovered from our final overheat, the checker flag was flying and we were not allowed back on course to cross it. Dang!

Oh yeah, the officials noticed mid Saturday our transponder was not working. Shit. It would have been nice to have all of our lap data and to know how we actually placed. With a few hours of our most consistent driving unaccounted, we finished 78th or something. We'll try to figure how many laps to add and make a corrected guess at our actual finishing position.

We didn't get to pit by Team Eyesore this race, but we did have Snowspeeder, Knights, Killer Bee, and Free Range right in a row. It was also great to have the Nerd Herd MR2 and the Cannonball Bandits Corolla FX16 on the other side of us. As always all the teams I met were great.

A couple notable entries at this race: Team Diplomatic Immunity with a V12 Mercedes. They ruffled a lot of feathers with such a blatant cheater that was valued at $130000 when newish, but it was so over-the top I had to applaud them from bringing such a wrong car. They weren't very competitive so no harm done, and the organizers exercised the claiming clause to discourage anyone from trying to pull a stunt like that again.
Also there was another motorcycle powered econo-box (like the Geo Metro-Gnome project) and my fave at this race: A dinky Honda Z600 powered by a Magna V65 engine.






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Types of Car Modification

Once you clay a car on a combination of several modifications to the car?
If not, now you can see a car that was created in Kuwait, north-east corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

As you can see, the headlights from a BMW 7-Series, his Body Nissan Maxima, the front bumper of a BMW M3, the door was taken from the Lamborghini style with gullwing rear doors, rear wing Supra and many more. Curious, you look better aja pictures below. Oath MODIFICATIONS this car cool.

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Car modification

For the needs of 'dressing' is, in many ways done, start and change Spareparts, add accessories, and even remove part of the standard car. No wonder if in the end of this process is time consuming and excessive costs.

Yes, modifications to get around the inconvenience alternatives and maximize the car functions. Modifications were born as a lifestyle trend. In addition, given the opportunity to express penghobi automobile engineering and the desire to add value. Proved, the cars built up a selling price higher than the standard car with factory specifications.

Unmitigated, all angles and the surface of the target vehicle 'Rombak'. Body, engine, suspension, and each including a part of the makeup. Now, there are options on the vehicle owner, not what kind of modification? From the form of a simple modification to the extreme, everything can be done.



For example, the condition is not satisfied with the standard engine car, the car owner to modify the engine to produce additional power from 25 to 100% of labor standards. Not simply to increase the capability and reliability of the engine, engine performance modifications are usually for various needs, such as the rally, racing, sprint up the short distances (drag race).

For the chassis of a car, car owners typically modify the transmission and suspension systems. For transmission, an extreme modification of the standard form is to form close-ratio (the ratio of each tooth close to each other). This is usually used to rally the needed shift without reducing the speed of the engine power.

And, for the suspension, there are two mainstream styles that are often applied, namely style 'tall' and 'pan' which had a boom in the 90's. 'Rombak' which is often done as a joint cross-coupling and axle. The most extreme is to reduce the screw per snail or per leaf pressed flat.

In addition to the extreme modification style, there are modifications styles that are original and Nostalgic. Change the style of this modification was no longer deals with the accessory 'weird' is installed, but how could the original accessories installed on the car.

When talking about the style nostalgia modifications, the cars are used as 'raw material' was also the era cars that are no longer produced by the manufacturer. VW Golf Call it a form of production in 1974 returned to the sport through the installation style front bumper, side bumper (side skirt), rear wing, mudguard, and an alloy sports accessory. Still in the style of this modification, aluminum bumper counted as an important accessory hunted.

Speaking of functions, there is also a growing force modifications and survive. Style modification is known as 'elegant' or 'VIP'. Basically, the two styles of cars that put the minimalist and sweet to see. Most, look 'flat' with the addition of bumpers, large alloy wheels and thin tires following. Problem paint, these two styles of color preference of black and white standards. Difference, the term is more familiar with the elegant saloon-European sedans such as BMW and Mercedes.

Meanwhile, 'VIP' is a term familiar with sedan-sized Japanese sedans, such as the Toyota Crown and Lexus. One thing unique and stylish VIP is the installation of 'chamber kit' that can make the wheel a little askew, like the polio-legs when viewed from the front, top and protrudes into the bottom look to the outside. However, this section can be dismantled-pairs as needed.

So far, the style continues modifications. Boredom, arguably the main factor of birth. Some modifikator already looks bored with extreme force. Meanwhile, the originator of the style american style-including style muscle car with the cars age from 60 to 70 of the V8 engine, began to appear.

Like the trend of clothing, as the development, modification style trends successive cars every season. Some modifications style has now been abandoned and the other style was born. Yup, proliferation of modifications and accessories shop, the role of print media, electronic, club car pehobi modifications, until the implementation of event-event contests and exhibitions provide opportunities for more widespread 'culture' car modifications.

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