I’ve been racing the Wagon for one year now, and as I’m starting to get my lap times down, I’m dealing with a bit of front end push. The standard solution is to either soften up the front or stiffen up the rear. I went full soft on my front swaybar, and that helped a [...]
This weekend I joined HSR-West at Willow Springs Int’l Raceway for their Fall event. Ed Swart always puts on a nice weekend, and this was no exception. Unfortuantley the tough economy is taking its toll, and participation was smaller than usual. When I started racing cars ten years ago, I used to hope for a [...]
My 40 year old radiator has earned it’s retirement, but I’ll keep it as part of my ‘race spares’ package. It has been replaced with a small, universal aluminum AFCO unit from Summit Racing for about $250. To use it I needed to set up a different mounting system, and change the angles of the inlet/outlet [...]
Today I put the 4.38 R180 diff back in after converting it to a Limited Slip. I used a Nissan Motorsports 115mm 4 pinion clutch type LSD from Nissan Parts Warehouse. I had John at S.F. Differential shim it up for me to get the correct gear contact pattern. I removed my spare unit which is a welded 4.11 R160. [...]
This weekend I made the trip down to Buttonwillow Raceway to compete in VARA’s annual Octoberfest event (Septemberfest?). The turnout was quite healthy with over 140 competitors, and the wknd featured two special races: the All German Car race and the Formula Vee Challenge. VARA rekindled the Saturday night potluck dinner and it was a smashing success. While the weather [...]
Gracie’s new ride…
Yesterday I went to Infineon Raceway to watch my buddy John Teaby celebrate his 59th birthday by making a return to SCCA racing. Some years ago he was a SCCA National front runner in small-bore, but he’s making his return in SCCA’s newest big-bore class, SS. He’s racing his Factory Five Cobra and it’s wearing the [...]
My posts have been far and few between this summer as a busy work schedule has kept me out of the garage. I finally got around to pulling the cover off the Wagon for the first time since my last race wknd over two months ago as I had just put it away dirty and left [...]