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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I’ve added a couple more red wagons to the fleet - one to carry my junk in the pits, the other to amuse me while I’m writing the checks for my junk in the pits. And here’s a vintage Revell model in my buddies toy box…

Laguna Seca can be a tough track on a race car. The drop into the Corkscrew is like jumping your car off a small ramp, and at speed you pretty much bottom it out. Listening to the heavy big-bore cars go through there is downright scary, lots of  sparks flying and metal dragging going on. Now do that for [...]

In prep for this upcoming weekend’s SCCA Vintage race weekend at Laguna Seca, I took the Race Wagon down to the secret location of the IEM Racing bat-cave for a suspension and steering tune-up. We strung up a string box to confirm front-to-rear alignment, reset the front and rear toe and camber settings, then adjusted [...]

Wagons, wagons, everywhere… Maybe I’m just noticing old stationwagons more these days, but at this weekend’s race there were cool wagons everywhere! I’ve never been a trend setter, so it’s certainly not my doing, but I sure like this fad. These wagons were all cruising the pits at Willow Springs, except the last shot, that one’s [...]