xsboost90

This weekend (sept11/12) the Dragon Somethin' team will be at Putnam park road course near Indianapolis for the Chumpcar races. Each day is a seven hour enduro. Anyone in the area is welcome to come check things out and hang out in the pits with us. I believe admission to spectators is 20 or so. We'll be the ones with the red f150 and the car that looks like a Dragon! See you there.

alxdgr8

Why can't I be in Indy!! Would love to come hang out and watch.

Good luck!

87944turbo

Can't wait! FWIW I confirmed with them the other day that it was $15.

dillon410021

wow, i like how you just added two more 944 headlights. I bet that lights up the road

Van

We had it that way last year at Nelson Ledges... and we had both sets of filaments burning! And it was still damn dark racing at night.

fbgh2o

Dan,

The Dragon is looking good. Which I had know ahead of time... I would have come down... Please let me know next outing.

Darth Coupe

Dragon FTW!!!

xsboost90

Well the weekend started out ok.

We arrived to a freshly wet track saturday morning. Our location was good, car running good and plenty of other cars showed. The track proved slippery early on but only had one spin in the wet. We decided on 1 hour 45 minute driver intervals for the four drivers- myself, Sam, Alan and Ben. Alan made it out alive, after a vicious paper rock sissors battle, Ben was the second driver, then Sam. About half an hour into Sam's session the car suddenly got hot, then proceeded to birth a rod through the oil pan. Not good. We think somehow the new headgasket leaked some water(coolant) into the piston #2 and hydrolocked the cylinder- effectively blowing the rod to bits.

Now we are looking for a good long or short block for a decent price. We will probl go through it first anyway but it needs to be in good shape. Pics to follow im sure from the others...

fbgh2o

Dan, that sucks! Sorry to hear that.

SamGrant951

Sucks big time...car was running great and then it just lost power, started getting warmer - exhaust note changed (not a good sound) and before I could get it into the pits it let go with a bang and a cloud of smoke.

For running 300+ treadwear tires it was pretty hooked up and we were running in 2nd place at the time....must have been the alan arkus alignment.

xsboost90

i have to say that all three of you did a great job keeping the car on the track and keeping us up in podium range. Everyone was commenting how fast we were going out there and how great the car was. I think we drank too much during the head gasket install maybe.

Darth Coupe

Sam put too much actual Shake 'n Bake in the water resevoir during the driver change hoping it would make him slingshot better...

87944turbo

I had a great time, really a shame to see it end that way. I guess if you're going to blow it up you might as well go big and I certainly think we succeeded at that! After seeing the carnage it is pretty amazing that the car still would start and run, if only briefly.

vt951

We just need to come back stronger next time. Project bullet proof 944, coming up! Anyone have a really good running na motor to sell us? Oh yeah, it has to be really cheap.

Dan, sorry you didn't get to drive. That's such a bummer since you did most of the work on the car to get it ready. You go first next time.

vt951

My theory on how Sam broke the car is this... he was cornering so hard around a right hander that the coolant from the reservoir sloshed into the radiator and then the block and pressurized it so hard that it blew the head gasket and forced coolant into cyl #2, causing hydrolock, and BOOM, broken rod. Sam, we're going to have to put 500 treadwear tires on next time to keep you in check.