If anyone is in the area, come out and watch the races. PCA will be joining the SCCA weekend and will have a few cars in our group as well, as our group is the unlimited sports car class. (porsches, nascar, BMWs, mustangs, vets, vipers, etc)

I broke down an bought my second set of tires since 2001. so, it will be interesting how a new set of "A" Hoosiers with the steering rack bushings fixed, works at the track!

Since tires are so expensive now, its imperative to rotate.. im running 4 square tire size, but have to actually dismount and re-mount to put the fronts on the rear rims due to the offset and wheel size.
im thinking of doing that fancy fender modification that was posted many years ago. anyone remember? he split the fender down the seam, and then put a screen spacer and a re-cut to keep the lines parallel. (brilliant) i just found the pics .. Ill have to post and get input. i have a hard time modifying the stock body panels.... especially in a "hack " fashion. anyway, that way, i can put the rear rims (which only need a 1" wider outer rim piece) to make all the rims the same and work on all corners. Plus, it might handle a little better with a slightly wider positioned rim.
thoughts?

 

this was an amazing race car fender spacing project
this is what I'm thinking... but cutting the beautiful fenders is scary and almost sacrilegious

 

The Kibort "racecar" is just a car.....no special history or provenance. Those are just recycled soda pop cans.... So cut away if it makes you happy.

 

I'd like to know how well those headlights work.

 

good point... it's not about how special the car is, though it is special to me for its last 120 days of racing, but tough to cut things.

However, its needed and the alternative is very expensive....so , the chop plan begins! ii need to do it before these tires get mroe than 2 days on them!

 

I predict you will drop 1.5 seconds off your personal best lap time!!!! There is a reason so many other racers cycle out A tires so quickly! You should be in the 1:35's at laguna with fresh rubber!

 

Mark --

Buy a couple strips of aluminum and a pop-rivet gun, a kliko tool and a box of those too. There's a lot more to the project, like figuring out how the front and rear are going to line up with existing door and nose. and the bottom will need to be shimmed out too. Nothing is as easy as it first looks.

There's a good case for adjusting the steering arms on the front spindles to account for the wider track, so the ackerman comes back to where you need it.

 

well, the fresh rubber is purely..........Amazing!!!! wow, even at the very first turn, it feels like its on rails! night and day

its all pretty shimmed out at the bottom. i have more pics and it looks pretty straight forward. what do you suggest i cut with ? cut off wheel or a jig saw with fine blade?

it will be nice to have the same rims on all 4 corners. rim halves on their way.

i have the rivet gun... what are Kilko tools?

 

let's go racing!!

Lots of porsches racing this weekend!

 

thats a stretch, but i did drop about 2 seconds by using brand new vs the '09 scrubs i had from anderson. my 1:36. i did back in 2010 with m. anderosn at that GTGP race. i did it again last year on newer tires.
so, putting the scrubs on AND fixing the steering rack make driving a 1:36.5 effortless. went out , did two slow laps, one faster lap and then hit it for 2 laps. both 1:36.5 and then came in and pulled the tires off the car for the 24 hour rest. what a difference tires make!!

I feel old.. look at the cars out there! my 1987 looks a little out of place.

about 10 folks came over to talk to me about the car. ...... its getting some good attention. I was tailing the nascar truck for qualifying at 650hp, watching him crash into the red birms and get airborn. which i had the video rolling.

now just waiting for the fog to burn off. race starts at 11 if anyone is near by!

Mk

 

Mark --

Klicko (sp?) is a fabricating fastener that is like a removable rivet. You drill a hole, pop one in with the tool, and it holds things together while you continue to fit and drill. It doesn't open up the hole the way a rivet does, so you can put things together and take them apart painlessly as you do all your fitup. Once everything is perfect, you remove them one by one and replace with rivets.

I would cut with a small rotary blade. Jigsaw tears at the metal too much, IMO. A 3" wheel on a die grinder does the job pretty well. Just wear a full face shield and glasses inside, so you'll survive a wheel explosion.

 

Mark/dr Bob,

I had to look it up, here's an example:
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thanks bob... sounds like a plan! cool tool /solution!

 

The race went well. had a great start and then a pretty bad wreck with two cars put us in a caution for a few laps, and on the re-start, i started to hear a growling on left turns (turn9) and some pretty big vibration.. could a wheel bearing cause a wheel hopping type of vibration? had to back off toward the end of the race but there was no position to be lost. when i got in the pits, i jacked up the car and ran the rear wheels up to the vibration speed 100mph, and the right wheel was making a racket. (and bouncing up and down a bit)
took the car for a 50mph cruise when i got home and on the left turns (s turns) the noise seems to follow the right rear. not anwhere near as bad at the high speeds at the track, but still noticible. wheel bearing? could it be the diff? CV joint? there also is a sound like a e-brake spring is flying round in there. dont know if that is the bearing or maybe it is the spring.

(history: i had a loud growel at sears point on right turns, and after changing that one bearing, the noise was illuminated. but that was 10 years ago. this is the same rear end set up.)

ended up in 5th place. pretty good video of a few interesting laps.

 

Well done!

Was there supposed to be an attached video link or did I miss something?