24 Hours of Lemons - The Official Event Picture Thread - Focaljet

**thefrush** · 10-09-2006, 02:06 PM

Figured I'd get this started, here's just 18 of the 88 pics I took on Day 2.

An early morning Focus line. Later in the day, as we were packing up the cars, one of the members of the GTI team next to us asked 'Did you guys buy your cars in bulk?'

Who wants some negative camber?!

Adding value to the car.

Brad lining up to start the second day of racing.

Coming in for a pit. Don't worry, the camera was replaced with windshield spray before the car even came to a stop.

The swaybar worked REALLY well for the first few hours, then... not so much.

Go lil Pirate Ninja!

Fire those frickin lasers!

This wheel came off of the 33 Demo Derby Devil car, I can't seem to figure out why.

Quite a theme. This car later got penalized with a panel of spikes welded to the radiator for driving wrecklessly. If he bumped anything, his radiator was gone.

Pirate ninja taking flight!

That paint job didn't last too long. Here we see some paint swapped from our neighbor GTI. Rubbin's racin!

Good job guys.

Hi-yarrrrrrrrgh!

Here's the RR tire after the completion of the race, there was some extreme rubbing going on and it's safe to say that tire wouldn't have lasted another lap or two, good timing.

Hi-youch.

What a trooper.

I can't thank you guys enough for letting me be a part of this, it's something I'll never forget and I look forward to it next year.

Kinda scary that Lorin and I were already browsing craigslist last night after dinner.

Thanks again, this is a fine group of pirate ninjas we have here.

**hotrodkris** · 10-09-2006, 02:49 PM

Woot! The graphics sure held up well!

**bigdaddyzx3** · 10-09-2006, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hotrodkris

Woot! The graphics sure held up well!

Amazingly better than the paint on our friend's Cutlass.

Great first pics Alex!!!

Just killing me that I wasn't there.

**eeeeek** · 10-09-2006, 03:12 PM

OMG, this is perfect!

Before:

After:

Now the pictures arms race has begun! I've got a couple hundred to offload and Alan (the 6'7" freak) was shooting HD video.

Nice job on getting the pics up so quickly!

Damn, I'm still giddy about this whole thing!

**OmniFocus** · 10-09-2006, 03:19 PM

That's fantastic! The angles match and everything.

The ol' girl did well.... Now she looks like a perfect candidate for a demo derby.

**eeeeek** · 10-09-2006, 03:58 PM

For your enjoyment. This one is entirely of our team. We'll have others done that aren't so "us-centric" later.

Gulf 47 D1 Cutlass of Death slideshow

**bigdaddyzx3** · 10-09-2006, 04:07 PM

Nice work!

You guys sustained a fair amount of damage as well. Anything significant you might want to share?

**Jared** · 10-09-2006, 04:08 PM

Haha that is so great. I wish I lived in Cali. The only thing that bothered me was that someone entered a BMW 2002 in this, those deserve better

**OmniFocus** · 10-09-2006, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jared

Haha that is so great. I wish I lived in Cali. The only thing that bothered me was that someone entered a BMW 2002 in this, those deserve better

Trust me when I say that 2002 was in unrestorable condition!

EDIT: I mean... PRIOR to the event, that is.

Though they spent months with salt and water creating the sweetest REAL rust flame job ever.

**thefrush** · 10-09-2006, 05:17 PM

The big hits that I saw the D1 Cutty take were a couple of slides into the big tire at the exit of ****e House Curve inflicting the damage we see on the passenger door and a nice smack to the front end from the Neo-**** Camaro during a battle they had going on. That was the loudest collision of the day that I remember.

**thefrush** · 10-09-2006, 05:38 PM

Here's an album of pictures that someone took.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seat850/

**BUR_ZX3** · 10-09-2006, 05:40 PM

Congrats guys! We wanted to make it down there but didn't end up leaving Sac'to until too late.

But well done effort. I think SoCal will have to represent next year fo sho!

**Queen Jade** · 10-09-2006, 06:02 PM

OMG, I can't even stand to look at that first photo of Ryan right after the crash. I almost fainted I swear. I heard and felt the impact loud and clear from the fence where I was standing. It was his last damn lap then he was pitting to change drivers. If only we would have flagged him sooner because his time was up 2 min prior to the crash...we just didn't have a radio or a watch on him to contact him. We were trying to flag him down with a pit sign on a dry erase board.

But my iron man pulled through like a champ. He helped fix the car and get it back out on the track and had a great run the next day. Way to go lowlife!

**tallguy2.3** · 10-09-2006, 07:43 PM

Wow, that must have been a fun day!

**gielamonster** · 10-09-2006, 10:50 PM

Greetings Pirate Ninjas. Found your thread and thought I'd add our pictures. I helped out the Black Iron Racing guys this weekend, what a blast. You can count on me prepping my own entry for next year, I'm betting the bar will be raised way over this year now that people have some clue how the event works.

Here's a link to our pictures. Just a gallery for now, I'll probably revamp it to include some back story and build details in a few days.

http://evilengineering.com/lemons/

Here are a few highlight photos. A before and after of our car...

Things started off pretty well for us. There wasn't any qualifying, so the starting order was just the order you lined up in the pits. We were 2nd by lap 10, took the lead a few laps later, and then opened up a bit of a gap until our first pit stop around lap 60. Turned out the front swaybar had ripped loose, no more bushings in sight. We wasted some time removing it carefully incase we wanted to reinstall it with some new bushings later. Back down to mid pack again they fought back up the pack, but were sidelined again after a disagreement with one of those huge 6' tractor tires out there...

Some experimenting with the new steering geometry got us pointed strait again, but we were now way off the pace. A couple of blown tires didn't help...

By the end of the first day, I think we were back up to ~7th, about 50-60 laps behind the leader. Check out the tire smoke, one wheel peel FTW...

Sunday morning started off with a nice bang, in the form of 4 burlap bags filled with nickles!

$1000 prize for the People's Choice award. Thanks everyone, this was REALLY not expected, and a great feeling! The best feeling was finding out that we weren't stuck with the People's Curse. It didn't turn out to be as crippling as it looked, the car started right up and race the entire rest of the day...

Racing on Sunday was very uneventful. We focused on just piling up the laps, trying to close on the leaders. The first driver was out for almost 3 hours, stopping only for a spin of the "wheel of misfortune". We landed on "train in vain" which equates to a pair of training wheels welded to the car...

This kind of stuff really set the event apart. Trying for the win was really only an afterthought, just getting out there and having fun was all that mattered.

We were into our 3rd and final driver for the day when disaster struck. With about 90 minutes remaining, the car inexplicably stalled out, and wouldn't even turn over. Still don't have a conclusive autopsy report, but the biggest factors were a cut auto trans cooler line, spilling all the vital fluid, and an engine that won't turn over, either with a starter or a wrench on the crank. My limited knowledge of auto transmissions tells me that even if it was seized up and shot, it shouldn't keep the engine from turning. So I suspect its something in the bottom end, probably a spun bearing or two from a low oil level and the negative G's over some of the bumps and jumps letting the oil pump suck air.

Here she is after about 10 hours of hard-fought racing...

Before it broke, we had snuck up to 5th, a lap down on 4th, and on pace for what would have been a 3rd place finish. Up from I believe a low position of 17th late on Saturday. So we were really happy with the car's performance, and can't really fault it for letting go after blasting through ~10 hours of hard racing action at this point in its life! The things friggin 20 years old!

Again, we had a great time at the event, and can't wait for next year. I started looking for prospects this morning. You guys better have some new things planned or you'll be left in the dust!

Here are some random action shots from throughout the race. I tried to take a lot of pit and on-track shots of the rest of the field, so if you don't see your car here, be sure to check the full gallery...

http://evilengineering.com/lemons/

I have about 20 pictures coming up, time for the page down button...

**Mrs. Blue** · 10-09-2006, 11:23 PM

I wanna say thanks to everyone who helped with car. Our team had an incredible weekend. Hopefully we can do it all again next year!

Here are a few of our pictures:

Lorin on the first lap out.

After the big hit:

Our custom grill:

Rob's girlfriend

:

Leslie with Rob's girlfriend:

The girls after the destruction:

1WHLOFF

:

The team watchin' the race:

Lorin chasing down the Sports Compact Car Celica:

The awesome pit crew:

Pirate Ninjas with (frickin') Lasers:

**Z63R** · 10-09-2006, 11:30 PM

LMAO...

...and...

BRAVO!

Quote:

thefrush

This car later got penalized with a panel of spikes welded to the radiator for driving wrecklessly. If he bumped anything, his radiator was gone.

Brilliant!

This is a great pic:

**bigdaddyzx3** · 10-09-2006, 11:54 PM

I'm sliding into a deep dark depression.

You guys had way too much fun for me to not be there.

DAMMIT!

I'm gonna log onto craigslist right now. Time to find next year's car.
What should I look for? Obviously something with more power.

**OmniFocus** · 10-09-2006, 11:58 PM

We have many new theories on many formulae that would work well... all of which include more than 62hp... some of which include similarly sized cars.

**bigdaddyzx3** · 10-10-2006, 12:02 AM

Yes....

so what do you want me to look for?

**brads03zx3** · 10-10-2006, 12:08 AM

A car <$500

Cars that did well
BMW 3 series
VW golf/rabbit (well, besides leaking fuel lines on brakes and testing the roll cage)
pig oldsmobile that blocked like no other
CRX (I don't know if y'all are willing to go that far) but I would suggest a less tail happy bar combo than the white one

cars that died quickly
I don't remember...it was a long time ago

Cars that died slowly
anything with weight. Well, unless you manage to carry several spare hubs and 10 sets of r-comps
neon (that piece of junk just would not die, or did it die 9 times

)

10-09-2006, 02:06 PM	#1
thefrush I <3 dyno queens Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 9,350	24 Hours of Lemons - The Official Event Picture Thread Figured I'd get this started, here's just 18 of the 88 pics I took on Day 2. An early morning Focus line. Later in the day, as we were packing up the cars, one of the members of the GTI team next to us asked 'Did you guys buy your cars in bulk?' Who wants some negative camber?! Adding value to the car. Brad lining up to start the second day of racing. Coming in for a pit. Don't worry, the camera was replaced with windshield spray before the car even came to a stop. The swaybar worked REALLY well for the first few hours, then... not so much. Go lil Pirate Ninja! Fire those frickin lasers! This wheel came off of the 33 Demo Derby Devil car, I can't seem to figure out why. Quite a theme. This car later got penalized with a panel of spikes welded to the radiator for driving wrecklessly. If he bumped anything, his radiator was gone. Pirate ninja taking flight! That paint job didn't last too long. Here we see some paint swapped from our neighbor GTI. Rubbin's racin! Good job guys. Hi-yarrrrrrrrgh! Here's the RR tire after the completion of the race, there was some extreme rubbing going on and it's safe to say that tire wouldn't have lasted another lap or two, good timing. Hi-youch. What a trooper. I can't thank you guys enough for letting me be a part of this, it's something I'll never forget and I look forward to it next year. Kinda scary that Lorin and I were already browsing craigslist last night after dinner. Thanks again, this is a fine group of pirate ninjas we have here. __________________ Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the "shaft" in crankshaft. So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1929! Last edited by thefrush : 10-10-2006 at 12:39 AM.

10-09-2006, 02:49 PM	#2
hotrodkris I wanna cast Magic Missile! Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: I <3 LAMP Posts: 26,901	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Woot! The graphics sure held up well! __________________ >>>PirateNinjasWithLasers.com is now live!<<< Official Pace Car of Vacuum Vulture Racing - Have you kicked your wombat lately?

10-09-2006, 03:12 PM	#4
eeeeek Rookie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 40	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread OMG, this is perfect! Before: After: Now the pictures arms race has begun! I've got a couple hundred to offload and Alan (the 6'7" freak) was shooting HD video. Nice job on getting the pics up so quickly! Damn, I'm still giddy about this whole thing!

10-09-2006, 03:19 PM	#5
OmniFocus Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Mowin' down the cones. (CA) Posts: 25,823	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread That's fantastic! The angles match and everything. The ol' girl did well.... Now she looks like a perfect candidate for a demo derby. __________________ Check out the shiny new PirateNinjasWithLasers.com for the latest updates in 24 Hours of LeMons goodness. Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the "rad" in scrub radius, and the "ack" in ackerman.

10-09-2006, 03:58 PM	#6
eeeeek Rookie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 40	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread For your enjoyment. This one is entirely of our team. We'll have others done that aren't so "us-centric" later. Gulf 47 D1 Cutlass of Death slideshow

10-09-2006, 04:08 PM	#8
Jared Moderator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Allentown, PA Posts: 15,758	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Haha that is so great. I wish I lived in Cali. The only thing that bothered me was that someone entered a BMW 2002 in this, those deserve better

10-09-2006, 05:17 PM	#10
thefrush I <3 dyno queens Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 9,350	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread The big hits that I saw the D1 Cutty take were a couple of slides into the big tire at the exit of **e House Curve inflicting the damage we see on the passenger door and a nice smack to the front end from the Neo-** Camaro during a battle they had going on. That was the loudest collision of the day that I remember. __________________ Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the "shaft" in crankshaft. So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1929!

10-09-2006, 05:38 PM	#11
thefrush I <3 dyno queens Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 9,350	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Here's an album of pictures that someone took. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seat850/ __________________ Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the "shaft" in crankshaft. So tonight we're gonna party like it's 1929! Last edited by thefrush : 10-09-2006 at 05:54 PM.

10-09-2006, 05:40 PM	#12
BUR_ZX3 [FJ] Addict Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: On the Set of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Posts: 35,277	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Congrats guys! We wanted to make it down there but didn't end up leaving Sac'to until too late. But well done effort. I think SoCal will have to represent next year fo sho! __________________ Formerly known as "The Spicy Sausage Bandit"

10-09-2006, 06:02 PM	#13
Queen Jade Grand Master Mabel listens to Death Metal and flips you off! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beat boxin with Mrs. Blue. Posts: 1,936	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread OMG, I can't even stand to look at that first photo of Ryan right after the crash. I almost fainted I swear. I heard and felt the impact loud and clear from the fence where I was standing. It was his last damn lap then he was pitting to change drivers. If only we would have flagged him sooner because his time was up 2 min prior to the crash...we just didn't have a radio or a watch on him to contact him. We were trying to flag him down with a pit sign on a dry erase board. But my iron man pulled through like a champ. He helped fix the car and get it back out on the track and had a great run the next day. Way to go lowlife! __________________ *03 Infra Red SVT W/ EAP Build #3574 of 3985* *Vacuum Vulture Racing #03: We put the oil in spoiler.* *Hetero lifemate of Mrs. Blue.* Last edited by Queen Jade : 10-09-2006 at 08:11 PM.

10-09-2006, 07:43 PM	#14
tallguy2.3 [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: AZ Posts: 5,908	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Wow, that must have been a fun day! __________________ Selling spare parts to pay for college....and installing the ones I really like. 05 ST- Blown motor. Mike and Ben saved my car's life....and my financial future for the next 5-10years.

10-09-2006, 10:50 PM	#15
gielamonster Rookie Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 17	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread Greetings Pirate Ninjas. Found your thread and thought I'd add our pictures. I helped out the Black Iron Racing guys this weekend, what a blast. You can count on me prepping my own entry for next year, I'm betting the bar will be raised way over this year now that people have some clue how the event works. Here's a link to our pictures. Just a gallery for now, I'll probably revamp it to include some back story and build details in a few days. http://evilengineering.com/lemons/ Here are a few highlight photos. A before and after of our car... Things started off pretty well for us. There wasn't any qualifying, so the starting order was just the order you lined up in the pits. We were 2nd by lap 10, took the lead a few laps later, and then opened up a bit of a gap until our first pit stop around lap 60. Turned out the front swaybar had ripped loose, no more bushings in sight. We wasted some time removing it carefully incase we wanted to reinstall it with some new bushings later. Back down to mid pack again they fought back up the pack, but were sidelined again after a disagreement with one of those huge 6' tractor tires out there... Some experimenting with the new steering geometry got us pointed strait again, but we were now way off the pace. A couple of blown tires didn't help... By the end of the first day, I think we were back up to ~7th, about 50-60 laps behind the leader. Check out the tire smoke, one wheel peel FTW... Sunday morning started off with a nice bang, in the form of 4 burlap bags filled with nickles! $1000 prize for the People's Choice award. Thanks everyone, this was REALLY not expected, and a great feeling! The best feeling was finding out that we weren't stuck with the People's Curse. It didn't turn out to be as crippling as it looked, the car started right up and race the entire rest of the day... Racing on Sunday was very uneventful. We focused on just piling up the laps, trying to close on the leaders. The first driver was out for almost 3 hours, stopping only for a spin of the "wheel of misfortune". We landed on "train in vain" which equates to a pair of training wheels welded to the car... This kind of stuff really set the event apart. Trying for the win was really only an afterthought, just getting out there and having fun was all that mattered. We were into our 3rd and final driver for the day when disaster struck. With about 90 minutes remaining, the car inexplicably stalled out, and wouldn't even turn over. Still don't have a conclusive autopsy report, but the biggest factors were a cut auto trans cooler line, spilling all the vital fluid, and an engine that won't turn over, either with a starter or a wrench on the crank. My limited knowledge of auto transmissions tells me that even if it was seized up and shot, it shouldn't keep the engine from turning. So I suspect its something in the bottom end, probably a spun bearing or two from a low oil level and the negative G's over some of the bumps and jumps letting the oil pump suck air. Here she is after about 10 hours of hard-fought racing... Before it broke, we had snuck up to 5th, a lap down on 4th, and on pace for what would have been a 3rd place finish. Up from I believe a low position of 17th late on Saturday. So we were really happy with the car's performance, and can't really fault it for letting go after blasting through ~10 hours of hard racing action at this point in its life! The things friggin 20 years old! Again, we had a great time at the event, and can't wait for next year. I started looking for prospects this morning. You guys better have some new things planned or you'll be left in the dust! Here are some random action shots from throughout the race. I tried to take a lot of pit and on-track shots of the rest of the field, so if you don't see your car here, be sure to check the full gallery... http://evilengineering.com/lemons/ I have about 20 pictures coming up, time for the page down button...

10-09-2006, 11:23 PM	#16
Mrs. Blue Evil Dictator of the Blomni household Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Beat-boxin' w/Grand Master Mabel Posts: 1,538	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread I wanna say thanks to everyone who helped with car. Our team had an incredible weekend. Hopefully we can do it all again next year! Here are a few of our pictures: Lorin on the first lap out. After the big hit: Our custom grill: Rob's girlfriend : Leslie with Rob's girlfriend: The girls after the destruction: 1WHLOFF : The team watchin' the race: Lorin chasing down the Sports Compact Car Celica: The awesome pit crew: Pirate Ninjas with (frickin') Lasers: __________________ Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the P.U. in pulley! *The hetero lifemate of Queen Jade!*

10-09-2006, 11:58 PM	#19
OmniFocus Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Mowin' down the cones. (CA) Posts: 25,823	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread We have many new theories on many formulae that would work well... all of which include more than 62hp... some of which include similarly sized cars. __________________ Check out the shiny new PirateNinjasWithLasers.com for the latest updates in 24 Hours of LeMons goodness. Vacuum Vulture Racing: We put the "rad" in scrub radius, and the "ack" in ackerman.

10-10-2006, 12:08 AM	#21
brads03zx3 [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: California Posts: 8,726	Re: The Official Event Picture Thread A car <$500 Cars that did well BMW 3 series VW golf/rabbit (well, besides leaking fuel lines on brakes and testing the roll cage) pig oldsmobile that blocked like no other CRX (I don't know if y'all are willing to go that far) but I would suggest a less tail happy bar combo than the white one cars that died quickly I don't remember...it was a long time ago Cars that died slowly anything with weight. Well, unless you manage to carry several spare hubs and 10 sets of r-comps neon (that piece of junk just would not die, or did it die 9 times ) __________________ Mountain Tested----'03 zetec DuraMonster---'03 duratec ZX3 vs MNTN - 9/0 & ZX3 vs TRACK - 4/1 *JCM Racing #88* Bouncing Back---Bigger, Faster, Stronger Vacuum Vulture Racing - We put the ARG in 'CHARGED Last edited by brads03zx3 : 10-10-2006 at 12:15 AM.