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Old 10-09-2006, 03:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Woot! The graphics sure held up well!
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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.
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OMG, this is perfect!

Before:



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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!
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That's fantastic! The angles match and everything.

The ol' girl did well.... Now she looks like a perfect candidate for a demo derby.
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For your enjoyment. This one is entirely of our team. We'll have others done that aren't so "us-centric" later.

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Nice work!

You guys sustained a fair amount of damage as well. Anything significant you might want to share?
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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
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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.
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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.
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Here's an album of pictures that someone took.

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











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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!
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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!
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Wow, that must have been a fun day!
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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/

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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:


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The team watchin' the race:


Lorin chasing down the Sports Compact Car Celica:


The awesome pit crew:


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LMAO...





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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.
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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.
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Yes....

so what do you want me to look for?
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A car <$500

Cars that did well
BMW 3 series
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I don't remember...it was a long time ago

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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 )
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I seriously think Volvo is the answer despite the fate of the maroon 245. An old 240T would pwn imo, and my coworker Pat has the knowledge to prep it right. I think it's a car we should seriously look into for next year, ya know, 8 months from now, when we start looking again.

Example: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/car/218400114.html With Patrick's knowledge, $400 would put that car in a different world.
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I found a whole bunch of clips!!!

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Here's a big ol' beast.

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