It's a very brisk 69 degrees. I might have to weatherize the plumbing. lol

 

so jealous i wish i lived further south so i could drive the maro year round and actually put some miles on it got 31,284 on the clock right now

 

Northern Mexico has it's perks no doubt... Too bad it has been over taken by commies.

 

*in a horrible british accent* Coming up next on "Lifestyles of the rich and famous": houses you'll never own but spend the rest of your life green with envy over.
I'd be happy with just one wing of your house.

 

and the drug cartels, who are pissed at all the heightened border control lately and have begun kidnapping and be heading Americans because of it STAY OUT OF MEXICO

also i was talking like nc, or sc, not mexico, although it is beautiful down there

 

Haha! I started designing it when I was 10 years old. Trust me.... It looked a lot smaller on paper.

Northern Mexico is Sol Cal....LOL

NC or SC = not commieville

 

Wow, nice progress. I've wanted to participate in Lemons for YEARS. I even bought a Festiva for $100 (running!). 1700 lbs before reducing weight.
The car looks great. Good luck next time out.
Nice place too. My wife wasn't impressed though. She looked it over and said "Ugh, I hope he's got a good maid."

 

Festiva would be good. Get a turbo off a junker and you would be golden.

Like I tell my wife.... That's what's she's for....LOL

 

I like what you have done with the car I stay in lancaster, ca about 15 min give or take from willow springs track next time you come race out here let me know so I can watch you race and get a chance for me to look at your third gen as well as you can get to see mine

 

i mean
NC - north carolina lol
or sc socal, like san dieago or god forbid la with all the crazies in that city, maybe Monterrey when i hit the lotto, live close to laguna seca

 

I grew up in Leona Valley and lived in QH, Palmdale and Lancaster over the years. I'm in Acton now.

All nice places for sure.

 

This texas track is going to be fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9by7...eature=related

 

I have driven that track.....in a little place that is also known as Need For Speed Pro Street. lol

 

It's on a video game?

 

Yessir, you can get it for Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 for around $20 bucks nowadays. It's a pretty fun game and can help get you familiar with the track. I was able to predict every turn on that track in that last video.

 

Cool! I'll have to get it and play it in my theater.

 

I just got it for PC on Ebay brand new for 9.99 with shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Need-Speed-P...d=p3286.c0.m14

 

get a logitech wheel and use an old seat to play for the realistic effect

 

I think my kids have a few of those.

 

i have one paired with an old camaro seat i use for gran turismo, built a rig with 2x4s and its kinda like the cockpit of a nascar lol takes up most of the room in my man cave (the basement) lol

 

I just inspected one the setups my kids have. It would be cool to have the same seat and steering wheel as the race car... He!! same pedals too.

 

Forza 4 If you want to have agreat racing game then get a fanatec wheel http://fanatec.com/

build a stand with a seat. Bam awesome.

 

I'm more impressed with the Saloon than the Camaro, lol

Very rare to see someone that well off that actually works on their own cars, much less building a race car.

Oh and nice username

 

So am I. Haha


I'm a regular guy. Just been building cars for 25 years and was actually a designer for BMW and Audi for many years... Edumications is important and so is following your passion.


You too! Awesome!

 

any updates, results, progress, just feel like saying watsup? a freind of mine who goes to nascar technical institute and works with a monster jam team atm and i are planning to do this at some point in the next few years, gonna run a sport coupe and a caddy (he loves caddys)

 

Finally got the radiator in today and the cooler lines. Tues, Wed I'm gonna get the fuel safe installed and hooked up. Then Thurs we are going to take it to Willow Springs and test the whole package. Then we will see what happens. Most of the work lately has been on the hauler... It's looking pretty crazy.

 

cool, so about how competetive is the racing in this series, is it more or less junkyard cars with a few nice ones or is everyone a die hard in it to win it effort?

 

It's over 100 cars at the drop of the green. 99% guys have spent thousands to get there to the green flag and it's very clean racing. Everyone is driving as as fast as they can. 50% of the guys who show up show up thinking they have a chance to win. Sure IROC Maiden looks very nice and has been put together in a quality way... But to be honest there are total POS cars out there that have all the secret knowledge and great drivers that blow our doors off. No matter either way. It's a total blast.

 

I have done a lot of racing and this racing is the best if you have 4 buddies and want to play ALL WEEKEND.

 

sounds perfect

 

after more analyzing of finances i've devised a plan for my lemons effort in the future, a spor coupe with an lg4 with everything but whats essential to make it run stripped out of it and a van full of gas cans and junkyard s 10 wheels as my "sets of tires" car will more than likely just be epoxy primer and black rattlecan numbers, probly no performance mods except maybe a holley avenger carb lol gonna call it "barely made it racing"

 

I've thought very seriously about an ecotec. 2.4L. It could go 400 miles on a tank of gas. With 175 hp.

 

or be like one of the geos that just slap on a turbo and run upfront all day and use no gas

 

Few things done over the last few week days.

 

What line of work are you in? If you don't mind me asking.

Trying to type in 2*F weather is hard.. lol

 

Electro-Mechanical Design Engineer.

 

Just wondering, because everything has been really precise for a lemons car.. I.e. an engineer is involved . You must have a long history with cars too?

Just noticed the mudflaps on the flat bed haha, awesome. You cut those too?

 

That is my best friend's fab shop... We both do the work when I'm there. He is very good at cage building and he gets all the credit for that. I have mad skills too and can make anything. But when we both get together we're on fire.

Haha the flaps... No I got those at a trucker supply.

 

Tossing this out there, idea for some more graphicness on the car... Think Air Force, planes people shot down had a decal representing it (the word escapes me).. maybe skulls, or stickers representing imports etc.

It would totally add your mad maxness of the car.

 

Yes there is a lot of cars that have a fighter jet theme. I like the ones from WWII that have the flying tigers shark teeth.

 

This thing just keeps getting better...I don't know how you do it....my brain is crap when it comes to being creative lol.

 

Here are the finished cell pics.

x-members.




fully welded.





Cell inserted and plumbed. Plumbed front to back bulkheads = To pump. Return. Vent.





Straps installed w/grade 8 trough strap, cell, cell cage





Sender wired and ground loop to batt and chassis.

 

i think he meant put kill stickers on it, like trophies, ie an american p-51 shoots down 3 japanese zeros the next day he has three upside down japanese flag stickers on his plane near the cockpit, trophies of battle, maybe take some honda logos and put em all down the door

 

Thanks man! it's getting fun. Doing some testing tomorrow at Willow Springs. Well see how it pans out.

 

Yeah cool...

 

yeah , goodluck in the upcoming race, have fun testing, you gonna do any video of you guys running test laps?

 

Yeah we should have some vids.

 

cool, ive seen alot of your other vids of the car on "the Tube" hey do you know off hand if any of the lemons races are televised anywhere?

 

Not that I know of.

 

damn, well i guess i'll just have to video diary my friends and is whole effort when we make a run at the joliet race next year or so, can anyone say blair witch project