Just about track ready! Bead Seat built and G2X installed.
My day consisted of getting the car ready for the track today in an effort to get my first real test day in and learn how the car behaves before winter hits here in Minnesota. Eric Jenny and Billy Newport from Trackpedia both came over bright and early today and we started off the day right by watching F1 qualifying. After another hair raising quali it was off to the garage. We were dead set of getting the Pennon Composities bead seat together and built today so I would have a nice seat for the Slow Pokes day at <a href="http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Brainerd_International_Raceway" title="Brainerd (BIR)">Brainerd (BIR)</a>. The whole building a seat from scratch thing was completely new to everyone so we started off the day right by actually reading the instructions! We took care to cover all the nuts and bolts in the seating area to make sure the bag of beads didnt rip while we were forming the seat and then it was just a matter of removing beads until the seat was comfortable then mixing up the epoxy followed by me sitting on my butt in the car for 75 minutes. We then screwed around for a while and finally Billy and I hardwired the G2X unit into the car. We had to play with tach output for quite some time and I am still not sure its right but we shall see when we get to BIR. Other than that its really REALLY cool! (Pictures coming soon.) <br />
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I'll post a whole "How to build a bead seat" post here in a few days when Billy gives me the photos. So until then on the edge of your seats everyone. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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Since the most important thing I have been asked to do a lot of is post pictures here they are of the finished painted car! Well actually these pictures suck as I had to take them in the garage due to the temperature here in Minnesota but you can at least see what she looks like. More pictures will come soon!<br />
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