Spring is in the air and my mind keeps wandering to racing. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /> Good news is my car is coming back together quickly in the chassis department. Attached below shows the car in almost its final state at Carriage House Customs after some great work by Steve. The new engine was a hell of a lot more work than first thought as the new engine leans a lot more forward than the old one which required header mods as well as just the chassis work. In the end however it will be worth it if this thing is as bullet proof and reliable as I expect a EFI engine to be versus the old carbed on. <br />
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Another modification I had to make here lately was going with a custom oil tank versus the one I had purchased from Pegasus which was just too tall for the engine compartment. Its amazing how tightly packed the engine compartment is when you start to attempt to fab in what you need to support the engine. <br />
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Lastly I got my wiring harness tonight via UPS from George Dean and can't wait to hook it up to the bike and press the button and….of course have nothing happen. Its only my luck. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /> I know George did a great job but as usual something has to go wrong. <br />
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So after weeks of waiting for choromoly in the correct thickness to come in without having to buy it in quantities the size needed to build aircraft the car is coming together. Just need to box the rear of the mount in so that the rear trailing arms going to the spar can connect. Then wash rinse repeat for the other side. <br />
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Plan at the moment is to get the girl back by the end of March, spend the first two weeks of April burning the midnight oil to put the car back together and then fire it up by mid April. That means I should be able to shake it down in a local parking lot and be ready for the first on-track shake down on May 7th with Donnybrooke at <a href="http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Brainerd_International_Raceway" title="BIR">BIR</a>. <br />
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Let's just say i cannot wait to get this car and myself back on the track. I can't stand driving around the 4Runner during the winter months…longing to hear 14000 RPMS and the wind buffeting my helmet at 140. <br />
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So Mike sent me an absolutely great show of my almost completed helmet. Tell me this baby doesn't look awesome! With regards to my car I am sorry i have been so lax in update, well I haven't been lax its just been that absolutely nothing has happened. I am starting to think that the Stohr is resembling my Ferrari in the way that both just seem to make money disappear out of my bank account every winter. Of course for the cost of a fricking Ferrari wheel bearing I am having half the chassis rebuilt…so I got that going for me.<br />
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I keep going up to Carriage House Customs to drop off parts and keep forgetting my damn camera along so I never have anything to really update you with here. Basically lots has happened. Last week I put the new fuel pump in the fuel cell which was a nightmare. Had to rewire the connector and then try to push the pump into the fuel safe cell's pump holder which if I would equate to being about as difficult as giving birth in that it was pushing an object to big through way to small of a hole. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /> Aside from that George Dean is about done building my new wiring harness so that should be here next week. Beyond that I just sit around making car sounds imagining I have the DSR back while playing the new F1 game on PS3. <br />
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Yep I am sick like that. But hey what else can you do when you have had about 30 inches of snow in the past 4 days. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/sad.png" alt=":-(" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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Hopefully I will be back soon with a lot more pics of the chassis rebuild.<br />
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