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| 08-14-2011, 08:36 PM | #1563 |
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Cpt. Slow wants to know more about this tri-turbo. Anyone with links/pics to how this engine is designed? All I can find is this "The innovative arrangement will reportedly include two conventional spools powered off exhaust gases and a third electric turbocharger. "....
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| 08-15-2011, 11:48 PM | #1565 | |
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| 08-19-2011, 07:19 PM | #1567 |
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| 08-29-2011, 09:56 PM | #1569 |
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Nehru, we need at least one daily pic and update here. I know you have a mifi!!!!! Have fun man and don't forget to have someone record you going down the stairs to get your baby and a bunch of pics
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| 08-30-2011, 10:34 PM | #1570 | |
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| 09-01-2011, 04:12 PM | #1571 |
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Chumpcar National Championship this weekend @ Iowa Speedway. Oval and Road Racing mixed together for 25hrs! Come on out, and visit the Free Candy Racing team! We'll have the van with the couch on the roof! Can't miss us! 6-11pm Saturday there are live bands and food/beverages at the race! $10 bux gets you in.
 http://chumpstock.eventbrite.com/ Schedule: Saturday, 3 September Schedule: Race 1: 3-hour road race (10:00am - 1:00pm). At 1:00pm the track goes yellow and the pits are closed while the track is reconfigured for oval racing. All cars on-track follow a pace car. Once reconfiguration is complete, the track goes green and racing continues. All laps completed under yellow count towards cumulative race total. Race 2: 5-hour oval race (1:00pm - 6:00pm). At 6:00pm, track goes yellow, pit lane closed, pace car is out, and the track is reconfigured back to road course. Race 3: 5-hour road race (6:00pm - 11:00pm) Checker for Saturday's sessions issued at 11:00pm. Teams can work on their cars Saturday night, as long as they want, until the call for pre-grid Sunday morning. Sunday, 4 September Schedule: Race 4: 3-hour oval race (9:00am - 12:00pm). At 12:00pm the track goes yellow, pace car dispatched, pit lane is closed and the track is reconfigured for road racing. Once reconfiguration is complete, the track goes green and racing continues. All laps completed under yellow count towards cumulative total. Race 5: 7-hour road race (12:00pm - 7:00pm). At 7:00pm, track goes yellow, pace car is out, and the track is reconfigured back to an oval course. Race 3: 2.5-hour oval race (7:00pm – 9:30pm) to the checker. 9:50pm -- Awards Ceremony  |
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| 09-05-2011, 06:22 PM | #1572 |
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We ended up finishing 4th out of 55 for the National Championship event.
I took a pretty hard hit to the left side Saturday @ 10:50pm ( 10 minutes before day 1 ended ) ... was able to finish a few laps at 50% pace and then after three hours of work (5am to 9am) Sunday morning we correced the huge dent, Camber, Toe, and etc we were able to go back out at 100%. The car still has some alignment issues but we needed a rack to sort those out. Anyway... we fought hard all day Sunday, clawing from 11th to 3rd...then after a stop the E36 took it back so we battled hard for the last 2 hours with the 3rd place E36 BMW on the oval... for only both of us to have a belt snap in our tires at the exact same lap. both cars came into pits, and the BMW team was better prepared and beat us out of the pits to take 3rd. On our last lap we had another hub on our Honda shear apart and leave our car 1/2 a lap from the checkered flag. This is racing and hopefully next year we can have better luck, and hope that these race orginizaers are better at knowing what a $500 car is and isn't... One race left for our Endurance Race season. Our last race is in Chicago at Autobhan. Our 4th place trophy:  Last edited by Prez; 09-05-2011 at 07:10 PM.. |
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| 09-05-2011, 10:29 PM | #1574 | |
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| 09-08-2011, 08:46 PM | #1579 |
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| 09-09-2011, 03:04 AM | #1580 |
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On the plane now heading back. I already miss Germany
 I am unable to load pic from my iPad, I will have to post some when I am back.EDIT: Found a link to my favorite picture of the trip: http://www.nordschleifenbilder.de/go...hp?pos=-141386 Last edited by RuSport; 09-09-2011 at 03:15 AM.. Reason: Added link! |
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| 09-09-2011, 03:46 PM | #1581 | |
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| 09-10-2011, 01:58 PM | #1583 |
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Ru what did you get? 335i, xi, is or d?
The thing that kills me about that CLK is the ugly ass MB steering wheel. It looks like the one in my mom 20 year old 500SL |
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| 09-10-2011, 03:42 PM | #1584 | |
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This is the main reason that I got out of "racing". I would show up in a $5,000 CRX and the next guy would have $22,000 in his engine. Racing IS cheating and that is a fact! And remember that Honda hubs are only good for 20 to 25 hours on track. At least that is what the Honda engineers used to tell us.
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