pat244ti
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- Joined
- Dec 23, 2002
- Location
- Santa Cruz CA
Not one to hesitate on impulse, after seeing Scotty D's firesale a few weeks back I decided to jump onto the opportunity to buy his Lemons racer. Scotty has actually raced my 244 before but I was pretty unfamiliar with his car.
The two motivations behind this purchase were to take a step back from doing racing myself and to build a neat, easy to drive car. I plan on using the car to rent out to my friends who have not raced before, as well as a lot of my circle track friends who have not raced road course stuff.
The other was to unleash the mechanical creativity that Lemons is known for as well as execute an awesome theme.
I picked the car up at the final western meet on Saturday and trailered it back to Santa Cruz. I unloaded the car and all the goodies it came with [there were lots, way more than expected! Thank you Scotty!!] and went to bed.
Even with work I've been spending the past few nights cleaning it up [scraping what felt like 100+ decals off] and looking at in general what my plan of attack will be.
Front suspension has #700 springs. I am thinking of bringing it down to #500 or #600. I run #500 in the 244 and like it, might try #600 but #700 is a lot. Also the front dampers are kyb inserts. I was going to get a set of DeCarbons revalved for whatever springrate I end up with. I am going to refresh a few suspension parts, and also box both the control and trailing arms.
Car came with x6 vette wheels with Dunlop Direzzas. I was going to swap the fresh unused backups on the front and use the fronts as the backups. RX7 brakes up front, seems to work well - I do however have to adjust the brake cooling duct setup to work a little better. Currently there is a stock airdam on the car but I was going to toss a 93' 850 unit on.
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The interior needs some sanitizing. The tar paper was never removed from the floor so I will removed everything and finish that job. I also am not a fan of rust everywhere [it's crapcan racing, but I don't like getting a brown streak on my clothes every time I touch the cage] so I will get everything nice and painted. The wiring cleanup job was okay but I hate the stock 240 ceramic fuse setup and will probably swap it out to blade fuse block. I will do some work on all that.
One idea I am tossing in my head right now is since I am putting a tail panel on the car as part of the theme, I don't want it to act as a wicker bill inside the car and cause an aero disturbance. I also want to experiment with installing a large fuel cell in the car. So I am going to build a giant cover, mostly out of used, flat aluminum side panels from my friends dirt modified race car - that goes over the backseat and cargo areas and sits flat with the bottom of the windows. There will be access doors for the battery as well as for where I will mount the home brewed swirlpot to go with the cell. The fill for the fuel cell will be up high, about a foot behind the C-Pillar
The current engine will stay for the first few events while I let everyone get their feet wet. B230F with a K-Cam and high rev springs. It will stay LH 3.1/EZK. The M47 has a bad 3rd gear, Scotty gave me a spare but after being informed by Erik [Cosbysweater] it came out of his Hilux I might think it would be in my best interest to find another one and use his as the spare
I got notice recently that my 760 is due for smog again [I bought the car last year and smogged it on transfer....] so that might mean the end of the road for the chassis. But it has a sweet ass B23FT that is begging to go into a race car and this might be it's eventual destination. At that time a T5 will be mandatory.
The exhaust is getting cut off tomorrow. It will be a regular low side exit. Less weight and my clumsy ass would probably walk into that thing while it is hot.
The two motivations behind this purchase were to take a step back from doing racing myself and to build a neat, easy to drive car. I plan on using the car to rent out to my friends who have not raced before, as well as a lot of my circle track friends who have not raced road course stuff.
The other was to unleash the mechanical creativity that Lemons is known for as well as execute an awesome theme.
I picked the car up at the final western meet on Saturday and trailered it back to Santa Cruz. I unloaded the car and all the goodies it came with [there were lots, way more than expected! Thank you Scotty!!] and went to bed.
Even with work I've been spending the past few nights cleaning it up [scraping what felt like 100+ decals off] and looking at in general what my plan of attack will be.
Front suspension has #700 springs. I am thinking of bringing it down to #500 or #600. I run #500 in the 244 and like it, might try #600 but #700 is a lot. Also the front dampers are kyb inserts. I was going to get a set of DeCarbons revalved for whatever springrate I end up with. I am going to refresh a few suspension parts, and also box both the control and trailing arms.
Car came with x6 vette wheels with Dunlop Direzzas. I was going to swap the fresh unused backups on the front and use the fronts as the backups. RX7 brakes up front, seems to work well - I do however have to adjust the brake cooling duct setup to work a little better. Currently there is a stock airdam on the car but I was going to toss a 93' 850 unit on.
\The interior needs some sanitizing. The tar paper was never removed from the floor so I will removed everything and finish that job. I also am not a fan of rust everywhere [it's crapcan racing, but I don't like getting a brown streak on my clothes every time I touch the cage] so I will get everything nice and painted. The wiring cleanup job was okay but I hate the stock 240 ceramic fuse setup and will probably swap it out to blade fuse block. I will do some work on all that.
One idea I am tossing in my head right now is since I am putting a tail panel on the car as part of the theme, I don't want it to act as a wicker bill inside the car and cause an aero disturbance. I also want to experiment with installing a large fuel cell in the car. So I am going to build a giant cover, mostly out of used, flat aluminum side panels from my friends dirt modified race car - that goes over the backseat and cargo areas and sits flat with the bottom of the windows. There will be access doors for the battery as well as for where I will mount the home brewed swirlpot to go with the cell. The fill for the fuel cell will be up high, about a foot behind the C-Pillar
The current engine will stay for the first few events while I let everyone get their feet wet. B230F with a K-Cam and high rev springs. It will stay LH 3.1/EZK. The M47 has a bad 3rd gear, Scotty gave me a spare but after being informed by Erik [Cosbysweater] it came out of his Hilux I might think it would be in my best interest to find another one and use his as the spare
I got notice recently that my 760 is due for smog again [I bought the car last year and smogged it on transfer....] so that might mean the end of the road for the chassis. But it has a sweet ass B23FT that is begging to go into a race car and this might be it's eventual destination. At that time a T5 will be mandatory.
The exhaust is getting cut off tomorrow. It will be a regular low side exit. Less weight and my clumsy ass would probably walk into that thing while it is hot.
