BCCC Autox - Aug 27 2011

It was a hot and fun day, but not without consequences.

Colby and I started the day co-driving his '88 Formula. We finished the day co-driving my '84 duke.

I'll let Colby (or Gary) expand on this...

Cheese wrote: Yes, something up with the Formula's engine. It starting during my fourth run of the morning. I noticed part way through my run that there was a new noise coming from the car, when I got to the stop box, the car stalled and I couldn't start it back up, the car had no power. We rolled it forward to make room for the next car coming and inspected it. Turns out when I put the battery back in a couple days ago I didn't connect the battery terminals securely enough, so I tightened them up, started up the car and went back into grid for my next run. When I went back out there it became obvious that there was more wrong with the car than just the loose battery terminals.

I was on the track chasing cones (as Colby and I were in different groups) and it was VERY obvious to me during Colby's 4th run that something seriously wrong had just occured with Colby's car towards the end of the run. It sounded bad, real bad, like a loose rod. When I saw his car being pushed from the stop box, I figured that was because Coby had shut 'er down and had called it a day. I was shocked, yes honestly SHOCKED when Colby came back out for his 5th run. The poor car sounded really bad out on the track where I was located. (The video doesn't do the knocking justice.)

Anyway, during the lunch break we all agreed that continuing to run Colby's car in the afternoon was just a disaster waiting to happen.

I'm afraid the 2.8 in Colby's Formula has developed some serious bearing issues.

Patrick wrote: Cheese wrote: I have a video of Patrick driving my car (as well as some of him trying to figure out how to use the camera )... Couldn't they put an "idiot light" on the front of that thing so you'd know whether it was running or not?

Heh heh, well at least you managed to capture your fastest run in my car. It makes for a better comparison.

Patrick wrote: Cheese wrote: Heh heh, well at least you managed to capture your fastest run in my car. It makes for a better comparison. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like. I feel like I'm all over the place, desperately trying to hang on, while you look quite controlled and smooth.

That's exactly what you can see in the video. It's obvious you're trying to go through certain parts of the course with too much speed and going wider around the cones as a result.

Here's the video.

And here are the times:

Patrick wrote: Cheese wrote: Hmm, you may find this interesting. Wow, I am so much more interesting to watch! Ha ha ha...

Yep, but notice where I catch up to you? Plus this video makes it obvious I should be a bit more aggressive at launch.

Patrick wrote: Cheese wrote: Yep, but notice where I catch up to you? I'll have to study this further!

I find it difficult to follow the action (perhaps my computer isn't "fast" enough to play back two YouTube videos smoothly at the same time), but I seem to annihilate you (yes, simply ANNIHILATE you ) in the gutsy fast parts of the track whereas you seem to catch up during the twisty girly bits.  Heh heh, I'm starting to sound like a cross between Clynt and Tristan.

karnak wrote: Great day! have to relax and rest for tomorrow...

Yes, it was a great day, although Colby probably doesn't feel too thrilled at the moment.

I really appreciated being able to drive Colby's Formula the five opportunities that I had in the morning before things went south with his engine. Hopefully a few of us can help put Colby's car back together so that it's better than it ever was. That's what a car club is all about, right guys (and gals)!