lemons CMP race

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:24 pm

Sounds like when I burnt my pistons. Pushed enough pressure into the crank to cover the entire bottom of the car with a healthy coating of oil. My Miata will never rust, ever.

Mark Barnes · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:49 am

Thanks Steve. Timing and scoring lost one of our laps when we made the pit stop. We came in 1/2 a lap ahead of Nemo for gas and came out just in front of them. Finished just in front by half a car length. Even they could not figure out how we went a lap down to them when they never passed us. We had transponder problems and had to have them add back missing laps all weekend. Looks like I just need to buy one that works....

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:27 am

Mark Barnes wrote:

Thanks Steve. Timing and scoring lost one of our laps when we made the pit stop. We came in 1/2 a lap ahead of Nemo for gas and came out just in front of them. Finished just in front by half a car length. Even they could not figure out how we went a lap down to them when they never passed us. We had transponder problems and had to have them add back missing laps all weekend. Looks like I just need to buy one that works....

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Regardless of the T&S snafu, you guys ran a clean, smart, hard race. You deserved the good finish. Congrats. :thumbsup:

- AB

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:26 pm

Check it out Speedycop made the cover page of Yahoo.

You gotta love 24 HOL. Where else can you race against a Toyota van with a Cessna body?!

JohnByers · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:54 pm

awesome!

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:25 pm

Roger McDaniels wrote:

We were running well until about 2.5 hours from the end when the Duff car lost all of it's compression ...

2:15 from checker, coming around T6 the car suddenly sounded very wrong, but I was surrounded by other traffic and thought it might just be one of them. But then I noticed my smoke trail and said (yes, I talk to myself while driving) "I've seen this BBQ before"... I got over, let traffic clear -- who knows, I might be throwing various fluids everywhere -- and yep, that odd I'm-running-on-3-cyl sound was me. And I had absolutely no power. At idle it wasn't shaking -- and would idle just fine -- so I puttered back to the paddock. No compression on cyl-2. Robert took it back out with #2 injector disconnected. It lasted 20-30 min before he barely got it back to the hot pit. A cart pushed it back to the paddock.

We were in a solid 6th place -- second in class -- at the time. :-(

[Note: It was burning oil "slowly" all day Saturday. It never came off track so we never had a chance to top it back off. I was in it up to the checker -- 45min or so. It would drop to zero oil pressure around every corner. That'll teach you to drive a momentum car! Completely unpowered cornering. In retrospect, we should've brought it off track and put oil in it. At the end of the day, it was 2q+ low, and it started ~1 high; it was just touching the dip stick.]

clinehall · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:30 pm

Mark Barnes wrote:

Thanks Steve. Timing and scoring lost one of our laps when we made the pit stop. We came in 1/2 a lap ahead of Nemo for gas and came out just in front of them. Finished just in front by half a car length. Even they could not figure out how we went a lap down to them when they never passed us. We had transponder problems and had to have them add back missing laps all weekend. Looks like I just need to buy one that works....

we learned that at chump. It is well worth the investment.

Mark Barnes · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:35 pm

what did you buy? I am thinking one that is wired into the car, one less thing I will forget to charge. I haven't done any research yet to figure what is needed.... I don't know if there are different kinds or special requirements.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:00 pm

Mark Barnes wrote:

what did you buy? I am thinking one that is wired into the car, one less thing I will forget to charge. I haven't done any research yet to figure what is needed.... I don't know if there are different kinds or special requirements.

AFAIK, there are two types, hard-wired, and rechargeable. We all have the hard-wired version and have never had a problem.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:01 pm

Mark Barnes wrote:

what did you buy? I am thinking one that is wired into the car, one less thing I will forget to charge. I haven't done any research yet to figure what is needed.... I don't know if there are different kinds or special requirements.

AMB 260 hardwired. Look on Ebay.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:31 pm

Vincent Keene wrote:

AFAIK, there are two types, hard-wired, and rechargeable.

We had a hardwired one. It failed (costing us a race.) Sent it back for repair. They sent us back a battery powered one saying they don't make wired ones anymore. Sucks. One more thing to have to charge. And, as Roger did this weekend, one more thing to forget on the way to the track.

(He forgot the transponder, key to the car, and gas cans. I didn't notice the cans before I left.)

Mark Barnes · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:17 am

I can relate to forgetting... I forgot to turn on the Go Pro for most of the stints. Some of the most epic driving in the history of the world happened too (at least that is how I remember it).

Thanks for the transponder info.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:20 am

https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/group.asp?GroupID=AMB

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:43 pm

I just dumped a whole lot of water out of the Duff car oil pan. Given the way the oil was projectile vomiting out of the breather box, I think that I could have some cracked sleeves. That would be a first for the car.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:15 am

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