oh crap, i was wondering if anyone would catch that!!
ive spent more time at the road race track in that street car than the
cobra. the cobra has also been on longer overnight trips than that street
car.
what i meant to say was "my other street car". =)
-james
----- Original Message -----
From: Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com>
To: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: sticking with it
> Wow James, way to hang in there! But, in your rush to tell us about this
> ordeal, you referred to your other car as your "street car". I thought
the
> Cobra was a real street car.
>
> --Navid
> Street car, shmstreet car!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Creasy [mailto:black94pgt@pacbell.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 12:00 AM
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: sticking with it
> >
> >
> > a little story about how i got to the autocross sunday.
> >
> > id had some misfire problems after the 11 november autocross,
> > so i spent a
> > great deal of effort tracking down the cause and fixing it.
> > got it all set,
> > testing the day before the autocross. finally go out to
> > start the car one
> > more time to pull it into the garage.
> >
> > the car wont start, 5:30 PM the night before the last autocross of the
> > season with trophies at stake, and i run over to a friend's
> > house to borrow
> > a starter. get it hooked up, finally wired right (it was
> > different than mine
> > and required a second wire) and it wont engage the flywheel.
> > :P now all the
> > stores are closed. im thinking of what to do and finally in
> > desparation
> > call another cobra friend at 12:30AM. he offers to bring up
> > another starter
> > early in the morning all the way from fremont to berkeley at
> > 6AM, providing
> > i had coffee ready for him when he arrives. :)
> >
> > we hook up the starter, nothing. mike tries jumping the
> > starter, nothing. we
> > pull it out and check it. dead.
> >
> > so now i have three starters, two are dead, one is the wrong
> > size and wont
> > engage the flywheel and time is running short. and to boot,
> > my battery was
> > hosed and leaking and the spare i had was too tall for my hold downs.
> >
> > so i pull the battery out of my street car and wire it in
> > there. we are
> > going to push start the car but the computer requires at
> > least 8 volts.
> >
> > mike pushes me out onto the busy two lane road in from of my
> > house. even at
> > 8AM there is enough traffic i am waving to them as we block
> > the road and
> > mike struggles to push my car up the steep crown of the hill.
> >
> > finally we get it headed downhill and i pop the clutch. BANG
> > it springs to
> > life and blows one of the CC inserts out onto the street. no
> > time to worry
> > about that- i head off to oakland and make it just in time to walk the
> > course and find sherry wearing a sign around her neck looking
> > for an OSP
> > co-drive :P i had slept about 4 hours and had eaten and
> > drunk nothing since
> > the starter fried itself the evening before. eat one of the
> > candy canes for
> > breakfast and drive. whew, the car performs flawlessly and
> > none of my
> > co-drivers stalls the car on course (requiring an embarassing
> > push start).
> >
> > special thanks to mike easton without whose help i never
> > would have made it!
> >
> > -james c
> > OSP #74
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