Not strictly, though there will be some vintage and semi-vintage cars
running in it. It's an ICSSC race put on by the Cascade Sports Car Club at
Portland International Raceway (PIR). My Radical is a 2001 sports racer
powered by a 1000cc Kawasaki motor. Lunatic car. Weighs 950 pounds until I
put my fat rear end into it, and has about 160 HP. Sequential box that
shifts on the left ("where *DID* that damned shift lever go..."). Turns
about 1:20 at PIR with the chicane, which is 11 seconds a lap faster than
Peyote and four seconds a lap faster than the GTS Porsches. Scares the
crap out of me, but what fun!
-----Original Message-----
From: dos_gusanos [mailto:dos_gusanos@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:01 PM
To: Bill Babcock; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Different Kind of racing
Cool, where do you go for an eight hour enduro with two hours of dark
racing?...Is it Vintage?.............Henry Morrison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: Different Kind of racing
> Spent the weekend getting my Radical ready for an eight hour enduro. The
> last two hours are in the dark!! Yikes. My lighting system on the
Radical
> is kind of iffy, so I replaced all the push-in connectors with soldered
> splices and replaced the through bolts on the plastic light covers with
> rubber expansion nuts--which prompted me to drop a line to the group. I
> don't know if everyone knows how handy these little buggers are for
> sticking stuff onto your car. The best ones are fairly hard hollow
rubber
> plugs with a wide flange and a nut bonded to the bottom. You drill out
the
> hole so you can barely push them in. When you tighten a screw into the
nut
> on the bottom it expands the plug. all the advantages of a captured nut
> without the welding. I've found the larger ones can handle a remarkable
> load, especially if you back them up with a washer. I also like the nuts
> that are designed to attach with brads to a piece of wood--they're disks
> with a threaded dimple in the center. I drill the brad holes out to fit
a
> small steel pop rivet. I have a supplier here (a drug store!! has an ace
> hardware store as part of it) that has them in stainless. I've also
> glassed then into place and they work okay.
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