Catching up on old e-mails. Back in the '80's I had a sports racer I
built out of a Titan Formula Ford. I had a friend that came over every
Saturday and worked on the car with me, year round. Not counting the
time it took to build the car in the first place, I once calculated that
we spent 100 man hours on the car for every hour on track. Can't do a
similar comparison on the Spit, since I'm no longer building engines or
gearboxes, but I do know my dad used to spend a lot of time in front of
the tv with his golf clubs and polish.
On 10/22/2014 8:14 PM, jason@multivintage.com wrote:
> Perhaps I've used this anology before... But Imageine "getting your golf
> clubs ready" for an hour or two round of Golf.
> There is Not exactly a correlation in Hell that could get someone to
> understand what it takes to run well and win in amature racing. The time, and
> what it takes to never be beaten by equipment let alone win.
> Crap! I've rebuilt half the car since my last outing and now i'm faced with a
> leakin hole where the threads (used to be) in the front sealing block at the
> lower (just kind of hanging there) bolt that holds on the lowest part of the
> front timing cover.
> Seriously?
> The bolt just spins on a never ending cycle to no grab, and is leaking.
> I've got not enough time to fix it proper before thIs weekend so I overly
> coated the bolt with locktite (which will likely do nothing as there is
> nothing to lock tight). And broke out the red RTV (does that count for
> points for or against an effort to not be beaten by equipment?)
> And Coated the hell out of it; 1/4" deep...
> As a bad latex diaper.
> Any way, I've also got this strange interuptive miss or short that is really
> pissing me off. Perhaps its a short or ground fault in the region of the
> starter button (which seems to work when in wants or perhaps not), or a bad
> contact on the kill switch? Then again it could be points, coil, cap, rotor,
> condenser,etc.
> So, In panic we ordered 2 of every Mallory item that fits our gt6 (and other
> 4.2 Liter Jaguars)
> Sure hope that one of those parts and my surgeon like use of an emrey board
> onto every point of grouned electrical electrical contact works.
> Because I am running out of days to complete the race prep for this all
> impotantant 80 minute race at Blackhawk Farms this weekend.
>
> This is a big race for us midwesterners
> The Loooong Race ( a Midwestern Council Classic)
> These FoT madmen will be driving
> The vintage group which has 41 cars set to race... One class for all the
> marbles!
> Tony drews TR4
> Sean alexander TR4
> Scott barr Spitfire
> Brian Garcia (plymoth baracuda)
> Jason Ostrowski GT6
> Glade Snodgrass Spitfire (fp)
>
> Who will it be that takes this victory?
>
> Jason Ostrowski
> Friendly Ghost Racing
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