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944 SPEC SoCal at Buttonwillow April 26-27


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Posted

Let's get ready for the best 944 track in the universe.

I'm racing and Jim Richmond called yesterday to confirm as well.

 

RACING:

1. Tim Comeau

2. Jim Richmond

3. Everett Delano

4. Chris Allen

5. Mike Peters

6.

 

HPDE:

1. Robert Hohler

2. Rafi

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

I'm getting more phone calls from guys wanting to go.

Everett is already registered.

My brother might come up in his new street 944 as well!

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

Robert and Rafi are in, I spoke to Chris Allen and he won't be there this time.

Posted

Looks like Jim Hicks is getting ready to go.

Posted

The red 12 is planning to be there. Friday, if there is an open track day.

 

See you all at the Mothership.

 

Big Dog Foxx

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted

It was hot!, We had a really good time though, Mike "Mad Dog" Peters won both days, Everett got second twice, Jim Foxx unfourtunatly crashed on Saturday and need some repairs done. Robert and Rafi are now registered for the Driving concepts school in June. All in all a good weekend. Jim hows the repairs coming? I have some pics of Jims car but won't post them unless he says its ok. Rob

Posted

Bummer about crashing. I'm glad to hear it was otherwise a good time and it's nice to see more entries in SoCal! My cage goes in this month and then I'm back to climbing the HPDE ranks. Lets see some pictures

Posted

Robert, you can go ahead and post any pics you want of my crashed car.

 

My first significant car to car contact. I was sitting still in the track (in a cloud of Buttonwillow dust) and a Mazda came through the corner and went to the outside as he was going into the cloud of dust and nailed my left front. It tore the shock in two and crunched the fender.

 

I am back up and running. I am waiting for the final two bits from Ground Control to complete the new shock install and will have the car aligned in the morning and load up for PIR baby.

 

Life is good.

 

Jim

Posted
I am back up and running. I am waiting for the final two bits from Ground Control to complete the new shock install and will have the car aligned in the morning and load up for PIR baby.

 

Life is good.

 

Jim

 

Jim,

Firstly... Glad hear it was only car damage. The car and always be fixed. Sounds like one of those cases where once you spin the best you can hope for is everyone will get by you safely.

 

 

Secondly... Wow that is quick getting the car together. I was kind of figuring you would miss PIR, but man... That is good to see.

Posted

Jim,

Thanks for taking the reigns for the weekend.

Glad you guys had a good time and the car will be ok.

My renter at Willow, Ted Frech, met our goal on Sat. of getting under 1:40, so we were both pleased. The car made me work for it over the weekend! Incorrectly positioned valve stems with respect to the wheel machine before mounting the tires resulted in 2 damaged valve stems. .........which didn't manifest themselves as a failure until the temp and pressure really came up. 2 flat tires- one destroyed, one saved. $$$

I should point out right now that I didn't build up this car.......I bought it as a finished race car and I'm still sorting it out.

Anyway, during testing on Friday I got the car handling great. I ended up disconnecting the rear sway bar completely. This car came with 30mm torsions.

On Friday:

- Voltage regulator wore out.

- The small jumper that bridges the 2 halves of the starter failed.

-The cable from the battery to the starter failed because it wasn't nailed down at all. The vibes worried the cable at the connector until it broke. Then the thing was swinging during the turns. It felt like it was grounding out the car's elec power? Felt like running the gas tank too low.

Saturday:

The throttle return spring broke! Never seen that failure.

The good news is that with some help from the 944 guys, especially Jim Richmond, my customer didn't miss any track time and he had a great time of it, but man,....... dang car kept me jumping the whole weekend.

Just part of the sorting out process.

Posted
The throttle return spring broke! Never seen that failure.

 

I had mine do that back in march at the track. Lucky for me Jim Foxx had a spare.

Posted

Amazing it only took Jim a week to fix this car!buttonwillow-4-08002.jpgimg][/img]

Posted
Amazing it only took Jim a week to fix this car!buttonwillow-4-08002.jpgimg][/img]

 

 

What is more amazing that he got 2nd on Saturday and 3rd on Sunday.

 

Seems like the both Jim and the car got FASTER after that.

 

Great work Jim.

Posted

HOLY SH1T! Well done in getting that car back together so quickly. Porsche really built a tank.

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