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a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
10/4/23 8:04 p.m.
matthewmcl said:

C4 96.2

VW mk1 Rabbit 96.4

Race for pinks

 Oh my. This is getting better and better.

Recon1342
Recon1342 SuperDork
10/5/23 10:24 a.m.

In reply to a_florida_man :

Top quality shenanigans, to be sure.

CJ
CJ GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/8/23 10:47 p.m.
AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:
a_florida_man said:

Messing around with some rebody ideas.

Anyone have any cool 96" wheelbase ideas?

This will be C4,V4!

V1 Bugatti - 8th overall

V2 Early IMSA - 3rd overall

V3 Later IMSA - 3rd overall (by like .002 pts!!)

V4 ...????....

corvair van / pickup.  they were named corvair 95 because of the 95" wheelbase.

monzora would not have happened if i had found a $100 rampside before i found the $100 coupe.

It has a 90" wheelbase, but...

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
11/24/23 3:06 p.m.

Dug this out of cold storage because time is getting short....

 

How did it get sooooo dirty?

 

Hmmmm what to do?

Ahhh yes, the new crew chief needs to earn some stripes!

:)

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
11/24/23 3:14 p.m.

 

MUCH better!

 

Time to make a plan and a punchlist...

stafford1500
stafford1500 GRM+ Memberand Dork
11/24/23 3:53 p.m.
a_florida_man said:

Ahhh yes, the new crew chief needs to earn some stripes!

:)

Builds character, or so I hear.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
11/24/23 6:00 p.m.

In reply to stafford1500 :

wax on

wax off

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/3/24 8:56 p.m.

The challenge is when?

Uh yeah... yeah I know... it's around here somewhere... 

oh boy.

 

Yeah yeah we were um uh doing stuff all along....


Jack is learning the car!

He will be able to drive it next year!

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/9/24 11:05 a.m.

Driving 4 hours round trip for free used slicks... everybody does that right?

 

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/11/24 10:45 p.m.

 

Allright team... let's get the car in and torn down.

 

***Identifies the LONG list of issues and broken / failing parts after 3 back to back $2000 Challenge appearances.***

 

Ok - now on to the high-priority important stuff.....

Free wheels.

Jack is awsome, he takes on every task with enthusiasm!

Free slicks....

MOAR Challenge fun....!!!

 

Body Mods are in the future....

Probably still need to fix the worn out stuff too....

Spewing Power steering pump

Busted Windshield

Ear Splitting Alternator Case and Bearing

Leaking Slave Cylinder

Leaking Transmission

Loose / Failing Tensioner Idler Pulley

Leaking Header Gaskets

Missing Collector Hardware

Loose exhaust Clamp

Flush Brake Fluid

Change oil

Change Transmission Oil

Flush Radiator

​​​​​​

Recon1342
Recon1342 SuperDork
3/12/24 9:52 a.m.

In reply to a_florida_man :

Love me some turbines! Probably my favorite wheel...

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/12/24 2:16 p.m.

Yeah, those wheels are cool.

I almost didn't save them.

I got them off of a car that was "for sale"... at least at first.

I went to see it our of curiosity and had to tell the seller it just really had close to no value.

Months later it turned into what would you charge me to come and get it?

So I did.

The 35 Chevy body went to a forum member.

After that I literally could not give it away.

Posted it for free to scrappers.... just got requests for "more pictures" lol.

Even Stampie was here... and turned down pulling any parts off of the carcass... including the wheels.

So it sat on the trailer.

I kept walking by it.. thinking "I sure wish those wheels were Chevy pattern..."

They were on a 9" so I had assumed they were ford.

One day I took a closer look, and saw they were on ford to chevy wheel adapters.

BINGO.

Perfect fit.

 

 

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/16/24 11:23 p.m.

 

Got a lot done today... Jack helped with the tear down!

Replaced the alternator bearing and the idler.

I also seem to have somehow lost a bunch of pics?

Anyway imagine also lol...

A new power steering pump and new header gaskets.

And a revised cooling system which will require extensive plastic surgery.

Paging Dr Stafford, paging Dr  Stafford....


Tomorrow will be install slave cylinder, flush brakes, install windshield, finish safety checks and do a big Smokey burnout in the driveway...

 

Dusterbd13-michael
Dusterbd13-michael MegaDork
3/17/24 7:13 a.m.

Good luck! We're all counting on you.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/17/24 9:16 a.m.

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

HA!

Now that's pressure... lol.

This car is coming back for it's 4th Challenge.

Each time we get a little more out of it.

So we are hopeful....

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/17/24 9:09 p.m.

This weekend went well....

 

We are back on schedule.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/18/24 5:40 p.m.

The heads on this engine are late 1989 D-port L98 "113" heads. 

Note that the headman round port header gaskets did shroud the top of the exhaust port by about 3mm.

That's worth the time to gasket match!

 

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/18/24 6:46 p.m.

I love the internet.

Here is WHY the 113 exhaust ports don't match the header gaskets.... the port was raised 0.100"

Now I wonder about the header itself.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/23/24 10:40 a.m.

Ok time start final assembly of this fine Swiss watch of a race car.

....where's my sawzall...?

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/24/24 8:57 p.m.

Stopped by the Altar of affordable acceleration today, and left a 2" carb spacer offering.

Hopefully the gods of gasoline will find it to their liking...

 

And then I cut things.

Have to sacrifice a little slipping through the air for sucking air, because you know science and stuff.  

I bet you are thinking I sound like that Stafford1500 guy right ? 

 


 

 

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/26/24 4:42 p.m.
a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/6/24 4:05 a.m.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/8/24 7:01 p.m.

Near the end of the build .... which ended at 3:30 AM day of the race... it got way to crazy to blog what we were up to.

I'm going to back fill in the next week or so. I apologize for not posting more. I feel that one of the great parts of this forum / and challenge combo is the real time build up. Ours just got out of control... and not in a particularly good way. If my team members had not been great life long friends we would have never made it to the race, much less perform as well as we did with a broken car. 

Thanks you Steve, Scott, Jack, Casey, Rob, and  Angie (Mrs a_florida_man).

Over the weekend, the true feelings of accomplishment and pride were in seeing you all jump in and save me from my own schedule.

It all led to this car's 3rd, 3rd place.

And we did that on a light power, trial drag run of 13.3.

The next run we lost the clutch halfway and coasted to a 13.5 @ 89.

I can still feel how good the 2nd run felt before it went away.

Like I read on Angry's post ... The Challenge isn't easy.


 

Stampie
Stampie GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/8/24 7:33 p.m.

In reply to a_florida_man :

Great showing.

a_florida_man
a_florida_man GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/8/24 9:10 p.m.
Stampie said:

In reply to a_florida_man :

Great showing.

Thanks Stampie.

We need to collaborate on one of yours... :)

It would be fun to hang out with you and Bob...

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