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Just curious as I'm not familiar with the story...were they driving aggressively or indulging in other jerk-like behaviour? They're car got handled btw. People's curse fo' sho'.

They were driving like jerks for sure, while I was spectating between stints their drivers buffaloed their way several times at the chicane almost causing crashes. Yeah, I know it's racing but this was STUPID. There's other stories floating around as well.

In our case, the final straw was a pass under yellow which is documented on YouTube. I can't link from work because of the NetNanny, just do a search for 'Salazar yellow pass' and the vid should pop up.

Their story at http://www.salazar-racing.com/lemons/

Meh. If you can't be famous, be infamous. I can't tell how much of what these guys were saying was serious or tongue-in-cheek, which is a fun game to me. They were blatant smart-asses for sure, but I can appreciate that. Their strategy of walking around the first night, handing out beers, and asking "SO, who are you guys voting for?" was cute. I don't like beer.

Seems like they had a pretty good attitude about their car being crushed, which is noble.

<---was cursing them that weekend, but tries to play devil's advocate.

So they set out to become Peoples' Curse and succeeded. I can appreciate the 'fun' thing.

BTW, here's the yellow pass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WZh6GxDe9Y&feature=channel_page

Jensenman wrote: So they set out to become Peoples' Curse and succeeded.

Trust me, they didn't set out to be anything. And they didn't have a good attitude about their car being crushed after the event.

Well, their page reads that way (of course that was after the fact).

I got the giggles about the 'only 145 rwhp' and 'brown coolant' bits; yeah, sure.

Jensenman wrote: So they set out to become Peoples' Curse and succeeded. I can appreciate the 'fun' thing. BTW, here's the yellow pass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WZh6GxDe9Y&feature=channel_page

Was it just a single corner caution for the guy in the escort who went off?

No, it wasn't. If you watch the whole vid, you see the yellow at the corner before the straight. The pass is made before the chicane, then after the chicane there is another yellow at the worker station at the end of the straight. It's hard to see in the vid because of the size but if a driver is paying attention on the straight the yellow at the far end is visible before you get to the chicane. Had it been a single corner caution I wouldn't have said a thing.

Mikey said: It's hard to see in the vid because we used my Sumitomo brand 8mm reel-to-reel camera circa 1972.

Fixed.

Yeah, anyway, they did totally drive like dicks and deserved to get their E36 M3 crushed. Our buddy Tom accidentally got popped for passing during a caution because there was no one watching the track. Oopsie. On a happy note, his hot Marshmallow Fluff / Chicken Salad sandwich was tasty.

mmm... marshmallow fluff and chicken salad... mmmmm. :drool:

I'm up to my armpits in getting this stoopid BMW 320i together. Everything is coming along beautifully...if you ignore the fact that the freakin' motor still isn't running. I must be close...I had a big backfire & exploded a squirt of starting fluid out the intake. Flames are sexy!

I've got a week to get my money in for the team for Lemons South...I'd better get a check in the mail...and find a K-Jet expert fast!

If you've got fuel to the injectors (should dribble continuously, as I'm sure you know), I'd bet you have a vacuum leak. K-jet is really funky about vacuum leaks.

Also: check the cold-start injector.

I replaced all the easily reached vac lines, Tim. It's cranking beautifully & will cough & sorta run for a couple seconds. I have fuel going into the fuel distributor just fine (pump is pumping), but I've not pulled an injector off to see them drooling. It's almost as if it's trying to fire JUST on the cold start injector. I saw a used fuel distributor on eBay the other day...I think I need to find one & see if that's the ticket.

The plan was to have it running before putting the cage in, but I'm short on time & running out of projects.

The car really only needs a cobbled exhaust, an adjustment of the rear drums, the cage install & seat & belts.

Someone earlier was talking about cubic hours... I've got that invested for sure, but thanks to selling off parts, my $400 car has earned me back almost $150!

you should check the locall U pull lots. the ones down here in FL get 320s in once in a while. Plus I thought the VW system is the same? From old Rabbits.

B

Snatched the ratty 3.8 out of the TT today and made major headway on the repower.

Got the word from Lamm & Co. last night 1/26, for some reason they want us back! I guess we better get hustlin' on the repower.

We got our acceptance too. We are again going high rent and are getting garages. Stop over and say hi!

Yeah, you rich guys can afford that stuff. We get to roll around in the dirt and grass. I will be making my (in)famous Frogmore stew again Sat night, come by for a beer and a bowl!

Our garage doubles as our camp spot and with the weather in SC in the spring, I think that we need the cover. We got 3 teams in this year. Two taxis and our car with the American Flag all running under the Schumacher Taxi Service banner.

What's your team name?

come by for a beer and a bowl!

I like the way you think.

We are Blind Rodent Racing, aka The Six Blind Mice.

poopie, we don't allow performance enhancing substances on our team. Did the Obamanation make the cut?

How about performance-inhibiting? Yeah, we got the email this weekend, though I'm not sure if I, personally, will have enough scratch to go. Money's tighter than usual right now.

With my gang rope smokin' could only be performance enhancing. Hope you can make it!

Well crap, we didn't get any letter from jay yet. I hope this is jsut some meaningless delay.

At any rate, I too was black flagged for passing under yellow under dubious circumstances. The blue Opel (great driver, btw) was racing wheel to wheel with me when the yellow dropped. We paced each other for two corners. He shrugged at me, I shrugged at him, he pointed, I went, I got the black flag.

At any rate, the chicane thing was ridiculous, the whole passing 30 cars in a row to get to the chicane first was just bad taste in my opinion.

-Brian