We’re back in the Midwest once once more, for the fifth visit of the 24 Hours of LeMons to the Autobahn Nation Club and this year’s operating of the Doin’ Time In Joliet race. With a lot more than 100 teams entered, we’ve got a total of 5 former overall LeMons winners on the premises (a Camaro, 2 BMW E30s, a 300ZX, and an MR2) and many more possible contenders. You can study LeMons Supreme Court Justice Judge Eric’s race preview for more information on the most likely class contenders proper now we’re going to look at some of the far more intriguing cars and teams that showed up for the traditional automobile inspections these days.
With a good half-dozen or so Porsche 924s and 944s here, we anticipate to see several errant engine parts scattered over the tarmac and a lot of teams staring blankly at 20-hours-to-replace dead transmissions. This race will be run in a single extended session that starts Saturday morning and ends at midnight, so challenging-to-repair cars such as these will be at a disadvantage without having the usual Saturday evening wrench-fest.
Of course, this 944 has Common Motors 4.3-liter V6 power… and the Porsche transaxle. This ought to be exciting.
German automobiles with ill-advised Detroit-sourced engine swaps are nothing at all new in this series. Here’s a Mercedes-Benz C230 that showed up at the wrecking yard owned by a single of the team’s members. Soon after selling off every little thing of worth from the auto, they rummaged via the yard for a suitable replacement engine.
Which, naturally, turned out to be a “Pinto 2300″ out of a Ford Ranger.
Japanese automobiles also get strange engine swaps in LeMons racing. Here’s the Pabst Blue Racing Nissan Maxima, which functions mid-mounted Cadillac Northstar V8 energy.
Pabst Blue Racing has suffered from repeated transmission difficulties in past races, mostly triggered by nervous breakdowns of the transmission’s electronic handle unit. The poor transmission ECU thought it was nevertheless installed in the Cadillac STS drivetrain-donor car, and it was not pleased with the inputs it was receiving from its new property. As a result, the team replaced— or possibly supplemented, we’re not sure— the shifter with this set of switches. With this new rig, the driver merely reaches more than with his gloved hand in the course of the whirling chaos of wheel-to-wheel road racing, fumbles at the switches in the hope of choosing the right gear, and overrides the tranny ECM by actuating internal transmission solenoids via direct electrical stimulation. This ought to work completely.
The Pabst Blue Racing auto is a gloriously negative idea, but it’s positively sane next to what LemonAid Racing has done with their Geo Metro. This automobile won Class C and the Index of Effluency with its original 3-cylinder Suzuki engine, but then the group decided that they wanted a lot more power. Rather than go the boring route and drop in the “big-block” 4-cylinder Suzuki engine, the members of LemonAid Racing lost their presence of thoughts and went big crazy.
Yes, that’s a BMW 6-cylinder engine out of a late E30. The Metro also received a narrowed E30 rear suspension the driver had to be moved back a handful of feet to make room for the cruelly butchered firewall. Somehow, this vehicle ended up weighing more than the team’s E30 race auto, so we’re not expecting it to run away with anything this race.
Soon after finishing in the leading 5 in what appears like a dozen Midwest Area LeMons races, the Tiny Lebowski Urban Achievers and their naturally-aspirated Volvo 245 are back for yet another shot at that ever-elusive overall win.
Right after installing a Fat Man atomic bomb, a Little Boy atomic bomb, and a covered wagon atop their Civic, the Group Formerly Known As Oregon Fail now has a gigantic Led Zeppelin installed.
The BRIBED stencil utilised by the LeMons Supreme Court this race features an homage to the great Brougham Edition automobiles that were after so common in this part of the nation. BROUGHBED!
Why don’t much more teams race V12 Jaguars? You can get a operating XJ-S for less than scrap value these days, we adore British vehicles, and no LeMons engine sounds as very good as the huge twelve.
Confident, there may well be some drawbacks to this approach, but what other automobile with this considerably power gets put into Class C?
The Union of Pentastar Racers have brought their confusingly Soviet-themed Duster, or perhaps it’s a Shadow or a Sundance, back for another shot at Mitsubishi-powered Chrysler glory.
As Billy Dee Williams would say, the Mitsubishi 6G72 nearly works each time.
Great themes abounded. Here’s the “Cougar” (truly a Ford Probe) of Burnt Rubber Soul Racing.
We also have a genuine Cougar, covered in blinding orange reflective tape for added irritation.
Zero Budget Racing redecorated their Class C and Index of Effluency-winning Chevy Chevette Diesel with this patriotic Domino’s Pizza-influenced theme. Why?
It turns out that Domino’s utilized a fleet of specially configured Chevettes as delivery vehicles in the 1980s.
Domin8′s Pizza: “Sluggish, Surly, ‘Splodey Delivery.”
The RUN-EXP Ford EXP has returned for an additional attempt at Class C victory. Can it beat the Jaguar?
That and a lot of other pressing concerns will be settled Saturday. Verify back later for the race benefits.
24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: A lot of Porsches, A lot of Former Winners, and a BMW-Powered Geo
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