We’re back in the Midwest as soon as once more, for the fifth visit of the 24 Hours of LeMons to the Autobahn Country 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 all round LeMons winners on the premises (a Camaro, 2 BMW E30s, a 300ZX, and an MR2) and several a lot more potential contenders. You can study LeMons Supreme Court Justice Judge Eric’s race preview for more specifics on the most likely class contenders right now we’re going to look at some of the a lot more interesting vehicles and teams that showed up for the classic automobile inspections nowadays.
With a excellent half-dozen or so Porsche 924s and 944s right here, we count on to see a lot of errant engine parts scattered more than the tarmac and a lot of teams staring blankly at 20-hours-to-replace dead transmissions. This race will be run in 1 long session that starts Saturday morning and ends at midnight, so difficult-to-repair cars such as these will be at a disadvantage with no the usual Saturday evening wrench-fest.
Of course, this 944 has General Motors 4.3-liter V6 power… and the Porsche transaxle. This ought to be intriguing.
German automobiles with ill-advised Detroit-sourced engine swaps are nothing new in this series. Here’s a Mercedes-Benz C230 that showed up at the wrecking yard owned by 1 of the team’s members. After promoting off every little thing of worth from the vehicle, they rummaged via the yard for a appropriate replacement engine.
Which, naturally, turned out to be a “Pinto 2300″ out of a Ford Ranger.
Japanese vehicles also get strange engine swaps in LeMons racing. Here’s the Pabst Blue Racing Nissan Maxima, which attributes mid-mounted Cadillac Northstar V8 energy.
Pabst Blue Racing has suffered from repeated transmission issues in previous races, mostly caused by nervous breakdowns of the transmission’s electronic manage unit. The poor transmission ECU thought it was nonetheless installed in the Cadillac STS drivetrain-donor vehicle, and it was not satisfied with the inputs it was getting from its new house. As a outcome, the group replaced— or possibly supplemented, we’re not sure— the shifter with this set of switches. With this new rig, the driver merely reaches over with his gloved hand for the duration 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 by way of direct electrical stimulation. This should perform perfectly.
The Pabst Blue Racing car is a gloriously undesirable idea, but it’s positively sane next to what LemonAid Racing has carried out with their Geo Metro. This vehicle won Class C and the Index of Effluency with its original 3-cylinder Suzuki engine, but then the team decided that they wanted far more energy. 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 area for the cruelly butchered firewall. Somehow, this automobile ended up weighing more than the team’s E30 race vehicle, so we’re not expecting it to run away with something this race.
Right after finishing in the prime 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 another shot at that ever-elusive general win.
Following installing a Fat Man atomic bomb, a Small Boy atomic bomb, and a covered wagon atop their Civic, the Team Formerly Known As Oregon Fail now has a gigantic Led Zeppelin installed.
The BRIBED stencil used by the LeMons Supreme Court this race attributes an homage to the excellent Brougham Edition cars that have been when so well-known in this element of the country. BROUGHBED!
Why don’t more teams race V12 Jaguars? You can get a operating XJ-S for significantly less than scrap value these days, we adore British automobiles, and no LeMons engine sounds as excellent as the large twelve.
Confident, there may be some drawbacks to this strategy, but what other auto with this significantly energy gets put into Class C?
The Union of Pentastar Racers have brought their confusingly Soviet-themed Duster, or perhaps it is a Shadow or a Sundance, back for yet another shot at Mitsubishi-powered Chrysler glory.
As Billy Dee Williams would say, the Mitsubishi 6G72 almost works every time.
Fantastic themes abounded. Here’s the “Cougar” (really a Ford Probe) of Burnt Rubber Soul Racing.
We also have a genuine Cougar, covered in blinding orange reflective tape for added irritation.
Zero Price range 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 used a fleet of specially configured Chevettes as delivery cars in the 1980s.
Domin8′s Pizza: “Sluggish, Surly, ‘Splodey Delivery.”
The RUN-EXP Ford EXP has returned for one more attempt at Class C victory. Can it beat the Jaguar?
That and a lot of other pressing issues will be settled Saturday. Verify back later for the race results.
24 Hours of LeMons Chicago: A lot of Porsches, Several Former Winners, and a BMW-Powered Geo
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