The 24 Hours of LeMons Traveling Circus has returned to The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, for the 4th annual Pacific Northworst 24 Hours of LeMons. Due to scheduling problems with the venue, we had to do the automobile inspections starting at oh-dark-thirty on Saturday morning and then drop the green flag for the race itself immediately afterwards. That means we’re mashing the standard inspection post into the classic initial-day-roundup post, in considerably the same way that a Corolla can be mashed into an MR2 to generate a twin-engined race vehicle. Here we go!
In honor of a effectively-recognized Washington-based organization, the traditional BRIBED stencil incorporated the face of Clippy the Office Assistant.
Junkyards are complete of cheap superchargers these days the easiest to discover is the Eaton unit installed on numerous GM cars with Buick 3800 V6 engines during the 1990s. Here’s one on a Buick 215-cubic-inch V8. Swift, guess the vehicle!
That’s right, we’ve got the third Rover SD1 to make its LeMons debut throughout the summer time of 2014. This a single functions an Eaton blower, draw-by way of carburetor fuel-delivery system… and a spot in Class C. We expected Group Odin’s Rover to spray a lot of pounds of finely granulated engine components out the tailpipe inside several laps of setting tire to track, but that’s not what happened. By the finish of the day’s grueling race session, Group Odin was in P34 all round (out of 63 entries) and second in Class C.
Leading Class C was the Saturn SL2 of Team Automobile Error Panamericana, a vehicle that is been competing in West Coast LeMons races for several years and has however to bring residence a trophy of any sort for its group. With a enormous 33-lap lead over the Rover, the Vehicle Error Panamericanas look to be in fairly great shape, but you just by no means know what will take place in the most interesting LeMons class.
The ADO17 “Landcrab” of Silversleeves Racing was the quickest of the Class C entries, what with its Mazda V6 yanked out of a Ford Probe, but… well, it is a Landcrab. Still, P46 isn’t so negative for a automobile like this.
We had high hopes for the 1974 Ford Mustang II of Low Road Racing, figuring that an automatic-equipped, 2.8 V6-powered Pinto sibling may possibly have a shot in Class C, but there’s a cause that Mustang IIs sell for a tiny fraction of the cost of slightly older Mustangs. P55 at the end of the race session.
The “Megadethdrap” graphic on the Mustang’s hood pleased the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court quite a lot.
We’d only had 2 Chevrolet Corvairs in LeMons prior to this weekend, and so the sight of the ’60 of Group Transcontinental Drifters was an thrilling one particular.
Sadly, 54-year-old Detroit compacts with loose engines aren’t in their all-natural element on a road course, and the Transcontinental Drifters left an alarming trail of smoke behind their Chevy each and every time they limped onto the track.
27 laps, good for 57th location out of 63. The group has all night to fix their Corvair, so probably Sunday will be a far better day for Corvair race fans.
The extremely Bondo-ized ’52 Hudson Hornet of Chase Race won the Index of Effluency trophy at the 2013 Pacific Northworst race, but a hub failure place the old Hudson on the trailer following a mere 84 laps on Saturday. Hudson components aren’t effortless to discover in Washington state on brief notice.
The Flying Baldini Bandits thought they’d boost their possibilities in Class B by adding a Toyota Previa supercharger to their Honda Civic’s lackluster D15 engine.
Sadly, the Baldinis neglected to do adequate study about the path of rotation of their engine versus that of the Previa blower, and it turns out that their boost levels weren’t so high on a backward-spinning supercharger.
Actually top Class B, and in an astonishing P3 overall, the Jeep Cherokee of Petty Money Racing proves that independent front suspension is overrated for road racing.
On the same lap as the Cherokee, the ONSET/Tetanus West ’89 Chevy Cavalier will not need a lot of a stumble on the element of the Jeep group to take the Class B lead.
We’ve seen a lot of LeMons cars sprayed a quickie coat of pink paint and labeled as “Barbie’s Corvette,” but lastly we had a group discover a true Corvette (a C4, of course) and Barbie-ize it. The Silversleeves Racing ’84 Corvette (yes, this is the very same team that runs the Landcrab) is the best Barbie Corvette, appropriate down to its dreaded Doug Nash 4+3 transmission and its even-far more-far more-dreaded Cross-Fire Injection fuel program.
Very best of all, this Corvette comes with Barbie’s Racer Friend Kate, total with pink cardboard box! Regrettably, the vehicle had all the anticipated reliability troubles you’d expect from a worn-out ’84 Corvette, and it completed the day in P36.
Of the quickly Class A cars, although, somebody needs to be leading, and this time it is the old familiar Model T GT, a auto that frequently ventures to the LeMons races with smaller auto counts and takes the “shark in the aquarium” part. This time, the LeMons Supreme Court issued a 5-lap handicap to the T GT, which the group managed to overcome by the end of Saturday.
4 laps back of the Model T GT, we’ve got the Ford Thunderbird of the Killer Whales. This Class A battle will come down to which team’s drivers are greater at avoiding black-flag-triggering blunders.
The Fox Mustangs? Most of them blew up in quick order.
In reality, even far more than the usual quantity of race vehicles were up on jackstands as the day wore on. Some will get back on the track on Sunday, some will not. Check in later to see how this madness sorts out!
LeMons Seattle Day 1: Ill-Advised Superchargers, Barbie’s Corvette, and a Landcrab
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