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Milwaukee National Tour Results

CorvetteZ06.org — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:48:18 GMT

So the weekend started out wet on Saturday, Sunday started out the same. It was very overcast and foggy/wet on Sunday morning, by the time we ran Sunday morning though it was nearly dry on course, all of the water was out of the air and the sun was out making it hot. After first runs I had a decent time, but I knew that time wouldn't be anywhere near what I needed to run. I was the last driver in super Read More......(read more)

Milwaukee National Tour Day 1

CorvetteZ06.org — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:35:02 GMT

Day 1 here in Milwaukee was wet! Beth ran the car in the first heat on the brand new hoosier wets, by the third heat Dave and I switched to the race rubber. Beth finished up today in 2nd place, if she can stay there tomorrow she'll win a trophy and a free contingency tire! Dave had his usual cone issues, he complained about the car being too loose on corner exit, but I think he just forgot that it Read More......(read more)

Morning in Milwaukee

CorvetteZ06.org — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:24:41 GMT

It sure is early this morning! 5am start, at least my shower is down, but I sure don't feel like waking up today. Still looks like it's going to rain, I'll blog later today from the site if I get a chance. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

Another Spec Miata joins the ranks... oh and a bit of Jeef on the way.

Izzy's — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Jim Easley's Spec Miata project is complete! Look for it to hit the PDX's, track days and ultimately the SCCA Club Race days soon!

More pics of the build here: http://www.izzyscustomcages.com/JESpecMiata.html

Jeef drops off the Honda S2000 for a cage tomorrow.

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I've got nothing on this time lapse

CorvetteZ06.org — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:12:38 GMT

This time lapse makes my time lapse videos for www.project240z.com look amatuer (hey wait a minute, they are). This is apparently GM Engineers assembling an LS9 for a ZR1 (View the full blog post for the video. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

St. Louis Event 5 Autocross Review

CorvetteZ06.org — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:32:44 GMT

So this past Sunday was the 5th event of the St. Louis Autocross season, really it was only the 4th event held this year due to rain/blow out of what was supposed to be event number 3. The region has changed their event structure this year, back to a three heat format, with the attempt to get 5 runs each heat, that worked out on Sunday. Beth ran the Corvette in SSL during the second heat, there were Read More......(read more)

240Z Status for July 2008

Project 240Z Blog — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:43:58 GMT

Well the garage finally has a little more room, though not enough to bring the car home from storage yet. Perhaps later this summer, though with my racing schedule ( www.corvettez06.org ) I don't have any free weekends until September, and even Read More......(read more)

Alignment Numbers

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:08 GMT

Alignment Numbers from this past week's alignment Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

Autocross Videos from July 13th, St. Louis

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:38:31 GMT

Because I slept for 5 hours after the event yesterday I was up until about 4am this morning, working on video from the autocross. I didn't get all of it processed but I did get quite a few posted. I'll try to get more posted later this week. All the video posted (except for one inserted video) was shot with the Chase Cam and PDR, we are proud to have Chase Cam as a sponsor here at CorvetteZ06.org You Read More......(read more)

St. Louis Autocross on 7-13

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:12:14 GMT

A great showing for the CorvetteZ06.org team at the July 13th 2008 event for the St. Louis Region SCCA. The car finished first on Index overall, first in SS and first in SSL, as well as a 2nd place finish in SS as well. Videos later in the week with a more detailed writeup of the events happenings. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

A new alignment

CorvetteZ06.org — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:16:43 GMT

So I took the Z06 to Sears this morning to get another alignment done on the car. I hadn't had one done since 4/3, which was before most of the races and before I screwed the alignment up putting the Koni shocks back on. The toe in the rear was hosed (unsure why), the camber in the front was off as was the caster on the left front corner, which could explain the damage to the tire in Toledo. We'll Read More......(read more)

Toledo ProSolo Update

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:51:11 GMT

Quick update: Got home about an hour and a half ago, 8 hour drive, the POS Ford check engine light came on again. The Corvette Z06 team filled in the top bottom two places at the Toledo ProSolo... Not much good to be said of the weekend, except I got some good spin footage to add to the White Tornado collection. I'll be working on video from last weekend and this weekend over the next few days to get Read More......(read more)

Off to the Toledo ProSolo

CorvetteZ06.org — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:02:28 GMT

I'm headed to bed, hoping for 8 hours sleep, though if I want to leave at 6am I'm not going to get it! I've got the car loaded, but still have to do a bit of packing of clothing in the morning. The Corvette should get a workout this weekend, 2 drivers in SS and 1 driver in SM2! I'll post from Toledo later this weekend. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

Peru National Tour Results

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:34:40 GMT

Well the Peru National Tour is over and I am finally back home. I left St. Louis on the 19th of June and made it home, 10 days later. Sunday of the Peru National Tour was better than Saturday, I finally managed to get a clean run, as did Dave. I think I ran the 5th fastest time in SS today, so I was happy with that. On my third run I ended up blowing out the far turn around, after that I pushed it Read More......(read more)

Peru National Tour Day 1 (Cones)

CorvetteZ06.org — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:06:49 GMT

So the CorvetteZ06.org Team took 9 runs today at the National Tour here in Bunker Hill Indiana. 2 out of those 9 runs were clean, the rest were DNFs and coned runs. Here's a quick overview of what I can remember Dave Run 1 (Cones) Run 2 (Cones) Run 3 (DNF Cones) Chris Run 1 (DNF Cones) Run 2 (Cone) fast enough for 5th or 6th if clean Run 3 (Cones) Beth Run 1 (Cones) Run 2 Run 3 I am sitting in 9th, Read More......(read more)

Autocross Video from the Atlanta National Tour

CorvetteZ06.org — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:36:33 GMT

Since I've acquired new PC hardware, a new laptop and a new desktop, I've been able to finally do some editing of video from races. Though I've only got one run put together. I think the video turned pretty cool. This is one of my runs from the Atlanta National Tour, on Sunday. The Chase Cam video turned out great, I think I'm going to adjust the settings for the G readings this weekend at the Peru Read More......(read more)

Another ProSolo Trophy!

CorvetteZ06.org — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:11:50 GMT

It might not be in my usual class but it is a ProSolo trophy nonetheless! I placed 4th in the Washington DC ProSolo this weekend in ESP. It was a fun class to run in with the positions changing quite a bit both days. Now I'm working for a week here in Baltimore then fly to Indy to rent a car and drive up to the Peru National Tour to find my Corvette and hopefully see how well I do against the top level Read More......(read more)

Day 1 in the Blarney Mobile

CorvetteZ06.org — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:22:51 GMT

Well, today went well. First runs in the morning I had a decent time on the left side of the course, the right side though I had cones on both runs. With the cones I ended up sitting in second to last place, 9 of 10. This afternoon though I was able to clean up my runs and get myself into 4th place out of 10. I'm happy with where I am, though I think I can get some more time out of the left side course Read More......(read more)

Washington DC ProSolo Registration Day

CorvetteZ06.org — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:33:58 GMT

This morning I got up and went to the Udvar Hazy exhibit of the Smithsonian Air and Space Musuem out in Virginia. It was well worth the trip, I got to see a Space Shuttle, that had to be the coolest part. I took a couple hundred photos, I'm going through some of them this evening and should have them posted on my flickr page later. After that I headed over to Fedex Field to see how the setup for the Read More......(read more)

Update Time!

Izzy's — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Where'd the time go? Been so busy lately that I've lost track of what I haven't updated!

The Fox body "Domestic Drifter" project is long gone... unsure whether it's been sliding yet at any of the Midnight Madness events or not... I'll have to get an update!

A new BMW E30 came in for a some work. The track day M3 received a full 8 point road racing cage. We ran into a snag on the seat installs so we're waiting on some new fixed back seats to show up. Also installed some sway bar mount reinforcements on the front struts.

Alex April brought his E30 back in for the passenger side seat install before the STL BMWCCA's June 6th HPDE at GIR.

While we wait on seats for the M3, a Spec Miata is in the shop for an 8 point. So far we have the interior pulled and are prepping the pad area's for the installation.

The "Plan B Racing" team attended the STL SCCA's June (or was it May?) PDX and had a great time! The Neon ran well and we continue to knock time off of the clock! We're updating some minor issues involved with the suspension adjustment (mismatched bolt sizes/wrong "crash" bolts left over from it's years of Showroom Stock duty). Once we get those resolved, we're hoping that we'll only have to adjust the camber once/twice a day... instead of every session!

"Plan B" also attended the STL SCCA's first Rallycross of the year at GIR! What a great day! As a bonus, it was Father's Day and my brother Steve & I dragged our father Harold with us to play in the dirt (ok, hay). The Sentra SE-R performed great and was flogged unmercifully. After the official competition was over, we were able to get some fun runs in. Ol' Harold showed us youngins a thing or two. For the first time ever in a FWD car at speed... on dirt, I'm thinking he may have given us a run for our money! He hasn't driven a car aggressively on dirt in about 50 years since driving the back roads down in Arkansas in a '38 Packasaurus with a dead cylinder and mechanical brakes!... uphill both ways!

Oh.. the Mitsubishi 3000 GT VR4's cage has been painted... I'll link to some pics here soon.

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Used Racing Tires!

CorvetteZ06.org — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:02:00 GMT

If you're looking for used race rubber be sure to check out the new business FOSSport , where you can buy high quality used race tires in all makes and models. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More......(read more)

Wax ecstatic

CorvetteZ06.org — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:09:30 GMT

So after providing a day of DotNetNuke Training downtown here in St. Louis I came home and decided to finish up on the car. I used the cleaner wax, then put a coat of polish on, then a coat of yellow wax. I hadn't planned to do all three coats tonight but I really don't have much time in the next week to do this. Thursday I'm flying to Baltimore again, I was just there in the area last month. I'll Read More......(read more)

Clay Bar Update 1

CorvetteZ06.org — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:41:42 GMT

I spent quite a bit of time today going over the car with the clay bar. I think I hit every square inch of the exterior. I washed it again after the bar and will get up in the morning and give it a once over looking for any paint that I might have missed. Once that is done I will begin the polishing/waxing process, I figure that will take another 3-4 hours tomorrow. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark Read More......(read more)

Finally progress on the paint

CorvetteZ06.org — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:03 GMT

So after way too much time spent on this whole deal I believe that this paint fiasco is almost behind us. The word I got today is a check was put in the mail today, so I have Saturday morning (and afternoon and evening) slated for a full detail job on the Corvette. It will most likely take all day, but the car always loves a good rub down. I think my boss is going to come over and do the same to his Read More......(read more)

Flywheel thanks

Project 240Z Blog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:11:48 GMT

While in Atlanta for the National Tour Carter Thompson brought me a gift. He had a lightened flywheel from his 240Z that he had been telling me about for the past two years. At the National Tour he brought me the flywheel. I must admit, at the time I Read More......(read more)