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July 2005 - Posts

• Hot Enough?

  Welding is hot enough as it is, but throw in 100 degrees and a little bit of humidity and you've got a bar-b-que. Throw on a particulate mask, welding helmet, leather uppers, denim jeans and heavy welding gloves and you can go through a gallon of Gatoraide Read More... Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:46 AM by Izzy's | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Blog

• Back on the track (finally!)

  Not for lack of trying, but it's been almost a year since I've been on the race track! I'll finally be back on the track coming up in 2 weeks at the St. Louis Region SCCA's Heat Wave Weekend. I'll be co-driving my brother Steve's ITA Neon ACR. He'll race Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 1:02 PM by Izzy's | 2 Comments Filed under: Racing Blog

• 10 Sec. Miata P2

  The Miata cage is coming along nicely. After some tooling delays, forward progress marches on. Major fab work is nearing completion with the harness bar and rear braces being finalized today. Once all the tubes have been tacked together, all joints will Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 1:01 PM by Izzy's | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Blog

• 10 Sec. Miata

  As soon as Bud Scott's new IT7 car was out the door, another big project started involving three Mazda Miatas. The first of the three Miata's (or is that Miatae?) is in the shop for a cage installation. The cage is being built to NHRA specs for when the Read More... Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:05 PM by Izzy's | 3 Comments Filed under: Project Blog

• Broken Tools = New Tools!

  I've been pretty good at breaking tools lately, so now there are some new tools on the way! Burned up the drive unit in my old MIG.... New Hobart Ironman 210 The Air over Hydraulic unit for the bender finally met it's match on 1.75”x.135” Read More... Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:02 PM by Izzy's | 0 Comments Filed under: Project Blog