I almost forgot that I had a blog! Chris has been doing such a good job with updates on his blog that I've slacked on mine!
Absolutely zero going on with cages... much too busy with life lately, but racing's always on the mind. The Izzy's Custom Cages RX7 is still for sale, although in the back of my mind I've been toying with dropping in the spare motor that I have taking up space over at Tuxedo Park Racing and running the October double regional race. Also thinking about pulling apart the 5 12a's I have laying around and seeing what's good and what's junk and doing a "floorsweeper" rebuild and see what I can pull off. Heck, at this rate, if I get 2 motors out of the group, that's two race weekends next year!!!!
IF (and that's a big if) I keep the car, and IF it looks like the ITAC starts leaning towards moving the car to ITB, TPR will be getting the nod for a full rebuild on the motor. But again... BIG IF!!!! If it sells, I might go in with my brother Steve on his ITA Neon ACR. It needs some go fast parts and a new cage thrown at it.
Speaking of the Neon... we ran it at the last STL SCCA Club Race and had a blast. Steve had some good races with Dana H. in his Saturn and a couple of other guys on Saturday. He also ran the Gateway DASH bonus race and was in the lead with 3 laps left to go, but had to throw in the towel due to equipment problems. We'd purchased a cool vest and this was the first weekend with it. We left it in the cooler the proper amount of time, but it was too frozen and was poking him between the shoulder blades so hard that he was losing his concentration out on the course. We figured it out for Sundays race and I never noticed it. I had a less than stellar qualifying (I'm starting to believe that I'd run a 1:19 in a Formula Atlantic), but was only concentrating on Heat Cycling a new set of Khumos for the PDX. We swapped the Toyo Proxies back on that Steve used the day before. Had a great plan for the start, but it was all based on the ITE Vette being much faster into one than it turned out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zU01c2UE84
By lap two, I was in a no mans land gap for the next 4 laps til I decided to drop back and race with Dave Prokopf in his ITA MR2. Now THAT was FUN! Just worked on different lines as Steve & I are new at this whole wrong wheel drive thing.
Steve's kind enough to let me borrow the Neon again tomorrow for the second STL Region PDX. Should be a blast if the rain makes an early exit.
More to report after tomorrow.
Oh... T minus 17 days til my whole world turns upside down again. Baby Girl due September 11th!!!!!! WOOHOOO!