Well, Not all went as planned this weekend in California. Joe and I traveled to Irwindale speedway for what we hoped would have been a exciting weekend of racing the
new car.
We arrived Thursday night (Friday A. M.) at 1:30 am
ready to test and tune friday afternoon and evening, only
to discover an oil leak once we went on the track for our
first practice session.
The oil was at the rear of the engine and would
have made an oil rigger happy with the amount of oil
gushing from the rear main and oil pan.
So, Joe went under the car to locate the source of the
leak and check the oil pan bolts to be sure they were tight
and disovered a bolt was broken off in the engine block
during assembly and was covered up with sealer to
make it look like the bolt was properly installed.
I patched it the best I could with additional sealer and we
were able to run 3 lap sessions and had to bring the car in.
Friday night I tried to patch the leak better after the engine
oil pan cooled off, then saturday a.m. I pulled the transmission,
bell housing, clutches, flywheel and tried even harder to get
everything sealed so we could race saturday night.
After the track opened for the first practice saturday we went
on the track to find that our gusher was down to a fast drip,
We spoke to the race officals and they agreed to let us start
at the rear of the field and start the race to collect last place
money.
Needless to say I will be speaking to the the engine shop
by the time most of you read this monday a.m
It turned out to be a very expensive road trip.
stay tuned ...
