Because Racecar (1 Viewer)

[GoStumpy]

Bought my first racecar today. Epic feeling.

Need to go pick it up next weekend as it's ~350km away, but its paid for and picked up tomorrow morning by the old man for me

Plan is gut it completely, roll cage, buckets seats, racing harness, bright yellow paint with company logo

1997 Acura 2.2CL, 2.2L Vtec, 5speed, perfect!

I'll update as progress happens

 

[rowlin]

Congrats!

 

[fish72s]

I used to have a 2001 (and later a 2003) Acura CL-S.
It wasn't a race car but I drove that care on a 20,000 mile, 5 month trip across the US, Canada and Mexico.
Damn, I loved that car

Found a pic.

 

[GoStumpy]

Yep I LOVED my 3.5RL I had for a few years...

Rules for the circle-track series I'll be in is 155hp max for the car, 4 cylinder, engine stock top to bottom, stock brakes, suspension, and the safety stuff... so basically get all brand new suspension with the best shocks around, new brakes with racing pads, and make sure the engine runs good, get it set up and racing, then maybe some tricks to the motor to boost the power (If I need to, lol)

 

[WedgeRock]

 

[GoStumpy]

Update with some pics, we got the car stripped, took 400lbs out of it, wired up a push button start to bypass all the relay bullshit.. going to get caged probably Monday

Coming home:

Pile of parts:

Painting:

 

[GoStumpy]

Got it outside today and took a couple pics... Monday the rollcage goes in..

 

[WedgeRock]

Two thoughts:

1.) no chance of losing a peanut M&M under the seat now.

2.) Instead of painting, shoulda gone with @Gear labels.

Following this project with interest...

 

[GoStumpy]

Cage was finished today, sorry for the single crappy pic... tomorrow everything gets finished and I'll pull it outside for some good photos! Got the seat installed yesterday, cage done today, harness in today, wheels on today... tomorrow is oil change and front pads and I think it's ready!!!

 

[GoStumpy]

What a frickin awesome day of racing!
Might have some video coming from friends and family..
Basically they separated the ~16 hornet cars into A group and B group according to initial time-in hotlaps... I was 4th from slowest so I was put in B group.

Then a friend's pit crew asked what my tire pressures were... LOL!! They were 32-38 all around... they told me to put the left tires at ~15psi, right front at 28, right rear at 25... so I did, and wow did it make a difference.
I came 2nd in the trophy dash, which is a 4 lap sprint... and then 4th in the Heat Race because I just wasn't holding a good line...
Main event came and I could see by the scoreboard that I was 2 places from being on there (top 5 on the scoreboard) so I knew I was in 7th overall... what I didn't realize is that I was ahead of every other B group car out there! I had no idea I won until the guys started yelling at me when I got out of the car to get over to the main straight for photos, I was like HUH?? WOOHOO lol.
Car definitely will be faster next year, shocks were hilariously bad, I was a pogo-stick bouncing around the corners, I'll have race slicks next year, and I need to bump the rev limiter at least to 7k, it's a hard limit on 6600rpm right now so I was hitting that on both straights.
Had a ton of fun and I can't wait til next year!!! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[WedgeRock]

Congrats!

Those upgrades sound expensive. I have cash in hand depending on what chips you have for sale.