I didn't want to step on the Can Saf crew, but my car will be at the event also though not racing. I have been asked to have the car in the Toyo Tires display booth for the weekend along with Cliff Daley's Golf. Come by and take a look as it will be the first public appearance for the car this year.

I wish I was racing, but as the car didn't make it out of the garage until last weekend, I didn't rank high enough in the points to be the 45 or so cars selected out of the 100+ cars in the championship. I will be there Friday morning and Sunday afternoon to drop off the car and pick it up. Oh yeah I will watch the race as well, LOL.

Eric

 

Nice! Can't wait to see it in person again!

 

you not racing this weekend?

 

Joe it looks a fair bit different now versus last year. The colour is the same, but it is a very very different car with more stuff to be added later as we get comfortable with the new set up.

Regarding this weekend, I am only going to be running CCTCC races and the Indian Summer Trophy Race weekend 3 Hour this year, so this weekend is out. Besides I have a great big hole in the back yard (for my new pool) that I need to run electrical out to and 3 fences I need to add stuff to, LOL.

After the Indy Weekend I will be hunting for a lapping day to shake it all out at before we enter a race weekend. Present plan for the first weekend is Calabogie if work and noise limits allow.

Eric

 

Just wanted to post some shots of the car before it goes on display for those of you unable to attend. The car will be on display on Thunder Alley in the Toyo Booth. I don't know what me role (if any) will be.

Eric

 

A shot of the front.

 

The car is looking pimp! Can't wait to see it again.

 

those wheels look awsome i remember what they used to look like

 

So lets get you guys up on whats going on. Dave and I have worked hard to get the car up and ready to bring to the show. So yesterday morning I was up at 6:00 am to get dressed to go outside and wash the car. There......all nice and shiny.

At 8:00 am my pool construction crew shows up and spreads dust everywhere. F%$#@, got to wash the car again. We pull off the nose to load it onto the trailer and the upper metal support pulled out of its mount. Well thats why we have racers tape. Dave hooks up the trailer and has to park a block away because the construction crew has the whole street blocked. I fire up the car and idle down to the trailer and try to drive it on. The collector hits. We back the car off the trailer and put a line of 1x6 fence boards on the trailer to get the car on. It rolls on with a bit of running around and we cinch it down.

So we drive down the the highway from Oakville to Down town to the track. We offload the car on Thunder Alley and look for the Toyo Booth. Not there. I call the guy from Toy and he says it is on the Northern Thunder Alley. Where the heck is that?? The guy is new to the track and can't describe where he is. So I walk around for 20 minutes and finally find the area, stuck right behind pit entrance. Good spot, I just don't know how to get from where the car is to where it needs to be. I jog back to the car, fire it up and drive in the general direction. I end up driving the wrong way up the pit lane to get there. I try to find a way in to the immediate area and drive over some extension cords as I go through an openning in one of the numerous fences and walls, but the path ends up in the dead end. I end up having to do a 3 point turn to go back the way I came in and loop around to the end of the pit wall. Just then some wierd guy runs up and screams at me that the cables were fibre optic camera cables and I better have not damaged them. Dave tells the guy that there is no way I could have damaged them and starts to go into psi loading of each tire and the pressure resistance of that grade of cable (Dave is really great to have around, he knows something about everything and a ton about electronics) the guy looks like he has just been smacked in the face with a dead cod mumbles something a walks away. Score one for Dave.

Well by this time I am not having a really good time and I have just got the car to the Toyo Booth. They want me to move the car to a NEW POSITION just over .... there at the front of the booth beside where the Toyo babes hang out. This means I have to start the car again and move the car back and forth to get the rear wing under the tent. Just as the car gets into position, smoke starts to gush from under the hood. I shut it off quickly and climb out and lift the hood.

OH MY GAWD..... the pig blew an oil line off. How did that happen? These lines have been on the car for 3 years or so and with no issues. Now I have at least 2 quarts of Castrol Syntec 5-50 on the ground under my car and oil everywhere under the hood. So Dave and I spend the next hour wiping up oil off the ground and everywhere under the hood. We get it mostly cleaned up, but it is still slippery so we decide to head back to Oakville for some oil dry. We head back down in the Explorer dump a bunch of oil dry on the ground, tidy it up as much as possible and leave before it all goes crazy with the U-20 FIFA Soccer Game at BMO Field.

Soooo I get home about 4, go to my office and check for e-mails and do a couple of reports and then my contractor bangs on the door and tells me that an ice cream truck has just dripped diesel all over the street and up my nieghbours driveway. Nobody would believe him that it wasn't the contractors Bob Cats, so we jump in the truck and chase down the idiot. It was pretty easy as we just had to follow the trail and everywhere he stopped he left a spot about a foot in diameter and a constant drip line everywhere else. The guy just denied the issue to our face when we finally stopped him, so we ended up calling the cops on him, Dave took all kinds of photos showing his tire tracks through the diesel puddles and about 4 other spots and I ended up scrubbing the roads with laundry soap and a pressure washer.

I eat dinner, cleaned up, watched one episode from my Jonny Quest collection, another from my Perry Mason collection then went to bed and pulled the blankets over my head.

I hope today is better.

Eric

 

That is a very full day!!

Good to hear you got the car down to the track. It was a hassle, but at least it's there now.

I hope today will be better for you.

 

damn..thats a long day!
if it makes u feel any better, we saw ur car at the booth and it looked sharp!
when's she gonna be racing?

 

Saw your car today and asked around for you but I guess we missed paths.

Had some fun, lots of eye candy and some incidents (or poor driving) in the star mazda series. Finally got to our seats only to see the qualifying wrapup just as we sit down. With about an hour to go before I got to see the can-saf team run, my buddies complain about wanting to go home. So I didn't even see the car run. I think that's the last time I go to an automotive event with friends who are not so interested in automobiles.

 

What, no Murder She Wrote?

 

C'mon Shane, I have some standards. It is definately Diagnosis Murder never Murder She Wrote. The babes are much better with the Van Dyke Family, LOL.

Well today I have to go pick up the car. I expect it to be a major Clustf@#k picking up the car with everyone leaving. I hope to get down there in time to see the 3 Sedan races at the end of the day.

TIN TOPS FOREVER!!!!!!!!