Lewistown [May 29th] 2010

Super excited for this. I had an amazing time last year. I've got new HPS pads, ATE super blue fluid and some ss brake lines. Should help a bit. I will be bringing a cooler with water bottles for everybody. I'll probably be a part of the early crew as well.

-Ryan-

Ryan!! You made it on here!! Glad you're gonna make it up again this year. But don't be speeding on your way home this time

^^ ahahah i still have a picture of that! so did you get a ticket ryan

Sorry i have to ryan its a pretty bad ass picture




and how fast were you going was kinda curious?

I took that pic

heheh so did he speed ahead of you guys then later you guys caught up? cause i think thats mikes truck i see

Yeah, he was trying to get back to town for something to do with his Wife I believe. I know he was in somewhat of a hurry.

yeah I was speeding a wee bit and got a speeding ticket and a tint ticket. I got my tint removed and the tint ticket was dropped. Only got ticketed for ten over.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.... I AM GETTING MORE AND MORE STOKED BY THE DAY!!

ME TOO!!!!!

I just wanna scream like Joe from Family Guy. GEEETT SOOOMMMEE!!!

hey ryan i saw you going up 24th by city brew today. sick looking subbie man nice job.

Gonna get my final things buttoned up by this weekend and be ready to rock and roll! I can't wait! Hopefully I can actually get SOME sleep Friday night this time

yeah same her but i told myself i would get some sleep last time to. but i was to damn excited both times to sleep

AZ93 wrote:

hey ryan i saw you going up 24th by city brew today. sick looking subbie man nice job.

Thanks!

Sleep is for wieners, just drink a 32oz Monster like myself and you will be fine.

Just got the rims and tires re-mounted and now I am working on sanding my corner lights and front turn signals. I decided the blacked out look is not a good look and want to make it look more STREET LEGAL.

Looks like the weather on Friday is going to be pretty crappy, so I am going to leave my car on all 4 jack stands till then and do my ONCE OVER before the race.

I am getting way too excited!!

MAN! I tried my helmet on and tried to sit in my car...NOT ALOT OF ROOM IN THERE!!! It sucks being over 6' tall!!!!

Try having a cage that runs a few inches from your head! Its scary even with a helmet on and I'm so short I'm almost a midget, or little person what ever is PC these days!

I would love to be able to make it to this!!!!! Sounds like it is going to be a blast!!!

I'm gonna try to get my brakes done on Sunday. Is the brake line install pretty straight forward?

my recommendation for helmet clearance is removing your sunroof and not putting anything back in.... then your head can just stick out the roof! You will see what I am talking about when I roll my beutiful ride into lewistown!

My helmet is actually less than 1 inch away from my top cross bar of my cage. When I hit a bump my head flys into it.

b1r - TS wrote:

my recommendation for helmet clearance is removing your sunroof and not putting anything back in.... then your head can just stick out the roof! You will see what I am talking about when I roll my beutiful ride into lewistown!

Its not the targa top that my head is hitting, its right behind that where the body goes across!

1 week left people. I am going to start drawing up designs for the track. Hopefully come up with something better than last year (not saying that last year was bad, I would just like to have a better meet every time).

Sounds great Mike.

Can't wait to see what you come up w/ Mike, I promise to help set up the coarse this time!!

Thanks to Matt's generous help I now have new axles, rotors, and Hawk HPS pads. We also fixed a couple other loose ends that needed fixing and I installed my catch can.

I finally figured out why I only blow oil out my PCV in Lewistown........ ALL THE RIGHT TURNS lol!!! Gonna have to keep checking the can to make sure it's not filling up every 2 laps like last year lol.

Getting more excited every day, hell I'm awake right now cause I can't stop thinking about the last few things I have to do before I'm ready, good grief!!

i havent even started working on my car yet man i sure am lazy.

I really have nothing going on tomorrow morning, so I think I shall finish my car.

DoodieHead [ADMIN] wrote:

I really have nothing going on tomorrow morning, so I think I shall finish my car.

So does this mean you have the parts for you're brakes too?

I decided a while back that I will wait to do the brakes until after Lewistown. I dont want to risk not having a car, especially now that the nipple broke off on the drivers front/rear of the caliper. I would have no way to get the air out.

this is why you use Wilwood calipers. EVERYONE knows Wilwood is the bomb..... you didn't know that?

DoodieHead [ADMIN] wrote:

I decided a while back that I will wait to do the brakes until after Lewistown. I dont want to risk not having a car, especially now that the nipple broke off on the drivers front/rear of the caliper. I would have no way to get the air out.

You will have to use an easy out to remove the broken nipples...

I have not yet decided what to do, but all I know is my car will be out of commission for quite some time after Lewistown. Gives me about 3 weeks before BTR.

Mr. Walsh, I believe after Lewistown I am just going to remove the drivers side caliper and bring it down to you. Hopefully we can get that broken piece out and replaced with something that will work. As soon as we get that all done, it will be time to install the new Y system off the ABS unit and that proportional valve from Summit (I decided to order that by the way).

DoodieHead [ADMIN] wrote:

Mr. Walsh, I believe after Lewistown I am just going to remove the drivers side caliper and bring it down to you. Hopefully we can get that broken piece out and replaced with something that will work. As soon as we get that all done, it will be time to install the new Y system off the ABS unit and that proportional valve from Summit (I decided to order that by the way).

ahh.... good man. let me know and we'll set a date on the "y" system. you can drop off the caliper at any time.

Sounds great Matt. We will talk more about this at Lewistown.

A few more things cleared up and fixed tonight so hopefully the car will be performing even better at lewistown. Thanks to Eric (f20bmt) I will be trailering the 240 which should allow for more aggresive driving... knowing that it can go on a trailer home! And tonight while cleaning up a few things in the engine bay I noticed that one of my catch can lines had been melted by my manifold causing an air leak behind the MAF! I also got my fans rewired so hopefully there will be no issues with blowing fuses!

now lets just pray for no rain!

Yeah lets pray for no rain for sure. its suppose to rain the next day.So expect clouds. lets hope it stays a nice 65 degrees perferably 70 and sunny. i really hope so or this whole thing may for the most part be a bust because alot of our cars cannot run on the wet track due to tires.

Everyone pray for clear skys and if you have to do a sacrifice its ok lol its just one day u gotta sacrific a goat i believe? hehe jks

No matter what the weather, we will be running. I am hoping there will be no rain, but it would also be fun to have a rain day.

Glad you got your car even more figured out Bone, I am really looking forward to all the Nissan goodness this year.

One week! Can't wait!

Are we going to figure out the run groups when we get up there? How's the course planning coming?

I will be getting a course set up here today at some point. Run groups I am not real sure of yet, we will have to see how many people actually show up.

b1r - TS wrote:

A few more things cleared up and fixed tonight so hopefully the car will be performing even better at lewistown. Thanks to Eric (f20bmt) I will be trailering the 240 which should allow for more aggresive driving... knowing that it can go on a trailer home! And tonight while cleaning up a few things in the engine bay I noticed that one of my catch can lines had been melted by my manifold causing an air leak behind the MAF! I also got my fans rewired so hopefully there will be no issues with blowing fuses!

now lets just pray for no rain!

Glad your car is running cause I am about to roll mine out of the garage and light it on FIRE!!!

Hope to see you all on Saturday!!!!

__________SpRoCK____________

I'm still hoping we don't have to have run groups. Last year everyone was really good about not having too many cars out at a time, hopefully we can manage that again cause I really don't like the idea of being told when I can and cannot go around the track..... Just be smart people, remember this is NOT a race, use common sense and be carefull and we should all be fine.

Unless of couarse Jeremy (Silver WRX w/ DC stickers) actually does come (which it sounds like he is) In that case we need 2 run groups. One group of just him and one group of everyone else haha!! I hate to sound like a dick, and I'm not tryin to hate, but I want to warn EVERYONE that may not know this kid that he is a scary, innexperianced, and dangerous driver so WATCH OUT!!!

If he's that bad there will be plenty of people willing to back Mike up when he tells him to leave!

i just found this site and i am interested in doing this. What exactly is it

Just read through the pages of this thread, it should tell you all you need to know.

And Todd - I'm sure we won't have to. We had a lot of cars there last year and it seemed that a lot of people enjoyed just chilling and watching other cars. And anyone who doesn't want to break their car won't be running more than 3 or 4 laps at a time anyways to cool everything down, so at any given time I'm sure at least half the cars will be in the pits.
In summary. I'm not worried.

Just got my hawk HPS pads, SS brake lines, and super blue fluid in today. Hopefully this will keep brake fade to a minimum.

Ya I'm lovin my HPS's man

If Jeremy is being dangerous I am not going to hesitate to tell him to leave. I am not going to have an inexperienced driver that has a big head ruin the best meet of the year for good.