Equipe Rapide Challenge Cup #1 - March 9, 2014

[TxCoyote]

Fixed 'em for ya.

So True based on past history

[OZMDD]

Fixed 'em for ya.

yeah, not gonna happen on this one. If I can't make it fast with tires and adjustments, I'm gonna be stuck going slow or codriving your car!

C'mon, I put less money into my entire NC build than either of you spent on your cars to date. (And it was faster...)

[TxCoyote]

Also true but it would be poor form for us to pass on an opportunity to bust your balls

[OZMDD]

Fair point.

[ratt_finkel]

Still looking for a co-drive for this event :)

[jucostud]

Im Mike, and I'm an autocrossaholic. Welcome to the addiction!

Thanks. My first event was yesterday with pca. Had the fastest time in my class (3x)

[altiain]

yeah, not gonna happen on this one. If I can't make it fast with tires and adjustments, I'm gonna be stuck going slow or codriving your car!

C'mon, I put less money into my entire NC build than either of you spent on your cars to date. (And it was faster...)

Umm... no. Unless you're counting the cost to rebuild after the fire towards my grand total. Even then I'm not sure you come out ahead since you rebuilt a tranny, a motor, and replaced a top on yours.

$11k car
$3k shocks
$1k wheels
$60 MX-5 swaybar
$15.06k total

That's it. Everything else on my car is either stock, or came with the car when I bought it (front bar).

[nomadtrash]

Two guys arguing on who is cheapest and they have $4k worth of wheels and shocks on the list. Get that number under $500 and you will have my sympathy.

[OZMDD]

How many times has your engine been in/out of that MR2 THIS year?? There is a threshold where cheap stops working if the car doesn't work. :)

[rmonheim]

In with the S2k.

[nomadtrash]

I've only had to swap motors 3 times and build 2 new motors and replace a head gasket without pulling the motor 1 time. But this time will be different, I bough the $104 eBay rebuild kit instead of the $95 one this time.

[OZMDD]

I've only had to swap motors 3 times and build 2 new motors and replace a head gasket without pulling the motor 1 time. But this time will be different, I bough the $104 eBay rebuild kit instead of the $95 one this time.

[altiain]

I've only had to swap motors 3 times and build 2 new motors and replace a head gasket without pulling the motor 1 time. But this time will be different, I bough the $104 eBay rebuild kit instead of the $95 one this time.

There is a point where cheapness borders on stupidity. You sir are well past that point.

[TxCoyote]

Or you could be like the founder of the FJH class and just buy a new car every 6 months. BTW, Jim is now relocated to Florida No more smokey burnout

[OZMDD]

That's a bummer.

[general default]

This is just to easy. The ebay kit has a quart of oil included.

I've only had to swap motors 3 times and build 2 new motors and replace a head gasket without pulling the motor 1 time. But this time will be different, I bough the $104 eBay rebuild kit instead of the $95 one this time.

[nomadtrash]

Russ is carrying on the FJH tradition of buying a different car every few months in the hopes that the new car will somehow magically allow him win a trophy.

[TxCoyote]

Russ is carrying on the FJH tradition of buying a different car every few months in the hopes that the new car will somehow magically allow him win a trophy.

I think I won as many as you did last year.

[nomadtrash]

This is just to easy. The ebay kit has a quart of oil included.

Yes, I'll admit it was all user error.

I believe I have found the smoking gun. After the last rebuild the car ran very rich for a while. I think I had a bad O2 sensor. I think that gobs of extra fuel washed out the cylinder walls and made the rings not seat properly. After I put a new O2 sensor in the car ran better but it had low compression and blew oil out the tail pipe. It was using enough oil that I had to put in a quart every couple of weeks. In my haste to get everything together for the autocross I didn't check the oil level. It was low enough that under the 2+ lateral G's that a stock MR2 can generate the oil all sloshed away from the pickup and spun a bearing.

[nomadtrash]

I think I won as many as you did last year.

That would be Zero for both of us then.