Mazdeuce does One Lap

SnowMongoose wrote: Even if I didn't know what you were driving, I'd know it was a newer car from the fact that you only packed one hammer. FWIW, I'm not a fan of how the arrow interacts with the features of the hood.

I'm thinking a lot about the arrow. It will be on there somehow, but I'm spending a lot of time staring at it and trying to figure it out.

I don't want to question your expertise, but a CTSv seems like more of a deadblow hammer than a framing hammer.

mazdeuce wrote: Start with a $2.89 pillow. Cut in half. A little extra stuffing to firm it up.

Surprised no one has mentioned your use of "deep pockets" to live this dream...

or the grosh, or fred the wagon, etc... :P...

pinchvalve wrote: I don't want to question your expertise, but a CTSv seems like more of a deadblow hammer than a framing hammer.

The hammer was really just to tap the pins out of the calipers to change the brake pads if needed. You bring up a good point though, I probably do need a dead blow eventually and this seems like as good an excuse as any.

Mad_Ratel wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: Start with a $2.89 pillow. Cut in half. A little extra stuffing to firm it up.

Surprised no one has mentioned your use of "deep pockets" to live this dream... or the grosh, or fred the wagon, etc... :P...

Still keeping a budget and I'll lay it all out when we're done. At this point it looks like One Lap with a co-driver paying half will cost about the same as four track weekends. You certainly get less track time, but sometimes it's not about minutes.

awesome

Bring spare fasteners. I could have used some after a brief off track excursion in my car.

mazdeuce wrote:

Mad_Ratel wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: Start with a $2.89 pillow. Cut in half. A little extra stuffing to firm it up.

Surprised no one has mentioned your use of "deep pockets" to live this dream... or the grosh, or fred the wagon, etc... :P...

Still keeping a budget and I'll lay it all out when we're done. At this point it looks like One Lap with a co-driver paying half will cost about the same as four track weekends. You certainly get less track time, but sometimes it's not about minutes.

Honestly meant it as a joke. I know you dont just splash money needlessly around from following your build threads.But seeing the DEEP POCKETS brand pillow in a thread about a CTSV had me chuckling.

Then there is the whole deep mining for oil link that I may have just made up.

This is really hard to do alone. I'm happy with it though.

Looks good. One technique is to position the long ones up with blue painters tape while the backing is still on the vinyl. Once you have it level and in position, you can take the backing off working from one end to the other. An application spray is critical to getting the bubbles out and making minor adjustments. I'll bet there are lots of youtube videos on the subject.

I'm getting better. I need to save scraps and just practice applying them until I get the technique right. If these were going on a racecar for a whole season (or if I'd paid for them) I'd be a little bent about the job I did. For one week and about $15 in vinyl I'm ok with it.

We have leave it about 26 hours. Sleeping tonight is going to be difficult.

We have leave it about 26 hours. Sleeping tonight is going to be difficult.

In reply to mazdeuce:

Good luck!

Do you know roughly what time you guys will arrive in bowling green, Kentucky on Thursday?

Not a clue. Watch this thread though as I'll be updating it pretty constantly. We should be getting some sort of official schedule with times on Saturday.
Edit: Just checked the schedule and we have time trials scheduled for 8:00 and 12:30 at the NCM on Friday. Hopefully we'll be there early enough to sleep? We'll see.

i'm sure it's posted somewhere but you got easy access to a link of the stops/route?

nm found brock's post earlier in the thread.

You can kind of put together a schedule by looking at the events. For instance, Hallett has time trials at 8:00 and 12:00. So say the latest we should get away from Hallett is 4:00. It's about 11 hours to NCM, so that has us in Bowling Green at 3:00 AM. Cars on track for the next event at 8:00 so we'll have to be there earlier. Hopefully we can both sleep in the car (at separate times) and still catch three hours of bed sleep and a shower.
This is going to be fun.

I dont understand dead-blow hammers. I've never found anything that i couldn't avoid breaking with a real hammer, so why do i need a hammer that's built to hit softer when i can adjust my swing for free?

Anyway, good luck! FEED US PICTURES AND VIDEOS.

mazdeuce wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: I don't want to question your expertise, but a CTSv seems like more of a deadblow hammer than a framing hammer.

I probably do need a dead blow eventually and this seems like as good an excuse as any.

You got one on the way...

Good luck on with one lap.

Good luck, and have fun!

The whole forum is living vicariously through you. Good luck and have a ball

One last school run. One last load of groceries. Time to pack.

Super ready to watch this

Best of luck.

Don't call them the last. That doesn't sound encouaging.