WELD/SUTTON DIRT MISSILE build

[DBasher]

I usually try and live by something I heard along time ago; Not my pig, not my farm. It’s helped me stay away from quite a bit of bull**** though the years...unfortunately I’ve also had it drilled into my head, When you see something, say something. So I’m going to say something.

The car in pictures and out on track looks great, no doubt. But seeing the car for the first time Friday was a huge shock and honestly a big disappointment. It took one 5 minute walk around to realize this wasn’t going to be a car Weld or Ron could “show off” and be proud of. How could you be?
No bodywork, sanding scratches seen through the wrap, wrap joints that overlapped and created a darker yellow, the wrap pulled so tight in areas that it created a different shade of yellow, the windows that don’t lay in correct and have a bulge or deformed area, taillights that look like they’re held in with a screw, maybe two and shake when the car moves....and the hood stripes that are so in your face crooked...it’s embarrassing. Ron should be embarrassed to let this quality, or lack of, ever leave a shop.
You’ll notice I didn’t say anything about the gaps or alignment of panels. It’s a race car and everyone understands that...that being said, I’ve seen farm equipment with better panel fitment.
The body is a wreck and a HS auto shop could have done a better job putting it together.

Now on to the problems. I don’t know anything about LS motors so I can’t and won’t comment on the “breather blow by”....F it, yes I will. Dude, that’s not blow by, that’s a motor losing half a quart of oil in 4 minutes of hard charging on track...#becauseracecar? I don’t think so. The clean up wasn’t a quick wipe down it was more like a FEMA response team in Valdez Alaska. All over the freshly coated exhaust, on the floor inside the car...that bitch puked like a freshman at senior prom...every time out! Maybe we should check the valve cover gaskets...again. Fawk man!

The cooling issues. Again I don’t know anything other than what I’ve read...and what Ron has posted. To recap some of the threads- Air comes in the front and exits out....well if you’ve paid attention or been to any track event to dump the engine bay heat you go out the front fenders or put vents in the hood. On this turd, where is the air exiting? Ron posted that the engine bay “is really hot” ya think? It’s not vented anywhere. An air to fluid heat exchange doesn’t work unless you’re actually moving air, think about it.

The only other issue I’ve got, from what I saw, was the complete lack of accountability from Ron. Instead of owning the faults the buck was and still is being passed. It’s been implied that Welds crew (aka friends) were the reason for the thread taking a turn. Nah dude, the car being built and mismanaged poorly is why all of this is coming out. Sad really.