Beach Cruiser Update

[WSSix]

Barely, but only cause you're pointing to it in the above picture. Tough break for sure. You got the engine shut off in time though, right?

[Track Junky]

That sucks but the good news is that car is kickin' some butt. Way to go.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

that does suck. Rock or no rock....aluminum pans suck!!

[Beach Cruiser]

Update, I replaced the pan with another CTSV pan, but this time I tigged a 1/4x1 piece of aluminum to the bottom to act as a "slider" skid plate if I ever hit anything again, it won't catch on the drain plug. I also fitted up my new splitter with attached belly pan on the car, It sits just a bit lower than the oil pan, so the pan is no longer the lowest point on the car. I was a little disturbed to find what looked like metal in the bottom of the pan when I got it off but put it back together anyway. So far so good, I ran the piss out of it at the local autox yesterday and all seems normal. The car kicked some butt too! I was the 8th fastest car out of 130 entries, I'll take that. Next the trans is getting rebuilt to get ready for the Ultimate Track Car Challange coming up in July at VIR!

[Beach Cruiser]

Home now from the Ulitmate Track Car Challage, I didn't get chance to take very many pictures. I ended up finishing 27th overall, not bad considering all the "hardware" that was in the field. But the highlight was winning the fastest Vintage award! There were 5 cars running in the vintage group and I ended up the fastest! I only ran a 2.12 lap, about 4 seconds slower than my best. I'm guessing the areo I added slowed me down, and I didn't get enough runs to really learn how to drive it in the corners with it on the car. Transmission is still a problem, I Just pulled it out last night and opened up the cover to take a peek, and luckely none of the gears are missing teeth, it does look like some mauled up 3rd gear, but it's not too bad. The case did have a lot of metal in it. It's going back to the shop that built it today.

Here's some pics to enjoy, I'm gonna try and find some of the other cars and I'll post them as well.





Winners Circle


Back home in the cave


The best part of the weekend was my Dad came down and my son came up, so here are the three Mills's

[Beach Cruiser]

Here are some pictures of the other cars. I can only find one on track pic of my car and ended up winning the damn thing! No Love....

[efs69]

Congrats man!! Did you make your splitter? how far under the car does it go?

[Beach Cruiser]

Yes, all the way to the oil pan, I'll post some build pics up if there interest

[Payton King]

I did not realize you ran against some Vintage Outlaw cars. Maybe you need to do a little wheel to wheel in that class.

[Beach Cruiser]

Payton, I'm going to be time trialing next year. My wife doesn't want me to be doing wheel to wheel stuff. Besides, I already beat them! And yes they are all Outlaw Vintage cars, the firebird and the white mustang are from the southern region, SC and GA I think. I still have a ways to go to get my car to pass racing specs too. I need to put the front of the cage in it, batt cutoff switch, window net, fire system and I'm not sure if the rules require a fuel cell but I don't think so.

Ok, so the trans is at the shop that built it. We pulled the cover yesterday and all the teeth are still good, but it has a spot where it binds up if it's in gear. It spins freely not in gear. They are going to break it down and try and figure it out. As I suspected some metal went through the third gear clusters, so this is what my magnet picked up out of the oil I drained:



No sign inside the tranny where it may have come from, very strange. The poor transmission only had 40 mins of run time on it.