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Old 06-15-2008, 11:43 AM
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Or metal?
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Some fail from the SCCA 12 Hour race.

Friday practice:




Deer strike on front straight after the hosed off the intestines:



Fueling fail. This was a pretty big fire, but the car was checked and went back out into the race:



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Old 06-15-2008, 07:18 PM
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Or metal?
+1 looks like lots o metal shavings to me. Ouchy.
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+1 looks like lots o metal shavings to me. Ouchy.
correct... improperly fastened wrist pins actually... destroyed the entire motor, the pistons were unusable, and so much metal mixed with the oil that it destroyed the cams and valve train too. Lol, when your oil turns silver... you got problems
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Great pictures Steve. Thanks for all your help. Did you get any pics of the RP Miata that lost it coming out of 10? Looked like a parts car at about 3am, but my judgment was very impaired by that time!
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Great pictures Steve. Thanks for all your help. Did you get any pics of the RP Miata that lost it coming out of 10? Looked like a parts car at about 3am, but my judgment was very impaired by that time!

No I didn't. The battery in the camera died by then. If you liked those shots, you will really like the rest of them.

I wish I wasn't so tired as to check out the 240Z we'd been battling all day. Shame for it to run 11 hours and disappear into the trees at the end like that. I guess we all lost track of that one. Did you ever get the story?
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I heard that it went off in turn 1, hit a tree, then the tree fell on the car. At that point the 09 Miata was our closest competitor.
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Interesting post script to the 12 Hour… went to Riesentoter’s Monday DE. First thing they had to do was close the toilets by the class rooms… seems the SCCA guys filled the system to capacity and the first time someone flushed a toilet the excess started boiling up through the floor drain! The track maintenance crew were not happy.
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Interesting post script to the 12 Hour… went to Riesentoter’s Monday DE. First thing they had to do was close the toilets by the class rooms… seems the SCCA guys filled the system to capacity and the first time someone flushed a toilet the excess started boiling up through the floor drain! The track maintenance crew were not happy.
Track maintenance crew?!? You sure you were at Summit Point?
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Track maintenance crew?!? You sure you were at Summit Point?
two guys in a beat-up old ford pickup...
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