Thanks for the fun day of raceing :thumbsup: Hope to make up agian.With more sleep.Everyone was very friendly.Next time I will have to stay away from Casey and his fle market :devil: Ed

Glad you had fun I hope to see you at the trophy race on May 1st
Bring some more ppl up with ya

Hey Guys, May 1st is the day for the 4th annual Indoor Carpet Champs in the Soo. I started a thread on it in the "other race events" section of the oval area as well as in the on-road section.
Hope to see lots of you guys up here and good luck to all at the states this year. Nick tried but ended up having to run the race on one of our race days up here so I won't be able to make it down this year. Hope you guys have lots of fun and I might see you at the April Mt. pleasant race.
Later, Joel

Joel is you next race day on the 13th I hope so that's the one weekend I get off. Now that were back on the 8 hour shift it sucks I like the 12 hour shift so much better.

Kingpin,
YGM.

Hey Jake and anybody Else
If I Ask Joel or Hey Joel since your reading this can you e-mail the Flyr to JAke for our Trophy race
Jake can you be a PAL and do you magic on it make it look all nice and pass it out at States
I kkep thinking I might go but it is a long trip by myself Rob is going back to work so I don't have him
I am jsut going to og to our own race this weekend and hope to get 67 laps and beat my old record
I am going to try like hell and get close to Jamies 69 laps

LMK Guys
Also Jake I am in need of a flat panel Monitor
I would be very RC great full to anybody that can get me a good one and 17"

Yes, get my the flyer and I will make it Yooper-ific! I got no porblem handing it out at the Hub and I will get some to Kevin for MP as well.

17's are not cheap, and you want a good one. I hope you got about 4 bills to drop on one......

I was thinking about spending $300 on one or trading a decent amount for one
Hopefully Joel will send you a flyer soon and that way you will have time to do it up
Thanks

Casey did I hear right that there are races this weekend the 13th. :cool:

Your right Chuck
Hey BTW I have a Monopoly game that is a Harley Davison one Special anniversary edition
I think it was there 75th or something like that
I was wondering if you might want it ? Do you know what it is worth ? I don't the sticker on it says like $80 I paid a little less than that a while ago Just wondering if I got ripped
It is still new in package and unopened too

LMK
Casey

I'm not sure what it would sell for I haven't kept up on that kind of stuff. I'm not sure if I can make the race I may have a meeting to go to in Flint for ABATE on saturday I have to do some checking. What weekend is the Trophy Race moved to now :tongue:

Hey Casey I got an ispreation and looked back to see when the Trophy race is and by golly I found it so no need to answer that one. :thumbsup:

Ok not a problem Chuck I do hope ot see you and the rest of the gang Sat though

Later

Hey Hock I see your here
Hows it going

Just Getting Ready To Go Racing In
Oshkosh

Yeh Casey I'd rather be racing but I am committed to the ABATE program so I'll see if they are really going to have that meeting on Saturday. :mad:

I don't want to work

I just want to play with my car all day!

Bolink Sprint Car racers: I'm debating a change to the rules for the sprint cars and would like to here what you think. The change would be to allow standard ball-cup & turnbuckle steering rods on them, instead of the Z-bend wires. Here's what I learned a couple of weeks ago: After a big crash in the main last time, my tie rods were bent (I finished the race, but with an ill handling car.) I straightened them out at home, and a few of us went to Grand Rapids to run the cars the next weekend. My car handled bad all day, bouncing and hopping all over the place. Then I discovered that one of the Z-bends was binding up the steering block's vertical travel. I bent the tie rod a tiny amount and cured the handling gremlins. I've noticed a lot of ill handling sprint cars, and suspect this may be a common problem. Plus, the turnbuckle style should be a lot more durable. Let me know what you think.

Super idea. Not new, but Super.
Most of the used sprinters as well as legends that I get from across the country have the better steering system. It must be common at many tracks. I just spent over an hour redoing the wires on the legend that I am taking to Lansing Friday. Not only were the steering block holes sloppy around the wires, but so were the servo saver holes. What a difference those new parts made.
Now I have no excuse for my "poor handling" car.

Go get um, George !!!!

George - Does this mean you've been selling ILLEGAL cars again? :D Actually, sloppy is actually BETTER than tight with the Z-bend tie rods.

Now I have no excuse for my "poor handling" car.
Sure you do....blame it one me. :p

Ok "oldguy", since I don't know anyone older than me who races, just who are you :confused:

Kevin - Actually, I have quite a collection of ball cups and turnbuckles. I tried loose last month. It's ok going straight, lousy turning. Or maybe it was the driver that was loose. Also, I am not going out to the barn and yank and twist the wires to make them loose again. They should be bouncy enough after I hit the wall a few times.

Rowley - I am saving you to blame for something really bad :tongue:
By the way, they don't have shirts available again do they??? I know that my trade in is worth more than one my size. :lol:

Rowley - I am saving you to blame for something really bad :tongue:
By the way, they don't have shirts available again do they??? I know that my trade in is worth more than one my size. :lol:
Remind me at the apartmnet, as I have it for you here....... :D

Hey Smitty and George

BTW George you know Oldguy He is always at MP and might be just a little younger than you
I will be nice to him because I might need his service for something soon
So Oldguy can you e-mail me your # again
Thanks


Remember Everybody to have fun this weekend and tell everybody about our Trophy race MAY 1St at the Soo

What??? No Casey this weekend???

I will try to make up for Caseys missing apperance. :-)

Jamie - If you are going to do that, you will have to take a quick course in " Primary Irritant 101"

George, I may be wrong but I think its Pops Hanson. :)

If it is, he will really have to change

Change what George ?? Ball cups and turnbuckles ?--I like your idea. Me, I just hang around, spectate, and occasionally run for coffees and chows. See you in Lansing tomorrow nite--Go get um George, bent wires or whatever. Oldguy

So I was bored this morning and did some math about the number of laps I put on my car, I even went conservative on the estimates!

45 laps a run, 5 runs by the time you run 1 practice, 3 heats and a main.

225 laps a race day
900 laps a month
6300 laps by the end of March......

My best estimate is that my T2 has closer to 6700-6800 laps by the end of March. :eek: Thats with extra practice sessions at bigger races, but does not include if I travel to MP or anywhere else. This is all at the Lansing track.

Yeah, I need a new car for sure....

What I probably shouldn't add is that I haven't touched the front end all year, just to clean it and the rear shocks have had the oil changed once in January since this fall. All the springs on it are the one's that I used last year, side shocks and front end springs. The exception is the center shock spring which was new this fall. I should probably do some maintainence...... :roll:

Yeh some maintaince sounds like a good idea Jake :devil:

i'd like to come to the next mt pleasent race could someone give me some directions on how to get there again ................

Bob - From Mt. Clemens, eh? I'd say your best bet would be I-75 all the way to US-10, then take M-20 through Midland all the way to Mt. Pleasant. When M-20 (a.k.a. Pickard) gets to Mt. P, keep going straight through town past Meijers. When the road narrows from 4 lanes to 2, turn left on Bradley. The school's about a mile down on the right.

Jake - If you'd have REALLY been bored, you'd have calculated it in MILES.

Jake - If you'd have REALLY been bored, you'd have calculated it in MILES.
Based on a 175 foot run line and 6300 laps, its about 209 miles. 208.8068 miles to be exact. :thumbsup:

Bob, Kevin's directions are good. You will pick up US -10 (heading west towards Midland) off the X-way heading north at a Bay City exit. The Midland exits off 10 (all two of them) will both take you towards downtown Midland where you will pick up M-20 going west to Mt Pleasant. I would suggest taking the first exit which is a big left hand curve off 10. The second exit (if you miss the first one) is Eastman Rd. If you take that exit, turn left on Eastman at the end of the offramp and then go south a couple miles to downtown. M-20 starts on Main Street near the Courthouse. Mt. Pleasant is a straight 4-lane shot from there. But do not go more than a couple miles over 55 MPH as the road is very well patrolled and the locals are not very forgiving.
You will have a good time. The doors open at 10:00 and racing starts around noon. They have tables and chairs biutyou will need to bring an extension cord. Enjoy, and nice job this weekend. Jamie will not likely be in Mt. Pleasant becuase of his job; so the Leadind Edge mantel will be on your shoulders. Do good, Bob. Jim

From Mt Clemens it might be a little further but quicker to take 96 to Lansing and then 127 North. Not sure.

From Mt. Clemens - Take 59 to 75 then follow Kevin's Directions.

Not much activity on here lately..... :cool:

What do you want us to Say
You guys are the ones that just got done racing The States Race

Welcome back Casey. I hope all is well with you. We missed you this past weekend in Lansing. Really good racin, lots of speed, good clean driving for the most part, and plenty of laughs and chuckles. You will need to get Mel to repeat his "Deano jig" when you get him up there. Jim

Hi Hock I see your on here I won't be racing wednesday but will be there the following wednesday how about you :wave:

Joel where are the race results from the weekend I"m curious :cool:

yo Chuck
dave here
hows it hanging :wave:

Wed are not good for me. I wilkl see you at the soo race

Perry do you have anything in the Underdog theme I'll be doing a new body and thought that would be cool :devil:

Hi Dave it looks like the A-arms will work on the buggy I just roughly checked it out so it may be as Willy Nelson says Back On the Road Again. Thanks :thumbsup:

Hock glad to hear you'll be at the Soo race will Perry make the trip also :thumbsup: