tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3688013858113044492024-02-21T08:12:02.192-08:00P and B Motorsports - Vintage Volvo RacingJim Luchthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05028550789149219505noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-38725017919729096452018-07-09T05:05:00.001-07:002018-07-09T05:06:38.959-07:00New Posts<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To find newer posts, please head to our new site <a href="http://pandbmotorsports.com/" target="_blank">http://pandbmotorsports.com/</a>. Same writing, videos and photos, just an new address.</span></span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15645967500027096263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-38865161260392065712016-11-18T11:29:00.001-08:002016-11-22T07:41:54.043-08:00VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival-Volvo Nationals, Sept. 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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How does one summarize the "event of the century" if you are a
Volvo fan? Not easily. I think maybe I have finally recovered enough to do
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This all started 16 months earlier when Ray Freiwald and I got together with Volvo trucks president and fellow 1800 racer, Goran Nyberg, at The Hawk. Goran was an enthusiastic supporter of the idea of getting together all the Volvo racers we could find. It turns out there are about 90 of us on this continent, so convincing more than a third to be part of an event is downright respectable. The convincing factor was, without a doubt, coming up with $20,000+ to help with transportation.Thanks to Volvo Car USA, Volvo Trucks, ipd, and Volvo Penta for contributing to that fund.</div>
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which turned it into Volvo City. Volvo Club of America was there with us for their 2016 National Meet. Corporate Volvo, now known as Volvo Car USA, had an enormous tent with their displays – new cars, Heritage Cars (our ’73 ES
was one of them) and enough to keep anyone busy. The Volvo Executive Team was there as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lex Kerssemakers, President of Volvo Car USA was part of the action in the paddock and got the feel of a vintage 1800 race car, (David Farrington photo)</i><br />
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Most of this will be a pictorial post, but I will say a
word about the all-Volvo race that took place on Saturday. There were Volvos ranging from nearly bone stock 544’s from the ‘50s to current SCCA-running
1800s. The latter are much lightened with fiberglass panels. Bruce Ackerman brought what I would call a tube frame GT3 car that is about as trick as I have
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I was in the “Vintage 1800” class. Josh Rodenbush and I had
a great race. His car was classified for the weekend as 2A, slightly faster
than my 2B. Turns out VSCDA was right. While I led a bit more than half of the
race, Josh jumped ahead in Turn 1 on Lap X. I had one opportunity to regain the
lead, but it was risky, and I have drummed in my head “If you are not <u>sure</u>
it will be a safe pass, don’t do it.” Josh and I raced to the finish line
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Orvar Litsgo (Washington) in his GT3 Amazon (David Irvine photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dan Reynolds (Ontario) brought his beautifully prepared Holman-Moody 1800, but suffered an engine failure in practice (David Farrington photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Without doubt, the 'furthest traveled" was Luis Barona from Mexico City, who raced the car that he took to the LaCarerra Panamerica 8 times! Luis came up to P and B Motorsports a couple of days early. We have a new friend in Mexico.<br /> (Phil Koller photos)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ron Polimeni (West Virginia compares notes with Eldon Hammond (Illinois) on their 544s (Phil Koller photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rick Hayden brought his Art Riley recreation from Harbor City, CA. This car is as close to stock as it gets.</i></td></tr>
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<i style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Jan and Jim Blett spent time working on Alex Christopher's (Reno, NV) 1800 (David Irvine photo)</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ken Rodenbush, Sherman Oaks, CA. '64 1800S (David Irvine photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nick Polimeni, Torrington, CT. '72 142E </i><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">(David Farrington photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gerald Allen, Grenada Hills, CA. '71 142 (David Irvine photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Irv Stein, Blue Bell, PA. '66 1800S (David Farrington photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Goran's car could be yours! It's for sale. (David Farrington photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ray's '61. Over 40 years and still going.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ray Freiwald, Uncivilly, WI</i></td></tr>
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This has taken way too long. How many excused would you like? First there was the dead Dell computer. There there was the new dead Dell computer. There there was a number of board meetings ... well, so be it!</div>
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VSCDA’s 31<sup>st</sup> Blackhawk Classic may have seen the
largest assemblage of vintage racers ever to occupy Father’s Day Weekend, an
amazing 160 cars of all stripes. This on a weekend where SVRA was holding its
Indy event just down the road. Considering the track time and cost on the
lesser known venue of Blackhawk Farms Raceway, we should not have been surprised.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For our P and B Motorsports team, it was a mixed bag
weekend. #1 Red ran flawlessly and we had some really good lap times, but the
Sunday Feature Race got a little bumpy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An opportunity for Crew Chief Buettner to show off his body working skills</td></tr>
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It’s always a risk, and by comparison with some of the
things I’ve seen this was a pretty minor occurrence, but it’s the first time
I’ve been in a situation that arguably should have been avoided. It took a
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The Swedish Pavilion had all the usual suspects plus a new
addition. Tim Detwiler caught the bug from hanging around with us, mostly
helping out Jeff Babcock. Organizing the Volvo Nationals I’ve learned of a
number of Volvo race cars for sale. Long story short, I put Tim in contact with
Pennsylvania Bruce Saunders and we now have another 1800 in our fold.<o:p></o:p></div>
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car in the paddock with all sorts of useful and useless advice. He has since gone through the Midwestern Council school and it looks like we are going to have a new strong competitor being part of gang.</div>
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A highlight of the weekend was rekindling competition with
my friend Cana Comer. The arrival of Briggs Comer, now a bit less than a year
old, caused Cana to take a two-season hiatus from the track. Far as I could
tell, the stint at being a mom instead of a race car driver did not slow her
down much. OK, in all honesty, not at all. No doubt Colin Comer is never going
to hear the end of Cana’s beautiful little Bugeye matching the times of Colin’s
equally gorgeous screaming ’66 GT350 Mustang.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Group 1 boys were really out in force over the weekend. And Bill Goulette's J2 MG Group 1 car won the Dad's Day Handicap Race by about 10 ft. over Colin Comer's GT350! The handicap race starts cars at different times based upon best lap time (slowest cars first). In theory all should finish the race at the same time. Bill set a blistering pace of 63.339 mph. Colin's 84.291 mph was not quite enough.<br />
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This is John Ullrich in his incredibly beautiful Darracq Roadster<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rick Kardos and Alex Christopher share the good times. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(David Farrington photo)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dale Schmidt invariably comes around to kibitz with his old Volvo friends. Alex Christopher now runs Dale's 1800. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(David Farrington photo)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Freiwald's car is still be worked back from a nasty run in with a tire wall last October, but Ray was with us all weekend taking care of us. (David Farrington photo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug Senk made it down from his Iron River home. I'm sure we're talking about <u>something</u> important, like beer. (David Farrington photo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeff Babcock leads the Volvo crowd, with Rick Kardos and Alex Christopher in hot pursuit. (<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(David Farrington photo))</span></td></tr>
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South Haven, Michigan. Five miles from Lake Michigan’s
eastern shoreline. April 30. <u>Why</u> did we come back from sunny Arizona????
Or for that matter, Race Engineer David
Farrington was asking himself why he had left the warmth of Chattanooga. 46<sup>0</sup>
and rain. The tulips were <b>not </b>blooming. What’s to be expected? But racin’
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The 2016 season opener for VSCDA and P and B Motorsports
started out with some pretty miserable weather but the results were anything
but. We had a fresh 2L power plant that seemed to run well enough on the shop
floor. No time to take it to the dyno to see what it had. But the first outing
laid testimony that it has IT!<o:p></o:p></div>
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GingerMan serves as the spring driver’s school for VSCDA
so there were a goodly number of cars sporting X’s on their paint for the
weekend. At least one of those – a Mini
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Cold and rainy conditions prevailed for much of Saturday.
We got a couple dry sessions before the rain started falling for the Group E
Qualifying session, keeping a number of the cars in the paddock. For over a
year we’ve been hauling around a brand new set of Hoosier H2O rain tires; time
for their inaugural run. David
Farrington softened the rear suspension and out we went for Qualifying. While
they were not magical, they did allow us to put ourselves near the front of the
grid for the equally wet Sprint Race. Maybe they even kept us on the track,
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The #37X Mini was on the pole, with our #1 Red beside him
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dropped I put the pedal to the metal and powered away. We were able to hold that position until “Dr.
Dreadful” Rick Gurolnick caught up with his bathtub Porsche 356 about 2/3 way through the race. I should have
known that Rick would take the inside line, even in the rain. He got past me in
Turn 1 and while I was able to run with him I was unable to keep enough
traction to catch him, so we placed second by 1.281 seconds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While the rain subsided on Sunday, it remained frigid.
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Gridded 3<sup>rd</sup> to a Lotus 7 and the Mini, I was able to get a good jump
at the drop of the flag and once again found myself in the position of having
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Ron Soave (Sprite) and Don Dickey (MG B) kept the
pressure on me (despite Soave having an accelerator pedal that seemed to have
my name written all over it by jamming into his floorboard). But it was Manley Ford’s lightweight Super 7 (gridded
30<sup>th</sup> of 39) that prevailed in the end and once again I took the “silver,”
by 0.476 seconds. It’s hard to complain
about any of this because my best lap time beat my previous best by almost 5
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Our 2015 season began at one RA (Road Atlanta) in April and was
completed at the second RA (Road America) in September. Another successful season – no blown
motors, no bent metal, no black flags. And overall a good season with consistent top three finishes in Class.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The finale was the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival. Except for
a little rain in the darkness of Friday night/Saturday morning (we can say
that, we were in the trailer Friday night; the tent-dwelling Farringtons might
beg to differ with the adjective “little”) it was a spectacular weekend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The prep leading up to this race had promised to be as easy
as I have ever had. Only needed to bleed the brakes. And of course I waited
until Monday before the race to do it. Trouble was that I found I had no rear brakes
when I got ‘done.’ Seems it was time to rebuild the rear master cylinder, and
of course I had no spare AP Racing rebuild kit. That’s what overnight shipping is
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David and Sue Farrington flew into our "new" INTERNATIONAL
Appleton airport Thursday night.(air freight directly from Thunder Bay to
Appleton, just what I need). It's always
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<i>Sue’s sister Rachel Durfee came over from Madison. I think I need to send Rachel a P and B Motorsports T shirt! (John Tuteur photo)</i><br />
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The featured marque this year was Jaguar, with a smattering of really nifty Allards along for the ride too. The Jaguar show outside Turn 5 was beyond impressive. So let’s take a look at the weekend in pictorial form.</div>
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<i>Over 80 Jags came from around the nation for their national show and
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<i>Joy and I helped out during registration. It's a great opportunity to meet people and see all the problem-solving that goes on behind the scenes. Makes one appreciate what our single VSCDA staff member, Laura Hire, has to deal with.</i></div>
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<i>The Friday night Team Dinner featured an Allard show</i><br />
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<i>Maybe they all have history, but this one seems to have a bit more than others</i><br />
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<i>It was a picture perfect evening for the annual Saturday night Gathering on the Green at the
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<i>The Gathering provided time for relaxed conversation. Here’s VSCDA’s Laura Hire, Joy and Alex enjoying the company.</i><br />
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<i>Jaguar legend Bob Tullius entertained us at the VSCDA banquet.</i></div>
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<i>Chuck Rydberg and his Jaguar XK 120 - one beautiful machine (David
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<i>Photo op – Perry and Jongen on the grid (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>Todd Jongen filled Jeff Babcock’s mirrors in Turn 5 </i><i>(David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>Joe Brabender and Alex Christopher overtake the sole VW at Canada Corner (David
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<i>Race Control at Road America. No one gets away with much with this sort
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<i>This GoPro test resulted in an interesting perspective (Sue Farrington Photo)</i><br />
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Perhaps the best race of the weekend for us was the Sheldon
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Falling pretty much in the middle of that range, I ended up pretty much where one
would expect, in the middle. But it was a good race as this video illustrates. Tony Drews had some really great video that allowed me to watch myself from the perspective of another driver. You can see that at <o:p></o:p><a href="https://youtu.be/AxgwER_Cy6E" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AxgwER_Cy6E</a>.<br />
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Tony graciously allowed me to use some of his footage to be part of my own video of the Sheldon Cup. Thanks Tony! Here it is:<br />
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So what is ahead as we go into the down period? Well, both motors will be stripped down, inspected for wear and new rear main seals installed. The Group Race video will show why that's necessary. All the calipers will be rebuilt. The front master cylinder will be removed and get new seals. The transmission may get a new front gasket. I have a stock Volvo M47 transmission that needs to be gutted, the case reinforced, and then the salvagd straight cut gears from a couple broken ones installed to create a spare. And we will prepare a new motor to be installed in Cameron Lovre's 444 as we prepare for April's Chihuahua Expess rally.<br />
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Never one to sit idle, I'm happy to say I will be deeply involved in planning nexy year's ELVF -- the <b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Volvo Nationals: Swedish Speed and Style</span>!</span></i></b><br />
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And as we sign off on the 2015 race season I want to express deep gratitude to the myriad of folks who have helped this all happen.<br />
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And espcially these individuals:<br />
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<li>Joy Perry, P and B Motorsports Race Coordinator and spouse</li>
<li>David Farrington, P and B Race Motorsports Race Engineer and email buddy</li>
<li>Dave Buettner, P and B Motorsports Crew Chief and consultant</li>
<li>Phil Koller, P and B Motorsports Photographer</li>
<li>Doug Senk, P and B Motorsports Crew and Northern WI Volvophile buddy</li>
<li>Steve Blom, Competition Specialists and P and B Engine Builder</li>
<li>Duane Matejka, R Sport Engineering and P and B Advisor On Call</li>
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As far as track time goes, The Hawk is not exactly at the
top of the list. When you are at an event with 550 cars you don’t expect to
have just too many sessions, nor very long ones. But The Hawk is a party beyond
any other. Personally, because it's in one of only a few real "racing towns," it's even better than The Mitty at Road Atlanta..<br />
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We showed up at noon on Thursday and enjoyed the scenery and
a bit of relaxation. And we got to meet our newest Volvo buddy, Goran Nyberg,
who came with his three kids plus one boyfriend (a daughter’s, not Goran’s) all the
way from North Carolina. The kids were visiting from Sweden.<br />
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Most of our cars started as someone else’s; Goran’s
came from Richard Schnabel several years ago, but it has been improved upon,
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And Goran is F-A-S-T. (Plus just one hell of a nice Swedish
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Friday night’s Race Car Concours in downtown Elkhart Lake is
just about beyond imagination. The race cars get a police escort into town to
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In the early 20th Century Elkhart Lake was the playground
for Chicago. The city has retained (and even enhanced) its charm. Siebkins Resort and the Osthoff play strongly in the history and natural beauty.<br />
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If you have read Burt "B.S." Levy’s fictionalized account of road racing in the 1940’s and ‘50’s, <i>The Last Open Road</i>, no red-blooded male
can walk past the lake without envisioning Buddy Palumbo and Sally Enderle cavorting on the beach in
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The Hawk itself is a ‘see and be seen’ event that attracts
people from everywhere. It’s a spectator’s delight with just about every type
of race car imaginable. Vendors come out to add to the ambiance and automotive
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Oh yeah, about the racing ...<br />
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I had a new first experience during qualifying on Friday. On
the second green flag lap as I downshifted entering Turn 1 the rpm’s jumped. It
only took a microsecond to realize that the throttle was stuck open. I did my
version of trail braking around 1 and jabbed the gas petal, freeing things up
for Turn 3. But the problem returned as I approached the tight Turn 5 so I
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At first we thought the cable had stretched and caught up on
the linkage, so we tightened it. Of course, it can’t be that easy. While Doug
Senk was cranking down on the nuts that squeeze the cable the shaft broke. Our 5 minute job turned into 90 minutes, including borrowing Jeff
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rolled to a stop on the access road outside Turn 5, jumped out and, with the
help of Jim Stephenson, Mark School and Amish John, found that there was binding
in the linkage with a wide open throttle. It must have looked a little bit like the Keystone Cops. It’s a mystery why this would show up
all of a sudden since that had not been a problem at Blackhawk, and I had not
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So how did the weekend turn out? Not bad. In Sunday’s late
afternoon Feature Race we placed 3<sup>rd</sup> in class, behind Brian Davis’
Elva Courier and Goran’s ’65 Volvo 1800. Goran had me beat by a handy 7 seconds
per lap! I’d like to use my friend Cana Comer’s line “Don’t get used to it,”
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Ray Freiwald’s drive train gave up on him late in the
qualifying race on Saturday, so at the end only 2 Volvos were running, and that
was only thanks to Goran’s ingenuity of finding a tractor top link at Mill’s
Fleet Farm to replace the nice aluminum trailing arm that broke on him. Now it's a real 'Swedish tractor!'<o:p></o:p><br />
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Overall it was a great weekend. And now we have a bit of a break. Speaking of
brakes, I need to figure out why I have a pedal that goes nearly to the floor
at inopportune times, like at the end of the fastest straights on the course.
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Here's a relatively short (6:53 min.) video of the Feature Race. Sorry I cannot get the video to synchronize properly with the data so there is no speedometer or tachometer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Nybergs. L to R, Eric, Cecelia, [boyfriend], Victoria and Goran. I could understand them once in a while. I bet they were talking about me in Swedish. </i></td></tr>
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Sometimes things start off well and go all to hell. Sometimes things start off all to hell and turn out well. The Blackhawk Classic XXIII was pretty much of a mix of these two.<br />
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Built in 1967, Blackhawk Farms Raceway is 1.9 miles long, flat as a pancake, and has the very best facilities bar none. Owners Paul and Carol Musschoot have really put a lot of money and effort into it. The chalet serves as an eating area on the lower level, with a very nice spectator tower above. The grill is 3 steps from the chalet, and the food is good. The shower/rest rooms are clean, showers far better than the "name tracks" we have attended. Grounds are <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">meticulously</span>maintained, and camping, be it with a tiny tent or a motor home, is welcomed without additional charge. Each year improvements are made.<br />
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Following Spring Vintage we decided it was time to find the source of the oil leak and elevated coolant temperature. Suffice it to stay that once one starts heading down this path it becomes a long one, with lots of twists and turns.<br />
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Off came the head and down to Competition Specialists it went. The almost inevitable call from Steve Blom came: "Jim, you have a really beat up exhaust valve seat. And the guide is completely destroyed." This after only three race weekends! Crap.<br />
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Well, that was the only good head for that block, and it needs to come out anyway to search for the oil leak. We have two weeks. Wait! Make that 4 days given all the other commitments. Crap. Life became very regimented. Again. Still.<br />
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Transportation Coordinator Sam Seward came up from Milwaukee and we lifted Block A from its moorings. Not much sign of a leak from the engine, but there was a transmission cover bolt standing very proud of its seat. And that confirmed Race Coordinator Joy Perry's sharp olfactory observational skills that we were throwing Mobil 1 gear oil from the top of the 'new" Sellholm tranny. The bolts went to the drill press for safety wire holes.<br />
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The car ventral surface (that's biologist speak for bottom) got a good pressure washing and new coat of Ford Gray paint.<br />
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While I was at it, I decided now was the time to get rid of the very heavy driveline spacer made necessary by the 'new' Sellholm transmission. Off went an Amazon drive shaft to Appleton Crankshaft to be shortened. Of course that's not as simple as it sounds because BOTH halves need modification and then because it's a two piece shaft, it has to be sent out to be balanced. (Don't trust Internet ads that say "We balance two-piece drive shafts.") $423 later we had a shiny dandy looking correct length driveshaft.<br />
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Might as well replace the clutch while we're at it -- after 2.5 years and knowing what it has gone through, it must be time. The new Tilton disk and pressure plate arrived from Pegasus in time, Of course, it can't be just that easy -- the new one has a slightly different profile and also, most ominously a different number on the pressure plate, A call to Pegasus ended up in a call to Tilton, which ended up with a consult with their fabricators, and eventually the message that it was indeed the right plate, that the numbering was now a serial number and not a PN. Geez, why cannot they say that up front and save everyone some angst?!<br />
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Motor B had been lounging in the trailer for over a year, awaiting its turn. This is the one that was the original creation from bottom to top by Competition Specialists. Thanks to help in my absence from Crew Chief Dave Buettner, we got 'er done in time to get to Blackhawk Farms for the annual Father's Day Blackhawk Classic.<br />
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As we sat waiting for the track to open for us to cross into the paddock we watched the late morning practice session. Our three Volvo buddies Jeff Babcock (122), Joe Brabender (123) and Alex Christopher (92) were out putting their Swedish Iron through the paces.<br />
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On the last lap Alex came around trailing a plume of white smoke., When I got to the paddock Alex's hood was up and the guys already in discussion. Removal of the valve cover revealed a broken roller rocker . Unfortunately, that was not the extent of the damage as a look inside the cylinder with our 'protoscope' showed lots more damage. Well, one did not need to even get in quite that far ...<br />
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I really admire (and am jealous of) Alex's ability to face adversity. While he was disappointed that his weekend had ended before it really even started he made a great weekend of it nonetheless. Class act. VSCDA helped out in this regard too; they refunded much of Alex's entry and race fees. Thanks VSCDA.<br />
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I got out onto the track for the afternoon practice sessions. The new motor had only 20 minutes of break-in run time on it. so I took it easy. But I could tell she was really rarin' to go! In fact, after the session I texted Buettner that we had one sweet motor.<br />
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That feeling held up until the cool down lap of the second practice, when very suddenly I lost a cylinder. So now it was my turn to look for issues, and once again it was found under the valve cover.<br />
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Now, I carry just about every spare imaginable. But "my kingdom" for this too!<br />
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And my buddy Duane Matejka sent me this so I can duplicate it. This is a mechanical engineer's work at his best! (Well, maybe that's just a little overstatement.)<br />
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I need to give credit here for some really wonderful help that managed to find a way to reinstall a spring to get us back on the track., I went to Autozone and bought a valve spring compressor make for the wimpy stock springs. Ray Freiwald suggested stuffing a rope in the cylinder with the piston at TDC to prevent the valve from falling into the cylinder. Then Dennis Birkholz and Mark School spent hours trying different things, and after a good night's sleep Dennis used a channel locks to compress the new spring, and Scott Barr suggested wrapping a small hose clamp around the whole mess to keep things from flying apart. Wahla! It worked!</div>
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So how did it all turn out? Pretty darn good! On both Saturday and Sunday we finished first in class and on Sunday second overall, behind only the insanely fast Bugeye of Colin Comer. In the Dad's Day Handicap Scramble (staggered start with slower cars first) I set a personal Blackhawk best lap <u>and</u> 'beat' my buddy Colin, finishing 3rd overall.</div>
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Spring Vintage at Road America is an SVRA event. Tony Parella and his crew were out making people feel welcome. The tech sessions were serious, the anticipation for a good weekend high.</div>
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P and B's Race Engineer David Farrington flew in from Chattanooga, picked up at what we old timers still call Billy Mitchel Field by our Transportation Coordinator Sam Seward and handed the keys for a TR6.</div>
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Meanwhile, our Race Coordinator (AKA Joy Perry) is addicted to weather, or more specifically, weather forecasts. I start getting the reports a week ahead. As the week wore on this year, I said. "I don't want to hear it. Tell me if it's good. otherwise I don't want to hear it!" But I hear it anyway.</div>
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We pretty much had it all. Saturday was beautiful. But the most notable was Sunday morning wind off the big pond 20 miles east of Elkhart Lake.. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Because Road America has decided to get sticky with competitors camping by their rigs, we decided to drive home Saturday night and enjoy the comforts of home. We left Larsen in sunshine and 70's and arrived at Road America to fog, wind, damp, chilly. Ugh. But it could have been worse!</span></div>
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OK, we had a good weekend. The field was not as deep as in the past; given SVRA's push, that's a bit surprising. Too expensive? Too iffy with respect to Wisconsin weather?</div>
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Groups 1, 3 and 4 were combined. 1 is the very slow group (there was only 1 car in it) .4 is a whole lot faster than 3, so we got to hear the road of Chevy V8's as they blurred by on the back or front straight. Group 3 was where the action was for the most part, and we were in the thick of it. More or less.<br />
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I never really know exactly how to refer to our car. Farrington calls it No. 1. Something about that bothers me; maybe it seems presumptuous. Well, anyway, the car ran well all weekend, and here's what I think you might be wanting to know: We placed 1st in class in both the Saturday and Sunday races.<br />
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We had lots of friends stop by, including one of our major sponsors. Because the car was running well there was enough down time to really enjoy the weekend, as you will see in the large photo gallery below.<br />
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<i>Nothing like having a P and B Motorsports sponsor come to see what is being supported! This is Louise Googins of Googins Advisors, Inc. (David Farrington photos)</i></div>
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On Sunday we changed to a set of new Hoosier Speedsters. Until you have run a bunch of these races it's a bit hard to imagine just how significant a new set of rubber can mean. Meyers and I were gridded next to one another. From the drop of the green flag to the end of the race we were on a tether. I could see that her tires were not performing as well as mine, so I was doing a lot better in the corners than was she. But her car had a bit more than mine, so, well, here's the video ... (5:52)<br />
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<i>New Glarus Brewing Company (their beers are not sold outside Wisconsin) has a knack for brew names, and Siebkins has a knack for displaying them.</i></div>
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<i>Race Engineer David Farrington holds courts with Louise Googins, or is it the other way around?</i></div>
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<i>The </i><b>Sign County</b> <i>crew makes these events into a real family affair! Always fun to watch them. </i></div>
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<i>SVRA honored Gordon "Duck" Waddle for his decades-long service to our sport.</i></div>
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<i>Racing and fishing, especially when one is from Montana, is not a bad life. (Phil Koller photo)</i></div>
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<i>Racing can be very very stressful. </i></div>
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<i>Ray Freiwald and Dale Schmidt catch up (Phil Koller photo)</i></div>
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Here’s a brief report on VSCDA’s 2015 inagural event at
GingerMan Raceway in South Haven, MI.
Based upon our experience there last year we had packed our down vests
and knit hats. Coming from balmy Atlanta, we were pessimistic about the
accuracy of the weather forecast for anyplace that was a fly-rod’s cast to Lake
Michigan in May. Leaving 70 degrees of Indiana, I reported the temperature drop
as we drove along the sand dunes of far western Michigan. It hit 51. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We were the only Volvo running this year, even thought
there was a record turnout. The weekend is referred to as “Spring Brake” and
starts with driving school, so there are a goodly number of cars with X’s behind
their numbers. One of those was a car that is very familiar – a nice 356
Porsche dubbed ‘Dr. Dreadful” owned an [normally] operated by Rick Gurolnick. The mystery of the X was solved when we learned
that Dr. Dreadful’s 17 year old daughter had gone through the school over the
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Robbie’s “X” did not describe her lack of experience.
Youth has its advantage, and she’s gonna be a force to be dealt with. She good
and not afraid to keep her foot in it or make a move. After a
couple sessions with her -- chasing her, I hasten to say, and truthfully, unsuccessfully, around the track I teased her and Rick that I could see that this was not going to end up as a once car family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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to share a great "bucket list" event I had last weekend: 17 year old
Daughter Robbie Gurolnick took the VSCDA vintage school, passed and raced the
weekend in my 1960 Porsche 356 Roadster, her first time driving the car anywhere,
some 30 years after I started in it. And she rocked it! I picked
Gingerman as a place for her to start in a rear engine car as it has generous,
easy runoffs. They had races Saturday and Sunday.
Out of about 35 starters she gridded 6th and finished 5th on Saturday with
some great dices and a couple racers coming over to shake hands and
congratulate her. On Sunday everyone was gunning for her, but she
gridded third and charged on the start up to second and a lap later was heading
for first when the car lost midrange and went flat - Darn! (Not an
exhaust leak - I checked that earlier during practice - but maybe a failing mag
pickup in the distributor or dirt in the jets). Ironically the
GoPro mount broke and got run over by one of the following cars - including the
SD card - so no videos. Anyway we had a wonderful time, everyone was as nice as
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Race Coordinator (aka my dear wife) Joy Perry was the only formal P
and B Motorsports crew for the weekend, and we got on pretty well. Jim Blett,
Volvo engine builder/Jeff Babcock 122 crew member came over from his central Michigan home to lend assistance and also delivered a B20 block/crankshaft for Jeff’s next engine build. We were happy to
have him, and were able to pick his brain of the considerable knowledge he has as a crew member
on a previous LaCarerra Paniamerica team (since we -- that’s the royal “we” – are building a 444
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The weekend was pretty uneventful. People behaved
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As usual, Group 2 was the largest of all, with 39 entrants. At the head of the pack was Colin Comer with his screaming 1959 Bugeye Sprite.
Colin pretty much ran away from everyone in every race he was in. He chose to
sit out Sunday’s Feature Race, given that it’s about as much fun to run alone
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I, on the other hand, did not have that problem. Starting
on the inside of the 4<sup>th</sup> row I had a, ahem -- interesting first half
lap with a Mini beside me. Now I have a thing about Minis. That is, I <strike>loathe </strike>don’t
like them. They remind me of bees around my head irritating me. That Mini buzzed me good going
into the technically, ahem – interesting -- Turn 4. I saw enough metal next to
my door that I, ahem – decided – to take a brief agricultural excursion. I
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Because I had been carrying around a track radio all
weekend as part of the Driver’s Committee I imagine what was being said: “Control,
Turn 4, 1 Red four wheels off … has re-entered track.” (“Watch ‘im.) But since
this was a race there was no black flag infraction, so I started making up
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Turns out I may have had the best race ever, especially with John Hagen's and his '63 TVR. The video will show you all of this; I will save the outcome for you to
discover. But I will say that there was only 0.08 seconds between me and the higher
finishing car in my class.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may recall that all last year we struggled with an
intermittent ignition miss. Struggled might be just slightly and understatement.
More like, “What’s with this g-d – car????” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Two significant winter changes took place, and at least
one of may have them solved that issue, but I am not saying which because I don’t
have a clue. Sorta like your local car
dealer: “We’s got no idea what’s wrong wit your car madam, but we’s gonna replace everyting and charge you until it
sure does go away, or you do.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sam Seward, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin (OK, Bayside) Volvo chauffeur who lends his 1800 to Race Engineer David Farrington each time he
comes out, and a semi-regular visitor to the P and B Motorsports shop, has been
pointing out every chance he gets that his fancy distributor is really the cat’s
uh, meow. Yep, meow. So I made contact with <a href="http://www.123ignitionusa.com/"><b>123ignitionusa.com</b> </a>and we now are major 123 fans and advocates.
This is really state of the art, with the only moving parts being the shaft and
rotor.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">123 distributor. Ain't she a beauty?</span></i></div>
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I want to recognize Ed Madak who is the U.S. distributor of
the 123. I had some difficulty, and if there was ever a person who epitomizes “customer
service” it is Ed. He responded to text messages in minutes, and walked me
though the rather atypical installation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We also have a dandy new head that our Whidbey Island
Volvo guru Phil Singher at <a href="http://www.vclassics.com/motorsport/" target="_blank"><b>VClassics</b></a>
spec’ed out for us, using his secret formula for flow and power. When the old
one finally came off the good folks at <a href="http://competitionspecialistsinc.com/" target="_blank">CompetitionSpecialists Racing Engines</a> noted
a tiny crack in one of the ports. Phil’s incorporates years of experience,
including the build for the La Carerra Panamericana class-winning Apple Farmer
Racing team’s 122 Volvo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bottom line, we got ‘er runnin; and gunnin’. Which is a
good thing because over the winter I thought I might be losing a crew member
due to his frustration with my inability to get it right. Some people are soooooo sensitive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So on to the Mitty 2015. Is there ever too much of a good
thing? It was jammed with entries. Road
Atlanta did not help with double booking a track day with load-in day for us,
so there were some pretty testy people sitting in haulers and some pretty
harried HSR staff workers trying to make nice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Crew Chief Dave Buettner drove 11 hours from Pine Island,
Florida in his Winnebago to join us. And Wednesday was a beautiful day … until
the microburst right about the time we were settling down for a good night’s
sleep took the Eazy Up for a rib-snapping ride (“This product is meant for
shade only. Self destructs in breezes exceeding 3 mph.”).<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’re looking for new shade now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s do the Thursday Test Day! See what we can do and play with the carb
jetting. Groups 2 and 3 tested together. With over 70 cars on a 2.5 mile track,
it’s bound to get messy. All three test sessions were cut short by the black
flag all. Pretty much what we tested was our patience.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Volvos attract each other. And so do their owners. Melvin Hodges II brought this nice 122 by, and we created yet another new friend. (David Farrington photo)</span></i></div>
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Friday was a
beautiful day with good track time. Both qualifying sessions resulted in new
personal bests for me, and placed me second in class for Saturday’s races. I
entered the evening feeling pretty hopeful. Did I mention that the Mitty is a
good excuse for a party? They line up a <s>s—t</s> boat load full of sponsors and
treat the teams to some southern hospitality of food and drink. Tim Stoddard
from Classic Motorports, one of the big-name sponsors, was on hand to introduce
BMW legend Boris Said. BMW was the featured marque. Could that be why Buettner
came 11 hours?.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>HSR's James Redman (yes, Brian's son)brought a group by to look at our car. (Dave Buttner photo)</i></div>
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Also as usual Farrington was making children's days by inviting them to sit in a race car.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The paddack was in a highly visible corner and thus the car had a lot of people coming to check it all out. Farrington even parked his ES behind #1 so it could also have admirers. (David Farrington photo)</span></i></div>
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And then the rains came. The tinkle on the roof of the motorhome was persistent
from 10 p.m. throughout the night. My mind’s eye could see the river of water
flowing across the track at Turn 5. So as Saturday dawned grey and wet, we decided
it best to stand pat in favor of going out on a very wet track. And the gods were once again with us, because
all day on Friday the announcers had said they were taking credit for the great
day and Saturday was going to be someone else’s fault. But the skies broke and
Saturday just got better and better. Accu-Weather was watched and the rain tires
came off. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Andrea Nichelson and her husband Alan from California stopped by. Andrea loves 1800s. Nothing quite like a pretty woman who loves 1800s.</i> <i>(David Farrington photo)</i></span></div>
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Hot digity dog, we is goin’ raicn’ boys. And then the car
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So Saturday evening was one of those “We don’t wanna be
around Jim” evenings. Neither did Jim, but I’m stuck with the SOB. We fiddled a
bit and I tried to drive it around the paddock and on the access roads but the
myriad of <s>slightly</s> inebriated race fans acting like <s>slightly</s> inebriated
race fans did not help the cause. I.e. I could just imagine one across the hood
in my personal testing session. And what the inside of a Georgia jail cell looks like.<br />
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There nothing short of worrying about Wisconsin
politics that keeps this good ‘ol boy
awake more than a car that ran well one day and then acts like it’s been parked
with the mother-in-law for too long the next. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Our Sunday race was not until 3 p.m. so I had plenty
of time think on it and stew. And by golly I ain’t telling you what took care
of the problem, but the problem got taken care of. Sometimes it’s best just to
not tell the whole truth, lest you all know what a complete dipshit I can be.<br />
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You've read that some F1 cars used the engine as a structural element holding the car together? <br />
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<i>Now here's the way to change a motor! (David Farrington photos)</i></div>
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Thanks to my Saturday non-start, Sunday’s race began with no one in my rear view mirrors, but we had one hell of a good time changing
all of that. I had listened closely at
the drivers’ meeting about how no one sitting as a back marker at race start should jump on the gas when others in the front were just getting the
green flag at the front. So coming under the bridge I did just what I needed to
do – jumped on the gas while the others were just picking up steam at the
front. Hey, I take advice. Here’s the
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All’s well that ends well, and I managed third in class
and another personal Road Atlanta best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love Road Atlanta. I love the big courses. I love the
warm weather and southern friendliness, and the way HSR treats the entrants.
Life can’t get much better folks. Next weekend we are on to Michigan and
GingerMan Raceway. Stay tuned.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Where's the <strike>Crew Chief</strike> Shop Teacher when you need him?</i><br />
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We got a nice surprise when <a href="http://www.sportscardigest.com/hsr-mitty-speedfest-2015-report-and-photos/">Sports Car Digest</a> used us as part of thier April 30 Mitty Report too!</div>
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Oh, and lest I forget, I want to point you to the blog of
next year’s great adventure creator, Cameron Lovre, who is putting the pieces together
for the Chihuahua Express and La Carerra Panamericana Volvo 444 that is going
to thrust us into fame and fortune with wins in the 2016 Mexican races. (Not
only does is this turkey building a kick-butt car, he writes better than I do
too.) Take a look at Cam's most excellent blog at <a href="http://swedishrelics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SwedishRelics</a><o:p>. I relish the opportunity to drive it fast....</o:p><br />
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Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-34500373649951518032015-03-12T12:02:00.003-07:002015-04-04T08:09:40.111-07:00Anticipating 2015 and Beyond<div class="MsoNormal">
“Have a nice day!” That retail shopping phrase is
usually returned to its sender by “I already have – I woke up!” I guess it’s my
feeble effort brought on by the late great John Fritch’s comment several years
ago at Road America when, after being introduced and welcomed, he quipped at
his age it was good to be seen anywhere. So assuming that I continue to use
that smart aleck refrain (and if I can’t, I won’t care what you think), my
intention is to have a nice 2015.</div>
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Since last you read, lots of water has gone under the bridge
or over the dam. Lots of snow has fallen. Lots of plans have been made. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I have been struggling a bit to deal with a new head,
we are anticipating the opening of the
season at Road Atlanta’s big party
called “The Mitty” in late-April. It
might be fun to run there if there are not monsoon rains filling the gully at
the entrance to the Esses. But we’ll deal with if needed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s the anticipated 2015 schedule:<br />
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<li>April 23-26 – HSR Mitty Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA</li>
<li>May 1-3 – VSCDA Spring Brake GingerMan Raceway, South Haven, MI</li>
<li>May 16-19 – SVRA Spring Vintage Weekend Road America,
Elkhart Lake, WI</li>
<li>June 19-21 – VSCDA Blackhawk Vintage Classic Blackhawk
Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL</li>
<li>July 9-11 – Racecars and Pacecars, Iola Old Car Show, Iola,
WI</li>
<li>July 16-19 -- The Hawk with Brian Redman Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI</li>
<li>September 17-20 – VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festiva Road
America, Elkhart Lake, WI</li>
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as we are going to spend part of the winter in southern Arizona. For the first time in my life I will be
living, at least temporarily, in a HOA. I’m getting the old folks lingo. HOA is
a Home Owner’s Association, one of those places where everyone inserts their
nose into your business and decides that you are deviant just because you have
a race car that has no muffler that you want to start up at the late hour of 7
p.m. when they are just settling down for the night. Gosh, it’s almost as bad
as having someone’s dog make a deposit on your lawn. Or putting solar panels on
your roof 150 feet in front of the artist neighbor whose view you have soiled.
All will end you up before the firing squad. Good thing – the musketeers are
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Ah, but there is better news. My Volvo buddy Cameron Lovre
from Portland, OR, drank the Kool-aide that I past beneath his lips last summer
and got out his drill, Sawzall, flaring tools … and has torn asunder his perfectly fine
’57 Volvo 444 to convert it to a race car for us to throw around the
roads of Mexico in 2016. Yep, we’re headed for the land of <i>bandidos, marguaritas, sopapillas, </i>and <i>muchachas muy hermosas </i>to
run the Chihuahua Express next April and, assuming we and the car survive that,
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alternate roles as navigator and driver in these events I have not decided.
Saving grace – Cam is married to a real Italian woman who will kill him if he does anything to kill us. Come to think of it,
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Cam’s not only a great wrench (not to mention one of the few
guys I can count on for a full hour, he’s also a very entertaining writer who
has done his own blog about ‘our,’ ahem, adventure. You can find it at <a href="http://swedishrelics.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-volvo-444.html">http://swedishrelics.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-volvo-444.html</a>.
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To say that VSCDA’s Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival 2014 was
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to terrible, to nice. The-on-track activities varied from tolerable, to
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Last you heard from me we had come off a 32 day West Coast
road trip in which the car was my least favorite thing. I never posted about
the Portland Historics because I was too darn busy trying to track down the
source of the intermittent miss and finishing the 3-year screened room project
at home. I did better with the latter than the former.<br />
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The following short clip <i><b>from the Portland Historics</b> </i>in July tells both visually and audibly what was so frustrating for us. It features Californian 544 Volvo racer Alan Berry.<br />
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Regardless of car performance we had a great time with Alan and another new friend, Gil Stuart from British Columbia, who races a 444 Volvo, a car I might add, that is also street legal! And then there were all
the other Left Coast friends, especially the PDXVolvos group. We also got to jump out of a plane from 13,000 feet and tell about it!<o:p></o:p><br />
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We thought we had the solution to "The Miss" when we found cracks in the epoxy filler than covers the distributor rotor resistor. Replaced the rotor, took the car to a
local private airport and it ran perfectly. Put in the trailer and did nothing
more. Pulled it out of the trailer on Friday morning and the damn miss was
back. So the saga continues, still unanswered but this motor seems to have an accommodating
personality because the miss will disappear if we let it warm up before heading
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diagnostician? See the very bottom of this post where I chronicle what has been
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We got a good practice run in Friday before the cold drizzle
started and did not end. By 4 p.m. it was time to find someplace warm and dry.
So we headed for Siebkins, Elkhart Lake’s iconic racing watering hole. I love
this place. If you have not read <a href="http://www.lastopenroad.com/" target="_blank"><i>The Last Open Road</i></a> you should, because Siebkins is prominent in this fictionalized history
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We had a reasonable run, turning a decent but unspectacular.
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I am still pondering what happened in Saturday’s
race sessions, wondering if Friday’s miserable afternoon had some drivers a little
overly keyed up, because, in a word, Saturday’s races were a mess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="text-align: center;">We added to our vide</i><i style="text-align: center;">o capabilities with a Contour suction cup mount on the fender.</i><br />
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Our Group 2/3B Qualifying Sprint Race was cut short by a major shunt at the
approach to Turn 5. It all started with a rather harmless spin by a very fast,
race-leading Lotus driven by Rick Balsley. He was unable to restart the car and
sat in the middle of the track at the 4 Marker for a <u>long </u>time. That’s a bad
place to be because cars cresting the hill cannot see that part of the track. The
waving yellow was out at Turn 4, and cars should have slowed and stopped racing,
but it appears what shoulda and what dida were not the same. The Number 34
Porsche 356 hit the Lotus at near top speed just fore of the cockpit and the
Lotus came apart in an explosion of fiberglass and metal. Balsley was beyond
lucky to come out of this with only bruised ribs. Another meter back toward the
cockpit and he may have been killed.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Here's the video from that race, ending with the incident. And if you want to see it from another car or what my driving looks like, take a gander at Tony Drews' fine video at <a href="http://youtu.be/I6YHtqFVd-o" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/I6YHtqFVd-o</a><br />
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That was just the worst of many incidents throughout the day.
I agreed to be on VSCDA's Driver’s Committee this year. We’re charged with
sorting things out. This was initiation by fire. Editorializing here, we MUST have some changes and drivers have to pay more attention.</div>
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Saturday is always a special day for anyone who loves
vintage sports cars. The “Gathering on the Green” of some cars that go beyond
spectacular took place at Victorian Village this year. Despite the cool weather
is was a wonderful assemblage. Unfortunately, the one Volvo that we all thought would represent us was a "Did Not Appear." Thank you, Bob Prince, for your organization.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Gathering on the Green car field</i></div>
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<i>Even old car lovers have a sense of humor. ”Doc Brown” brought his </i>Back
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After the GOG, the members of the "Swedish Pavilion" -- 25 strong -- gathered at Lake Street Café for Saturday dinner. Great food, great service, great conversation with lots of laughter. This could become an annual event!</div>
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<i style="text-align: right;"> Sam Seward , Joy Perry, Sue Farrington, </i><br />
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<i>Now this is more like it! Sunday in the Swedish Pavilion</i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;">Catchin' air. If I have to get up on three wheels to stay in front of a pesky Porsche 356, I will. (David Farrington photo)</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alex Christopher</i> <i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> (David Farrington photo)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A beautiful classic paddocked with the Volvos is Chuck R's </i><br />
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<i>Todd Jongen represents the Volvo 140 series well </i><i style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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We took <b>first</b> in class in Sunday morning's Group [Feature]
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ELVF has several “Cup Races”
commemorating the earlier days of sports cars racing. Cars are gridded by expected laps times. We fall into the Sheldon Cup, for cars that normally turn laps between 2:45 and 3
minutes. All of the other Volvos were in the Kimberly Cup with times over 3:00.
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Given the 1st place finish earlier in the day, I was pretty satisfied at this
point of the weekend and told Joy to not expect any record laps. Gridded in the
29<sup>th</sup> position I finished 7<sup>th</sup> overall and first in class with a best lap time of 2:50.874. There was some really good racing in
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<b>Check out the video </b>of the Sheldon Cup here. (The speedometer
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In the Kimberly Cup the Volvos
were 1-2-3, Ray Friewald’s ‘61 1800 finishing seconds ahead of Alex Christopher’s
‘64 1800 finishing seconds ahead of Todd Jongen’s ‘67 142. This was Ray’s
second year of being atop the podium for the Cup. (A special note: There were
two cars that finished in front of Ray, but they were way too fast and should
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<i>Honored Guest and racing legend Tony Adamowicz presented Ray with his Kimberly
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This looks to be the end of our 2014 racing season. So let me end by recognizing in print the people and organizations that helped us this year.<br />
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<li>iRoll Motors, San Martin, CA</li>
<li>Googins and Anton, Investment Advisors, Middleton, WI</li>
<li>PDXVolvos, Portland, OR</li>
<li>Jim Fisher Volvo, Portland, OR</li>
<li>Turbo Blue Racing Fuels/Dale Gas and Oil, Dale, WI</li>
<li>Automotive Supply-Federated Auto Parts, Appleton, WI</li>
<li>Mueller Motorwerks, Sheboygan Falls, WI</li>
<li>US Ceramic Coatings, Neenah, WI</li>
<li>Bosch Spark Plugs, Raleigh, NC</li>
<li>Contour Cameras, Orem, UT</li>
<li>R Sport Engineering, Pipersville, PA</li>
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And then there are the people who are there getting me in and out of the car, torquing the wheels, keeping track of all the aspects of car setup and performance, working on the daily issues, doing video and data downloads, and sometimes changing axles or transmission on the asphalt or grass. Thanks, Joy and David and Dave!</div>
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<b>The Miss<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When the engine is missing, the
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A chronology of attempts at
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">New Crane 700 ignition box – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ran MSD ground wire directly to negative battery
terminal (MSD’s suggestion) – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">New distributor cap – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">New rotor – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Changed plug wires – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">By-passed fuse block/relay/circuit breaker,
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Weber carbs tested by Pierce Manifolds – no change</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Replaced manifold gasket -- no change</span></li>
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2200 miles and one new transmission after the Blackhawk
Classic found us on the Left Coast among the conifers and those awaiting the
opening day of a new era – marijuana sales were about to become legal for
public consumption in Washington. It was also 4<sup>th</sup> of July weekend,
so the natives were in high gear for celebration.<br />
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Pacific Raceways is an old, ‘50s style track with a very
interesting layout. A long straight with a full throttle kink leads to a
sweeping left-hander onto the back stretch that drops down to a set of REALLY tight
S’s. A good runner could keep up with the cars there, it’s so slow. Then it’s
power on through some interesting turns with the car loading and unloading in
rapid progression. Lots of fun here. Then we come up hill and onto a new patch of
asphalt to the final sweeper. Perhaps
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Friday morning’s practice session was pretty eventful. Lots
of vibration caused me to come in after
a single lap. When we got the car up on the jack I found a front U-joint
without a cap. Just about that time Portland Volvo Guru Cameron Lovre showed
up to join the P and B Motorsports Crew. Cam got handed the driveshaft while
David Farrington drained the rear axle upon my request to check it out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a bad sign when the first thing one hears as the gear
oil flows into the pan is “clank.” That was our first indication that we had
transported a big problem 2200 miles. I was so busy with the transmission before we left that I did
not have time to check the differential. So most of Friday was spent entertaining the
spectators as we changed from the 4.88 limited slip to a welded 4.56.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being the 4<sup>th</sup> of July, the local neighborhoods
adjacent to the track seemed to have their own competition for who could set
off the most, biggest and loudest fireworks. You had to be there to really get
the feeling that this was better than 90% of the public (AKA legal) fireworks
displays most of us have ever seen. It extended from before dusk to at least 2
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And we were not done messing with the car. We ended up
chasing a periodic misfire the entire weekend. It would come, and then go.
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Saturday morning we experienced our first ever bit of
on-track body modification as a Bug Eye Sprite imagined a hole
where there was none. There is nothing quite so nice as having good rear
video to allow the Race Steward to
determine that I was on the line and not the problem.<br />
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The Saturday afternoon race was perhaps the best of the weekend. We started at the back of the pack and were to move up through the pack quite effectively.</div>
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<i>Very satisfying passing a Corvette, among a bunch of other cars. I was also able to out-duel a Porsche 356. (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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SOVREN is a first rate sanctioning body. Everyone was
exceptionally welcoming, and made us feel like we were genuinely appreciated. Throughout
the event, organizers stopped by our paddock to ask us how we were doing and thank us for participating. We often talk
about Midwest hospitality; well, let’s just say we should walk the talk a
little better. We had a great dinner Saturday night, complete with a silent
auction designed for <u>guys</u>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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highs were meeting and paddocking next to British Columbians Gil Stuart (left) and and Gregg
Morris (right). Gil drives a nice Group 1 Volvo 444. Once again we came racing and
found new friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We also renewed a friendship with Portland's Mike Mehl that had started
last year at Road America when he brought his “Fast TR” to the Triumph race. Mike is a true gentleman – he continually checked to see how
we were doing and if we needed anything. This is what our form of racing is
really all about.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Gil Stuart and his 544 in action (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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On Sunday we had a brief good race with Mike Denman in his B18 Volvo-powered Marcos. The Marcos weighs about 700 pounds less than our P1800, and has just about the same power, so you can guess who pulled away into the wild blue yonder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Gil Stuart and I got into the Car Corral action with a bunch of really
nice vintage Volvos (David Farrington photo)<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i>A whole bevy of BMWs came out to play.</i></div>
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Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-83451433761552194372014-07-01T06:37:00.000-07:002014-07-01T06:37:10.257-07:00Blackhawk Classic 2014 (And its Aftermath)<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes is seems it would be a lot easier to be running a
Ford or a Chevy …<o:p></o:p></div>
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After some really good outings, the Blackhawk Classic was,
shall we say, less than stellar. The weekend at Blackhawk Farms Raceway started
out plagued with electrical gremlins of the worst king – intermittent. The car
would run fine and then sputter and cut out, just dying. And then would not
restart. Let it set for a while to cool off and we would be back in
business. That usually sounds like a
coil issue, but changing the coil did nothing.
After lots of messing around all day Saturday with the distributor, former
Volvo-now-MG racer Dale Schmidt wandered by and said “I have another Crane box
and distributor in the trailer if you want it.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Good times Friday night at the ice cream social. Ray Freiwald, Rick Kardos,
Dale Schmidt, Alex Christopher and Joy Perry.</i><br />
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<i>Kennedy Coryell came by with her brother Truman and dad Dean (Dean Coryell photo)</i></div>
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So in went a new Crane and distributor. This time it seemed
like we were set to go. Driving around the paddock was successful, so we lined
up at the back of the pack for Sunday’s feature race, as we had not qualified
on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lots of good zoom zoom in that race, passing many slower
cars and doing well enough to set a new . personal best Blackhawk lap.
Unfortunately, my lap record was not the only thing I broke. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Periodically I have been having a hard time downshifting into
3<sup>rd</sup> gear. In the past, including during this race, I have been able
to get it in eventually, but going into Turn 6 this time went it went in the
rear wheels locked up and we went for a spin in the middle of the track. I was
able to back up onto the grass and wait for the traffic to clear, but as soon
as I started moving again, I knew we had some pretty significant problem with
the transmission. After nursing it for a lap in 4<sup>th</sup> a downshift into
3 convinced me we were done for the day.<br />
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Here's the video of the race -- good, bad and ugly.<br />
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When I got into the paddock there was a stream of transmission
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Doug Senk had been our crew member for the weekend and came
home with us to help remove the transmission. That started an odyssey of getting
a new transmission from Sellholm Tuning AB in Sweden.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This included driving down to O’Hare to pick up it up
(received 3 days after ordering), and especially learning why parts made in the
U.S. of A. are a lot easier to deal with than anything that has to go through
Customs. Had to hire a broker to fill out the paperwork because Customs
inasmuch told me I would never be able
to figure out their paperwork in the time I had.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One could never expect that this was going to be a bolt-up
job, even if it was supposed to be. Because the new M4700 transmission is taller than the old M47, the rear transmission mount needed
modification – thanks Dave Buettner for the quick welding job – and it's an inch shorter than the M47, so it was either create a new
driveshaft or a spacer. The spacer seemed like the more expedient idea given
the amount of time I had to get ready for the West Coast trip. Sellholm sent an
adapter and new flange, but between DHL and Customs, the delivery was delayed
and I ended up going to Competition Specialists for help. Three hours later I
had a new spacer and modified flange.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>New M4700 on the bench</i></div>
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<i>Output flange problems - M4700 on left, M47 on right</i></div>
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<i>Sellholm M4700 vs. M47</i></div>
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<i>Original rear transmission mount is too short for M4700</i></div>
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We were delayed three days in getting off, and as I type
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Meanwhile, the M47 is trash. I had purchased another broken M47
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Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-33289738207012059092014-06-05T11:42:00.004-07:002014-06-05T11:42:58.264-07:00Racing Video of 2014 Spring Vintage at Road AmericaThanks to Jeff and Jessica Johnk you can critique my driving as I chased Jeff during one of the Sprint Races at SVRA's Spring Vintage Weekend at Road America. A little over 13 minutes long, watch as much or as littlke as you like.<br />
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<br />Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-75135090067422996562014-05-24T06:48:00.001-07:002014-05-28T03:43:49.915-07:00SVRA Spring Vintage 2014 at Road America<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<b>It's spring in Wisconsin!</b></h2>
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It was a balmy 44F on Friday as we took to the track for our first practice Road America practice lap of 2014. <b>Where's my "warm shirt?!"</b> Ah, well, it was not raining, or snowing as it was just south of the Illinois border. (Seriously!)<br />
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<i>The Swedish contingent was limited to us and Mark School, my friend from the Wisconsin Fox Cities, with his gleeeming white Saab Sonnet.</i> <i>(Top, Phil Koller photo, below, David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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Last year my Road America goal was to break the 2:50 lap mark. My best time came at the Elkhart Lake Fall Festival with a 2:50.226. I had come close but, as they say that only works in horseshoes and hand grenades.<br />
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2014 is beginning in a promising fashion. Here are my session best lap times:<br />
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Practice 1: 2:51.713<br />
Qualifying 1: 2:50.290<br />
Qualifying 2: 2:50.114<br />
Race 1: 2:49.510<br />
Race 2: 2:48.726<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes!</span></b><br />
Overall it was a great weekend. The car ran well, I drove reasonably well, the crew of Joy Perry and David Farrington did a great job, and the weather even improved.<br />
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We finished second in class in both Race 1 and Race 2. Not too shabby.<br />
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<i>Race Engineer Farrington working on last minute efforts with the data aquisition (Phil Koller photo)</i></div>
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During Saturday's Race 1 I was in quite a duel with a 1960 Corvette. He ended up with a faster lap, but being only 0.007 seconds behind with a two-liter four-banger isn't bad! Remember that's a 5.4 liter (327) V8 versus a 2 liter car.<br />
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Without question the best race of the weekend was the Sunday "Race 2." On the pace lap a front-running Corvette dropped out at Turn 5 leaving a shaken tarting position. I should have been able to move to the inside for the green flag but due to some confusion on the part of others a slower MG managed to pull into that spot. As we entered Turn 1 I was caught behind it. I had to wait until the back straight going into 5 before I was able to get around the MG and by that time the front runners had quite a run on us.<br />
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But in the end the real race came down to a real duel between me and a Datsun. We went back and forth several times, until I decided to fall back and bide my time. I could out-power him on the straight. My plan was to wait until the last lap and then do a race to the finish line. Unfortunately, the Bridge Flagman never gave a "1 lap remaining" indication and the next thing I knew the checkered flag was out with the Datsun in front.<br />
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Frankly, I saw some uncharacteristically shoddy corner work while watching other races, including when a Sports 2000 racer brushed the wall in Turn 12. The driver pulled back onto the track and the flagman just stood with his hands in his pockets without waving the yellow flag while a Mercury Cougar came flying into the corner.<br />
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The one major disappointment of the weekend was the failure of both of our in-car video cameras. A message to Contour's new CEO has resulted in some significant attention from their technical support people. They are working hard to solve this problem, for which I am grateful.<br />
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Jan Evfverlund has an incredible smartphone that he used to record a little of the action. Click on the arrow in the picture below for a little Turn 5 action.<br />
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John Johnk is also sending some video from his in-car camera. I'll post that when we get it. Always nice (and instructive) to see one's own driving from another perspective.<br />
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It was also quite a show event at Road America as the Shelby and Cobra owners were out in force in the lower paddock. Nothing like a 50 year celebration to bring out some really really nice cars. I knew it was a special weekend as we rolled in on Thursday next to a Cobra inside a glass-sided hauler. (Sort of reminded me of the Harley guy who was stuffed, mounted on his beloved Harley and buried in a glass sided coffin ...)<br />
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<i>Insert might be a little small -- it says "$150,000." Sorry, Joy. (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>Volvo 1800 buddy Jan Efverlund is the creator of the Face Book 1800 Fan Club site (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>This Audi RS8, a 2005 LeMans winner, and the Indy car had quite a race in the two-hour Sunday enduro. Guess which car previaled. </i></div>
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<i>Pam Buettner always makes the paddock a brighter place just with her smile. That's Ex-1800 racer Dale Schmidt in the background. (One gets a little out of focus when you switch from Volvo to MG. David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>Is that Danica Patrick??? Guess not, but this young woman made the car a bit more photogenic, and as usual Farrington got her to climb into the car. (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<i>The Road America Center was the site of Saturday's catered gala. Wonderful racing art adorns the building. Now only if they could do someting about the acoustics during drivers' meetings for my misfiring ears.</i></div>
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<i>Evening data analysis. A glass of wine helps!</i></div>
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<i>These two Group 4 V8 powered Corvettes ran in the same session as we did. I was within sight of their rear bumpers ... for about 1/2 lap. (David Farrington photos)</i></div>
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<i>Joy and I got to share a pre-race light-hearted momemt with Group 3 Austin Healey 100/6 Fast Guy Jeff Johnk (Phil Koller photo)</i></div>
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<i>These are the folks who help us spend a lot of time at the track.</i></div>
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<i>George Balbach the elder (above) and son George Balbach (below). George the senior celebrated his 80th birthday at Mid Ohio last summer. They ran up front in my class.</i> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think the clothing pretty much tells the story of
far-western Michigan in early spring. Think west winds off a big pond that was
ice-covered just a couple weeks ago. The good news: no rain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was our first journey to GingerMan Raceway. Ray
Freiwald talked us into it at our annual Volvo Racers and Friends get-together
back in February. So after returning to cold Wisconsin after 3 glorious weeks
in Florida I “killed snakes” (my father-in-laws term for working non-stop at a
frenzy) to get the car ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">New wiring under the dash, nice fresh paint in the cockpit
and the underbody … it all sounds so simple and easy in the mind’s eye. Add to
it changing the rear axle to one suited for the shorter track, starting a fresh
engine for the first time, and killing snakes was an appropriate metaphor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">David Farrington came up with data acquisition revision and it actually worked. He's still working on getting the video right. :-) </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A little over two-miles in length, GingerMan is technical
and tight. In the first practice I followed master-mentor Freiwald around the
track. Eleven turns with two nice straights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Volvo field was well represented. Ray Freiwald's and Alex Christopher's 1800s joined us, as did Jeff Babcock in his 122. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; text-align: start;">Jeff is having a multi-year streak of bad luck. He threw a rod on Saturday, and with flames from burning oil coming out from beneath his car the black flag all came out again.</span></div>
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<i>Here's Jeff chasing the Barb Nevoral Alfa, prior to the 122 having a major issue, And that engine was fast!</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; text-align: start;"><i>Dawn Fisher in her beautiful Lotus 7 and I are evenly matched and usually are right around one another. on the track. Had she not picked up a cone under her car in the feature, things might have finished differently.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was </span><a href="http://www.vscda.org/" style="font-family: Calibri;">VSCDA’s</a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> “Spring Brake” Driver’s School and Race
weekend, so there were a fair number of cars with X’s on them. And as is
expected at the first event there were a fair number of rather minor issues.
Our 2</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday practice
session lasted about ¼ lap before the Black Flag All came out as two Group 2
cars got into it right off the bat in Turn 1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Saturday's qualifying we got the car tuned a bit better and placed 9th on the Sprint Race grid. We finished 4th in the Sprint Race, but Dawn Fisher in her Lotus 7 had a slightly better lap time (1:55.199 vs. 1:56.168) so we were placed 5th on the grid for the Sunday Feature. The weekend was capped by a decent 3rd place finish with a recalcitrant car. Our best lap was 1:54.369. I was being challenged in the end as I was having some sputtering issue, but managed to hold on. Even with all the stress I had to laugh a little when I happened to see Joy standing at the end of the hot grid whirling her arm in circles, meaning "put your foot in it buddy!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And as usual, the big problem on the track turned out to be a little problem under the hood -- a broken wire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If I can get the car all sorted out we should be very competitive this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>A weekend highlight-family members Theresa and Rob Sisson (the Mayor of Sturgis, MI) came over to see us on Sunday. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have a long season ahead of us. One of the reasons we can
make it long, and travel extensively, is because of people and organizations that help make this doable for us. So allow
me to recognize our 2014 Sponsors:</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Automotive Supply/Federated Auto Parts </span><a href="http://www.automotivesupplyco.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.automotivesupplyco.com</span></a></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (New
for 2014)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Competition Specialists Racing Engines</b>, <a href="http://competitionspecialistsinc.com/"><b>http://competitionspecialistsinc.com</b></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-large;"><b>Googins and Anton, Investment Advisors <a href="http://www.googins.com/">www.googins.com</a><u> </u></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">New for 2014</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">iRoll Motors, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.irollmotors.com/">www.irollmotors.com</a></span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Mueller Motorwerks</b>, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.muellermotorwerks.com/"><b>www.muellermotorwerks.com</b></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>PDXVolvos (a bunch of Portland, Oregon Volvo gearheads)</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>R Sport Engineering,</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.teamrsport.com/"><b>www.teamrsport.com</b></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Turbo Blue Race Fuels,</b></span> </span><a href="http://www.turboblue.com/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">turboblue.com</span></span></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (New for 2014)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">US Ceramic Coatings</span></b> (<b>New for 2014</b>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>VClassics Motorsport </b></span><a href="http://www.vclassics.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><b>www.vclassics.com</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
(New for 2014)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Next up, Spring Vintage Weekend at Road America, May 16-18.</span></div>
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Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-25730821183907673362014-05-10T07:34:00.002-07:002014-05-10T07:34:55.951-07:00Road Atlanta 2014 Mitty Report and Pics<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Mitty: No. 1 did not go but our Race Engineer did.</b></div>
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Race Engineer David Farrington pulled into Michigan's GingerMan Raceway on May 1, stepped out of his climate controlled Jetta, and immediately muttered, "What the heck is this???"<br />
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Our 1800 buddy Ray Freiwald was there as an instructor for Spring Brake, saw the Farrington shudder and said "Get dressed!" Our RE, who is a 'sutherner' now living in Tennessee, had left 80+ degree weather, quite comfortable in a tee shirt, but was greeted with northern temperatures in the mid 50s; the nice stiff breeze off Lake Michigan put the wind chill in the low 40s. Fortunately he had brought along sweats, jackets and even a parka he hadn't used in two years. Oh, and a delightful little ceramic heater for the trailer.<br />
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But the weekend prior, Dave had taken his 1800ES and spouse Sue (P and B's Dog Wrangler) on a nice little warm and sunny day drive. Destination: Road Atlanta & <b>The Mitty</b>. They walked all over and finally found our paddock friends from last fall, Bonne and Jonathan Foulds.<br />
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And he got to try out his new Canon camera and its 75-300 mm lens that he is trying to convince Sue was really purchased in case grandchildren are in the future. (I hear she's having none of it and trying to blame me.)<br />
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He also greeted Jim Mathews, who had shared our podium with his second place in the rain-soaked race in Atlanta last fall. I'll never forget the first words out of his mouth: "My car has often been called a "bath tub" and today I know why." We're hoping to see Jim at the HSA event at Mid-Ohio this fall. His Porsche roadster is one of the few that looks precisely as a gentleman racer would have been driving his car to the races & racing in the '60s.<br />
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In Farrington's words:<br />
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"Finally, it was a joy to see a quite special and fast Morgan racing. And I would be remiss to not mention that there were at <b>*lot*</b> of Morgans there, as the Morgan club had put in quite an appearance. But Stacey Schepens' Mog was specifically mentioned by the track announcer as something pretty breaking up the 'parade of Porsches' in the lead cars of the Group 2 race."<br />
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Maybe next year we will hope to start the season at the Mitty again. Might be time to start working on the Race Coordinator ...Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-36909192654510220112014-04-24T03:41:00.000-07:002014-04-24T03:41:01.513-07:002014 Preview and Season ScheduleWe took a little break from winter in Wisconsin -- escape the persistent Polar Vortex. So this was drafted while we were in Florida in shorts and no shirt conjuring up what the 2014 season will bring.<br />
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So you slackers who don't want to read much more, here is our tentative 2014 schedule:<br />
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<li><strong>Gingerman - South Haven, MI - May 1-3 [VSCDA]</strong></li>
<li><strong>Road America - Elkhart Lake, WI - May 16-18 [SVRA]</strong></li>
<li><strong>Blackkawk Farms - South Beloit, IL - June 13-15 [MC]</strong></li>
<li><strong>Pacific Raceway - Kent, WA - July 4-6 [SOVERN]</strong></li>
<li><strong>Portland International Raceway - July 11-13 - Portland, OR [HMSA]</strong></li>
<li><em>iRoll Motors (show) - San Martin, CA - July 19</em></li>
<li><strong>Road America - Elkhart Lake, WI - August 16-17 [MC]</strong></li>
<li><em>Volvo Sports America (show) - Milwaukee, WI - August 22-24</em></li>
<li><strong>Road America - Elkhart Lake, WI - September 12-14 [VSCDA]</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mid-Ohio - Lexington, OH - September 19-21 [SVRA]</strong></li>
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Pending some outstanding decisions about support, there may be a few more shows in there too.<br />
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As usual, the winter was filled with tearing apart and redoing.<br />
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I finally got tired of looking at the rat's nest of wires under the dash, so I took everything out, bought a Painless 7-circui fuse block and went back at it. While it does noting for making me or the car go faster, it sure looks nice, all labeled with wires of different colors for each circuit.<br />
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The Race Technology data acquisition system was on the fritz at the end of 2013 so it got sent to Virginia to be checked out. Seems we might have had a bad GPS antenna, so that's being replaced.<br />
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David Farrington got the 10V power supply back and, after making a couple attempts to create a new box to accommodate EGT voltages, threw in the towel and bought a dandy little signal amplifier.<br />
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Last year while racing in one of the many deluges I realized how great it was to see other vehicles in the mirrors, so thinking that safety might be improved I installed a couple high-intensity halogen bulbs behind the grill.<br />
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It's a hell of a lot easier working under the dash with the seat out. That led to a major clean up and repaint of the cockpit. Took the fire bottle into make sure it was still fully charged too.<br />
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At the front end we have two fresh engines for 2014. We're starting the year with what we call Engine A. This is the block that we got with the car. I did all the assembly on this one last summer, setting it aside as a spare. Because both heads have been repaired, we're a little uncomfortable depending on it. So our Left Coast Volvo guru friend Phil Singher of <a href="http://www.vclassics.com/motorsport/">VClassics Motorsports</a> is creating a new one for us. Phil has built Volvo motors, both street and competition, for decades. The <a href="http://applefarmerracing.com/car.html">Apple Farmer Racing</a> Amazon (122S) that won its class of the LaCarerra Panamericana a couple years was a Phil Singher creation.<br />
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Meanwhile, Engine B, with 2 seasons on it went into <a href="http://competitionspecialistsinc.com/index.htm">Competition Specialists</a> for a tear down. This led to an important lesson -- when the car is overheating find out why, right now! If you follow these posts you will recall that we discovered our timing was off. Seems we may have had a bit of detonation as a result and we had four cracked JE pistons. I had to use a magnifier to see them, but I could not make them disappear, so we ended up with 4 new pistons. There was sufficient wear on my flat-tappet cam that we decided to replace that right away too.<br />
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Enough for now -- time to get back into the car. Hope to see you at one of our locations this summer!<br />
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<br />Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-30959356673930945832013-09-25T16:18:00.002-07:002013-09-25T16:18:24.783-07:00Atlanta Historics - Road Atlanta, 20-22 September 2103Southern hospitality abounded this past weekend as we made our second 2013 trip to Road Atlanta, and we came away with our <strong><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #38761d;">first overall win</span></strong> in Saturday's Feature Race!<br />
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<em>Jim Matthews</em> <em>('59 Porsche 356, 2nd place), me, and Richard Taylor ('64 Triumph TR-4,3rd place) . Our first podium! (John Hendrick,</em> Hendrick Sports Photo <em>photo)</em></div>
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Returning to Road Atlanta was not on the original radar screen, but when we thought about some of the trappings associated with the Savannah Speed Classic (i.e. unable to stay at the track and the cost of Savannah apart from the race) we decided that going back to one of the nation's premier tracks was a better decision. The Mitty had been a great learning experience and I wanted to see if I could do better a second time out. Right off the bat I was able to better my best time of the Mitty.</div>
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HSR once again put on a class event. Despite the fact that there had been over 400 cars there, the folks from HSR remembered us, and were extremely welcoming. I cannot say enough about how they treat folks who race with them.</div>
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Late September is beautiful in the south for a northern boy. Friday was hot, good for a couple practice runs and 'seeing' those blind corners and the off-camber downhill run to the start-finish line that Road Atlanta is known for.</div>
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<em>Race Coordinator showing Race Engineer her next car at Friday night's BBQ ...</em></div>
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<em>... hosted by Lucky Dog Motorsports, directly across from the track, a real man cave.</em></div>
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<em>Jon Briggs from our Yahoo 1800 forum came by to do a little work on his '65.</em> </div>
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So, is this it for the 2013 season? Seems like Joy wants to us to do the Midwestern Council Looooong Race in late October. I expect the B20 has one more race in it before we do a transplant and have Motor B freshened by our Competition Specialists friends ...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">VSCDA’s Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival featured Triumph this
year. They were all over the place, on the track, off the track, on the highways.<br />
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<em>While </em><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cana is back in her beautiful Sprite, a car that has always been a race car (Phil Koller photo)</span></em></div>
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Sunday’s Feature we placed 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> in class and 5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> overall.
And on the last lap set another personal best time of 2:51.226. I had hoped to
break 2:50 this year, but at this point the lap times are coming down in
tenths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll take it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was a truly beautiful weekend at America’s national speed park. We had a minor issue during practice on Friday -- a popped freeze plug again. And just a little rain resulted in some tricky driving for Saturday’s qualifying that put Cana Comer and her ’59 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite on the pole and Tony Drews’ Triumph TR-4 on the outside row. I was right behind Cana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But you might find it even more interesting to watch us from the cockpit of Tony Drews’ TR-4:</span></div>
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session. Some, including a few fast ones, made it back for Sunday’s racing;
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">… while the Babcock
crew celebrated a 50<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Anniversary with a surprise party for
friends. (Doug Senk photo)</span></i></div>
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<em>The Swedish Pavilion is not only for Volvos. L to R: Dennis Birkholz, Mark School and Volvo Joe Brabender</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As always, the cars visiting the paddocks are as interesting,
or maybe even more so, than the race cars themselves. Our friend Rick Bunkfeldt showed up with his new own creation, a 1964 Ferrari 500 Superfast. Read that again – Rick designed
this car! I am speechless to describe it, but just imagine! Rick showed his car at Pebble Beach, and now here it is in our paddock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then on Saturday night the annual Gathering on the Green
at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake took place. Thanks to organizer Bob Prince
there were many more fine examples of exotic cars on the Green this year. What
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legal if it has a license plate, right? Travis Phrang's '69 'Vette.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was a downside to the weekend. We lost our 14 1/2 year old family member, Shooting Starr's Teasel on Friday. We ran home on Friday to deal with the great sad responsibility of taking care of him. He went to Portland last year with us. Gone, but never forgotten.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Memoriam, Teasel. February 24, 1999-September 6, 2013</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> So now we're off to Road Atlanta for the HSR Historic Races, Sept. 21-23. More after that.</span></div>
Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-64103273455866434462013-09-04T05:07:00.003-07:002013-09-11T17:32:43.731-07:00Midwestern Council Double Race Weekend and Up-Coming ELVF<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We’re preparing for VSCDA’s Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival
this coming weekend at Road America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our most recent outing was Midwestern Council’s “Double Race
Weekend” at Road America. MC is a regional organization that makes Blackhawk
Farms Raceway in northern Illinois its home. We don’t do a whole lot with them because they usually
run single-day events and I don’t like to make trips for a single day. The Double Race Weekend is an annual special though, with the corner workers being treated to rides at speed in the race cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There were no classes in our group. The speed disparity was
pretty stark. with a couple Cheetahs blowing past most of us
like we were standing still, thought they are not so hot in the corners. And I
walked up to the driver of this car and asked what I was doing on the track at
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There’s not a whole lot to report other than the good news
that I was able to continually improve my lap times, running three consecutive
personal bests lap times in as many sessions. Still have not broken 2:50 but we're gettin' close!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We got pretty lucky in the last one – a 30 minute race -- because
we wore the left front tire right to the cord on the pouter edge. A couple more
laps and we might have been in big trouble. Doug Senk helped crew for us. We
though we found and issue with some suspension when we got back to the shop but
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The week following the race I spent a lot of time trying to
figure out what happened. I took the front suspension apart and found nothing.
Lower A-arm bushing (Delrin material) looked pristine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I inspected every weld for cracks and found
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what caused this? May never
know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Crew Chief Dave Buettner was able to arrange for me to take
the car to a Fox Valley Technical College instructor who does national seminars
for alignment professionals. If the guru of gurus Mel Shampfer could not find an issue a suspension issue then it is
likely that we had a tire issue, not a suspension issue. And that’s where we
are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mel was really impressed with the build of the suspension.
He spent four hours teaching me some of the finer points. We did a few minor
adjustments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll see what happens in a
few days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I took the opportunity to replace the front rotors and all
the brake pads. Every time I do something that I have not done before I get a
learning experience. This time I discovered the need for modification of the
rotors to accommodate the Wilwood hubs. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking forward to having Mr. Farrington back in the paddock
this weekend. Our electronic data acquisition array needs him! (Nuff said!)</span></div>
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<i>New graphic. Gotta keep the Sign Country boys in business! (Not to mention iRoll Motors)</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hoping to see you this weekend at America's speed park, Road America! </span>Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-292992015964694062013-07-04T15:47:00.000-07:002013-07-04T15:47:00.822-07:00Mid-Ohio Grand Prix 2013<div align="left">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cry me a river! That could have been the tag line for the
Mechanics Bank Vintage Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Club. It did not just
rain. It poured. And then poured some more. And then some more. Of course our travel day was beautiful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our first experience with this tight 2.4 mile, 15-turn track
was less than exceptional, mostly because of very limited track time as wave
after wave of black clouds rolled in from the northwest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We were smart enough to be paddocked on the high ground. Those
lower found themselves flooded. Rivers ran down the paddock roads, washing them
out. Potholes to negotiate abounded. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heavy winds resulted in many EasyUp frames turned
into pretzel-like shapes. (We learned our lesson last year – when in doubt,
take the canopy off!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Forecast: Breezy, sunny, cloudy, warm, cool and wet</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The P and B Motorsports team consisted of Race Coordinator
Joy Perry and Race Engineer David Farrington supplemented with the hands, mind
and willingness of Doug Senk (who often takes care of Jeff Babcock) and our car
builder/friend/Volvo guru Duane Matejka who came out from eastern Pennsylvania.
The plan was for Duane to share the driving of the Enduro with me. Best laid
plans …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mid-Ohio is not an especially fast course for small-bore cars, and it was slowed
not only by water on the track but the addition of a chicane. Probably a good
thing. It has a tight "keyhole," some off-camber blind turns that fall away, and
a very slow right-hander carousel leading to the front straight. Lots
of drivers found it pretty unforgiving during the practice session on Friday.
Between cars in the grass, sideways in the middle of the track, car pieces lying
in the middle of the track and my own cautious nature with an unknown surface,
our sole Friday practice session was not anything to write home about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">SVRA runs a first class operation. They are a for-profit
sanctioning body, and perhaps as a result they are not only very customer
friendly, they are also extremely serious about their tech inspections and
safety on the track. (Other sanctioning bodies might consider taking note.)
They also were not reluctant to close things down when the heavy rains hit. The
consequence was our only getting one qualifying session.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Duane qualified the car Saturday morning. I wanted to make
sure he had some seat time given the weather forecasts, and I also wanted to
see him drive the car in which he had taken five Volvo Historic Series
championships, both from a trackside vantage and also using our two in-car
video cameras. He put the car in the back half of a Group 3+4 field of about 50
cars. The guys and girls in front of him were riding rough as this short video clip shows, and Duane knows
when and how to keep the metal straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I ran the two Sprint Races, one on Saturday and one Sunday.
We placed third in class. By the time my three track sessions were over I felt
semi-comfortable and was able to best Duane’s time by 0.281 seconds. In fact, as
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could figure out why #4 cylinder is running a lower EGT (and hence putting out
less power), I might have been able to take him on the back straight. Duane
made note of the fact that the power seemed to be down from what he remembered.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have a month long break before the Midwestern Council
Double Race Weekend at Road America in August. We’re showing the car at the
150,000 spectator Iola Old Car Show. Should be fun.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Jim Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12327175972903050140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368801385811304449.post-79911093716673222432013-06-25T15:56:00.000-07:002013-07-25T12:17:37.324-07:00Blackhawk Classic 2013 - Blackhawk Farms Raceway<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
was Father’s Day Weekend. Not being a father, but having had one once, that
means this weekend<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>event brings out the lots of moms and kids too. “Let pop has
his fun” I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>It helps to keep your eyes on the road ... and to be able to reach the steering wheel (David Farrington photo)</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because we’re in the midst of preparing for Mid-Ohio, and
trying to take care of house related things during Wisconsin’s short
Construction Season, this post is going to be [mercifully] short. You only want
to look at pictures and video anyway, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There were five Volvos in the Swedish Pavilion – Jeff
Babcock (122-#122), Joe Brabender (123-#123), Rich Kardos (142-#79), Ray
Friewald (1800-#93) and me. Plus, Todd Jongen (142-#142) was paddocked off in
the hinterlands with a BMW buddy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great
representation for a small race venue. Then we had a couple of our Saab friends next door – Mark School
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It made for a great weekend with friends.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday evening fish fry at Pearl Lake (aka the Old Sand Quarry)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We ran the 4.88 differential for the first time. Also tried
out some 14” Street TD tires that remain legal for our car. Together, I felt
like I might be able to break the rears loose in all but 5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> gear.
Talk about pulling hard out of the corners on this short, 1.9 mile course!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>Blackhawk Farms Raceway, South Beloit, IL.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The weekend was a resounding success. I broke previous best lap time records on three separate occasions. The only minor issue
was again the data acquisition system. We’ll just say we experienced some human
and technological miscommunication. I.e. humans screwed up. But it is only an
irritant and does not cause the car to run poorly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday was beautiful, Saturday morning was rainy, Saturday
afternoon was good and Sunday gorgeous. We did not run in the rain since it was
only practice. Absent Crew Chief Buettner Race Coordinator Joy Perry and Race
Engineer Farrington were not excited to get down into the mud and put rain
tires on. Not that they wouldn’t have, mind you. But I was in the preservation
mode, for both car and relationships. Especially those that are legally
binding. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we did the Sprint Race on
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Sunday we did our first ever handicap race, the Dad’s Day
Scramble. Here, the slowest cars start up front and faster cars are released at
intervals determined by qualifying time the afternoon previous. Theoretically,
everyone could win because the results are based upon overall time. And it
means lots of fun passing. There were two great Group 1 Pre-War cars with good
drivers whose heads sat on swivels.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Post race, Farrington pointed out to me that had we been a
bit more consistent on lap times, I would have won the whole shootin’ match. As
it was I found myself testing the agricultural terrain coming out of Turn 1 late
in this 14 lap race and Dawn Fisher, who had been bothering me with her pink
Lotus 7, slid by me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Feature Race on Sunday afternoon turned into a great
duel between the Old Volvo Master Ray Friewald and the Young Upstart Jim Perry.
Please note that this has nothing to do with chronological age all to do with
experience. Ray’s Blackhawk laps number in the thousands, and Jim is
approaching the hundreds. Plus the Old Master happens to be a Lead Instructor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Based upon Ray’s caginess in Qualifying (and my
lack of recognition that there is no yellow flag on the “warm-up lap,” we joked
all weekend about who would let whom go by. Going into Turn 1 of the start I
was on the inside, having position, but Ray was Ray and by Turn 3 I was looking
at his Last Open Road sticker. By the time 1.5 laps of the 12 lap race was
completed I had decided to hang with him and see if I could out-power him on
the front straight on the last lap. My plan was OK, but sometimes things
happen. Watch the video. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well guys and gals, time for the old cowboy to be hittin' the trail to the shop. See you after Mid-Ohio!</span><br />
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