my LeMons car
10-29-2008, 01:23 AM
#90
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Yea, we're tripping over three of them. Yellow Exige is getting a supercharged Honda K20. The blue Elise is an engineless crash-damaged car that's for sale as is (kinda tempting project, though I don't know the price). There's also a silver 1st-gen Exige with a K20 that we had to push out of the way so we could work on our "racecar". The silver one's for sale for like $47,000, in case you have that burning a hole in your pocket and you'd rather have one Exige than 94 Lemons racecars...
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10-30-2008, 01:20 AM
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Hey Jay, the car looks great!!! I'm glad I in some way got contribute to your "lemon"... i ended up rattle canning the front bumper cover black and just slapped it onto my car... still haven't installed the top i got from you guys its still sitting in the garage.... lol....
by the way, i kick myself in the *** everytime i think of the 1.8 drive train that i passed up on...
good luck on the race....
I also passed on Dan's car info to my buddy, he said he would contact you if hes interested....
let me know if you guys need any help tipping cars on the weekend
-james
by the way, i kick myself in the *** everytime i think of the 1.8 drive train that i passed up on...
good luck on the race....
I also passed on Dan's car info to my buddy, he said he would contact you if hes interested....
let me know if you guys need any help tipping cars on the weekend
-james
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11-02-2008, 01:56 AM
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Some more little details from todays thrash:
Coolant re-route is finished for the front-mount radiator:
With any luck, we'll only use this radiator when we have the car in two-seat, two-door configuration for our first track day test. We gotta teach one of our drivers how to handle rear-drive, so we need to be within bitch-slap range while he's driving.
When we switch to side-mount radiator, in the one-seat, one-door configuration, we'll use this coolant pipe instead:
Pipes are made from 1" conduit that's swedged to 1.25" at the ends to mate up with the 1.25" hose. We made a swedging tool that can just be rammed into the conduit with a hydraulic press.
We've only had to buy something like two radiator hoses so far. Everything else has been from the box full of leftover hose scraps.
Coolant re-route is finished for the front-mount radiator:
With any luck, we'll only use this radiator when we have the car in two-seat, two-door configuration for our first track day test. We gotta teach one of our drivers how to handle rear-drive, so we need to be within bitch-slap range while he's driving.
When we switch to side-mount radiator, in the one-seat, one-door configuration, we'll use this coolant pipe instead:
Pipes are made from 1" conduit that's swedged to 1.25" at the ends to mate up with the 1.25" hose. We made a swedging tool that can just be rammed into the conduit with a hydraulic press.
We've only had to buy something like two radiator hoses so far. Everything else has been from the box full of leftover hose scraps.
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11-02-2008, 04:19 PM
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I would recommend while you are doing handy things with a welder that you reinforce the control arms. With some rubbing and rough loving they are likely to be what bends and doesn't hold up in the suspension. This looks absolutely sick.
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11-02-2008, 04:53 PM
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I'm guessing they're putting it there to keep it out of harm's way, as a busted radiator due to a front-end collision would pretty much end your day.
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