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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Porsche Club at Thunderhill Park

Posted by: Scott Carlberg Jul 6 2003, 03:00 AM

I see that the Porsche Owner's Club will be at Thunderhill Park
this coming weekend, July 11, 12 & 13th.

Just wondering if anyone has any plans to drive up & watch some
racing?

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 7 2003, 01:20 PM

I'll be there helping on a RSR EVO with Mind Over Motorsports.

B

Posted by: Scott Carlberg Jul 7 2003, 01:50 PM

Hey Brad,
welcome back to Ca.

The car in your avatar is in the Classifieds in Autoweek.
Well, the 'special' classified advertising section.

Dick Barbour Racing's 2000 ALMS Championship winning Porsche 911 GT3 R,
#5.
Won Team, Drivers, Manufacture & Tire Championships.
Totally fresh & ready to race (sounds like a couple of us here, don't it?)

$185k - Partial trades accepted

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 7 2003, 02:06 PM

Great car with a lot of "special" things done for aerodynamics (car was sent back to Porsches wind tunnel prior to Leman) and was "tweaked" differently than any other GT3R or GT3RS to date.

I would assume Barbour still owns the car. I know he is selling off everything to fund a Indy team in the near future. The MoM guys bought some pit equipment from him and a spare engine for the new team.

B

Posted by: Jeroen Jul 7 2003, 04:49 PM

Isn't it the car that Bob Wolleck drove at LeMans in 2000
They won GT-class but got disqallified because of fuelcell issues?

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 7 2003, 06:13 PM

Bob Wollek, Lucas Luhr and Dirk Mueller drove it to class victory and where disqualified for improper fuel cell size... I know the issue well. Tony Dow was the crew chief at the time... he was fired that day.

I went round and round with Grand Am about our GT3RS fuel cell. They want 24gallons. The car holds 26. You have to use plastic 1/2 gallon hollow "logs" or balls to take up space. I ended up calculating everything and forgot to subtract the fuel that the actual "foam" holds (1/2 gallon)..overnight the foam will drain down and you can pump out another 1/2 gallon.

We pump the fuel out of the car to figure gas milelage at the end of every practice session.

B

Posted by: Tony C Jul 8 2003, 10:21 AM

Why not just accuratley measure how much it takes to fill the tank back up? Much faster and more accurate.

-Tony

Posted by: maf914 Jul 8 2003, 10:59 AM

Brad,

After the championship ALMS season with the Porsches, Dick Barbour went on to race a pair of Reynard 675 prototypes for a season, then joined with Multimatic for a partial sason with Panoz 07 LMPs before dropping out. What's he up to now? After he had returned with the Porsches I was hoping he would be in pro racing for a long time.

Mike

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 8 2003, 12:39 PM

The team isnt there yet. They need to buy the calibrated 5 gallon steel can that everybody uses... until then.. I'm stuck pumping the car out. Right now I am using 5 gallon plastic jugs that I "calibrated" with a borrowed steel can. I dont trust it.. so I pump the car out to be safe.

I think if Porsche had released a LMP style car Barbour would still have been with Porsches some how.. the rig and most of the equipment where sold 3 events prior to the end of the season to actually fund the remaining of the season. Bell Motorsports bought the 18 wheeler/pit carts/pit boxes/EZ-ups (Not Derek/Justin Bell) The rig still has the same paint scheme minus Barbours name.

B