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Runoffs Week 914's racing at Mid Ohio, Keepin' you updated on the happenings

Thorshammer	Sep 18 2005, 08:29 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 11-November 03 Member No.: 1,335	We'll, It finally here, What I have worked so hard to accomplish this year. The SCCA Runoffs. Many sacrifices to make this happen. Here's what is going on. We arrived this morning and Chris and Mary were already here, along with Steve Limbert and Les Handly, and Tom Burdge. We got the tent set up and the banners up, Thanks Sean! Got to work on my car and had alot to do, had help from the Greek (Pete) and others, and my friends Dmitry and Stuart showed up all the way from Providence. Cool! Got some great crew shirts from Dmitry that are the the balls. Car is decaled and mostly set up, some minor problems with some wheel studs??? another post. Will need some help with this from anyone involved. But, 914 row IS set up and functioning, it's really cool. Tom Burdge had some small problems during testing but will be okay in the morning. Thats all for now, more tomorrow and pictures at the end of the week. Erik Madsen

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groot	Sep 19 2005, 05:32 AM Post #2
Dis member Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 17-December 03 From: Michigan Member No.: 1,444	Good to hear that everyone's there that's supposed to be there. I'm rolling in tomorrow, around 10... any room left under the tent? If not, I'll manage. I did a compression check this weekend and found #1 to be at 100 psi, which explains why it drops out after it gets hot. I hope it holds together this week.

IronHillRestorations	Sep 19 2005, 12:00 PM Post #3
I. I. R. C. Group: Members Posts: 6,724 Joined: 18-March 03 From: West TN Member No.: 439 Region Association: None	Do you know if Jim Blakewell is there? Great guy, excellent driver with a habit of making podium finishes a good lot of the time. He and his wife came to the 1st Mid-West Renegade Festival way back in '95.

william harris	Sep 19 2005, 03:15 PM Post #4
914 Restorer Group: Members Posts: 1,459 Joined: 9-January 04 From: Hamilton, MA Member No.: 1,539	Come on guys, post some freakin pictures, please. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

seanery	Sep 19 2005, 08:54 PM Post #5
waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None	Here's a schedule of the week's events. It looks like the first qualifying session is tomorrow. Good Luck Guys!

rick 918-S	Sep 19 2005, 09:02 PM Post #6
Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,473 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region	(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/thisthreadisworthlesswithoutpics.gif)

Thorshammer	Sep 19 2005, 09:12 PM Post #7
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 11-November 03 Member No.: 1,335	Guys, We will have some photos by tomorrow. We have been working our asses off on the cars. Heres the run down. Burdge: had some clutch actuation issues and then some cooling issues, both solved. ran a full session with his new MASSIVE RAT motor. Foley: Some normal prep work, but had some brake bleeding issues that were finally worked out with Marys help. BTW, if any of you have met Mary (Chris's Wife) you know she gets her hands dirty and is right into it, Torquing wheels, leak checking the engine, Bleeding the brakes, swapping the wheels, etc.... Chris ran the entire session and was working the kinks out. He seemed to be driving very smooth. Les Handley: Did not look like any prep going on, and he drove well during the practice I saw. Steve Limbert, Did not see Steve drive today, he just got back from Germany where he drove a 910. he has donated a raffle prize for Saturday Night. Kevin Groot: Kevin had to work today, but will be here in the morning. ready to go. Erik Madsen: Where do I start. The kodiak wheels I got (borrowed) have thicker hubs than the cookies, so I needed longer studs. Ordered today (Thanks Rex at PP) FInshed air dam, decal install, brake cooling ducts,engine lid mounts, EGT probes, clutch line leak (its hydraulic). Finished the car with help from Pete, Dmitry and Stuart, about 10 minutes before the practice, Got out to practice, er ah break in new slicks, and a new motor, and a new alignment,and a new... well you get the picture. Practice went okay, but the session got black flagged and I also was directed to tech. It seems that I was protruding too far out if the cockpit while driving. So they wanted to measure my roll cage, which it passed but barely. Another problem to deal with, not to mention a high speed vibration. So bad, if I did'nt clench my teeth together, they would rattle. So back to the pit, change the sway bar, remount the seat, check the fuel, change the windscreen mount. etc... what a PTA. So tomorrow, new wheels, new studs, new plugs, I think you get the idea. Tents look great, some people stopping by to see the cars, others to inquire about the club, which is really nice. More than a couple people have said I USED to own a 914. Response, with the 914 club around, you should again. More tomorrow. Erik Madsen

seanery	Sep 19 2005, 11:50 PM Post #8
waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None	Thanks for the update, good luck with the car.

MJHanna	Sep 20 2005, 05:46 AM Post #9
Does this 911 make my butt look big? Group: Members Posts: 805 Joined: 23-January 03 From: Lowry Crossing, Texas Member No.: 185	could you post what classes you guys are running in (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

william harris	Sep 20 2005, 02:00 PM Post #10
914 Restorer Group: Members Posts: 1,459 Joined: 9-January 04 From: Hamilton, MA Member No.: 1,539	Erik and Chris: Ok guys, haul out the camera and give us some pictures. Please. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/happy11.gif)

Rleog	Sep 20 2005, 04:04 PM Post #11
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 12-October 03 From: Middleton, MA Member No.: 1,239 Region Association: North East States	From the SCCA site qualifying sessions, at Tuesday's first qualifying session, Chris ran a 1:41:561, good enough for 18th, 4.692 sec off leader.

Rleog	Sep 20 2005, 06:47 PM Post #12
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 12-October 03 From: Middleton, MA Member No.: 1,239 Region Association: North East States	A little more info from the SCCA site: Walter Handly 17th 1:41.48 4.61 sec back Chris Foley 18th 1:41.56 4.69 Tom Burdge 32nd 1:44.57 7.7 in EP Eric Madsen 24th 1:39.18 4.14 sec back Kevin Groot 38th 1:43.55 8.51 Hopefully someone at the track will have some info......

Rleog	Sep 21 2005, 01:02 PM Post #13
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 12-October 03 From: Middleton, MA Member No.: 1,239 Region Association: North East States	At the second qualifying session, on Wednesday: EP Madsen 19th 1:37.250 2.425 back Groot 39th 1:40.932 6.107 FP Handly 8th 1:40.147 3.285 back Foley 18th 1:41.495 4.633 Burdge 34th 1:45.762 8.9

Thorshammer	Sep 21 2005, 07:49 PM Post #14
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 11-November 03 Member No.: 1,335	Madsen Here! Been an okly dokly day. Raby and len Hoffman showed up today and worked on The Burdgemobile, and Chris got along with his suspension changes (minor) His time got better by couple tenths and he was not that impressed with it. The session was shite and cars were blowing up all over. Tom Burdges throttle pushrod fell off, but he was able to get it reattached while at a corner worker station. Now, I am not bagging on Tom, but he is a big guy , and it is kinda funny watching him get swallowed up head first by his little 914 while working inside the cockpit. A couple times, i had to offer some assistance, just could'nt watch him struggle. I am a scrawny little shit, so it's easy for me, he (and Chris) are big guys, Tall not fat. Well, a little fat. LOL but both great guys. Anyway. My day was a pretty good one, I dropped two seconds, and think there might be another 1- 1.5 seconds in the car. But maybe not. We'll see Got out into the session and and ran some really good laps, but saw an oil pressure flux , and decided to pull in , found the oil level low by 4 quarts. Motor okay. Thats all for now. I do apologize about the pics, we are somewhat "blog limited" due to time, and the lack of a floppy drive in my computer, I may go and buy a cd in the morning, so I can download some photos. Sorry guys. Kevin Groot, got out today, but is having some cylinder sealing issues, Raby and the crew had the head off and Len Hoffman was going to perform a field valve job, to help him out. Cool. It may be finished as of this writing, but I am unsure. Thats really all for now, Shut up I write like this cause of Pete's A D D. Erik Madsen

ChrisFoley

Sep 21 2005, 08:10 PM

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QUOTE (9146986 @ Sep 19 2005, 02:00 PM)

Do you know if Jim Blakewell is there?

Not running this year or I would have invited him to be with our group.

ChrisFoley

Sep 21 2005, 08:14 PM

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QUOTE (MJHanna @ Sep 20 2005, 07:46 AM)

could you post what classes you guys are running in (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

EP: Madsen, Groot
FP: Foley, Burdge, Handley, Hotchkis, Anderson
GT2: Limbert

Eric_Shea	Sep 21 2005, 08:40 PM Post #17
PMB Performance Group: Admin Posts: 19,278 Joined: 3-September 03 From: Salt Lake City, UT Member No.: 1,110 Region Association: Rocky Mountains	What is this... Flintstones era shit? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) If you're not going to post pictures of the action, could one of you Neanderthals at least take a flat piece of rock and carve out something that resembles a 914 kicking ass on the track? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smash.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

Rleog	Sep 22 2005, 08:44 AM Post #18
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 12-October 03 From: Middleton, MA Member No.: 1,239 Region Association: North East States	bump

william harris	Sep 22 2005, 09:15 AM Post #19
914 Restorer Group: Members Posts: 1,459 Joined: 9-January 04 From: Hamilton, MA Member No.: 1,539	We need pictures, we need pictures!!! I did not spend hours on the phone with the track folks to set up the paddock space and not have pictures of the 914 race teams assembled there. For Christ's sake guys, get a crayon and draw the paddock and cars. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

Jake Raby	Sep 22 2005, 02:46 PM Post #20
Engine Surgeon Group: Members Posts: 9,394 Joined: 31-August 03 From: Lost Member No.: 1,095 Region Association: South East States	DAMN!!!! Len and I finally got a break from the action and I finally found a hot spot that the laptop would get a decent signal from.. Pictures are coming!! I took some and sent them to Charles to upload to my site.. we'll get some links as soon as he is finished and post them. It has been busy here.. Both my engines are running well in Foley and Burdge's cars. We have done a few maintenance procedures and checks and they are both holding up very well. Of course there are a few bugs to work out, especially with Tom's car because he has never had this much power before and we had no idea where his gearing needed to be, etc. etc... Kevin Groot will of course be running RAT powerin 2006 in E Production but he and I both felt that he needed this 2005 season with marginal power to get used to the car, get the suspension and brakes worked out and also to learn how to tune by EGT, etc. Kevin's engine is marginal, but it got him to the runoffs and thats no small feat at all, especially with its tuning! When Len and I got here Kevin was complaining about progression into the top end of the powerband and as soon as it fired up the problem was apparent that he had only 2 firing cylinders at idle...and at low speed operation and that was really effecting his transitions coming off of the turns on the throttle.. Checked spark= good Checked fuel= good Spritzed it with Ether= cylinder began to fire, with reversion... Gotta come apart! Noted alot of reversion out the 1-2 carb... Made the call that his lower compression he had tested on those cylinders was the culprit....Then we decided to tear the head off to do a field valve job since Len had his cutters.. Ripped the head off, borrowed tools from some MGB guys and Len cut the seats....Put it all back together and voila! All 4 cylinders smooth as glass! He just went out for his final qualifying and ended up with a stuck needle valve and had to come in early.... Engins patch up is still holding great! (miracle considering how worn some things are in those heads) He'll be racing Saturday afternoon with a practice in the morning and hopefully I got those carbs squared away. Kevin is REALLY driving his car and with his marginal power of this interim engine I am AMAZED at the lap times he is turning- I'll be proud to badge him with MassIVe in 2006 for sure! we are all having fun and all staying busy.. It felt really good to tear into Kevins engine and get him patched up again! Brought back old memories of doing things with the wrong tools and getting a positive result, and thats what its all about! Okay, Foley and Burdge are getting ready to go out for final qualification, so I'll go charge this laptop and let you know how it went for them.. FP has been plagued with less than favorable qualifying sessions due to crashes and oiled down track conditions so if these guys get a clean run we could see some big improvements in their starting positions for Sunday's race... Pics are almost loaded....Damn that race fuel smells good..

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