Had a nice 4 day weekend and Christmas.....
Got to look over my daily driver the breaks have plenty of meat on the pads and shoes, but they still make some noise. I think they are just sold old and the discs are worn down. They still stop fine and everything looks safe so I shall just drive on.... We did a small amount of work on the Spitfire as we are still waiting for a response back about the safety and tech upgrades. The throttle is fixed, I marked the Tow points, and found a few more useful things off the parts car. After the new year we will get back on the grind, we are doing leak down tests on the motors and getting some work done on the heads. The rest of the work is simple maintenance work. What I really need to do is get the motor in the 3rd started so we can decide if that motor is good. We then can sell the overdrive transmission and take other parts as needed. The big problem right now is getting rid of the stripped down parts car, with no rear end it is a pain to move. might have to use a winch and a flat bed trailer to get rid of it. Oh well, we will have just under 3 months to get it done. We also got Forza 4 set up for learning the Infineon Raceway. I got the Datsun 510 set up to drive close enough to the way the Spitfire handles and about the same power to weight ratio. Should be plenty good to learn the track, plus it is Forza 4 gotta love it. I am trying to get an idea of what track lay out we will be running at Infineon this year for our Forza practice....
There are 2 track lay outs they can pick and choose corners from. The Indy layout and the Long Course layout. The corners they can change are 7, 9 and 11. From what I have gathered on the forums it sounds like they use a mix of the 2, but every time they have used 9a from the Indy lay out, which is good and bad. The 9a corner is a tight chicane after a strait away. This means a tight fun corner and that people will be hard on the breaks and likely to dive bomb into the corner and t-bone people. I will have to bring this up with my team to watch out for this and maybe even suggest that we take the inside line away early, though that could be dangerous as well. I guess there has not been many issues with it thus far so we will just roll with it.
INDY COURSE
LONG COURSE
The rest of the holiday was also good, my girlfriend enjoyed the gifts I got her, but they do not compare to the IPad her mother and step dad bought her, kinda hard to top that. She bought me a home brew beer kit which is awesome, another excuse for beer! I would like to make it and bring it to the LeMons race at Infineon. I will put our team logo on it, should be fun. We both got other nice stuff, nothing exciting, and got plenty of gift cards for places to go eat, couple movie tickets, Target, and Walmart gift cards.
Oh speaking of which, we went to Walmart yesterday and the assistant manager rang us up. She could not figure out how to use gift cards (even the Walmart specific ones) to save her life. Stupid bitch tried to tell us “The card must be empty” We could see on the screen it was telling her what to do but she would not read the damn screen and follow directions, also refused to ask anyone to help her. She is lucky I was hung over from Christmas and just wanted to get the hell out of there so we just paid and left. Any other day I would have made a total fool out of her by having her ask for help from one of her lower employees who knows how to do his or her job, then politely say, “ah there are people here who know how to do their job.” The lady behind us was laughing at the horrible way this assistant manager was acting, which was pathetic, but I guess typical of Walmart. Fucking Walmart....
Gah... I can not believe we went shopping so soon after Christmas... Was not all that bad though..
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