Falcon

After a winter fixup, I got the car tot he track Friday for an open track day.

We redid the radiator orientation, installed a new steering rack and new oil cooler and needed to get to the track to test for leaks and cooling. Happily, everything seemed to work fine. I spent 3 sessions on track with very old tires, and never exceeded 6K RPM's in case something let go, but everything worked as planned.

For the last session I decided to install the $35 surveillance camera I purchased from Ebay.

I attached one to the left corner of the splitter, and the other I attached to the wing. Amazingly, they worked pretty damn well for $35.

During that session there were only a couple of us on track. One guy had an ex-Tony Stewart Home Depot car, and he was obvioulsy having problems. I was running moderate ~1:49 laps and he was a lot slower.

Detroit Speed had their One Lap Camaro out there at the same time, and it was anything but slow. What a nice car. Bigger than an NFL lineman, but fast.

He closed up on me pretty quick, but I wasn't up for combat. I just wanted to escape the day with everything intact.

Here's my car in the paddock:





Here's the new radiator layout:





Here's a cobbled together video that was shot with the $35 Ebay cameras:

drivinhard

Glad the shake down was incident free.

You and Mac and Khoi tear up more stuff than anything I've ever seen

Falcon

I wish I could blame it on going too fast, but that won't work!

Mac told me about the brake hose and emergency brake incidents in addition to the torque tube. Y'all had a real busy weekend!

The shakedown did show up one problem. When I got out of bed Saturday morning, my hip was killing me. The hip that was replaced last year. What had happened is that I had to buy new belts this year so I bought "pull downs" because they are FIA and last 5 years. The pull ups, which i used to have only last 3 years.

The problem with the pull downs is that the adjustment buckle is situated right between my hip and the seat, and it is sticking me in the titanium part of the hip. The pull ups adjustment buckle was not in that position. I need to find a fix for that, that will be a problem.

BTW, thank goodness yo were there or Mac would have had a long weekend!

AU N EGL

CHJ In Virginia

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together and everything works like it was designed to do. Car is looking great !

Z06Tracker

You racing at CMP with NASA in May. I am signed up, so there is at least one easy place for you.

drivinhard

or a short one

BERETTA

Looking good!

brkntrxn

Looks good, Jody.

JDIllon

The car look good Jody!! Glad all went well on the shake down. JD

Falcon

Thanks for the pictures, Dennis.

Falcon

Yep, I'm signed up. There ain't nothing easy.

Paul Schmidt

Great looking car. Glad you had fun. Nice set up.

varkwso

waddisme

Glad it all worked out. Nice when there are no issues, especially for the first time out for the year. I think there are track days at VIR for like this FRI - Mon if you need more track time. I am doing the ReZoom thing Fri at VIR - first time out since Sept of last year.

VTcorvette

Your car looked great on the track! I was there in the black corvette and watched you do a few laps. Sounded great too!

coach k

The camera looks good. You said you got on ebay, what kind is it? How does it work? Need any special accessories?

Falcon

The cameras are the cheap mini 808 cameras. They look like a key fob and only cost about $30-$35. Search for the 808 spy camera.

They last about 30 minutes on a charge and a 16gb memory card will hold at least that much. Some of the camera come with a memory card, some don't. There are huge listings for the cameras.

They record hi def video.

No special accessories. Velcro them where you want them, pull them off when you're done.