The Mendeola is a go!, it's here!! pix included now Options

[byndbad914]

Been a lot of phone calls, etc and in fact I UPS'd my starter to them to verify fitment. My big issue was how in the hell I am going to mount a starter on the transaxle that doesn't hang way below the car (an inverted VW/Porsche bellhousing puts the starter at 6 o'clock on my car and means I would be dragging the solenoid on the ground).

Then they had this puppy left in stock - apparently they only made a couple of them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool_shades.gif) just moves the starter to the other side of what I have.



sssooooo, the sequential dog geared monster transaxle just might be a go for me!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif) Laid under the car last night to make sure it looks like it will work, and this thing might be "money"! He is going to take some pix with my starter installed today as a final verification - if it all looks good then "it's on".

My current setup... notice starter should just move to the drivers side but remain parallel to ground



I'm sorta gloating I know... but I have literally talked to them for 4 yrs now on and off waiting for them to get an LSD setup that I liked, etc etc and this trans apparently is using the same LSD style as the Vipers and so forth.

Don't even ask price... OMFG am I gonna pay for this one for awhile (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) but will look like this smiley the whole time I am driving it (notice only pulls shifter in one direction, no mo' H crap) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif)

And got my new Excellence last night - the same day I got the pic above - and page 161 = Going Sequential (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) It's a sign from God hhahaha (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Dr Evil]

Ooooooo, thats dirty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jerkit.gif)

[byndbad914]

Ooooooo, thats dirty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jerkit.gif)

yeah Brant you rat bastard! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) I can't help it I am not the driver I dream I am! hahahahaha.

It's cool evil one! Brant is just being honest with me as I have asked him about that track and his experiences there.

That said, I have yet to actually see any "fendered" car in person or online race results run faster than 1:41 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) and only at the last RMVR event after the repaving of T10. Even recent SCCA times (July 08) are slower than I am so I am somewhat skeptical about anyone running a fendered anything sub 1:40 on the current track. I honestly had a guy that has ran his 911 car there for years claim the track lost a second per year over a couple of years due to surface changes.

The repave probably fixed a second, maybe two, but I can assure many of you that T1 is a mother if you aren't perfectly in the groove (kicked my whole rear up in the air on my first track day with the WSIR stiff setup! at 90mph that is a bit of a "rush"), the whoopty doo out of T8 into the esses is a treat, the crappy repair patch in T7 is pretty slippery and I always slide through that turn a bit even with plow, etc.

Only cars I have seen and found online sub 1:41 are Radicals and other open wheelers. A year or so ago there was a Vette that ran 1:39 and never matched it again, but damn that is fast. Clearly a good car and driver. Last RMR PCA event (and only results I could find for this year with the repave at Pueblo) fastest car was a C4S running 1:48s.

I watch the race results from various clubs rather often just as a benchmark of where I am. I consider the tail-dragger running 1:41s to be the car to beat and I should be able to do that with my car so I am missing the boat and whether it is setup or driver or whatever that finger points directly at me in any of those cases........

As for picks Root, 914Magazine should have a full spread on my car this coming month so lots of picks and info will be there in a week and why I haven't been posting picks of the car since the repaint, but here is a side one