914 Road Trip Underway - Tampa to Vegas - S.E.M.A 2006, (underway) Options

[fat73]

I left Tampa on Saturday 12:15pm and 600 miles and 9 hours later was at my home town in Tracy City Tennessee. No problems to report except that by the time I got there the exhaust/muffler bracket was a little loose causing some racket, and the intercooler plumbing needed to be re-secured. Other than that no problems along the way with the WRX conversion. The first fill up was at 200 miles (since my guage is not working) and the verdict is......6.5 gallons. Not bad, ~30mpg at 80-85mph (with several short blasts into 3 digits). The second fill yielded 34mpg. Managed to get a couple of high speed passes at the local home town quarter mile (Highway 41). Blew by 125 a couple times (easily) but that is not a quarter mile speed since I was already rolling. And at 125 there's ALOT left in the car, just not enough courage in me yet. Yesterday morning I managed to get the muffler/exhaust stabilized and the intercooler plumbing secured. I've trashed the electronic trunk lock after getting the trunk stuck locked 3 TIMES yesterday. Finished installing a pull cable last night around 11.

Today I'm in Nashville (about 720miles in to the trip), and will be leaving Tuesday afternoon for Kansas City. I plan to leave Kansas City late Thursday or early Friday heading down to I 40 in oklahoma (avoiding potential bad weather in Colorado/Utah). I plan to be in Vegas sometime on Sunday.


By the way, the fall colors in Tennessee are absolutely unbelievable right now. I'll be posting some pictures soon.

See ya at S.E.M.A.
Ed aka W9R1

[fat73]

Well the trip is taking a slight detour since the storm from the Pacific is supposed to barrel through the midwest Wed and Thursday. I'm flying to Kansas City and then back to Nashville (have some work to do) and then it's off to Vegas from Nashville late Thursday night or early Friday. Not much of a detour but it saves me a couple of miles and pretty much eliminates the necessity to drive in the rain if the weather holds as advertised.

ed aka W9R1

[ThinAir]

Well the trip is taking a slight detour since the storm from the Pacific is supposed to barrel through the midwest Wed and Thursday. I'm flying to Kansas City and then back to Nashville (have some work to do) and then it's off to Vegas from Nashville late Thursday night or early Friday. Not much of a detour but it saves me a couple of miles and pretty much eliminates the necessity to drive in the rain if the weather holds as advertised.

ed aka W9R1

I'm confused... part of that sounds like you are driving, but changing routes... part of it sounds like you are gonna park the car and fly. Somehow it just doesn't sound like a "slight detour".