I decided to film a “day-in-the-life” vlog with no narration. It’s all time lapses and drone shots. It was all filmed on June 1, 2019, in Rainsville, AL.
We need to fix some of the problems that we discovered at our 24 Hour of Lemons race at the Barber Motor Sports Park in Birmingham. To fix these problems, we need to rip it apart, and that is what we are doing in this video. Some of the problems we are going to fix are:
Replace the slipping clutch.
Get the starter working again.
Replace the leaking head gasket.
Replace the leaking main seal on the engine
🍋 What is Lemons Racing? http://www.24hoursoflemons.com
It’s finally Race Day at the 2019 Lemons Race at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL. As usual, we had our share or problems that kept us off of the track. We didn’t crash at Lemons this time, but we did capture on our camera a crash in front of us. Here are some of the highlights.
We finished 39th out of 85 car at the 2019 Lemons Race at Barber.
Our head gasket leak was stopped with Bar’s Leak Head Gasket Repair.
Our starter quit working so we had to push start the car.
Our best lap time was a 1:58
🍋 What is Lemons Racing? http://www.24hoursoflemons.com
We’re making more progress on our Lemons Build as we get ready for the 2019 Lemons Race in Birmingham at the Barber Motorsports Park. This race car build is almost complete! We have a few things left to do, though, before the Shine Country Classic 24 Hours of Lemons Race at Barber. In this episode, our goals are to:
Waterproof the electrical panel that is exposed to rain.
Finish plastic welding the wing supports with a Polyvance Nitrogen Plastic Welding System.
Connect our blinking lights on the wing.
Mount the wing.
Spray Polyvance Plastic Magic Adhesion Promoter on the plastic wing towers.
Paint the front end AND the wing… finally!
🍋 What is Lemons Racing? http://www.24hoursoflemons.com
We only have a limited amount of time before the 24 Hours of Lemons race in Birmingham in February 2019. Our four goals for this episode are:
Finish the air/fuel mixture gauge
Finish the bodywork and get it ready for paint.
Wrap the wing struts in plastic and increase the angle of the wing for more down force.
Tack weld together our bumper support.
🍋 What is Lemons Racing? http://www.24hoursoflemons.com
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After our crash at the 2018 – 24 Hours of Lemons at Road Atlanta, we had to do some repairs to the body and the bumper cover. With only 5 weeks until the 2019 – 24 Hours of Lemons race at the Barber Motorsports track in Birmingham, we have to prioritize what we do to get the most important things done first.
The front bumper cover was damaged in the crash so, of course, we used Polyvance products to repair it.
Also, we decided to put the wing back on the car. Originally, we put it on for looks, but we now believe that it actually does provide downforce.
Since the engine runs really rich, we are installing a fuel/air gauge to gather data so that we can have the computer reprogrammed.
After our race in January 2018 at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, we decided to change the way our car looked. We decided to make it look similar to a Ferrari Testarossa. We grafted a Triumph TR7 front end to the car and added some homemade flying buttresses on the back. Everyone was trying to figure out what kind of car it was. We went all out, too. We had costumes, a flag, stickers, everything!
We raced the 24 Hours of Lemons race in December 2018 at the Road Atlanta race track. We didn’t do well, though. The weather was terrible. It was cold and rainy. On “Test and Tune” day, the car spun out at 90 mph and hit the wall. Luckily, it was just cosmetic. But, the rain got “something” wet and we couldn’t get the car running. On Saturday, after only 6 laps of racing, the car would not restart. On Sunday, we finally got the car running. (I guess it had time to dry out.) After the 2-hour church break on Sunday, we got the car running. So, we were able to get in about 5 hours of racing.
We finished in 88th place out of about 94 cars. But, at least we got the “Judges Choice” award for the creative work we did to make the car look sorta like a Ferarri.
