woodhavenhunter
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Hi my name is Heath. I recently purchased a car to run in the Yellowstone Off Road series. It is a series of 4 races in Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota. I come from a pavement racing background, having raced cars from Miatas, Turbo Rx7s, all the way up to a full bolt on Corvette, as well as most recently a 2015 Mustang GT.
I wanted to try my hand at off road racing so I thought it made sense to start at the bottom. Car has not been run in 6 years and needs some updating to be rules compliant for the class, so that is where I'm starting with it.
On the list right now:
Install horn
Install front lights
Make and install rear light bar to be compliant with class rules
find and install bigger fuel cell (was told it was a 10 gallon, turned out to be not even 5)
Install parker pumper
install new drivers seat
wire all lights and electronics
rebuild 32/36 dfav carb
build roof rack for spare tire/tools
get brakes working (they is currently only 1 wheel doing much of anything)
adjust throttle linkage ( pedal doesn't return very quickly)
adjust shifter linkage ( hard to find any gears)
get lead nav mounts put in and set up
put in window nets
make new poly body work
paint engine covers something other than neon colors
I'm sure there will be other things that I'll run into as I tear into it. As of now I have about 7 weeks to get everything sorted.
Have some help from one of the older guys in the series for transporting and questions about the car, otherwise rolling with no sponsors, 1 man show. Hopefully I can find a co-driver that shows up and maybe someone will dump fuel for me.
Here are a few pics of the car when I got it.
I wanted to try my hand at off road racing so I thought it made sense to start at the bottom. Car has not been run in 6 years and needs some updating to be rules compliant for the class, so that is where I'm starting with it.
On the list right now:
Install horn
Install front lights
Make and install rear light bar to be compliant with class rules
find and install bigger fuel cell (was told it was a 10 gallon, turned out to be not even 5)
Install parker pumper
install new drivers seat
wire all lights and electronics
rebuild 32/36 dfav carb
build roof rack for spare tire/tools
get brakes working (they is currently only 1 wheel doing much of anything)
adjust throttle linkage ( pedal doesn't return very quickly)
adjust shifter linkage ( hard to find any gears)
get lead nav mounts put in and set up
put in window nets
make new poly body work
paint engine covers something other than neon colors
I'm sure there will be other things that I'll run into as I tear into it. As of now I have about 7 weeks to get everything sorted.
Have some help from one of the older guys in the series for transporting and questions about the car, otherwise rolling with no sponsors, 1 man show. Hopefully I can find a co-driver that shows up and maybe someone will dump fuel for me.
Here are a few pics of the car when I got it.
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