Well, it survived. Not only did it survive, it didn’t really have any major issues that I know of the entire day. I believe all 6 of us were able to flog it and it didn’t seem to have any issues. Surprisingly, the brakes held up without issue, the engine didn’t kersplode, and it broke down at least 2 times less than Jeremy’s car..
Here’s the Days Events as I saw them.
1. Arrived, got car rolling on track for first laps.
2. 5 minutes later, realization that the tires are rubbing quite bad, the rusty side digs into the tire more than the “less rusty” side… must be fixed.
3. Jamie gets a board and starts to pry.
4. Not having a whole lot of luck, Pat found a sack of hammers, this is a small ass hammer, and would likely be useless for what we’re trying to do. We need a 3# hammer or something. (Note: take big hammer and/or sawzall to Nelson)
5. hammering the rust off, squishing metal, bashing stuff.
6. Back out there for more testing
7. 5 Minutes later, (Little known fact, Jeremy is afraid of the noise a Honda makes when it’s being “tweaked”)
8. This seemed like a great idea. See, what was happening here is 2 of them jumped on the car, while another innocent bystander held a 2×4 chunk. The idea was that when the car came down, it would use the 2×4 to push up on the metal. I’m ashamed to say this actually worked pretty well.
As a result, the sunroof likely doesn’t open, as the roof has dented in a fair amount where Mikey was jumping on it. But it doesn’t matter, we got the tires to stop rubbing (mostly anyway)
The car ran like a champ, pretty much as soon as one person brought it back to the paddock, another would hop in and take it right back out.
Lastly, I got this picture stitched together of all of MAM. Click this link to get the full size image.
All of these images available at: http://chipthurston.smugmug.com/LeMons/09Aug-MAM-Civic-Shakedown-Pt-I/9373024_yXbAz#627400719_wRtar
-Chip