Okay, it isn’t that moving, but there is a lot of moving around in it, and moving of stuff, and fast-moving people! Enjoy! -Kelley
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Living up to a Name
Today- today is the day we make the final move to our ‘new’ Lab! Yes, the one we’ve been preparing for months. This blog post is a nod towards company boot-strapping, being the right size at the right time, and making do with what you have. Oh, and having R&D work spill into the packing/shipping…
Merkur strip show!
Here’s a little video montage showing a Merkur XR4ti being stripped to it’s barest essentials. Enjoy 🙂
Make mine a Merkur… A crapcan, that is
A new year inspires bold ideas and uncovers new challenges. It seeds the dreamer’s thoughts and creates opportunity. Sometimes the challenge of a new years’ opportunity is so compelling, so inspirational that no amount of pain reliever, water or sleep will make it go away. When the dream is to field your very own creation…
24 Hours of Lemons Scrapes-n-Spins Video
Back from 24 Hours of Lemons, Arse-Freeze-Apaloosa 2009! Scott and I had barrel full of Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys fun while driving the Peugeot 505 Turbo. Here is our Scrapes-n-Spins video: no long boring sections of driving, just hoony carnage, plain and simple! And yes: that is yours truly getting rear-ended in the video (and…
LabRat painting montage
The LabRat receives it’s fresh new silver skin- all in Rustoleum Hammered silver finish and satin black. Kelley and Scott performed painting duties after Laura, John and brent swarmed over it the night before, masking areas to not paint. Here’s the progression: All done! those black things are rat ears. You'll see. 🙂
Messy business
Messy messy… Working on cars is often a messy business. Pretending our leaky, neglected and abused LabRat is a race car just adds to the fun! Here’s a gem we just had to share. Scott asks me for an oil pan to catch drips from the disconnected oil drain. Not a drop went into the…
Turbo mutiny
Tie me up! Tie Me Down! We’ve decided the turbo definitely has a hate-hate relationship with our car. Shortly after the track day testing we also discovered a turbo completely loose from the manifold. This was the same exact problem that kept this car out of commission at 2008 Thunderhill LeMons! Then, it was nuts…
Wings-n-things
After introducing the Lab Rat to a local track day we had a couple of take-away lessons. Lesson 1. If it’s not ready to race for an hour, it’s probably not ready to race 24 of those. In an effort to exorcize the race-car-bug demons there was much blood-letting, which came in the form of…
Sunday Driver
It’s 9:00 am and I’m full of pancakes. The rain is falling heavily on this particular late September morning, but not on me. There’s nothing on TV that I haven’t seen a dozen times already. I take another look outside and realize that today would be a perfect day for a drive. I return to…