LemonsRace
Contents
Overview
At the beginning of 2014, a group of makers set forth to rework a $500 car for race competition.
Our first race was March 1st and 2nd of 2014. It was a life experience for all involved.
Chuck tells a great story and recounted the initial effort : The Great Race
Photos
(gallery to be added)
Videos
LeMons Recap-Eagles Canyon 2014
Goals
- Build a safe and race worthy vehicle based on a $500 used car
- Take said vehicle to the track and race it
- Continue to race said vehicle
Core Members
- Chuck Graf (project leader)
- Brandon Green
- Brett Cotton
- James Koffeman
- Ed Koffeman
- Allen Wan
- Benjamin Groves
Special Recognition
- Ed was hell of an engineer with many of our diagnosis, and kept us from packing up on Friday (let alone Saturday)
- James manhandled some shit - He got in there and did some nasty stuff like bench pressing a transmission, and projecting our racing highlights on the next team's trailer
- Ed and James, who provided us a with a moving house to coordinate ourselves in
- Brett did a great job organizing our finances, too bad the judge didn't care about spreadsheets
- Reece, who took on re-welding our roll cage at the last minute
- Michael Lass, who was able to acquire us a real tow truck to haul the car around on occasion
- Pearce, who helped prepare stickers while we were asleep
- Allen, who collected rare and exotic clutch parts in Dallas and brought them to us
- Ray, who mopped up the car mess after we all fled Sunday
Status
- (project leading up to this date to be added)
- 02/28/2014 - Open track day and Safety Inspection - The transmission decided to eat itself
- 03/01/2014 - Race Day One - 2 hours of fine racing followed by fuel system problems
- 03/02/2014 - Race Day Two - 3 hours of fine racing followed by hauling the car home in an ice-storm
Next Steps
- Wash Car
- Put Car into storage
- (list of future work an maintenance on the car, "Edward" to be listed here)
Completed
- North Dallas Hooptie - March 1st and 2nd 2014 - Eagle's Canyon Raceway, Decatur Texas
- The Great Race, by Chuck Graf
Resources
- 1995 Nissan 240SX with "minor problems"
- 2001 Mercury Sable - donated to the space, cleaned up, sold to help fund the team
