This is a Test of the Emergency Wheel Travel System
Well, okay not really, but a week or so ago I met Dad up in the high desert for a little bit of seat time in the car that may just turn out to be known as MA’AM (Mean Ass Angry Monkey. Either that or Rooster. What do you think?) Up until this point I’d had a total of 7 minutes drive time in her, and 36 miles of co-driving.
Thursday started off toasty and windy! We settled in at Stoddard Valley and found a few other people out testing as well, most notably COPS Racing. I wish I could have gotten a picture but their damn Trophy Truck went by so fast I was lucky I had enough time to jump behind a bush so as not to get *totally* dusted out.
We were finally able to break out our care package from Slime. They sent us a healthy supply of tire sealant, tire pressure gauges, a few plug kits, and a much needed portable tire inflator that connects right to the battery. Our old one was…well…old. This one by Slime is super fast and much quieter.
Dad using the new 2x Tire Inflator from Slime
I spent the first day just getting a feel for the car. It’s similar in width to the baja, but the wheel base is much longer, so it’s a totally different ride. It has a puck clutch, which is either engaged or not (read: it’s kind of easy to stall). The transmission, however, shifts much smoother than the baja, which I always had to force into 2nd gear a bit. The front end behaves differently and there are bypass shocks and a little bit more travel all the way around. The baja runs a 2180cc motor whereas MA’AM sports the stock 1600cc. However, she’s much lighter. How much lighter I’m not sure since she hasn’t been on the scale, but I can definitely feel it. I keep telling people that any co-driver will have to be 170 pounds or less so we can keep total passenger weight down to 300 pounds or less. I’m not really joking.
Play car vs Race car
Unfortunately, something was keeping my baby down. She was sputtering like Tom Cruise does when reporters ask him if he’s gay. It was most pronounced at the lower rpm range, like when starting out or turning around, but sometimes when going uphill, even if the revs were still high. Hmmmm….a carburetor issue of some sort. We were meeting fellow Courage Girl Motorsports team members Pepper and Martee that night for dinner, so Pep stopped off at Mohr Performance and picked up a fuel filter, new jet, and a carb rebuild kit.
You know how if you live in a small town you run into people at the best and/or worst times? That night at dinner was one of the best times. Martee was telling me about her secret weapon when it comes to shock tuning, the Mr. Miyagi of Shocks, if you will. Well we walked into Chili’s and who is having a beer at the bar? Monsieur Miyagi! It was agreed upon by all parties present that we should meet the next morning for a little go around. Of course, that night we still had to address the carb issues. I changed the fuel filter and helped the guys take off the carb. They went to work rebuilding it while Pep, Martee, and I ran out for supplies…namely zip ties and beer.
Next morning bright and early we were at it again. But still with the sputtering! The carb was totally clean, we had a new jet, new fuel filter. We decided it was the float. I can’t tell you yet if we were right, but the engine is currently at Major Performance getting a going through. But I digress. Mr. Miyagi (I would like to note that Mr. Miyagi is neither a karate master nor is he Japanese. I just like calling him that because he is a miracle worker and the Annie Sullivan of Shocks doesn’t sounds as good.) met us out in Stoddard Valley and the testing began.
We got in the car and he told me, “When I tell you to get on the pipe, you get on the pipe!” Uh..sir, yessir! Most of the session was him and I in the car for a run, him yelling at me, “ON IT! ON IT! ON IT! NO LIFTING!” and me thinking, “This guy is going to kill me today.” Then he’d be out of the car, adjusting things which I don’t even pretend to understand, then back in for another run. And I could tell with each run that something was different. And holy crap I could go faster! A lot faster! Now he’s telling me to stand on the throttle and I have all kinds of confidence! Taking the whoops in the baja at those speeds would mean my back end would get away from me. Now MA’AM leads with her nose BAM BAM BAM right over the whoops and the back end just follows, easy peasy. Of course, we didn’t get a super accurate tuning since the engine was not running at full potential, but it was a good start. Once we get the car back together we’ll go out again and fine tune.
So what is next? We will be running the MORE/SNORE combined KC-Hilites race in September, where I hope to have a fundraiser for Gazelles. We are also running the Powder Puff in October of course. That race will mean a lot as it raises money for Cedar Sinai Breast Cancer Research Center, and it will also be the Revenge Race for Grace, the official truck of Courage Girl Motorsports. Her front driver’s wheel has fallen off two years in a row and we are really hoping that doesn’t happen again. Pepper and Martee will be in Grace, and I will be in MA’AM for that one. I’m also working on an awesome calendar of bad ass female off road drivers. More info on that as it becomes available!
Next week I’ll be part of the drive team for Desert Dingo in their class 11 at the VORRA USA 500 out near Reno. Tech is on Friday July 14th, so come on down and say hi if you’re in the neighborhood. If not I’ll be tweeting as much as I can @MMMotorsports and using #USA500.
This is what 1107 looked like after the USA 500 last year.
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Anderson needs a work permit, though I uncertainty it will be which is not a problem, what with Anderson playing with this summer within the . At worst, Man utd should put the make a difference into appeal and obtain points done by July – helping to make this ‘early’ company a good thing.
Nani isn’t Ronaldo, therefore let’s not really assume him to get games by himself pertaining to Manchester United pick up.
Anderson may be hyped more than Nani, as well as I’m a lttle bit astonished to see Man utd indication him. Oh yea, along with someone must explain to the Guardian workers that Anderson plays like a striker as well.
Atmosphere Athletics should issue any public apology Per retraction regarding posting phony a week ago about Nani deciding upon a new contract. Ditto for Goal.net, but I doubt they’lmost all bother.
Arsetnal + more money + much better supervisor = Man utd. We’re also picking up good children, but we’regarding evening out the squad with experienced players and also the team can be adaptable in its kind of enjoy – and yes, we’re paying a lot of money to make it happen.
Manchester United’s Seventh name lost a certain amount of its shine whenever Combined lost in order to Milan and also . The two fresh signings (as well as Hargreaves coming in) have got switched the optimism johnson way into overdrive. Let’azines try to keep our toes on the ground and never imitate or in generating great predictions in regards to the pick up. We’ve right Louis Vuitton Belt Sale now received a good central associated with young kids that will with any luck , grow up jointly with Manchester United as well as allow us win much more titles.
We need to market a couple of players now – a striker and a winger. I want to keep Saha and Eagles, so for me this means in which Smith / Ole and Richardson should go.
As a side-note, Silvestre affirms he really wants to keep but ought to he really? Heinze is not departing (more on this kind of tomorrow) so we’onal obtained two left-backs already. Peek ahead of Silvestre (to give him experience, if nothing else), so where does that abandon the Frenchman? Newcastle anybody?
Ok, I’m branching away directly into unrelated speak now, so I’ll place this upward through saying that it’utes good news that we’onal obtained our move organization more or less wrapped up by the end of May and i also hope that we’ng got all our gamers within when pre-season will begin.
Mind you, the current squad now looks quite a bit similar to one of my configs – even though I had Marcelo inside, acquired sold Evra, Jones, Dong along with Ole and had introduced Klose way too. Oh, and Kuszczak and Foster once more on loan using Buffon within and EVDS about the bench.
Oh, and also since every person seems very happy to do this, here’s my following season’s commencing XI:
EVDS
Neville/Brown, Rio, Vida, Heinze
Ronaldo, Carrick, Hargreaves, Nani
Rooney, Anderson
Scholes and Giggs rotating with the middle 4, and also Saha spinning with the the front a couple of.
I’m out. More on Nani and Anderson shortly.
May 22, 2013 at 9:24 pm