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ROLL CALL .......Who Races What ?

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That looks like a local file on your computer. I always thought it'd be neat if I could link pics directly from my harddrive to the net, considering I'm on it all the time. Cable broadband is awsome
 
STOP THAT! They're WATCHIN' you....
 
Oh well... They were probably watching long before I had internet. Hacking through Telenet at 12 years old with a C=64 and 1200 baud modem probably didn't exactly go unseen I'm sure.
 
Karts--60&70s. Autox and Drags--70s. Stock car (super stocks-circle track asphalt)--80s. occassional autox late 90s with my tr6-street prepared.---All racing in central calif. Just getting my engine back in after a 5 year lay off.
 
Well, I might as well introduce myself on the board that I will be visiting most often. I'm Tyler, the new kid. I started auto crossing at 15 with my father and our 74 MGB that we started off showing and steadily defiled it with more and more performance garb. Over the years I have run an 87 16v GTI, a 2nd gen MR2, a Triumph GT-6, and started time trialing a Mazda RX-7 that I convinced the college I was attending at the time to finance the purchase, up keep, transportation of, and race costs for me and seven of my friends. But, since I had the short-sighted idea that I should graduate college and leave that nice little deal I had going, I have been without a car to race or the funds with which to run. However, within the next month I should have that same MG I started with completed (as much as a toy car ever is) and ready to start time trialing again with NASA. I don't know that much about..anything really so any help anyone would like to offer would be greatly appreciated. For now I'm just hoping that I don't bump into too many things.

Nice to meet you all, thanks for having me,

Tyler
 
dude.......... yer kid's a monkey? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
I run a 71 BGT in solo autocross only. I'm just starting out, had my first good run last Sunday.
 
Tyler:

Welcome!
And congrats on your "scheme" to have a school-funded race-car.
As a high-school teacher, many years ago, I had a similar scheme (which you can read about ~HERE~ ). It's great fun to "beat the system". Look forward to hearing about your MG project. And post some pictures.

Nunyas: Be nice!.....It's a *cute* little monkey! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

Matt: Congrats on your first autocross. When I first got involved in "autocross" (in the '60s), we generally called these events "gymkhanas" or "field trials". I recall telling my dear old Dad the first time I was going to a "gymkhana". He laughed because when he was a young man, growing up in Ireland, a "gymkhana" was an event where you drove a horse and cart around an obstacle course.
We've come a long way, I guess.
Let's see some pictures of your car!
 
Welcome Tyler. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/savewave.gif

We like photos. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Bill, have you had those air filters long? Reason I ask is: I've had those things disintegrate on me, pieces of foam ingested @ WOT... didn't like that one bit.

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Sorry I didn't notice your response, Doug.

No, the filters are on a race car in storage for years and were literally falling to pieces. When I ran it, I'd put only 2 seasons on it between changing elements.

I was always reluctant to use any 'shortie' filters that would requite stub stacks, but nothing else would fit in the available space except the 'socks'. Otherwise they wouldn't have been my filter of choice, particularly as backfiring can set them on fire if they get gas soaked, which in a fiberglass car can be a bit dramatic.

The correct way to do it would have been to cut away the passenger footbox for normal filters (which I didn't want to do) or replace the inner fenders which I'd removed for access and servicing and run without, or fabricate a manifold connected to a remote cone filter - which I never got around to doing.

I run my Twincam without filters as our tracks in the Northwest aren't typically dusty - at least not as bad as some like Thunder Hill in CA.
 
Re: ROLL CALL .......Who Races What ?

Yes. Yes he (I assume it's a he) is a monkey. And he may have to wear diapers in the house for the rest of his life, but we are expecting great things out of him in gym class. Besides, can you imagine the heal-toe accuracy you could get with feet like that?!?

Pics will be up soon. Thanks for the welcome. : )

Tyler
 
I've posted a lot of photos, but here's some more of autocrossing and just sitting still...
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autox1.jpg

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for a racing forum, i don't like the title of this thread!!!
especially if you have a triumph without the southwick axle and front hub conversions!!!
rob
ROLL CALL!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hammer.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif
 
Quit pounding on yer car.....

Talk to it nice-like. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I have pictures, sort of. I couldn't quite figure out how to post the pictures here (better with things with wheels than I am with computers) so I just put them up under "member's rides". I warn you, you should not be drinking milk when you view them, less you have a painfully sinus experience and ruin your keyboard.
 
In the past I raced

Porsche 904
VW Bug Dragster
289 Cobra
1965 Corvette
E Type Coupe
1932 Ford Hot Rod
1964 Ferrari 250 LM
Ferrari 250 GTO
Ferrari F1
Cooper F 1
Mustang 350 GT
Lola
Aston Martin DB5
Lotus Super Seven
Hussein
Chettah
1962 Ford
Did I mention
these were all
slot cars?
 
My first post:
I race a 1970 Opel GT in ITB, and after I get the 1967 GT6 running right and new shoes I plan on auto-x that car.
 
Cherokee, welcome to the asylum. The Opel always struck me as a fun little car, but you don't see that many racing anymore.
I've also got a '67 GT6, but street and open track days only. Or at least that's the plan if I ever get it finished.
Jeff
 
I won't bore you all with the stock car stuff I did in the 90s, but in road racing it's always been British and SCCA club racing.

1983-84 FP Spitfire
1984-1990 EP Huffaker MGB
1998-2004 FP Sprite
2005 HP Huffaker Bugeye
2005-2006 HP MG Midget
 
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Hacking through Telenet at 12 years old with a C=64 and 1200 baud modem...

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That fast? All I had was a VicModem at 300./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/computer.gif

I'll throw down...
I'd autoxed the family MGB for a few seasons. Was always crushed by the DSP VWs. I doubt their cars were daily driven to school.

The MGB sits at my folk's and now that I have a new house with space, pop is suggesting that I have it shipped.

These days I instruct HPDEs- not actually racing, but not as expensive. Since I'm using my Audi commuter, I play it pretty tame.

If anyone is in North Texas, give me a shout. These events are fun to just hang out.
 
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