I rallied my Fiero at the Detroit Region SCCA Dawnbuster TSD rally. It starts at 5:30PM Saturday and end 7:30AM Sunday. The car's a little worse for the wear.
Before the rally started, I topped off the trans through the VSS. 1.7 miles after re-assembly the odometer and speedo quit working, Code 24 VSS. It was ok though, since I have an Alfa Elite installed and a GPS.
Once into the rally, I had to stop at every control and clean the snow out of the nose, the radiator would get packed and the car would overheat. It did snow like 7" up there during the event.
Somewhere in the second leg the car refused to restart using the starter, so we had to pull-start it.
Sometime later in the second leg, the air dam ripped part way off, so I ripped it off and strapped it to the decklid.
The rest of the night was uneventful bottoming out, catching air, and driving 70mph on gravel roads which were covered by ice which was in turn covered with snow. Dunlop Graspic DS-2s with no studs, 8/32 front and 10/32 rear, btw.
After the event, loading the car back on the trailer (with a couple hundred pounds of ice frozen to the underside of the car, causing it to sit lower) It high centered at the breakover from ramp to trailer deck and ripped the clutch line off and tore off the rocker trim on the passenger side.
How did I do? Uhh, I came in first among the Fieros. There were some "calculation" errors.
We'll do much better next time, for sure. Just as soon as I put the car back together.....
First leg of towing my car up to Clare done with my CV:
Next leg done with Jimmy due to snow:
The cockpit:
Fiero before the event and just before locking the headlights "up", checking fluids:
Fueling at 5AM:
What my Navigator sees:
Me cleaning out snow from the blocked radiator, one of the 50 or so times I had to do it:
Going home, note air dam bungied to decklid:
To answer the question "How far did you go? How fast will a Duke go on an icy two-track road in the woods of Northern Michigan?"
[This message has been edited by KurtAKX (edited 02-24-2009).]
haha kidding very nice.
