SC Lemons SHO - Sept - SHOBoat Racing

[drivinhard]

Team SHOBoat Racing has been accepted for Lemons South in Sept, at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw SC. :woo-hoo:

3 long time SHO track men, with a combined 50 yrs (2 of which since owned new!) of SHO ownership and likely 35+ yrs of SHO tracking/racing/time trialing will anchor the team, with our 4th driver (our cage fabricator & local super late model stock car driver) and 5th driver, a fellow who wheels a 485 hp Miata as his DD, will round out our heroic team of Gilligan's Island cast of characters, er, drivers. 5 Stigs would he hard pressed against this bunch of wheelmen.

Prep will start on our beater '91 SHO (USS MinSHO) soon...

 

[SHOspazz92]

Team SHOBoat Racing has been accepted for Lemons South in Sept, at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw SC. :woo-hoo:

3 long time SHO track men, with a combined 50 yrs (2 of which since owned new!) of SHO ownership and likely 35+ yrs of SHO tracking/racing/time trialing will anchor the team, with our 4th driver (our cage fabricator & local super late model stock car driver) and 5th driver, a fellow who wheels a 485 hp Miata as his DD, will round out our heroic team of Gilligan's Island cast of characters, er, drivers. 5 Stigs would he hard pressed against this bunch of wheelmen.

Prep will start on our beater '91 SHO (USS MinSHO) soon...

Mark,

I'd love to make it down for the weekend. If there is anything I could do to help, Let me know! Also, There's another red 92 SHO from NC that may be enterting this race.

-Sam

 

[SinisterSHO]

 

[SHOCH]

Wish I lived closer. Insulate that gas tank from the exhaust. lol

 

[SHOmanBC]

I like the 5 Stigs concept, that could be fun to pull that one off......hmmm

Sounds like you got a helluva crew there Mark, I be sitting on the fence watching it develope.

 

[drivinhard]

I like the 5 Stigs concept, that could be fun to pull that one off......hmmm

I'm going to get some T-shirts made up.

"I was Stig's Instructor"

 

[SHOCH]

"Stig Racing School" on the car, and a INSTRUCTOR windshield banner.

 

[Toolman]

Cool beans! Keep us posted Mark!

 

[ShoCheapRacing]

What are you trying to say? Your drivers are old :wave:

 

[drivinhard]

"Seasoned"

 

[gas it]

Hey!

You guys will have a blast racin with the Lemons guys. Advise? Stay on the track til the engine sputters for fuel. Do not change drivers every hour or so. Change at fuel stops. Do not get any kind of penalty. Time in the penalty box is deadly. Make sure you docuement all the expenses, pictures reciepts etc. A stock clutch will be marginal, and it started having problems on Sunday afternoon. Don't clean engine parts, etc. like you would on your own SHO. Leave dirt on, it makes it look unmolested. Don't try to paint Tokicos or Konis to hide what they are. The judges are very experienced in finding cheaters. Get some GOOD radios. FRS work OK but not as good as VHF or UHF. Don't know how hot it will be in SC but a cool shirt makes it easy to drive for hours in 90+ degree heat. Worth every penny. I didn't think so til I got one. Check over everything on the car, radiator, WP, oil leaks, PS leaks, everything. If you say, "Oh that will be alright." Guess what? That's what happened to us in the first one. The engine a 3.2 had a knock sound. Had new rod bearings, so we raced it anyway. 30 minutes into the race it started overheating. Ran hot all day til it blew at 5pm. Doing an engine swap at the track is no fun, trust me. A tranny sawp isn't much better either.

You are going to like the racing. No contact racing is harder than it looks. 3 wide in the turns will get your attention! The starts are pure kaos. Think of Atlanta 80mph rush hour and everyone trying to be first to the turn...Drive trying to save the car, ie. the front tires, it's a long race. We put 750 track miles on ours. The tires were just about wasted(not enough neg front camber) the R4 pads(front) were almost down to the metal, 10" brakes, but no problems with fade or warping.

 

[somedude_001]

when is this event? I am driving to SC this saturday for the week. I would love to come and check it out.

 

[gas it]

when is this event? I am driving to SC this saturday for the week. I would love to come and check it out.

Sept. 12-13th. http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/events/

There's one in Ohio in October.

Also check out www.chumpcar.com Same sort of thing by one of the guys that helped run the first Lemons race.

 

[drivinhard]

sergio, I forgot you had responded to this old thread. I will email you on the details later.

we had 5 drivers, and we were trying to get everybody equal time vs just doing the best strategy. This was our first one. despite our pathetically slow gas stops, driver changes, poor strategy (no strategy), 2 penalties, etc, we managed 13th out of 111 cars, and 4th in class. We could have easily had a top ten as we were only a couple of laps out of the top ten, and had a million stupid things on sun, any one or two left out would have put us a few laps ahead.

the car ran near flawlessly, only a trans fluid leak for the 2nd day (a big one) I'm surprised it finished really. we ran no front bar/26mm rear, and ran 225/50/16 dunlop star specs on 16x7" boat anchors and 96 brakes.

here are the mylaps results, we are SHOboat racing. you can see our fastest lap time was right there with some of the top guys, the SHO was one of the fastest cars out there, probably only 1 or 2 cars could pull it in a straight line. several were faster in the corners, but the SHO was still faster than 95% of everything out there. there was another SHO there, our fastest lap was 1.2 secs faster than their fastest lap. they blew up late on sunday, radiator.

http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1310944

we'll be back again, with more weight loss, better strategy, and a fresh j-yard tranny

 

[Shoaz]

Great result! It was a good weekend for racing SHOs, apparently.

 

[drivinhard]

Great result! It was a good weekend for racing SHOs, apparently.

very much! I was hoping you could get 1st and send Joe back home to GA weeping

It has been a LONG time since I was at comp speed in a SHO. My reference of speed, visual braking cues, and muscle memory at CMP is in a C5Z06 on Hoosier A6's. So when we I jumped in the SHO at driver change and went hot into the first corner, I braked where I braked in the Z, carried the speed I carry in the Z, and promptly went 4 off :laugh_ti:

Had to reprogram my brain for a few laps, but after that, it was like old times. The usual texting/reading the latest car and driver, etc while driving 10/10ths. honestly, the most fun part about it was sticking a car where you never though possible, it's funny when you don't care about it (the car), you can put a 3,000 lb 4 door in a space the width of a credit card It was like a cup restrictor plate race, 4 wide half the time. craziness. I was shocked at the race pace/intensity of these crap can pilots. 111 cars on a 1.1 mile track makes for being very busy behind the wheel

 

[drivinhard]

here's SHOCheap getting his penalty :laugh_ti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aOkaHur-YQ

some random pics:

http://sholemons.shutterfly.com/

 

[DJSHO91]

will round out our heroic team of Gilligan's Island cast of characters, er, drivers. Prep will start on our beater '91 SHO (USS MinSHO) soon...

Love the name of the car. Just two questions. Who was Ginger and who was Mary Ann?

 

[gas it]

very much! I was hoping you could get 1st and send Joe back home to GA weeping

It has been a LONG time since I was at comp speed in a SHO. My reference of speed, visual braking cues, and muscle memory at CMP is in a C5Z06 on Hoosier A6's. So when we I jumped in the SHO at driver change and went hot into the first corner, I braked where I braked in the Z, carried the speed I carry in the Z, and promptly went 4 off :laugh_ti:

Had to reprogram my brain for a few laps, but after that, it was like old times. The usual texting/reading the latest car and driver, etc while driving 10/10ths. honestly, the most fun part about it was sticking a car where you never though possible, it's funny when you don't care about it (the car), you can put a 3,000 lb 4 door in a space the width of a credit card It was like a cup restrictor plate race, 4 wide half the time. craziness. I was shocked at the race pace/intensity of these crap can pilots. 111 cars on a 1.1 mile track makes for being very busy behind the wheel

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