Pikes peak replica S1

Tue Nov 3 01:36:05 PST 2009

Well, here is a short update before I do a write up for my page.

I went to Portland International Raceway to race a POS Audi S1 Pikes Peak replica in a 24 hour race.

http://www.motorgeek.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30194

The Audi got a lot of compliments and was well received by all.

I was given the honor of starting in it, started off very slow, driving like crap because I was watchin gauges more than the track (this was the first time around PIR) and made it ~5 laps before oil pressure problems and bad lower end noises started.

2.5 hours later and we were back on the track with a spare motor we brought.

During the engine swap I found a CIS failure that was completely new to me, the shaft the airflow sensor plate pivots on had lost the circlip, plug and ball that locates the shaft horizontally.

After a few adjustments to the old early CIS (non-e) including the "do not touch" individual  cyl mixture screws, the car was running great and put in several hours of great racing in.

Then the brakes gave out, with earplugs (radio communication) in and a driver unfamiliar with the car, the piston pushed through the brake pad backing plate!!!!!!!!!

Here is a pic because I'm sure many would doubt me.
http://forum.chumpcar.com/index.php?/topic/267-picture-request-glowing-brakes/

When the piston went out that far, the fluid decided it would rather spill out than do it's part in slowing us down and the driver decided not to use other cars for the task, but ran out of options when a tire wall came at him fast with a concrete barrior for back up.

Well only body damage resulted, and we got to discover that the rabbit vented rotors we had as backup for the other car would bolt up. 

Next driver out and it is 3:00 in the morning and the fog rolls in thick.

That time the armco had quite a bit more punch and pushed the frame into the tire.

Never say die.

A few hard pulls by truck and the frame was out of the tire and with a bit more work we were back on the track again (when they went green after a 3hr fog red flag)

Then while our fastest driver was in the car and he was passing (which we did a lot of when we did run) the car he was passing spun directly into the side of the Audi and tore the door off and opened the door opening by about a foot.  After recovery and several turns later our driver was passing the car again and "communicating" with the other driver through the wide open side of our car, then the other driver blatently and infront of corner workers tried to ram us off the track.  Fortunatly experiance kicked in and we were able to drive on while the other driver got black flagged and we heard the driver (not the car)   :(     kicked off the track.

27.5 hours after I started the race, I was able to be in the car to finish the race and even got one last pass in on the offending vehicle.

In the end the motor was running well but blowing oil out everywhere but the breather tube and the body is severly injured.

A link to a good write up and more pic's will come soon.

David Glubrecht 

> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:02:15 -0400
> Subject: Re: Pikes peak replica S1
> From: brett.dikeman at gmail.com
> To: daveglu at hotmail.com
> CC: quattro at audifans.com
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, David Glubrecht <daveglu at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Youtube of accident prior to our teams purchase.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPc0bAOce64
> 
> Oversteer? Impressive :)
> 
> > The car was raced in 24 hours of lemons.
> > With the replica bodywork and paint it will be racing under a new series similiar to 24 hours of lemons which is called ChumpCar.
> >
> > We will be racing in Portland OR on Halloween.
> >
> > Several pictures of the car are here.
> > http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4200260&page=4
> 
> The only thing missing is "HAUDI" ambulance-style on the first couple
> of inches of the hood, similar to how this car has a real license
> plate # on it:
> 
> http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/1985_Audi_Ur_Quattro_Coupe_Rally_Tribute_Front_1.jpg
> 
> I know I've seen photos of at least one (possibly factory-team) car with it.
> 
> I definitely recommend making those rims white...and if you figure out
> some way to kludge vented rims, that'd be incredibly awesome (and
> probably help keep the brakes from imploding during Lemons, side
> bonus!)
> 
> Can we get you some Audifans stickers, or something? This just begs
> for a Team Doorhandle sponsorship. Being a community site, there's no
> sort of money (well, actually- if you put some Audifans stuff on the
> car, we could ask listers to make some paypal donations to the team, I
> know there are a ton of LeMons fans here...), but we have it on good
> authority that the Euro "Q" stickers add at least 5HP each, and if you
> feed me updates, I'll post them to the site blog and facebook fan page
> :)
> 
> Brett

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