20v Chump Car?!

[Peter Golledge]

John,

Some of our local Colorado Audi folk ran a 90 in the lemons and did 
quite nicely: http://jalopnik.com/24-hours-of-lemons-colorado/

Don't consider it "the end", folk go on to run these cars in other 
events or even just bring them along to a track day.  Even Hackl's Pike 
Peak car is still registered for road use: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KlCbb3mKI so you can have a caged/race 
prepped beast and still drive it to track depending on how stupid the 
local regs are where you live.

I've been running the LT1Q at various track events (ice/snow/whatever) 
and my son wants to turn it into a Lemons/Chumps beast once he is old 
enough to enter and pay for his half of the the cage: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iluxJ8vB0Og At of folk consider an LT1 
motor shoehorned into an Audi a travesty, until they try to keep up with 
it for bit at Gruppe-Q. :-)

There is also a distinct advantage with taking at "low value" ride to 
track, you can get near 10/10ths of your ability without risking a huge 
hit to the wallet.

Cheers

On 11/16/2012 12:56 PM, John Cassidy wrote:
> So this may be considered sacrilege.  I have a bone stock '91 200q that has been residing in the garage for a couple years with maddening electrical issues not at all uncommon with the type. After spending way too many hours and far too much money chasing these gremlins, I've surrendered.  The car has 250kmi, and runs, rides, and shifts nicely.
>
> I met my best friends cousin a little while back, and he's all agog about this chump car racing. Check out www.Chumpcar.com  It's an endurance series designed for newbies on a budget.  The car cannot have a market value over $500, and can have no performance modifications.  The nearest race is a 24 hour even in Spokane next summer.
>
> Over a few beers, a couple gear head buddies and have come to the conclusion that entering the 24 hour would be a fitting end to the '91.  Other than the clutch and a timing belt that's would require replacing, I think it would have a good chance of finishing.  If we had an extra set of strut assemblies, we could replace a failed wheel bearing or blown strut cartridge fairly quickly. Stripped of all the electric motors, glass, and luxury bits, it would be significantly lightened.  Last summers race was won by a Golf. My friends cousin was in the running with a 280ZX, and they routinely hit 130 mph on the straight.
>
> We're still discussing the budget and feasibility.  I have a welder with a tubing bender interested for the roll cage.  The rules aren't too far out of the realm of possibility.  I have no further interest in getting this 20v beast back on the road, and doubt anyone is nuts enough to buy it so I'm thinking why the hell not?
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> Thoughts?
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