[s-cars] One Lap Saga long.

[GreenBugeye at aol.com]

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In a message dated 5/12/03 10:10:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
s-car-list-request at audifans.com writes:

> On our drive to Summit Racing we hook up with a group of cars that are
> being escorted by a retired state trooper that is calling ahead and
> telling the cops to let us through.  Man where the truckers pissed, the
> cops where turning there radar guns off as we got close and let us blast
> by them.  Averaging somewhere in the triple digits for over 300miles my
> turbo which was always a little noisier that I and others thought it
> should be now sounds like I have a turbine powered S4.  On the way to
> IRP 600 miles away the turbo stopped turning.  I suspected a blown
> bypass valve and put a new one on in the morning drove to IRP still with
> no boost and pulled the intake boot off to find my ceramic bearings had
> made pudding out of there races.

Trevor:

Was nice meeting you at Summit Racing.  I certainly have never heard an
engine that sounded like yours, and many of the folks gathered to watch the
show commented that it sounded like a jet engine.  When you left, I turned to
the woman I was standing with and said, in my best expert mechanic-sounding
voice, "That's not good."

After watching the show, my buddy and I decided that we should do the One Lap
when we turn 40, which gives us five years for me to find the right car and
for him to convince his wife that it's a good idea...

Chris Eck
Akron, OH