Bad Engine Mounts

We found the issue with the left turn hesitation. The engine mounts were bad! This caused the engine to move over to the right in left turns and upset something. So, we replaced them in eager anticipation of success:FAIL. That wasn't it. We were shocked. With only a few weeks to go before the American Speed Festival we were getting desperate. We added two ground straps:FAIL. We dug out the...

Making Our Race Car Road Legal

How do you make a race car road legal? Well, after perusing Michigan's requirements we realized we only needed to fix the turn signals and add a horn. How hard could it be? We had hazard lights so we knew the turn signal bulbs were intact. We a replacement for very reasonable money.We soon found the horn wire and made sure the horn relay and turn signal relay were in...

Continuation of Fuel Starvation Troubleshooting

Last time we talked we'd discovered that we hadn't actually fixed our apparent fuel starvation issue. Despite the fuel pickup being on the right side of the car and ours having trouble after left hand bends, we decided to replace the fuel pump, fuel filter and pickup screen.We didn't find any issues with any of these parts but did find this in the bottom of the tank. Ah hah! we...

Livery & Track Days

We recently embarked on a project to wrap the car in our iconic(?) Rothmans-esque livery as it just wasn't working for us in gold with some big numbers. We think it turned out ok.We love how it turned out and think it may look even better than our 911 rally car in this livery. What do you think? HPDE and AUTOCROSSEven before the vinyl wrapped an dried we dragged the...

Shake Down

Because this car is not streetable (more on that later) we were itching to drive it aggressively so we grabbed the first opportunity we could find, a local Autocross.Our first problem was getting it in the trailer. Everything else we have loaded up into it has been a rally car or stock Audi so this was going to be interesting at best. We knew we'd have to remove the front...

Our New 944 Cup Project Car

We’ve always liked Porsche 944s and recently we’ve seen more interest in them from our customers (944 Safaris etc.) so when this one was offered to us by a friend it was hard to say “no”. It’s a 1989 Turbo (951) with about 64,000 miles on it and, surprisingly for a mid-west car, rust free. That seems very nice for one of these however, it is a full on race...