Crap. I just got a last minute important bug. :( Lets see if I can compress 2 days work into 2 hours! (or get lucky)

Just a little clip of the car idling in the garage after the motor replacement. Hopefully this will hold you guys over till the race.

Holy oil smoke batman!

Thank you sir! that's probably all I will get to see until they (hopefully) post the race on grand-am.com sometime in the future.

Good luck!!!

Brand new motor I am going to guess it never turned a single RPM before that startup so its to be expected since the rings have not set at all. When you break the motors in you do it on the track. Unless you have a good mappable engine dyno to put them through there paces but lets face it. This isn't DP racing so the cost of doing so is just prohibitive.

No doubt.

It's a completely new engine? Wow. Catastrophic failure then, I suppose?

Well, the old engine let go at 8,000ish RPM at the connecting rod. So you can imagine the damage it did to the motor. Hopefully, the heads on that motor will be alright but from what I hear it was pretty catastrophic.

Ah we hadn't gotten any details on what failed, I don't think, or I missed it in the thread.

Yeah a conrod letting go @ any RPM is bad. 8k, much worse.

That engine will probably be a total loss, I'd imagine.

Are new oil coolers and dry sump system installed as well or is that just cleaned??

What does the '200' in 'BMW Performance 200' stand for?

Miles? KM? Minutes?

Trying to figure out how long the race is lol.

200mi is my guess. 2.5h

Usually the races are 2 hours and 45 minutes long. They are editted to 2 hours for regular TV but on Speed 2 you get watch the whole thing.

So Speed2 said 1:45 but the race started at 1:30... that's some BS.

Funny to me that both of my cars are in this race... the Z and the Mazdaspeed 3.

Speed 2 is so bad on coverage.. its almost comical like them just now talking about arranging furnature? WTH? Really... I could commentate better and I have a terrible voice.

I have 3 monitors going 1 with the race and 1 with live timing and scoring makes the lacking coverage alot better. Also got to have one on the370z.com :)

http://www.grand-am.com/LiveTimingScoring.aspx

Just moved up to 11th!

I'm doing the same, Fishey. all while trying to smash a bug. ;/

First full course yellow. If I recall correctly, the car gets good mileage and is good on tire wear so I presume the less FCY the better.

That poor civic never stood a chance.. never a good sign when someone runs up with the jaws of life...

Jaws of life and the #74 seems bad..

Also, they dropped to 17th from 10th last I saw so I am going to guess they took on some fuel.

Holy fuel spill batman!

Yea, someone forgot to tighten up a hose clamp! lol

Hope the guy in the #74 civic is alright, They got him on a papoose/stretcher. Maybe his throttle got stuck when it was under yellow? no idea big impact though.

And that is why you don't lift in a FWD Honda.

Z is in 4th! Somehow they're still managing not to show it on the broadcast tho.. !

Yea, 4th with Tim in the car... Here is a Prayer for a clean/fast pit stop to get B.J. into the driver seat and let him do his thing.

Pumpelly just got a stop/go!

Bring it home BJ!! Crossing my fingers!!

Back in 4th after all the folks ahead had to pit in!

*chants* podium

The Altima leading ST makes me giggle

Back in 11th WTF happened? I am guessing something that involved that Aston going off..

Poor MS3..

Wasn't on camera. :( Couldn't tell.


That MS3 is CRAZY. I hope they finish.

That'll buff right out!

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1359147597

Oh, the carnage!

Something has to be wrong with the Z I am guessing contact.

Yeah.

16th :( Nice to see Nissan win ST though

15th, I think they got hit in the bus stop from what I could tell from trying to context read (very limited information) I am guessing they might have had some sort of mechanical issue (maybe a bent tie-rod) as a result.