Last post of the day to get myself caught up

I stole the dash setup from the keepers pile of junk, and decided to bother my teammates by painting it ridiculous colors, and writing on it of course.

What now? I guess team introductions?

So I guess we should show who we have on the team eventually, here's the 4 drivers we have at the moment, who comes and helps out as a crew member has not been decided.

So starting with myself, Nick Stucky.

Age: 20

Location: Park City, Utah

Hobbies: Everything racing, drifting, cars, playing around with film

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Richard Stucky

Age: uh oh, I forgot

Location: Ogden, or somewhere up north

Hobbies: Autocross, horseback riding, not sure what else

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Derek Edginton

Age: 26 or something?

Location: West Valley

Hobbies: Drifting, rotaries, cars, racing, lemonaide

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Eaglewing Begay

Age: No idea honestly

Location: No idea

Hobbies: Besides racing, no idea

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The plan

So, here's the plan so far.

Derek and Eagle are in charge of the motor, while my father and I are in charge of the chassis. At the moment Derek and Eagle have torn apart the motor, found the leaky gasket, but also found some cracks on our head. At the moment they just dropped an undisclosed amount on a new head with adjustable jet valves, as well as an extra block if we need. I keep hearing talk of a new turbo as well, but I have no idea what exactly is going on with them for the most part.

Now for my side of things. We are planning on getting a pre-bent cage from the website (http://autoweldchassis.com/rbc.ivnu) and I'm also thinking the kirkey econo drag seat will work alright for us as well. A few of us are of the bigger build, so hopefully this will not be a problem. As the car sits now, last I was able to work on it we tore the thing apart, emptied out the interior, and exposed everything we didn't need.

Here's some photos we took of ripping stuff out.

We have a pile of keeper parts, somewhere we scored an s14 radiator, hopefully we can manage a ghetto fabbed V-mount setup if it all works out

These seats are way too cool, if no one buys them I want to make office chairs out of them.

The dash was terrible to remove as well

a terrible mess

myself

Derek doing all the work

So far we just tore the car apart, I'm in the middle of a terrible 12 day straight work week but after this I want to head over and get the sound deadening out. It's getting the junk out that's easy, putting stuff in is the hard part.

Welcome to the Team Kamikaze Lemons blog

Well I just payed up for our first race at thunderhill, thought I might as well put all the stuff in a blog to document the build. 

To start it off the car we found for this glorious race is a 1985 mitsubishi starion/conquest with the 2.6 liter turbocharged motor. Picked up for $200 with a blown head gasket, but even then running on 3 cylinders it was able to do some sweet donuts. We trailered the car first down to redwood to store at derek's house, then it moved back up to my father's house which happened to be down the street from where we bought the car. Our original plan for the theme was to paint is as a mitsubishi zero from world war II, going along with the brand and everything. Although recently I was getting worried about that not being very original, and it would turn into another 'police car' style theme. We were thinking after that of dressing up as classic GI joes and creating the GI joe humvee, missile launcher on the rear included. Wherever we go with the theme, this blog is supposed to document the build all the way through, enjoy.

The car has since been nicknamed Joseph Stallin