Getting Ready For War

Time to wear the war paint again! En garde!

It has started, and there's no turning back at this point. The war paint- I mean... The vinyls are on for the National Tour, and for Nationals in September. This allows me to be eligible for contingency prizes and to show respect (will be getting more vinyls for Nationals as well). All that is left is my Tire Rack windshield banner and a few small SCCA vinyls I receive at the event.

Preparing For New Jersey

This week has been pretty flat-out in terms of getting prepared for my first ever ProSolo race. I got the flywheel and clutch installed, managed to find time to break them in, and then started playing with some vinyl layouts with Jeff. I'll be taking a picture tomorrow when I'm in New Jersey with the car fully setup and ready to roll, but the pictures you see will give you a good idea of what's to come. Big thanks to Alex at Driven Perfection for the amazing vinyl work and a huge thanks again for all the help everyone. I can only hope for the best.

If you're interested in following the live results update and radio feed, check out http://sololive.scca.com/ . Be sure to keep an eye out in B Street Prepared for # 42 Marc Monnar and # 142 Brian Kuehl. (For those wondering, due to an injury, Brian is unable to drive his CRX and would be better suited driving a car with power-steering, so Ben and Brian swapped places.)

Showing Some Liberty

Liberty Mazda's Service department has really helped me out so many times that it's pretty much second nature to call them instantly if I need any sort of service done. The amazing service, quality, making sure I'm taken care of as well as any friend of mine that I've sent over for service as well. For that, I had asked if there was a way I could return the favor (not just by paying the bill!).

So here is a magnet from them with their logo and information on it. Looks great! I may modify it a bit to fit nicely somewhere on the car, but we'll see. I'll try it out this weekend. Thanks Liberty!

Showing Off The Sponsor

Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates but it’s been pretty quiet and I just got back from a well needed vacation. I was able to get together with James and Oleg to put in a few replacement parts that I mentioned before were giving me problems. The airbox got replaced (thanks for the part Alz0rz!) with one that has screens for proper MAF readings now, and the exhaust midpipe got replaced by a new one from BHR in hopes that the header flange to midpipe will seal better, as well as the rattle to go away.

To top it off, we were able to slap on a nice banner from one of my sponsors, Sleepermodz.com. We’ll see how this midpipe turns out, but the idle is great now, and the banner blends in just right!