Maxxis National 2008

Got to the track around 11:30 Friday and decided to fix our smoking animal motor...I didn't realize how bad it smoked at idle until we crunk it up at home Thursday night before loading it up in the trailer....I just didn't want to go into this National with a motor that I thought might not be up to par so I tore it down at the track and replaced the oil ring spring...It worked and I got the motor back together in plenty of enough time to make some practice runs Friday afternoon.

Man what a crowd...The kart counts were huge....55 in Animal heavy on Saturday and 48 in Animal med on Sunday....We didn't make the show for the heavy race...Pole was 14.00 and Devin went a 14.66. We got faster every time we hit the track all weekend long and he turned it up a notch for Medium and went a 13.66 that was good enough to make the show even if we had to start on the back row....Pole was a 13.25 In the main he made it up to about 18th and hit a piece of lead that fall off another kart, he thinks it bent something when that happened and pulled off the track 2 laps later....He thought he was close to being lapped because of the trouble with the kart but the leaders still had a half a track or more before catching him.

The best in the country were there and I am proud of him for making the show....Big thanx goes out to Bradly for help all weekend....Tire warfare was rampant...If U missed the tires even a little bit U were either going to just slide thru the turns or the tires would go away after about 2 laps and that slowed U down atleast 2 or 3 tenths a lap.

Here is the qualifying results for Animal Medium....





Below are some pics we took while at the track....

Our pit spot....





View from our pits when we got there Friday....



The track when we got there Friday....



Here is day two....They really packed in over night.






Line up for Animal Heavy qualifying....I didn't get the results since we didn't make the show.




Track early Sunday morning....






After open practice Sunday they turned the track white...LOL





Here are some misc. pics at the grid....







Track at night...



Brian

Falcon body.....

Here are some pics of the new Falcon body.....I'll post some more after the graphics are finished.

Get the full version DVD just $10......

Here is a complete race....Jr Sportsman Champ. The DVD will be much better quality.


Jr Sportsman Champ from Brian Wheeler on Vimeo.


Wheeler Racing (well mostly Devin) will be shooting a DVD at the last Tri-State race.....Some stuff in the pits and miscellaneous track footage plus all of the Pro classes, UAS and Jr. Sportsman Champ. Those will be the only whole races on the DVD.

Here comes the unique part...We will accept no money upfront for the DVD's....Just give us your address and we will send U the DVD in the mail....If U think it's worth the asking price which will be $10 then just put the money in the self addressed envelope that will be sent with the DVD and drop in the mail. If U are not happy with the DVD just put it in the same envelope and send it back.

I have read one to many horror stories about race DVD's taking months and months.....These should be ready in about 2 or 3 weeks.

We will have a table set-up at the P&R Photos booth with all the info and sheets to leave us your address on if U are interested or U can send me a PM at www.4cycle.com my screen name is Wee

We should have some teaser videos posted here in about a week or so.

Brian

It's the tires.....

I have heard Bradley tell us that countless times, we have listened and tried to up our tire game.....Well to be honest we are not so good with tires and we found out just how bad last night at the final Ga Maxxis race at Peachstate.

We got our butts handed to us again come qualifying time.....Turned a 16.65 in last round practice with our new right side HT3's prepped with what I figured would work...Devin was pretty fast compaired to the other karts and I thought we were finally gonna break the Peachstate qualifying jinks....WRONG they only lasted one round and fell way off for qualifying went a 17.05 and qualified 11th out of 14.... Tires would just not stick and even when we went 16.65 the kart was still a handful to drive.....So Devin went to talk with Bradley about tires.....He offered a set he had ran in practice that had 2 or 3 races on them for us to run....We took him up on the offer and finished 8th with a FT of 16.05 Bradley ran a very close 2nd and turned a FT of 15.8 or so.....The kart really came to life with Bradley's tires, it settled down and was much faster. It was really like night and day and tires were the only change we made.

Bradley really knows his tires and he now has another tire customer.

Thank you Bradley for letting us borrow the tires...

Brian

Bigfoot pics.....?

This story hit Fox News Wednesday....A couple of "Good ole boys" in North Ga says they found the body of bigfoot and put it in a freezer....DNA evidence and pictures are supposed to be released to the public this Friday.....Some pics hit the net for a short time but most have been pulled....Well I found some and will post here for Ya'll to see.....They kinda look fake to me but who knows.




Brian

Big changes coming in karting next season....

Tri-State is morphing into a full blown National Series with more big players involved besides Troy Duncan....Look for lower entry fees and less cash payout, but more prizes futher back into the field....I was told more in-depth details but I'm not gonna spill all the beans or be the first to post any of this at 4cycle.

Look for more local tracks to go to a Maxxis tire rule and be involved in the Big Gun series....I wish Dawgwood would get the other races instead of Peachstate and I'm sure Carnesville will still have there far share.

If U have a limited motor better sale it now....Won't be any series running them on dirt next year....I hear both Big Gun and what used to be Tri-State are dropping the Limited class next year....Bad part is that's what we were planning on running next season.

That's about I can tell right now and I prolly shouldn't even tell this....But hell nobody reads this site anyway....LOL

Brian

Tri-State race 8-2-08

Here are some pics from the Tri-State race at Carnesville....I hope to post some qualifying and race results as well.




Brian

Peachstate is just not our track....

Another bad run at Peachstate, although he was very fast during the last round of practice and the kart handled better than it ever has before at that track....It went down hill from there. First I twisted my ankle pretty bad but kept on walking on it until we packed up the trailer.....It was worse than I thought, Doc says I broke a bone in my foot.

I guess I made the wrong calls for qualifying, we slowed down from a FT of 15.92 during last round practice to 16.24 for qualifying....That put us 12th out of 15. I was hoping to pick up a couple tenths not slow down....Pole was a 15.55

We have never qualified good at Peachstate.....



The main was the worst part of the night.....Devin made a good move and jumped to the inside and picked up 3 or 4 spots at the start of the race....A couple karts got back by going down the back straight and he got hung up on the outside which let the karts running in the rear catch up....Next time by in 3 and 4 a kart got under him and proceeded to drive him up the track out of the groove....Devin spun and as he was going around clipped the other kart and it spun to....I guess somehow the other driver felt all that was Devin's fault and proceeded to ram there kart into Devin's as they got back on the track...Devin was setting still facing the wrong direction when this happened.....Well at some point during all that the valve stem on the LF got pulled out of the rim and it went flat....The kart was junk after that and Devin got out of the way and let the leaders fly by....Next time in turn 3 & 4 he got kart-hopped and it bent the exhaust pipe over into the RR and the smoke flew....He just pulled off the track past the flagstand and our night was over.....Devin handled the situation like a man, I can't say the same for the other driver involved in the first wreck....They had a few choice words for Devin after the race was over when Devin walked by there pits....That's alright we will be ready for the last Ga Maxxis race at Peachstate and we will have our heads held high.



Brian

Revolution clutch for sale....

$100

How to fix a fiberglass kart body.....

Start with a broken body....That's the easy part. I had to hunt this piece down after the races were over....The corner worker had thrown it off the side of the track.


Supplies....Resin and hardener, blue painters tape, rubber gloves, paint brush, scissors, fiberglass mat, mixing bowl and stick to stir the resin with.


Match the piece back up the best U can and use blue painters tape to hold it in place...Tape it on the front side only.


Cut a piece of fiberglass mat to fit the area and dry fit it before mixing the resin.


Read the directions for the proper mixing of the resin and hardener....


Use a cheap paint brush to apply the resin the the back side and then place the fiberglass mat on the area and brush more resin on top of the mat until it is totally saturated.


I like to roll the tape over the edge to help rebuild the missing edge....It works pretty well....Let dry and then remove the tape.


Now it just needs a little touch up paint.


Brian

Ga Maxxis series points....

Click here for points....

It worked.....

Had some good runs at Dawgwood last night....Ran 3rd in the Animal lite heat and 2nd in Animal med. We finished 2nd in Animal lite and it rained the Med feature out so we got 2nd place money in both classes....Best part is we made some good decisions with set-up, gearing and TIRES.....It's just like Bradley says...."It's all about the tires..." Devin drove the wheels off of it all night long. We got pretty fast too...He was in the 12.50's for the lite feature. I didn't Kevin any faster then in the 12.40's but he may have gotten into the 12.30's once or twice. This was the best night race we have had at Dawgwood in years....The track was good and smooth and didn't get dusty, it still didn't have a whole lot of bite but was much better than it was last year.

Brian

Hope we have a better run this weekend......?

Headed back to our home track for only the second time this year....Yea I know...How can it be your home track if U have only ran there twice this year....? It just is.

We ran like crap at the last Ga Maxxis race.....13th our of 33 in Animal Pro and 15th out of 20 in Animal med....We only ran Pro to try to figure out what to run in Med.....Needless to say it didn't work. This may be the first time I have no clue what was wrong...We had new tires and the new Bully clutch pulled like a mule....Set-up should have been close gearing was right....I really don't know....?

That's why we are headed back to Dawgwood to get our mojo back....Even if we run in the back it always seems to help to go back home and run a few laps.

Brian

Clamp type....?

Anyonw know what this kind of clamp is called and where to get them in different sizes.....?



Brian

Hope we do better than Tony.....

Looks like he needs to do some work around the house with his luck today at Dover...We have done our share in the last month....Me and Devin have been working on an outside patio and it's finished. We laid about 200 sqft of scrape granite I brought home form work and it's even got a fire pit....Here are some pics.






Brian