When I removed the castor block from the control
arm,
I saw they were cracking aroundthe center - a common
problem
in track driven 944's. Again, instead of replacing
with stock I opted
to improve the car with a set of Racer's Edge castor
blocks. Those
looked great, no rubber, and installation was simple.
Finally, I had
a bad passenger tie rod. That was replaced with
a stock Porsche part.
The only other thing I did was try some tire treatment
stuff. I have
an old set of Hoosiers that are rock hard. I can't
race on them,
but I would like to use them for DE. The bottle
of tire stuff says
to apply 3 coats a day for 3 days. Should be easy
enough, use the
lift to raise the car, then a roller will do the
trick. The first three coats
go on perfectly. Friday night, at 8:30 I'm doing
the last coat for
the day. My technique was to pour some tire treatment
into a
roller pan, get the roller wet, hold it a against
the tire, then spin the
tire by hand. I grab the spokes of the BBS wheel
and turn, The
fronts spin easy, so I reach in and give it a turn.
Suddenly, the
wheel stops. An instant later I realize that the
wheel stopped because
my left thumb went a little too far into the wheel,
and managed
to get wedged between the spoke and brake caliper.
OUCH!!!!
I pulled off my glove and I half expected my finger
tip to be inside.
Instead I saw that my finger nail was turning black.
I ran into the
house to put my thumb on ice. To make a long (and
painful)
story short, I did a good job of crushing my fingertip.
Nothing is
broken, but it hurt like hell and my finger nail
will be black for a
long time.
Adding insult to injury, I still had two more days
of tire treatment to
do! I was much more careful doing those.
So it's Sunday, May 20th. My plan is to pack the
motorhome,
connect the trailer, and load the car on it, I'll
drive the rig to work
Monday morning, work through lunch and be on the
road at 4:00PM.
Figure a 6 hour trip, and I'm at the track by 10:00PM.
Let's just say
that either I underestimated the amount of time
all that took, I worked
too slowly, or I missed something, but at 11:30
PM I finally had the
Motorhome parked in the street with the trailer
connect. The rain
tires were on the trailer, the RV was clean, loaded
with food and
water, but the car was still in the garage. Let's
try plan B, get to
work early, work hard, leave the office at 3:00PM,
go home, load
the car on the trailer, pack anything I missed,
and be on the road
by 4:00 PM.
Well, it almost turned out that way. I worked in
the morning, but
I had a hard time concentrating. I left the office
at 1:00PM, did
everything I was supposed to, and I hit the road
at 2:30PM.