As you may know this past weekend was another 2 day track event with lapping on Friday, and Event 5 in the CSCC Solo1 Series on Saturday. Thursday night I start the relative easy and painless task of swapping in my track pads when I notice one of my tires was worn bad and some cords were shown... yea I was self teching my car... but I didn't feel safe so I needed to find someone after 7:30 who could swap a tire from another one in my collection. Upon removing another tire I notice a huge nail or something in it... now I need two swapped. Lucky I found a place close to home that could so it. But before leaving I notice that the front right wheel bearing is loose... and not just loose but seriously fubar'd. So a quick call to the dealership and I had one in my hands some 30 mins later. Back to the tire shop and I was ready... to take the car in to have the bearing replaced. So needless to say I lefft the car at our shop all day Friday and ended up replacing the bearing and hub as it was too worn to reuse. Finally late Friday I had my car back and was ready to go...
Saturday morning I made the first session of warmup laps only to push to hard into corner 2... again and a minor off (or so I thought) may have done something in my transmission or stressed something cause a quick stop in the pits and there was transmission fluid dripping out of the front of the trans case. My day was done, and I didn't even get to do one timed lap... arrrg.
So Casper will spend the next few days getting a front seal in the transmission replaced which *hopefully* will be the last of my woes for a little while. Next event is next Tuesday night... lapping.
It seems track time is cheap in comparison to the 2 sets of pads and rotors, rad, thermostat, hoses tires and a couple hours shop time... lol. but hey... I'm having one hell of a time!
PS. Looking for track prepped neon. PM with details. hahaha....
