240 Ice Race vid

[4cefed]

This is me a couple weekends ago. The quality is kinda crappy, but good for those of us on dialup.

http://www.clownshoeracing.com/Vids/toddsmokin.WMV

[Silent Drifter]

bada$$

[slow s13]

thats cool, Do you think you learned much about how the car handles I think you would learn alot from something like that.

[Ligouri Rd]

You swung too wide on that first corner, ya need to predrift that cone...just bustin yer chops. Nice! I have some vids of snow drifting but we just in a parking lot-no cones. Too bad it was at night-the vids were too dark.

[TachyonS14]

Pretty cool. LOL, I love my cable connection. I clicked the link to download and it was done in like half a second.

[NX95240]

cool a** hell

[StrangeLove]

Thats cool, too bad it never snows here...

[Kiwi_S13]

What kind of tires were you running?

[whiterps13]

i love the snow but thats hard on your engine, all the water and crap in there. my freind also fu(ked up is crx by hitting a pole. idiot...

[4cefed]

I have learned a LOT from racing this thing on the ice. I've learned I need an LSD, I learned I need an SR20... kidding, but those would be nice too. Since this is my first RWD car, I've been dying for any chance to test it's limits, ice racing is a great training aid.

My tires are hand built. The fronts are a 195/65/14 summer/all-season with about 350 1" #8 sheet metal screws put in them with the points on the outside. These work good, but after a couple hours, the screws push in and I lose air. And I really should have made them out of snow tires for better grip when there is actual snow on the ice. On the rear I have some Nokia Hakka 10s in 185/70/14. The rears are built out of 1-1/4" bolts intalled from the inside out. On the inside I have 1" fender washers under the head, and on the outside, just some regular washers with nylocks and some threadlocker. I have about 300 bolts and 5 hours in each tire. I use a can of fix-a-flat in each tire and I don't have a lot of trouble holding air. The bolt tires lose a bit, bit I just fill them once a day and they are fine. I found a pic on the web to give you and idea. The bolt tires are halfway down on the left side.

http://www.vermontracing.com/p...s.htm

[Kiwi_S13]

That makes way more sense now. Good deal though, cool 'project'.. respect

[4cefed]

Traction is what's keeping me ahead of all those Audi quattros on the ice.