11May2012
WEVO Visits Rennsport Kansas City
Had a very nice visit from Hayden Burville (Windrush Evolutions, AKA Wevo) on Thursday. He had picked up a nice 1965 356C project car in New York and was driving back to San Fransisco! He was running on old tubed tires and so he had a set of tires drop shipped to the shop. Wes got all the old tubes out and the old tires off, and got the new stuff mounted. Hayden was also having a fueling issue with …
08May2012
Car 54 Chump Continues
Got the new seat and mounting bracket in this week for the BMW. Removal of the old seat and install of the new seat was pretty uneventful. Except for lifting the old seat out….HEAVY! Mounting the slider to the Corbeau seat. And installed in the car. Now we can start marking mounting points for the cage and get that built.
01May2012
Shop Work RennsportKC
Title: “Talking about a bunch of shop work…A big ol’ pile of shop work…Seven to three…..Three to eleven….Eleven to seven” Google searchable? Totally not. Thursday: Drive to MN to get chump car Friday: Drive back. Pick up lumber, finish up a few things at the shop. Drink beers Saturday: Work on Jim (a super beetle) with good friends. Jim runs like a champ, then doesn’t….bad fuel pump. Meh, it’s a VW. Drink more beers. Sunday: Arghhh Sunday. Shop work. Reinforcing …
Ok, who the heck is going to Google search Car 54 anyway. To heck with that. We got out the paint brush the other day and gave Car 54 a makeover. At the race down at Eagles Canyon, the front fender got smashed in by some totally irresponsible driver. I’m not saying they were from “our team” or from “another team”, but the fender is bent. I think it was the last straight panel on the car. The paint products …
19Apr2012
Porshce 356 post purchase inspection
So a customer brings us this perfect little 356 driver. Very clean, all there, just the right amount of patina. Seems a tune-up is in order and a re-jet for 2012’s version of RFG is needed. first thing is to get these babies clean, if you are in Kansas City and are looking for a shop that knows Weber carburetors, stop and see us. Yuck. Where is all that coming from? Of course when we pulled the sock and scoped the …
25Mar2012
LSx project slowly continues
Been trying to get on top of the body work in preparation for paint. Not a lot of fun work 😉 Reassembled and aligned the hood so I could install the hood pins. All old factory latch components have been removed. Using the headlight mounting points, I welded some pipe to a piece of flat iron with two holes for the mounts, then welded a nut to the top that the adjustable pin threads into. Since the retaining nuts on …
25Mar2012
Mazda Tribute..CEL
So one of our great Porsche customers bought his son this little Mazda a while back. Lately is has a stumble off idle and a CEL. Code shows a failure of bank 2 primary coil. Only trouble is that this is a v6 COP car, so there are 3 coils on that bank. After some searching we find a break inside the insulation of one of the wires just beyond the ECU connector. After cutting back the insulation to reveal …
13Mar2012
KC Auto Show 2012
Sunday we made our annual trek over to the KC autoshow to check out the new releases 😉 We got there early Sunday morning to beat the crowds. Jim immediately found himself a new Fiesta. mmmmmmmm cool. The Porsche booth. Nothing we haven’t seen before 😉 Mini cooper gets another model. Pretty cool! Audi S5 of course draws my attention. And an R8. Love the interior! An old Volvo 1800. Pretty neat little car. And Fiat was of course there …
13Mar2012
Blog Updates.
Ok, we have been so dang busy lately that I have been neglecting the blog. What use to be daily updates has turned into weekly ones. A good and bad problem to have I suppose. We have been making slow changes to the website (thanks Russ and Josen!), and hope to have a mobile theme up soon so the 1%ers can view the blog and website with their ipads 🙂 We also got our new logo designed and we are …
13Mar2012
8 Weber carb balance and tune!
Being european car guys we usually get to work with a couple Weber IDFs or DCOEs. A shop we work with quite a bit did an old-school Weber install in a very well done Cobra replica. This gave me a chance to set up a 4 Weber IDA intake. This is essentially 8 single downdrafts with each set of two sharing a bowl. Those eight stacks look so cool under the hood. This actually came out of the box close. Being IDAs there isn’t …