"Echo51" (echo2047)
10/22/2016 at 12:26 • Filed to: None
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"Echo51" (echo2047)
10/22/2016 at 12:26 • Filed to: None | 1
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Total time was 2hr40min, drove 2 hours of that. Last 15 minutes started developing a horrible grinding sound when hitting ruts and bumps, which eventually just sounded completely awful right around when i was due to pit anyway.
I had this figured for the exhaust dragging after the car since the mount was already... fixed hastily, but no, it was the entire rear beam that had tore it’s mounting out of the body. Ford’s and rust, amirite?
Other then that, had an awesome time. Chased the leading Peugeot 406, the safety/pace car was a Hyundai Coupé, and somebody had fielded a Peugeot 306 wagon. No more pics because with the 30-35min stints that time out of the car flies suprisingly fast just getting stuff ready for the next pit stop.
(oh yeah it’s gonna be a bitch to wash)
duurtlang
> Echo51
10/22/2016 at 13:10 |
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Meh, looks like a minor alignment issue.
This dirt track, what does it look like? A simple circle or something more complex?
As a Peugeot 406 owner I’m glad to hear it was the leading car ;)
punkgoose17
> Echo51
10/22/2016 at 13:47 |
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That sounds like it was a ton of fun.
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Echo51
> duurtlang
10/22/2016 at 14:01 |
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It brutally murdered the gearbox in the last 10 minutes from what i heard, in classy peugeot fashion!
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duurtlang
> Echo51
10/22/2016 at 14:33 |
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Looks like a nice track to me! Are you going to fix the Escort so it can race again? I don’t know how bad the rust is, it being a Ford and all.
Ah yes, Peugeot transmissions. The achilles heel in my 406 as well. Not that it breaks, it’s just geared wrong for a highway cruiser and doesn’t shift all that nice.
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Echo51
> duurtlang
10/22/2016 at 15:25 |
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Yeah we’re welding it back up, along with my own race escortwhich is just as gone in the mounting areas.
Them 406 coupes thooooo....