Yaple Motorsports '06 Campaign
 

as some of you may remember from that last time i talked about randy's racing he had the same smacked ass wipe out his second car of the season. after a verbal confrontation with the offending dick wad, celebrating his rookie championship at the awards banquet, and saving up some money for '06 we are finally ready to get to work on next years program.
we brought home randy's new race car from the powder coater today. chassis is bright red. looks really cool.
the new car is an '05 Lawrence Engineering. the chassis was actually built last year but wasn't sold until some sponsors picked it up for randy.
we are going to get started hanging parts on the car this weekend. basically every free minute between saturday and late march when new egypt speedway opens will be spent prepping and double checking the car to make sure everything is ready to go.
i will get some pics of the car up this weekend.

Pic's?

BTW, are you pit crew? I don't know.... maybe team?

Tim and I are the regular pit crew. His dad is usually around too, and sometimes a few others are around to help as well.

- Justin

pics will go up saturday or sunday, as soon as i get a few.
justin and i are the mark(randy's dad), justin, and i are the crew/team/back-up if/when a fight breaks out.
if the #88 comes anywhere near the new car he is gonna be eating through a tube for the next 6months. he wrecked randy's last two cars.

Heh - I don't know if Mike has the balls to race anywhere near Randy after the conversation they had at the end of last season. I believe Randy's final words went something along the lines of "If you try to bring that POS car of yours anywhere near to wrecking me next year, I'll have no problem putting you out on 539 (name of street that the track is on....)."

- Justin

Circle track racers?

yup, new egypt sportsman. dirt oval, every saturday night from april through september.
it is only a few miles from great adventure. www.NewEgyptSpeedway.net
randy was teh 2005 rookie sportsman champ

NICE! Ive been to wall speedway once it was cool then went to pocono raceway!...I want to race so bad!

Dayum, I'm starting to miss the late, lamented, Flemington Raceway all over again...

you shoudl stop down and watch one weekend bob. always good racing and every few weeks there is a good fight. gates are around 3 usually and racing start around 5:30 most nights.
i will be over at randy's tonight and get some pics of the car for everyone to see. right now it jsut looks like a big, brite red jungle gym with a motor plate. hehe. we will have it rolling by the end of the night though.

You better get goin on your car or it's goin to be way to easy for me to bust your ASS!! :) [sarcasm]

ahhh, the southerner is trying to be tough. ain't it cute when kids do that :roll:

lol

KID!!! lol

Here is my KID at her birthday party today...

ahhh, so cute, must take after her mother. :D

Where are the pics Timmy?

- Justin

i will get teh pics up later tonight.
talked to randy about his engine, or at least what is left of it :roll:
going into the off season we knew the block had a small stitch weld in the lifter galley from an old crack. NBD since it presssure tested fine. since then it was found that the exhaust valve guides were completely gone, the crank had 3 cracks in it, the cam was completely f'ed up, and today's news THREE CRACKED PISTONS!!!!!! :shock:
the pistons were actually cracked in the face, not around the wrist pin like it usually happens.
the scary thing is how many guys he passed with this time bomb under the hood.
new manley pistons were ordered today, motor should be back together with all new junk inside in about two weeks.

The Really Red Jungle Gym
 

a few shots of the car as promised

http://www.njfboa.org/TimImages/05LEBack.REsized.jpg

http://www.njfboa.org/TimImages/05LESide.Resized.jpg

we got a few more things done after i remembered to take the pictures. brake lines are partially run, front axle is together, discovered that the new hubs need a different brake caliper bracket than the old ones, put the spare front axle together, layed in the top portion of the throttle linkage, made a list of need parts(this is a daily thing), andtalked about the slug that was welded wlightly off on the chassis so the car has to go back to the shop to have a little grinding done.
we also figured out that the powder coating job that looked really good in the dark when we picked the car up is really ******. coating is flaking off all over it and there are bunches of little bubbles and spots you can tell there was dirt sitting on the surface when it was coated. it was paid for by a sponsor, so not the worst thing in the world, just some bad surface prep.

overall a lot got done in the last 2 nights. having the car 5minutes from my house, and in the garage attached to randy's house, is a huge improvement over teh 25-35 minute drive to the shop he used last year.

looks like craigs car before he goes to englishtown

NICE!

i can't wait til teh season starts.
as good as he did last year with all junk parts i know he is gonna have a great season with such an updated car.
the stuff he has is by no means state of the art, but having stuff that is only 5 years outdated as compared to the 10-15 year outdated stuff he ran with last year is a huge improvement. lol and that is the good stuff.
he has a trans that is most likely older than him, he has a steering box that could be as old as me, a motor that is prolly 50hp down on the guys who win all the time, and only 1/2 a season under his belt. shoudl be an interesting summer :D

Sounds like you guys are off to a good start :)

Hopefully I'll be able to contribute more before the season starts this year, now that he'll be working out of his own garage.

- Justin

i don't know how i missed this, but please make sure i don't miss the next time, ok? i want to be involved with this season. outside of an auto body class at the vo-tec this winter i have zero commitments.

people can take auto body class at vo tec's?????

it's called continuing education. check your vo-tec to see if you can sneak in.