$2009 Challenge

[Mental]

Those who endure my endless rants on Bike Nights have heard me discuss the Grassroots Motor Sports $200X Challenge (along with the Lemons race, the BABE rally and a host of other cheap ass races). This one is build a car for $2008 or less then drag it, autocross it and have it judged in Florida every Oct.

Well I just got back. It was awesome.
Pics here; http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/v/Mental/2008

Well they wil be doing again in $2009 in Florida, but they also found these guys in California;
http://www.sdgrandchallenge.com/

They do an entire series involving $1000 cars. But its three weekends. What they have done is team up with the GRM crew and offered this;
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/2009-west-coast-event/3787/page1/#post53135

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/grand-challenge/ (http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/grand-challenge/)

I have a car, last Monday Drift selflessly offered his time and truck and helped me drag home an 85 CRX for $250. It runs now and I am driving it to work. I'm gonna tweak it a little and get to San Diego next June. I won't win, and I won't care.

I know there are some other twisted folks here, and if you guys built it we could roll down as a Colorado team. If you add towing down with summer gas prices, it gets pretty pricey pretty quick, but I am sure we could build some cool stuff and with a decent convoy not worry about reliability so just drive our rides down. Its just under 18 hours, we could easily do it in a day, or stop over in Vegas.

Who's in?
Scott? I know you could have wicked VW out there for that kinda money. http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/d/27125-2/_2K8+028.JPG

Bash? There was a Honda Magna powered Corolla this year in Florida
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/d/27007-2/_2K8+041.jpg.

Dallas? I have seen what you can do with a welder, what if you put a motor in it?
Anyone else? Matty? Trevor? You guys are mechanics, waay better than I will ever be and I have a car. Surely you have something.
Ron, in your travels certianly you've come across a few bargins (if you could stand being in a car that long)
Bob, same deal.
Mike? You know you wanna. Get in touch with those southern roots, find a cheap El Camino, toss the Guzzi in the back and run her till she pops, then just ride home.

Some good starting pionts
$500 CRX http://cosprings.craigslist.org/cto/872492499.html

Fix this, gut it and it would be quick as well as a good track day tow vehicle for your bike;
http://cosprings.craigslist.org/cto/872304170.html

Fix the suspension
http://cosprings.craigslist.org/cto/871857498.html

Cop car?
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/872598720.html

2.2 Turbo Dodges can make 220 hp easy
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/872734232.html

SR20DET swap? http://cosprings.craigslist.org/cto/871893036.html

So you can see how easy this gets. With the massive mechanical talent here on the board, this is quite doable.

Who's in?

[BigE]

I've always wanted to do that challenge. We need to have a bike version.

[dallas]

I have been contemplating building a go cart/beer cooler. I guess for this event I could make it a walk-in beer cooler on wheels............

[Mental]

I have been contemplating building a go cart/beer cooler. I guess for this event I could make it a walk-in beer cooler on wheels............
http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/d/27149-2/_2K8+037.JPG

http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/d/27146-2/_2K8+036.JPG

http://www.evilengineering.com/gallery/d/27028-2/_2K8+009.jpg

[Brat]

nice, thats cool. you sure you want a bike engine in it? keep that progress up. thats a helluava fun idea there!
most crx auto x have a hopped up civic si engine in it, with wide arse coopers and hopped up suspension. strut tower bars and sway bars for the hard corners. nice project though. good luck.

[Mental]

Oh no, those were just the "pit bikes" the other teams brought. My CRX is a stockish 1.5 with 198,000 on the odo.

[Tipys]

Damn I have 2/3 project floating around right now. But if you need some help just let me know.

[OldKneeDragger]

Sounds like a lot of fun....

BUT 4 WHEELS????? I'm still working on this one....

http://images.sportbikes.org/t1.jpg

and,,, I'm holding my breath for this http://tinyurl.com/47q6qx

http://www.ducati-lies.com (http://www.ducati-lies.com/)

[y_merkle]

Nice. Maybe I could borrow my dad's ghetto fab 1954 Ford Ranchero I bought him for $900 from some kid in AZ this summer. I think it just needs a master cylinder to get running. To keep the thing from rusting the kid painted it with regular house paint...mint green no less!

[The_Jackel]

I dont understand how they can be sure that you only spent $2,008 dollars?

My receipts would be
98 C5 Wrecked Vette $1000
Built 427 w/ D1 Procharger $500
etc. etc..

Obviously you couldnt be real obvious, but still dont understand how they would know. Enlighten me.

[Brat]

^ LOL. indeed man. :)

[Mental]

I dont understand how they can be sure that you only spent $2,008 dollars?

My receipts would be
98 C5 Wrecked Vette $1000
Built 427 w/ D1 Procharger $500
etc. etc..

Obviously you couldnt be real obvious, but still dont understand how they would know. Enlighten me.
You could do that. But it would fail on three parts.

1st, everyone would know you're full of crap. The guys that show up do bring serious hardware, but not hand written receits. The bring books of the build and show the detail of what they created out of crap. These are the kinda peaple who put 100 hours into a series of parts to save $100. Peaple who display that level of detail aren't idiots, they know what looks like handcrafted work and what looks like a checkbook car, and you won't get one over on them.

2nd, assuming you did get it past the judges, awesome. You have just cheated to win a set of tires. Thats the grand prize. So you dropped several thou and won $500 of a set of Khumos. The builders go for bragging rights, not the prize.

3rd, and this is what no one believes until you go there, but you have would spent 5 grand on a cheater and still lose. This year Andy Nelson built a Beetle with a 500 plus HP 350 SBC, it ran 10.5 in the 1/4. Its not a racers competition, or an ebay competition, its a builder's competition that rewards originality and attention to detial. Last year a group of 12 engineers did buy a wrecked Corvette (C4) and built twin tubos from the junkyard. They used a snowmobile engine to creat a sucker car and the build diary was the size of a jet engine repair manual. They detialed everything. You could try to cheat agaist a deadicated crew like that, but it wouldn't work out very well.

If you ever get a chance to go there, you simply talk to these folks and their openess and pride is proof enough they are the real deal.

[Bashed]

You could do that. But it would fail on three parts.

1st, everyone would know you're full of crap. The guys that show up do bring serious hardware, but not hand written receits. The bring books of the build and show the detail of what they created out of crap. These are the kinda peaple who put 100 hours into a series of parts to save $100. Peaple who display that level of detail aren't idiots, they know what looks like handcrafted work and what looks like a checkbook car, and you won't get one over on them.

2nd, assuming you did get it past the judges, awesome. You have just cheated to win a set of tires. Thats the grand prize. So you dropped several thou and won $500 of a set of Khumos. The builders go for bragging rights, not the prize.

3rd, and this is what no one believes until you go there, but you have would spent 5 grand on a cheater and still lose. This year Andy Nelson built a Beetle with a 500 plus HP 350 SBC, it ran 10.5 in the 1/4. Its not a racers competition, or an ebay competition, its a builder's competition that rewards originality and attention to detial. Last year a group of 12 engineers did buy a wrecked Corvette (C4) and built twin tubos from the junkyard. They used a snowmobile engine to creat a sucker car and the build diary was the size of a jet engine repair manual. They detialed everything. You could try to cheat agaist a deadicated crew like that, but it wouldn't work out very well.

If you ever get a chance to go there, you simply talk to these folks and their openess and pride is proof enough they are the real deal.


Mental,
Your wasting your breath.
If you have to explain/answer that question
you are wasting your time and energy.
Integrity, responsibilty, and honesty are a thing of the past
with the youth today. They will never "get" it.
Common sense isn't very common anymore.
This just fell into that catagory.

[Captain Obvious]

Very cool. Have fun?

So you have a CRX that you are going to enter into the 200X or the SDrev?

Hmmm, looks like I might need to start shopping a bit.

[y_merkle]

Because my brother and I have nothing else better to do, we have decided to pimp out an old radio flyer wagon we have and it reminded me of this tread. I was inspired by this beauty I found on the web of course with a few mods and beautifications. Woundering if anyone else has done something like this.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/porsche930dude/IMG_1117.jpg

[Bashed]

Lovin the wheelie bar LOL