Day 2: Harrisonburg to Newport TN

We havent started yet..

Today's challenge is to hit 3 cities/towns along the route to Newport TN, get a picture of the whole team and the car in front of a building that identifies the name of the town--also a local from the town has to be in the picture with the team.

.....all this while dressed as superman.

Day 1: Staten Island to Harrisonburg

We made it with no problems. Pretty much a straight shot from Staten Island with a detour down Skyline drive before popping into Harrisonburg.

For the Day 1 challenge we were given a bunch of pictures of roadsigns and building along the route. Our challenge was to take a picture of them; however, the challenge pictures were photoshopped, cropped or otherwise manipulated to make things difficult from a car moving 60mph (no stopping on the interstate thankyouverymuch)

Car is running good and holding in there.

Day 2 takes us to Newport TN and starts two days of mountain climbing....

Day 0 We made it

Made it from Richmond VA to Staten Island yesterday. Car is holding up well.

IRCD is holding up after some fuse issues and now working like a champ

A few pics (will post all after the rally--just too many right now)

We Are Ready!

We leave tomorrow (Wed 21 May) morning.

Vroom, Vroom....

Cooling fan is fixed (for now). Wetested the fan motor, removed and replaced (R2) the coolant temp sensor, and trouble shot various relays (we still don't know where the hell the cooling fan relay is in this damn car), and numerous trips to the junk yard(cue theme from Sanford and Son)--we came up with an alternative. We developed an Improvised Radiator Cooling Device (IRCD) by disconnecting the fan motor from the ECM and hotwiring it directly to the car battery with an inline switch--which of course we left in the engine bay as running it through the firewall would be too logical.

Works like a champ now....except when the temp gauge goes up, you have to pull over, pop the hood and flip the switch under the hood.

But that is what this event is all about.

Hopefully more from Staten Island tomorrow night.

This is Evidence

Temperature control........

After struggling with a failing thermoregulation system in Evidence, our fearless leaders found a way to redefine what GM considers "American Ingenuity". In what some would consider 50% electrical engineering mastery and 50% Sanford and Son, this stallion has been resurrected from certain doom.

Stay tuned for the tech briefs..........

Oh yea, add one more thing...

An addition to our oil-stained list of negatives:

No cooling fan.

If we make it to the end it will be a miracle.

2 Weeks to go....

No Paint,
No Supersuits,
No A/C,
No Compression,
No Problem.