Nameless Rally 2013, Shelton WA

Links to results of the rally are below. If you have any pictures or video of us please email them to us here.

We finished the Nameless Performance Rally in one piece but we beat the car up quite a bit. We took 6th in class and 18th overall. I'll post a full update as soon as I can, in the mean time you can keep an eye on twitter and facebook to see all the pictures that show up. A link to our photo gallery is here also: Picasa gallery

Results:

Overall results, combined: http://www.nasarallysport.com//results/2013-Nameless-Performance-Stage-Rally-overall.htm

Overall results, broken up into 2wd / 4wd: http://www.nasarallysport.com//results/2013-Nameless-Performance-Stage-Rally-class.htm

---------------------------------------------------------------

Quinn Morley and Kaylan O'Connor will be racing the Saab in the Nameless Performance Rally. We are super excited to rally in Shelton, Washington again this year! We have been going to rallies in Shelton watching Saabs and Volvos smash around corners our whole lives. It's very exciting to finally be able to race there, especially for a second time.

UPDATE 6/20/13: Resolved the car 'feeling' rich and missing/backfiring: replaced the points in the distributor and set dwell to 48.5 deg (within tolerance). The car runs great now I just need to get the mixture back where it's supposed to be after I was tinkering with it during troubleshooting. This thing is LOUD! Look for us at registration / scrutineering early tomorrow at Little Creek Casino.

UPDATE 6/16/13 It's the weekend before the race and the car is all put together. It's running a little rich and missing now and then, but it seems to even out in the high revs. I had some "real" gasoline in it which is a mistake because it was tuned for pump (E10) pump gas.

Gene at Magic Auto Repair helped me out with the exhaust project, so now the car has a 2 1/4" straight pipe exhaust with a wee 6 inch long glass pack right on the end of the tailpipe. It sounds pretty mean! Today I got to work on a beefy-ass (technical term) skidplate mount to put the piece of 1/4" Aluminum on with (formerly a skidplate of Malcom's on his 4wd Eagle Talon).

The rally will be headquartered out of the Little Creek Casino right off the exit for McCleary (Hwy 107) from US 101. This is a very good location for RHQ and should make everything pretty easy for us competitors.

The schedule looks FANTASTIC, like a rally should be run. Saturday will be tough though, surviving Nahwatzel. The Simpson Company sure has some great roads for that stage, but they can be tough on the cars.

Nameless Performance Rally website: http://www.namelessrally.com/

Entry List: Rally Data Entry List: Nameless Rally Shelton WA

Spectating Info: http://www.namelessrally.com/spectators/
Nahwatzel is near Simpson Timber Mill 5 off Matlock Road

Olympus Rally 2012, Olympia WA: Results / Recap

Please send pics/videos of us to me here.

Rough roads, giant rocks, night stages, rollovers and big time mechanical failures. Olympus Rally can be one of the most extreme stops on the Rally America Championship.

Olympus Rally started off a little too uneventful for us: the starter wouldn't crank leaving the park expose! I had to hop out of the car and arc the starter solenoid terminals to get it freed and get us on our way. We replaced the starter after the first stage, making us 36 minutes late out of service.

The first three stages went smooth for us, but I was trying to spare the car from major rock strikes. By the time we got to Nahwatzel I had pretty much given up on that, so the car was getting hammered pretty hard. The temperature started to climb and the skidplate started to bang around but we pressed on. At 14 miles and 240 degrees we stopped and added water and got back on stage. The skidplate went missing a few miles later. We smashed over a burm and through flying finish but our temperature was above 220 again and the floor of the car was soaked. I re-routed the heater hoses to bypass the heater core and we made it into service on donated water (we always have AMAZING volunteers in our region), completing the Ray Damitio Regional Rally and started out 7 hour break.

During break we fitted a new skidplate made out of 16 ga. steel and aimed the head lights. We did pretty terrible on the super special at the ridge, but I don't think we were alone judging by all the gravel on the track.

We headed out and did the Taylor Town / Cloquallum loop. The dust was so bad on Cloquallum that we had to stop twice and I almost took out caution tape a few times. The car was running great with the temp right at 185 deg. We headed back for service and got ready to head out and do the Taylor / Cloquallum loop again. After service we were informed that the last two stages of the night we cancelled. Considering it was 11:45 already and we had only gotten a couple hours of sleep the night before we were relieved to hear this, although somewhat disappointed that we didn’t get more miles on stage. When your that tired it’s easy to let something go, so we went home and passed out.

Sunday morning went great for us. The car started and ran fine, had no overheating issues, and the new improvised skidplate held up great. I started out charging pretty hard on the only stage of the day, Nahwatzel. I slowed down for the "big dip," and put more rocks to the tires than the center of the car to spare our gearbox. On the straits I didn't exceed 75 or so, which allowed the car behind us to catch up a couple times. I never saw them because once we got to the rough stuff I would pull away from them again, and on the high speed straits it was too dusty to see anything behind you. It was a great stage and I'm proud that we finished it twice, and very glad that I decided to come out and drive the Shelton roads. Unforunately, we don’t have gopro video from Sunday’s stage, but we do have it from Saturday’s Nahwatzel run. I’ll try to get that up soon. We had an average speed of 43 mph on Nahwatzel 2 on Sunday.

Car 178
Overall / in class
Day 1: 35 / 9
Day 2: 33 / 7


RESULTS: Regional 1 / Regional 2 / National 
Entry list: http://www.olympusrally.com/entry-list/
Olympus Rally website: http://www.olympusrally.com/
Rally America website: http://www.rally-america.com/