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GHIT 0046: Our Race Wrap Up from NJMP 2019

Our review of our 24 Hours of Lemons Race at NJMP’s Lightning Track

Our NJMP 2019 Highlight — Our NJMP 2019 Race Highlight, yep.

Our 2019 NJMP Lightning Race Review with the 24 Hours of Lemons series includes:

Quick review of the Lightning track Review
Alan’s many visits to the Black flag area this weekend
We had a few self-induced incidents and a few outside influences during the race
It was Kate’s first race

Kate Before Her First Stint
Kate After Her First Stint

Podcast Reviews finally, Thank you.
Arrival with two not fully working cars set us back for the weekend and we really never caught back up
Shout out once or twice to Judge Craigers
We had a few issues with the Cars, mostly because we came with not fully finished cars
Jennifer was in a tunnel during the episode

Car highlights included Speedy Cop’s new Aquarium via 2 AMC Pacers, the Big Bad Caddy and “Wurst Shifter” pit vehicle, Race Bar Car, Godzilla, the new Three Pedal Mafia race car, Matt’s new Surfin’ Bird T-Bird, Mom Rocket team for keeping that grassy spot very clean all weekend, The racing Hudson, and the Sunbeam.

Everyone was there, even Godzilla Made an Appearance
Speedy Cop’s Latest Creation
Three Pedal Mafia’s Godzilla

Many shout outs to all the teams there, we only mentioned a few of them, but everyone was great.
We were passed by many if not all of you who were there,
Track was easier but aggression was higher
What should be our team penalty for getting black flags? Any suggestions welcomed. Please leave a comment.
We end with our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly, as well as what did we learn from this event.
Kate kept up with Black Betty for 5 laps! It would have been slightly more impressive if they weren’t yellow flag laps, lol.
We all also learned how to fill a hot tub with a pickup truck

Our results from NJMP were that El Jeffe/The Hombre/The Race Truck finished 60th overall out of 133 and 25th in B out of 68 cars with a fastest lap of 1:29.082. The SpiderStang finished 105th overall and 49th in B with a fastest lap 1:36.75 by our guest driver Matt who does not want to drive it any more, lol.

GHIT 0046: Our Race Wrap Up from NJMP 2019

WOOT 0045: Game of Thrones Series Review

Our overall thoughts on Game of Thrones

On this episode, the whole gang reviews the recently ended HBO series Game Of Thrones. We hope you enjoy the episode. Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill get into the various characters, highs, and lows of the series and books.

WOOT 0045: Game of Thrones Series Review

GHiT 0044: Nick Pon – Our Special Guest

Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons HQ

On this episode, we were joined by Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons HQ. Nick is a car enthusiast for the vast majority of his life and worked with the Lemons team since the inception. During this interview, we were able to go over Nick’s history, both with Lemons and personally.

Highlights included:

Thoughts on how you Lemons has gone so far, the Good, The Bad and The Ugly
What is planned for NJMP next weekend with Race, Radwood, Hooptiecon and everything else on site

Also please check out Nick’s latest article at Autoweek related to a 24 Hours of Lemons race car that turned into much more. (and no, that is definitely not our Capri)

Podcast Episode GHiT 0043: Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons HQ

GHIT 0043: Jeff Wakeman is Our Special Guest

Our Friend from the Everyone Racers Podcast and the Three Pedal Mafia

Jeff with Bill at NHMS 2018 — Jeff and Bill at NHMS

Jeff Wakeman from the Three Pedal Mafia racing team and the Everyone Racers Podcast joins us for this week’s episode. We had a wide ranging discussion covering many topics including:

Jeff’s first car
Some of Jeff and the Three Pedal Mafia early history
The Wartburg vs the Trabant
Some of the past few seasons results, and challenges
Building two new cars for this season
Three Pedal Mafia team goals for 2019
How Summit Point led to no stunting and ‘splodin rule
Track Discussion of the NJMP Lightning track for our upcoming race
Bill makes the same bad joke and Jeff shows he actually listens

We also tried to be helpful, and we cover in between races maintenance practices

Fix any broken parts
Full nut and bolt check
- All suspension bits, end links suspension bolts, shocks, struts
- Oil change every race
- Brake pad check
- Wheel bearing check (12-6 and 3-9, every day)
- Shocks and struts
- Rim check
- Brake Rotor check
- Calipers
- All lugs and lug nuts
- Fire system
- Electrical system
- Clean up and Vacuum
- Brake fluid every season, unless overheated then change immediately
- Tires for flat spots, cuts, bubbles etc.
- Fuel cell foam every season, unless fuel filter clogging etc.
- Exhaust inspection, will rattle apart
- Transmission fluid every few seasons unless issues
- Read tire tread after every day
- Wheel bearing check at 12-6 and 3-9 every day
What exactly is involved with “Dialing In” a new car
What is the exact definition of Mental Extrapolation and an itemized correction list/rant
Race Car Development guides
Vicki gets excited about power steering for the SpiderStang
Street and Normal mechanics vs endurance racing mechanical needs
Alan takes a few shots to the bow, in a very good natured way
Vicki has two tickets, Bill only knew about one, until now….
Jeff is oddly collecting tickets from every state
Bill makes bad decisions about towing with the new rental truck
- However, Jeff presents his quick summary of what to do and what not to do to related to speeding to avoid speeding tickets book review
Keep your eyes up
Speeding ticket story time
We end with a discussion of Avengers Endgame and many other hero
Game of Thrones discussion, or how to end a story via Cliff Notes
Upcoming theories and desires
Ranking of many marvel movie favorites
The upcoming Watchman series on HBO
Monoculture in modern entertainment, is it ever possible again with streaming and bingeing becoming more and more popular
How Lemons could be the solution to this and everything else
Upcoming ace at NJMP with Hooptiecon and Radwood as well
Star Wars discussion and predictions
Jeff Does a Road Warrior impression

Jeff Riding Hard After Winning the National Championship — That’s the “El Jeffe” riding “El Jeffe”

We apologize for being helpful to your racing this time. We will resume our normal uselessness next week, lol.

GHIT 0043: Jeff Wakeman is Our Special Guest

GHiT Podcast 0042: GHiT Year In Review

For this episode, we wanted to look back on our team’s first year racing Lemons and what we did, what we did well, what we did poorly, and begin to refine our plan for the coming year.