Our Cage Build (pic heavy)

[audisnapr]

Huge props to the guys at Tyrol Sport for putting in the extra time to bang out the remaining items on the cage and get us out the door on schedule.

In order for Jason and I to get the car back together and make the Watkins Glen event at the end of July, we had to ask the guys at Tyrol to put in some extra time and get the car done by this past Friday so that we could have it over the weekend in order to get it prepped and painted. Although they wanted to keep it through Monday (today) I pushed, begged, and whined enough that they were willing to stay late and get it done on a hot and muggy friday.

I can't thank the guys at Tyrol enough for working until 2am on Saturday morning to finish things up. Thanks guys!

Some pics our the party at Tyrol Sport on Friday night.










After getting a few hours sleep Saturday morning after getting home and in bed by 4:30, I started prepping the cage first thing. However, before I started painting I had to make sure the dash was cut and fitted to avoid scratching up the new paint during later on.

Anyway, after prepping all the tubing with scotch-brite pads, masking and then decreasing the tubing, the painting began.















the current condition of my garage

[Larry Herman]

Looks good.  I like the way your door bars came out.  Much better than the original design.

[audisnapr]

after sitting for a few months, the rado got a chance to stretch its legs again; albeit for short spurts around a curb infested parking lot, it was still a chance to shake things out and see what issue pop up. We had done so many things to the car this off-season that any number of problems could have come up. We are happy to report that most everything checks out.

We had a small clutch issue, which we assume was air in the lines. We bleed it real quick on the spot which seemed to cure the problem.

We have a small issue of the PC overheating, but think we can solve that pretty easily - it was, after all, 95* out and we didn't have a windshield with the 8" black visor to help protect from sunlight.

here's a few minutes of Jason tearing up our track tires on a rock riddled parking lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFmeaw4NW4

a few pics he took with his phone while testing






and a few pics from later in the day once we started doing some of the finishing touches to the interior. Interior is 95% complete. Still need to add some more padding, do some more wire management, mount the new rear view mirror, relocate the electric noise suppressor (currently zip tied to the relays), probably mount some PC fans under the PC, wire up the camera and radio... that should be about it I think.

[audisnapr]

btw, see you guys at The Glen!

[Larry Herman]

Very, very nice job!!!

even if it isn't a Porsche

[betegh9]

Nice job!  Our Lemon is not nearly as detailed.

By the way,  how do you close the garage door with those 4 fluorescent lights hanging off of it?

[audisnapr]

thanks guys! we are excited and very proud.

If you look closely, you will see the wire rope I have stretched between the two walls of the garage just below the door when it's in the open position - I hung the lights off those cables.

[Mike Andrews]

Here's a from this past weekend.....

 



 

 

[audisnapr]

Awesome - thanks Mike. Now I have one too. Last year you got Jason going up the S's - this time you got one for me

great shot as always. Thanks!