We are In!!!

Here is the first part of the e-mail that came yesterday,


Hi, Team Captain:

Good news--I think. Your team has officially been ACCEPTED for LeMons Chicago (aka the Rod Blagojevich Never-Say-Die 500, at Autobahn Country Club on 23-24 October 2010). Please read this email completely, then forward it to the rest of your team, one of whom is certainly smarter than you are. (You agreed to be captain, so clearly you're not the genius.)


Here is the e-mail that went out this after noon,

Hey, Team Members:

Yesterday, your team captain received the Official Acceptance Email below. He was supposed to forward it to you immediately, but hey--we all know what captains are like.

Please read the entire email carefully, and make sure the rest of your guys do the same. There's a lot of important info in here, and at least a few people on your team ought to know what the heck's going on.

Thanks much and see you there--Jay


Stay tuned for updates as we finish up the car.

It has been a while

Just thought I'd check in, and let you know we are still around, vacations and other summer activities have keep us away from working on the car the last few weeks.

We should know by early next week if we have been accepted to the October Race, and we should be back with more updates then.

As it was in 1989

After last weekends little confusion thought it would be best to list what was on the SPID for the Cutlass Ciera so there will be no confusion as to what this car was originally built with. SO below is liste the RPO Code and what the code means.

There is one code I can't find, O69. I beleive this is the extra awesomeness that they built into this one car.

AM6 - SEAT-FRT SPLIT, 3 PASS, CTR ARM REST
B1D - HIGH sOLIDS eNAMEL OPTION "B1D TO BE RESTRICTED TO HIGH SOLIDS ENAMEL SOURCE COLOR
B84 - ORNAMENTATION-EXTR MLDG, BODY SIDE
CD4 - WIPER SYSTEM - WINDSHIELD PULSE
C49 - DEFOGGER - RR WINDOW, ELECT
C60 - AIR CONDITIONER - FRT MANUAL CONTROLS
C81 - SWITCH - JAMB, RR DR
DA0 - ARM REST - FRT SEAT STORAGE
DC4 - MIRROR-I/S, R/V TILT, DUAL READING LAMP
D34 - MIRROR-I/S, VISOR VANITY
D35 - MIRROR-O/S, LH REM CONT, RH DIRECT CONT, PAINTED
D92 - TAPE-DOOTR HANDLE
FE1 - SUSPENSION SYSTEM-SOFT RIDE
F17 - RATIO-TRANSAXLE, FINAL DRIVE 2.84
1QC - TRIM, INTERIOR, DESIGN(AM6)
JA2 - BRAKE SYSTEM-HVY.WEIGHT,DISC/DRUM
J41 - BRAKE SYSTEM-POWER FRONT DISC, RRDRUM CAST IRON
K34 - CRUIS CONTOL-AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC
K60 - GENERATOR - 100
LB6 - ENGINE-GAS, 6 CYL, 2.8L, MFI, V6, TRANSVERSE
MD9 - TRANSMISSION-AUTO, 3-SPD,THM125
MX1 - TRANSMISSION-AUTO PROVISIONS
NA5 - EMISSION SYSTEM-FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS
N30 - STEERING WHEEL-DELUXE
N33 - STEERING COLUMN-TILTTILT TYPE
N67 - WHEEL-RALLY TUPE
O69 - ???
QFF - TIRE ALL-P185.75R, 14/N BL R/PE ST TL
STE - PLANT CODE-ST THERESA,PQ GM OF CANADA
TR9 - LAMP GROUP
UH6 - CLUSTER-INT,OIL,COOL TMEP, VOLTS, INDICATORS
UM7 - RADIO-AM/FM STERO, SEK/SCAN CLOCK, ETR
UQ1 - RADIO-PROV FOR STEREO
UT1 - TONE GENERATOR - WARNING, NOTE:CHIME TONE
U25 - LAMP-INTR ENG COMPT COURTESY
U26 - LAMP - INTR ENG COMPT COURTESY
U27 - LAMP-INTR I/P COMPT COURTESY
U28 - LAMP-INTR ASH TRAY, COURTESY
U29 - LAMP-INTR I/P COURTESY
U64 - SPEAKER SYSTEM-4, DUAL FRT DASH MTD, DUAL STD RGE PKG SHELF/QTR
U73 - ANTENNA-FIXED
VH9 - ENVELOP-OWNERS INFO MANUAL
VK3 - LICENSE PLATE-FT MNTG PKG
1SB - Option pakage 02
1SZ - UNT OPTION PACKAGE
15Q - MOLDING COLOR MED GRAY MET (91)
6UX - COMPONENT FRT LH COMPUTER SEL SUSP
7UW - COMPONENT FRT RH COMPUTER SEL SUSP
8AN - SPRING-COMPTR SELECT RR LH
82C -RIM COMBINATION-CLOTH DK MED GRAY
82I - INTERIOR TRIM-DK MED GRAY
829 - HARNESS-ST/SHLDR DK MED GRAY
9AN - SPRING-COMPTR SELECT RR RH

Work Postponed for the day

The work for today has been postponed due to our own stupidity. I will watch Sesame Street and the Electric Company for the next week so that hopefully I can learn the difference between the number 1 and the number 2.

Dash Modifications

So I had some time today to do some work on the car and we needed to remove some of the dash so that the roll cage when installed can better follow the A pillars.  Here are some pictures of the work,

Here the dash is about halfway out,

Here is what it looked like when it was done

We still need to clean up the wiring a little, but it came out looking good.

Road Trip

So Bob and I took a little road trip up to Pegasus Auto Racing to take a look at the show room. We came back with 2 of the parts we need for the car, a electrical cut off switch and the sticker to go with it.

also any trip over the Wisconsin border is not complete with out a meal at The Brat Stop