Hi Oppo - it’s been a minute, and for that I apologize. Life sometimes gets in the way.

So I found out the 2014 Mini Cooper S I bought has a service contract that covers oil changes, all filters and even brake pads until June of 2020 or 100,000 miles. Sweet.

Replaced with this:

I’m pretty sure this adds at least 10 hp.

A few more goodies from the weekend. A couple of cars signed be the GTLM winning #911 team of Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Frederic Makowiecki and a second car signed by the #912 team of Laurens Vanthoor, Earl Bamber and Mathieu Jaminet. Yes, I realize the cars are GT3RSs and not RSRs. Beggars can’t be choosers.

So in addition to my son winning the tire signed by all the driver’s, I won a tour of the hot pits during the race courtesy of PCA.

Man, what a day. I may do a longer post(s) later, but I need time to decompress. I did want to get this out there. My son won this at the Continental Tire booth:

Presented without comment.

Did my second track day today at Road Atlanta. This time it was with Porsche Club of America (PCA).

I’m going to put this out there. I absolutely hate Tesla. It’s not so much the product as the cult-like owners and the company itself.

As much as I’ve railed against these things, I suddenly want one.

No, not the kind my local PCA sponsors.

After all that work on the Enclave, my wife hit a deer.

I’m ready to set fire to this 944.

Theses are all vehicles being auctioned off by the local police department. They aren’t all confiscated, but most are.

A few weeks ago I posted that I was going to attempt to replace the three timing chains in my wife’s Enclave without actually following the proper directions.

Replacing the timing chains on a Buick Enclave without removing the engine.

A few months ago, the wife hit a parked trailer and did the following: