NAXJA Racing is BACK!

That's awesome! Low-buck racing is cool.....be great to see the stats and what cars you beat with the grocery-gettin' winged brick. :thumbup:
 
Matt, anything the XJ needs for another race? Let me know... I have a D35 you can have, complete. Rear shocks, springs, front shocks, sway bars, anything minor/simple...just let me know.

Glad to here the rig held up though! :)

~Scott
 
Phew! We did it! Final results haven't been posted yet, but at last count we should finish in the top third of teams. I'm pretty damn pleased; to even finish is an accomplishment, let alone in something as untested (in road racing) as a Cherokee with home built mods.

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Yes, we are passing two Camaros in this pic. :D

-----Matt-----

I love that picture! Would have loved to see the look on the drivers of both Camaros when they say that thing squeeze between them:roflmao:
 
This is great! Seems like a great event for sure.

How'd those fawesome XJ brakes hold up pulling you down from triple digits?
They did great! Stock rotors and the pads that came on them. Still looked okay after the race, and some teams went through 4 sets of pads. I can't explain it, except that our rig weighed very little and saved the brakes. Drums even looked good after the race.

-----Matt-----
 
Harmonic balancer let go on Saturday, had to be towed back in and run into town for parts and a puller. Cost us a couple hours. Rear shock came loose in the final hours, but it was still handling okay, so we just pulled it and I kept racing. One of the bigger issues we had was fuel; it's only the 13.5 gallon tank, which limited up to about 2 hours of racing, and we could only get it so low until it would start sputtering in long sweepers. A 20 gallon tank and revised fuel pick-up is in the works.

It was good the race ended when it did, we were losing power (stock exhaust was working its way loose), and we could increasingly smell gear oil (blown seal on the D35). Tranny was still shifting stong, but there are some things we'd like to do before flogging on it for this long again. We're planning to be at another LeMons race in March, at Sears Point (Infenion Raceway). We've got a couple little things to do, but it worked so well we're hesitant to chance too much.

-----Matt-----
Rear shocks are overrated anyways!

If you were any closer, I'd offer to ship you the 20gal 97+ tank I have as a spare :/ I think it'd be cheaper for you to just grab one at the junkyard than it would be for me to ship this one though. Got a tranny cooler or five on it yet? I'll gladly pick up a few of whatever tranny cooler you want (Ford Explorer? Grand Cherokee? both have decent looking stock units) and mail em on over.
 
If you were any closer, I'd offer to ship you the 20gal 97+ tank I have as a spare :/ I think it'd be cheaper for you to just grab one at the junkyard than it would be for me to ship this one though. Got a tranny cooler or five on it yet? I'll gladly pick up a few of whatever tranny cooler you want (Ford Explorer? Grand Cherokee? both have decent looking stock units) and mail em on over.
Thanks for the offer, I'd love the tank, but I'm sure you're right about shipping. We slapped on a tranny cooler the size of my bed before the race, so we're good to go there.

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-----Matt-----
 
Did you check out the teeth on that beaver chasing the XJ?
 
Well, it IS a FWD vehicle... I guess it's better than putting a spoiler on the hood.
 
Does that car coming around the corner behind you guys have a satellite strapped to the roof/trunk? :roflmao:
 
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