[Shotimes] Re: nascar - real racing - SHO

[Ron Nottingham]

If you need ANY help mark, let me know, I'll do whatever is needed. May not
be able to float the big bucks, but I can help out when I'm not bringin'
home the bacon. Good luck with it!!!

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO
89 325i
(OO==00==OO)
"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nunnally" <marknunnally@JoiMail.com>


> Those of you who claim to like "real racing" and be interested in such,
can
> put your $$ where your mouth is and help out when we (hopefully) are able
to
> compete in the USTCC in '05 with a gen3 (or possibly gen4) chassis with a
> 3.2L V6 SHO and 5speed.
>
> Ron posted the link the other day (www.ustcc.com) where Don M. had
contacted
> the series director several weeks ago asking about the SHO possibly
running.
> I swapped several detailed techie type emails concerning some SHO stuff
soon
> after, and behold we have the green light for the SHO (specifically the
3.2L
> MTX combo) to be considered "legit" and compete.  The first stage of this
> (for me) is to get the 89 down to the exact series spec weight, and on the
> series spec tire (toyo RA-1 on 17" wheels, ugh) and test at a handfull of
> the tracks to see if we are in the ball park for lap times.  If we are,
then
> it's full green light with a new gen3 chassis (they want newer
bodies/models
> in the series) project (anybody want to buy a cage'd 89 chassis for track
> work?  :)
>
> At the least I hope to run 2-3 events in '05, would be cool to be able to
> run the whole east coast season (7 events) if we can get the SHO community
> behind it with help to get it off the ground, could be a fun gig.  And yes
> it's real racing <g>
>
> Stay tuned, I think we'll know by the fall if things are a full blow
> "go"....
>
> mark "gotta get my garage finished here soon" nunnally
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