Many of you have probably heard of the 24 Hours of Lemons cheap car racing series. Contestants purchase and build a racecar for $500 excluding safety equipment. Just today a friend and I purchased our first purpose built racecar to race in one of these events. Which particular event we race in (probably at Buttonwillow or Infineon) will depend on when we finish the car and have everything organized and ready to go.   Racing cars is my number one passion and dream above all else. This is the firs

Just got home from our annual trip to the South of Oregon for a week long camping trip and crazyness (drunken antics). There is a huge sand dune area down there as well and we like to hit the dunes at least one day.   I've only ridden once on a rental quad... and that was weak sauce, got it stuck so many times it really didn't have enough power. Here's a pic from last year: Throttle was floored in this picture... no wheel spin at all... weak!!   So this year, we were on a mission to put down

starts out yesterday my youngest daughter comes home with a bust'd cord on the frt tire on the van, ok early this morn i start looking for a use'd tire i can throw on there for the time being , after going to 3 diff places and none of them haveing the tire they said they had i found a couple at a good price,, no tread left on them but they ran true ,, had no choice couldn't drive above 30 mph with the one on there so i head home 1/2 way there my neighbor calls me and says theres an ambulanc

So here it goes. I have Krazy K's ex Conquest. its a 1989 SHP Tsi. White with tan leather interior, STICK. As you are probably already aware its got issues. The car has 68k on the chassis. probably 1k on the motor. Not it matters. The motor is probably junk to anyone here. its salvagable but need to be overbored as its got some scores in the 2nd cylinder wall. THe spare motor tho is gorgous. It cant possibly have more than 40k on it. I pulled the head off it, thinking it would go onto the other