Author: Shaun Abrahamson

  • Sorry KEN

    Sorry KEN

    When you hit the Barbie Corvette, they make you sign it. Easy to miss the older dents now, given this new one.

  • RACE WRAP

    RACE WRAP

    We made it! 8th in our class. And first of the rookie teams! And while enduro events tend to ensure that things get worse over time, our team and car improved quite a bit from Friday testing to the final flag. When you are 90% done, you have 90% of the work left to do.…

  • FIRST 8 HOURS

    FIRST 8 HOURS

    Those 2 yellow struts? Probably not the thing you notice in the photo. In fact it’s not the reason we took the photo either. But this will probably save our race. Buckle up – it’s a super weird story. Friday was a test day and so each driver had a chance to test out the…

  • CO2 Problems part IIi

    CO2 Problems part IIi

    It’s alive. Lots of testing to do but it restarted and sounds much happier.

  • CO2 Problems Part II

    CO2 Problems Part II

    Found it. The gasket wasn’t in good shape at all. Here’s one example of where coolant and exhaust were probably getting together but there are a few other spots. Time to install and reassemble everything!

  • CO2 PrOBLEMS

    CO2 PrOBLEMS

    Over the weekend, CO2 caught us. It’s true that the year over year heat increased in Buttonwillow dont help our cooling system, but that wasn’t our main problem. At least not this weekend. CO2 found it’s way from the one of the cylinders into our coolant system. First during our track tests, the cap from…

  • LIVERY

    LIVERY

    Nearly done on the artwork, so evening drive in LA was in order inspired by this scene. Most important, thanks to our sponsors. And there are a few other references to people and resources like Clark’s Garage, without which we would have had a much harder time working on the 924. Or Claude.ai with which…

  • LABOR WEEKEND

    LABOR WEEKEND

    Lots of progress this weekend. From more eBay sales to get our budget locked down (About $400 of parts still to be sold). Then super important stuff like protection for the oil cooler and radiator, which also looks kinda cool, especially since it’s $20 in parts from the garden section.

  • MORE ON AI

    Where LLMs Have Been Incredibly Useful Budget-Friendly Engineering Hacks One of the biggest challenges in Lemons racing is the $500 car budget cap. Very early analysis offered some guidance on cars that might have valuable parts because their are communities that still drive and maintain them. And there might also be some harder to find…

  • SAFETY PREP II

    Fire system install is mostly done. The 3 gold nozzles are placed per instructions. It’s a bit tricky since you expect the hottest places + fuel lines to be the riskiest. Most of the action is on the passenger side. In earlier cars, the fuel lines also run up into the engine bay near the…