Why does the Evo X start on Fire?
This year we suffered an event that no race team or individual wants to go through, when our 2008 Mitsubishi Evo X caught on fire. When the car caught on fire, I thought the odds of that happening were amazingly slim and that some form of negative karma had finally arrived. The more I read, the less I am inclined to believe that we were unique in any fashion.
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Operation Phoenix: The Reincarnation
Just got word that the car has breathed life once again. While it has some rehab to go through before it is race approved, it is a good to hear some positive news.
The last couple weeks have been spent making a list of parts, ordering parts, making another list of parts and keeping the shipments going up to Magnus.
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Operation Phoenix – The teardown
All you have to do is put the Magnus crew in the same room as the project and the parts needed for the project and magic happens.
I shipped the package of parts up to Magnus last week. With the minor customs delay, the parts successfully arrived yesterday.
Operation Phoenix Recovery Update 1
It is humbling the number of people who have heard about the car and offered to help out. I have also under estimated how visible the car has become outside of our own little club.
When we hauled the car to Magnus last week I had the car on a trailer for two days before we left. I pulled the car around the block into the Wegman’s parking lot for a test run and had posts up in Facebook telling me the car was spotted in Penfield, on a trailer. When I came out from the hardware store I watched two cars cars divert their path in the parking lot just to drive by the car on the trailer.
Beginning Operation Phoenix
The end of One Lap marks the beginning of the regular track season for most of us. Bringing the car back to life and getting track time isn’t something we can take all year to do. Though the wallet is already strained, paying car payments on a car I can’t drive didn’t sit so well on the home front.
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