Thanks Chris,

I hope I didn't sound like a dick about the T6 thing. I was just trying to clarify for those reading.

I'll look forward to the books. Please mention the progress from time to time.

I would also be interested in the DVD of the various news reports mentioned earlier in the thread. Are you going to put those together on a DVD release?


Based on what we know today it would have been interesting for you or one of the other hardcore guys to have modified a 914/6 GT clone for the hill. Based on autocross TTD results for the past several years something like that might have been better than the silver car on the racecourse.

Been a while since i came back to this thread:
Chris, your car looks really bad a** ! The roofline with all the smooth metal is very cool. Must have been all grins and giggles first time back on the "course" = very exciting.
Thanks for the copies of the race spec book, even if i don't understand german ;)
If you can take a few days off to join our back roads "tour" end of march, you would have a real blast www.targacalifornia.com

Been a while since i came back to this thread:
Chris, your car looks really bad a** ! The roofline with all the smooth metal is very cool. Must have been all grins and giggles first time back on the "course" = very exciting.
Thanks for the copies of the race spec book, even if i don't understand german ;)
If you can take a few days off to join our back roads "tour" end of march, you would have a real blast www.targacalifornia.com

Real guts
 

Sorry Jeremy, I meant Dave B. much appreciated. (You guys sound alike). ;)
Actually I want to give a special thanks to Dave and TRE for the help and assistance.

After many years I got to know Dave B. a little better and I wish now that I had gotten to know him better years ago. He is a great guy.
And I bet he plays a mean Poker game. Dave has the ultimate persona to kick at Poker. We're going on a Vegas Run soon, right Dave? Just JOKEing!

Mark M. sent me a link to a video of a Dude with some real Balls. He should be out canyon or mountain racing in a car with his attitude. Thanks for sending Mark.
Dave M., don't you Rollerblade?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLbu1wIIEo&feature=relate

It is Madness.
 

At California Adventure Park next to Disneyland is a ride that is supposed to emulate Mulholland Drive. We have talked about it before in this thread. It's called Mulholland Madness. Some of you may have ridden on it. I missed it luckily, but just saw what it was like on Youtube.

The designers must have been out to lunch when creating that ride. Even the slowest Geeks, Squids, and Silverlake Squirrels went much faster than that. What a mundane, tame, and dissapointing waste of (bad) creativity.

And they call it "Madness"?

They need a real demo ride on Mul from one of us. Like Radu or Jason for example.
Both of these guys will give a passenger a real taste of Mulholland Madness. I have driven with both of them and they are fast.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2S3k2BIi6Y&feature=related

The idea was to have small kids enjoy a beach amusement park ride similar to what you may have ridden in the 60's, not terrify the lil buggers till they puke on mom and dad. ;)
I thought the ride was closed (along with most of Cali Adventure) as they revamp for more exciting attractions.
Still having the name was kinda cool, even if the ride is lame

Real fun
 

Hi Dave, I agree completely that the name is cool. It's nice that Mul has so much notoriety that it's at Disneyland.

The amusment park rides similar to what we may have ridden in the 60's were terrifying. Remember Pacific Ocean Park? I remember my mom crying for an hour after riding on that old wooden coaster on the pier. The next year a car-load went off the tracks into the Pacific. (Those tracks felt awefully loose). The Park closed soon thereafter.

That's probably why I compare the new Mulholland Madness ride to real fun.
By the way, I was thinking, it would be cool to video you with the Evil Cockroach on Mul in the racecourse. Just for old times sake. What do you think?

bummer

http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=92878@kcbs.dayport.com

Must've been head on, judging by the video... looked like it was on a straight stretch.
__________________________________________________ _
Two injured in Mulholland Drive accident
Updated: 02/11/2009 12:18:11 AM PST

WOODLAND HILLS - A man with critical injuries was freed from the wreckage of a two-car collision just south of Woodland Hills tonight, authorities said.
The accident occurred at 22400 W. Mulholland Drive about 9:15 p.m., said Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman d'Lisa Davies.

After firefighters freed a 39-year-old man in one of the vehicles, he was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Davies said.

The other driver, a 29-year-old man, was taken to hospital with minor injuries, she said.

The circumstances of the crash were not immediately released.

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_11677830

Have to wait for the full story.

Here's where it happened. This is the other side of dirt Mulholland in Woodland Hills. It's a small stretch that does lend itself to higher speeds... It also can be a bit tricky at normal speeds. No curbs and a litle ditch on each side. If a tire goes off the road, the ditch will pull you.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1234383046.jpg

Is the parking lot in the middle bottom of the photo where Supercar Sunday is held? I wonder if one of the drivers in the accident shows his car at that venue.

nope- the meeting place is further west next to the 101 fwy

but the parking lot shown has been a meeting place for many a porsche group adventure ;)

Jeff sent me this email about a super cool small engine. You guys can appreciate it too. A lot of work to create this machine.


Here is the latest in the Conley line of V-8 engines. It sports the Stinger 609 name badge (6.09 cubic inches or almost 100 cc) and is the culmination of almost 30 years of knowledge gained in the designing and construction of model engines. The bore is 1.00, with a .970 stroke. It weighs about 11.25 pounds and measures approximately 14" long (from the front timing belt to the end of the transmission), 6" wide, and 8-1/4" tall. The supercharged version will be about 10" tall. There are two separate "Gerotor" style pumps to move all the oil.
6+ hp at 9,500 rpm for the normally aspirated version.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1234886718.jpg

Here is the motor installed.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1234886740.jpg

Here is the completed car next to Jeff's white Dodge.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1234886762.jpg

I saw one of these run at a recent Cars&Coffee meeting. It sounds EXACTLY like a small block Chevy. Very cool. I was thinking what I could put it in just to hear it run. I see Jeff has already figured that out!

I see potential for a real mean weed-wacker.

That's some amazing machining in order to build something like that. And think about the intricacies required to build the transmission.
:eek:

That thing's gonna need a driver, though... a certain amount of insanity is required... I'm thinking this guy.

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u...dragster2c.jpg

That thing is amazing. Part of me is amazed by the craftsmanship and ingenuity, and part of thinks "this guy has WAY to much time on his hands".

This is the one that amazes me the most. I saw this several years ago at Concourso Italiano and heard it run. It had me giggling like an idiot it was so cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncsaUNEzaTw

I showed this to my wife and her first comment was "That's incrdible!" and her second comment was "He's probably not married."

Cheers,
Kurt O. (Who still has dozens of unbuilt model kits in storage)

Just a thought, the So Cal All Porsche gathering (see sticky at the top of the page) might make for a great coming out party for the KOTH Carrera. Certainly a more appreciative audience than say, the Coffee Roaster Sunday meets.

If that doesn't work out, where/when might interested locals get a look at this beast?

There is no Substitute!
 

Some small details are being completed for the photo shoot that is being done by Excellence Magazine.

Peter Linsky, the famous automotive author has done a magnificent story about Mulholland Racing and Porsches.

The photo shoot will be in the first few days of March and will highlight Mulholland Drive and a certain old Porsche Battlewagon RSR that was specifically made for it's tight turns, short straightaways, and it's bad bumpy surface.

When that is complete, we will have a meeting on Mul one evening, if anyone's interested.



http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1235587288.jpg

Excellence! Excellent!

Name the date.

Hmmm, evening. Must put headlight fuses back in.