[addictionMS]

not a porsche story, but we were racing our RX7 in a night enduro, and we smelt something burning, so we started cutting the wires to the lights thinking we were drawing too many amps and over heating the wires. well after about 2.5 hours I out there at Buttonwillows, and it is getting harder and harder to see, I attribute it to additional dust on the track. But I finally get past the car in front of me and realize I have no lights to see where I am going, so here I am headed around Talladega headed towards the lost hill, and I can't see, can't stop because there is car right behind me, so I guess my way around the track and make my way to the pits.

Next morning, we are looking to see what happened we notice there is no fan belt on the car, so we lost our water pump and boiled the car dry (the burning smell) and we also lost the alternator, so we ran the battery down and lost the lights.....all this because we did not realize the gauges we have in the car had lights, and we could have hooked them up to see them.

Tough little car though, kept running, put water in it and put on a fan belt and drove it a bunch more.

Jim