Fear and Loathing in Bonneville (My Trip to Speedweek)

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You can't do an effort like this without a good crew.  Everyone here and more were present for at least part of the time. The Spam can is Sean Rossi's good luck charm.
We got the basic assembly of the car together and started to organize the pits better.  With everyone's help, the car probably got several days work done on it in a day.  None of the planned cosmetics got done so the car was a bit ugly but that didn't have much to do with speed or safety so it took a backseat for this year's Speed Week.
Stephen Quinn does some finishing wire work in the engine compartment.  The crew did a pretty good job of performing many tasks at once without tripping over each other largely due to Annie's organization and work sheets that she put together to assign roles to the crew.
Chris Marion adjusts the compression damping of the KW Motosports shocks.  We didn't quite know what to expect but when we saw that another S chassis racing on the salt had really cheap Chinese coilovers, we were less worried.  We were paranoid about hitting a large bump or worse yet, a series of large bumps near our critical speed.  To reduce the chances of aero issues we ran fairly soft front compression damping and a fairly large amount of rebound.  To help with forward grip, we reduced our rear compression and ran a normal amount of rebound to allow the wheels to have good surface contact.
Our pit space is becoming more organized and looking like a shop away from home.  The car is nearing completion.  The blue tarp is required by the rules to prevent polluting the salt.
Filling and bleeding the cooling system were some of the last steps in prepping the car.

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