@carportchronicles1943

This evening I was thinking about the strangest thing I could bring to a Lemons race. What I came up with was a vehicle with two complete, independently functioning, drivetrains: Air cooled VW Beetle in the back and manual transmission VW Rabbit (or something similar) in the front. This would be great because when one engine blows, you just put that transmission in neutral and run your second drivetrain. I think it could be done. I think the biggest engineering hurdle would be the throttle and clutch peddles. Perhaps you could engineer a quick change peddle box set-up. One set of peddles ready to connect to the front drivetrain and another set for the rear drivetrain. Snap them in and connect them to the appropriate clutch and throttle connections. This is the perfect machine for a Lemons race: Slow, most likely unreliable, overly complicated, and bizarrely engineered.

 

@ldnwholesale8552

I dont know about US speedway cars but cages here in Oz at times exceed road race cages. BUT Iron Junkie drag cars have different rules to road racing and speedway is different again. From what I have seen of Lemons cars they would not pass on speedway and some road race cages ar very basic,, even at the upper levels. Unsafe? No Not Great. Yes. And I have raced classic open wheel speedway cars, have driven other peoples sedans where there is a LOT of pipe but not stupid shoulder high intrusion bars with about 3 bends to get there. Just a proper Nascar style cage [yeah they are different again.] With all tubes welded too tubing welded to the floor. Drag racing has those stuped under floor mounted cages plus 'funny car' cages that on a sedan is just plain stupid. A head/ shoulder support seat is better and far lighter. Yet these cars have the doors fly off in a minor shunt and have 20 mph brakes on 200mph cars. My FIA level cage in my road race sedan it seems is not good enough for lemons. The cage in a similar Ford for speedway has far more pipes. Maybe Lemons should go visit commonsense

 

I've seen small front drive oval cars use a piece of 2 x 4 square tubing against full; length of the rocker / floor ( 2" side up) then the cage is welded to the tubing. I'd argue this is safe because: The cage of a full tube car has the same interface. The sq tubing reinforces the rocker against a side impact and gives a place for the side bars to attach to. The sq tubing distributes impact loading over the entire rocker rather than just a small area of the floor.

 

Lemons Wrapup--Halloween Hooptiefest '23

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Nick and Eric discuss NHMS '23, where hammers were the tool of choice and a T-Drive Tempo revolutionized endurance racing.

 

Event Horizon - #lemonsworld 172

The theme is a unicorn farting a rainbow.....


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Lemons racer Lee Childers answers 5 questions about his VW powered 1980 Plymouth Horizon.

 

Lemons Wrapup--Autobahn '23

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Jay and Eric recap the 2023 Autobahn race where dinosaurs roamed the paddock while flathead engines battled for supreme dominance. → Sign up for a race or get all-access spectator tickets: http://races.lemons.world …

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Those dudes talking on your radio channel gave you guys absolute gold for your wrapup vide

 

Lemons Wrapup--MSR '23

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Lemons Wrapup--Atlanta '23

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Nick and Eric are back from a rainy weekend in Atlanta where denim was in fashion, fuel sharks were plentiful and Randy Pobst struck again.

 

The Ultimate Racing Marathon - #lemonsworld 173 - 24 Hours of Lemons

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Eric has an exclusive interview with Neal Losey who was the first Lemons racer to run every single race on the calendar back in 2022.

 

Lemons Hudson Hornet - #lemonsworld 174 | 24 Hours of Lemons

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Did the Fabulous Hudson Hornet do as well in Lemons as it did in stock car racing? Nick and Eric give their assessment.