Tuesday July 21st Racing a wash out!

Hey Race Fans. Due to the weather Racing was cancelled tonite. Oh well! Probably for the better because the kids and i just got back from a family camping trip and smell of sweet campfire smoke, covered in mosquito bits ( anyone up for a game of connect the dots! Hee Hee) and feel a little tired to be honest. On the good side, our motor has been rebuilt and we pick it up tomorrow nite! Yeah!! Now we can return all of our loaner parts and mount our new engine. Caleb & I are excited to see if it will purr like a new kitten or roar like a lion. Oh wait, we are racing with a flathead not an animal engine. Silly me! Hopefully it has some power anyways so we can move up some in our standings. Until next week remember racing is cancelled if there is a risk of wetting yourself!

We got Tanked Racing!

Welcome to the trial and tribulations of Team Chaos Racing! Another race night is behind us YEAH! More problems but that is why we are team chaos because that seems to be par for couse for us. Last week we discovered that the mount that holds the fuel tank onto the engine was cracked and so as a quick fix we wired it onto the engine to get us thru the nite. Well aparantly with working and kids and life in general I did not get it welded before racing this week. OPPS! Caleb ran his first warm-up and said the kart was sliding and not idling properly. I adjusted the air in the tires and went to adjust the idle when I noticed that the carberator was loose again so had to tighten that up. After our 1st heat I was talking to Dan Wilder who is trying to get our engine rebuilt when I told him about our fuel mount problem. He was less than impressed that I had forgotten to get the mount welded last week and stressed that i was risking recking Chris's carb on the engine we had been lent. I then proceeded to "find" another gas tank that we could borrow for the nite. Thank god i am cute or we would have a problem. The wonderful Bob Davidson let us borrow one for our last race !! Now I just need to remove it to give back to him for next week but I watched closely and it seems pretty straight forward.
Anyways racing! Caleb was a little cautious again tonite. He does not seem to have the killer attitude. He started at the back of the pack and finished there all nite again. We seem to just pay our money and go around in an oval. At least he is having fun but boy does he get uptight about things. Bossy is an understatement i think was the common consences. Yes my spelling sucks! It is 12:10 am here so I am not looking for a dictionary OK. Ok so for Caleb's feature race we adjusted the air pressure again, lowered the back left axel half a turn. He started 4th last and gave up 2 spots to finish 2nd last with his friend #20 behind us due to a spin out that threw him in tail or #20 would have been ahead of us. Hopefully next week we will get our rebuild engine. Until then we have "the turd" at least so we can go around the track with something right. So in parting,just remember to be nice to your neighbours and freinds because you never know when you will need to get tanked and need their help!

SUNDAY JULY 5TH SPECIAL RACE

ATTENTION ALL RACE FANS. THERE WILL BE NO RACE ON TUESDAY DUE TO THE SPECIAL RACE WE HAD ON SUNDAY JULY 5TH. I am not slacking again this week if you look for an update on Wed and there is not one. OK down to our exciting racing on Sunday. We were all excited last week to see how our new clutch was going to work out and that did not happen due to our oil transportation system malfunction. Today we still have "The Turd" loner engine on our kart. After an exciting birthday pool party, we rushed up to the track for 3pm with my sister-in-law in tow to get our half ass kart looked at to see if it was still OK to race. We checked air pressure, methanol levels, OIL LEVELS!!! then scaled it up and Chris made a rear axel adjustment. Things looked OK. Caleb did the warm up lap and was sliding a little so we switched over from SS11 to SS22. So far so good right. No not for Team Chaos, Hence the name. We are in the hot pits to start our first heat when Caleb's kart won't ideal right and stalls twice. Tim Tallman said Oh your gas tank is loose, he can't race this one pull him out of the line-up. We put him on the kart stand and notice the carb has loosened from the engine and tighten the screws at the restrictor plate. Done right. Wrong. Apparently this loner motor has a crack in the mount where the fuel tank attaches to the engine and is leaking methanol. Great. We coat hanger and wire the thing back together and carry our fire extinguisher with us, just kidding Mom. Methanol leaks are not a big deal I guess. Heat 2 he starts in the back of the pack and was still sliding around so finished last. We decide to change the air pressure again and Chris Long recommended we adjust the rear axel some more. For his feature race we are all prepped and ready to go! He actually had a good race. He started near the back but after 25 laps he moved up, had a bad point where the kid in front slowed down and Caleb ended up on top of him but got back off. He finished 10 out of 14 karts right behind his friend #20. No money again but we still have a kart to race next week and hopefully our engine will be back new and improved! So our tip of this week is make sure you do not have a screw loose and lubrication is the key to keeping everyone happy!

Team Chaos Welcomes Tillsonburg Outlaws to Merritville

Hello Race Fans! Sorry I am a little late in updating you on all of the crazy news but first I have to tell you about these cool karts i have pictured. Sunday July 5th was a special Burris race and the group from Tillsonburg who races these karts made a special appearance at our track. Noramally I am told they race inside in an arena type build with banks around the sides then the boards. If they get to far up the banks they can roll over, hence the roll cages. Their rules are a little different from us since their track is smaller so they race harder with more accidents. They pass each other more as well compared to the straight out racing on our track. The people i talked to were super nice and seemed to be having a good time visiting our track. Some problems were that at nite we got a bit cool and some of the engines in the last race kept stalling out. With there track inside, it probably stays pretty warm. That and whenever we have a car stall we yellow flag to slow the race down. I lost count how many yellow flags were waved and then the cars would slow down and eventually a few would stall out. If anyone has more information they would like to share please comment on this blog so all my fans will get the full scoop on this different style of cool kart!

JUNE 30TH EXPLOSIVE RACE

For those of you who looked on Wed July 1st I am sure that you noticed i did not update this blog after our race. First but not probably the reason, it was a day off with a BBQ to host for my freinds and family with lots of things to get done around the house. Second and the obvious reason I was deeply depressed. The reason all you caring people may ask, well apparently I am an idiot ( but not the only person in the world to do this ) and forgot to put enough oil in poor Caleb's engine for Tuesday and i dun blod er up real gud! BLAM KABLEWE! I having chick issues competing with the boys felt SOOO stupid that I missed a vital part of your kart maintenance. My excuse was Mon I worked, rushed home to clean his kart, make supper and get my daughter to soccer all on schedule. In the rush OPPS. As it turns out, it is amazing how many guys have done this same thing long before little ole me. In fact, Sunday #4 beside Beckett Racing race 2 laps and blew up their $1400 animal motor. Do I feel better, maybe a little but not really. Oh well I will be paranoid careful in the future. So for now Dan Wilder is going to get some parts and but this thing back together for us. We need a piston, crank shaft, connecting rod some rings and gasket for the rebuild. Good Times. I just wish my money tree was in bloom or at least a bit more green! Hee Hee. Thanks goes out to Chris Long from RCM RAcing for letting us borrow a spare engine called "The Turd" and Tim Tallman for helping mount it. Also thanks to Jeff Riley for letting me borrow his spare engine if I needed that one for next week.