Well, the Lights, Motors, Action audition was a blast. The cars are little 1200lbs. fiberglass bodied cars with hiyabusa engines. They drive 100% different than anything I’ve ever driven before. As far as the audition goes, I’m pretty sure I bombed it, but personally speaking I think I did great. Considering that I have never done many of those manuvers before EVER, I was actually proud of myself for some of the attempts I made at left and right 90s, 180s, rollbacks and drifting. I absolutely blew the doughnuts, and the rest of the audition wasn’t great either, but for me personally, it was a big achievement. I just hope my uncle doesn’t get too embarassed that I didn’t live up to any of the hype that they might have thought a “professional class” driver should.
Afterwards, I headed over to the shop, but since I hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch, and had sat in a fire suit and full nomex undergarments for several hours, I wasn’t feeling that great. I rushed to Subway for a meatball sub and some soup, but it wasn’t in time to stop the migraine that came with that hunger nausea, and I spent a few hours in the office with the lights off and my eyes closed.
After it finally went away it was back to finalizing fabrication to the chassis before paint. Eddie, Dennis and I fixed the throttle cable/pedal, added bars to the rear motorplate mount, remounted the seat, shortened and lowered the steering wheel, and ground off the rest of the old and no longer in use tabs, etc. Tomorrow, we’ll make an aluminum cover for the firewall to help cover all the holes in the exsisting wall.
Exhausted, and still not feeling all that great, I arrived home around 2:33 am.
Mission Impossible: Day 2