Another weekend closer

Well Team Bear Patrol racing was at it again this weekend at Casa del Greg. It was a big week for Soren, as you can see below, he made the jump and bought a plasma cutter! So of course we cut a bunch of random stuff to test it out, but forgot to take pics of that. Below he's finishing up compressing a rear spring to get the last cut one back installed. To get some added spring stiffness he cut a junkyard set of front springs, to fit on the back. It should sit a little lower, and complement our front springs once we get them on. Now if only we had the tires on the wheels, we could see how it sits.


Erik stopped by to help finish wiring the new tail lights. He had to bring over his soldering iron because my Harbor Freight special is so awful. But what do I need a soldering iron for, I'm a metal banger?


Here are the cheapo tail-lights we bought so we could sell our stockers. A nice little pick-up on eBay got us some brighter LEDs, and we mounted them inset, so in case someone rear-end's us the lights shouldn't be damaged. Unfortunately our fancy Lexus has a "light failure sensor" and the lower resistance LEDs seem to be triggering it and not working. Stupid technology.


Soren also got the last of the battery relocation done and hooked up. He also fab'd up a bracket for the battery cut-off switch to put right within reach in case of an emergency. We also switched to a dry cell battery since we moved it inside the driver compartment. I think there are a couple things left to get the hold down part of it finished though.


Jeff stopped by after a crazy workout at Crossfit St. Paul. I finished coping the passenger side doorbars so he could get them welded in. The bottom rear section of the bottom bar needed some creative bodywork to get access to. Wouldn't want any sections not funny welded.


Passenger side finished.


And then I even snuck some time to fab up part of a personal project. Its so fun having all these tools now. Cut and welded up a base for a sprayer for my mower. Boring, but I love having all this stuff around to fab things from scrap.


Only a few more weekends left before the track day for practice at Brainerd...um yeah that's May 24th, okay that's three weekends if we don't take the car up the weekend before the track day to show it off.