The Bear Patrol preps for Iowa!

So things have been happening after the Brainerd race, but mostly boring stuff. Stuff like checking brake pad wear and tire wear to see what we needed to change and update for Iowa. Turns out we blew a front shock, but I forgot to take a picture of that. The muffler clamp hung down and got ripped off taking the car on and off the trailer. Its fixed now. Over the weekend Soren got started on the headlights, and tonight he mounted the extra side ones, and I finished getting the bumper holes cut bigger. Still need to clean them up a little bit, but its close.

We also took the time to "hard" mount a radio in the car. This base station has pretty good power and should ensure the car can always hear the pits. We still need to mount the push to talk button somewhere near the driver. Then it'll be nice and easy to plug in and out of the car when we change drivers.


With mounting the radio, we wanted to have auxiliary power so we wouldn't have to worry about the batteries. So we installed this three port adapter. One for the radio, one for the cage mounted camera, and one spare. What to do with that?


So the front tires were pretty trashed, so we're replacing those on the previously painted rims. But we figured the other tires were still better spares then the left over Continentals that came with the car. So we've got more tires coming, and with that, needed the spare rims to be painted to match the others with the "patrol car" theme.


And here is a teaser for a surprise, and that's all I've got to say about that.


So one more weekend to wrap up the final touches for Iowa, then its time for the 24 hour race!