As the weather's getting colder day by day, i can find myself on the computer more. So it seems like I'm getting back to my days of writing again.
Looking at people you use to go to high school with, or old college friends, you can't help compare yourself with them. Especially the old class mates that have the same interests's as you. I always seem to wonder what they're up to and what they're doing in this wallet breaking hobby. Knowing old friends that spent the week in Las Vegas at the Sema Show, people sled pulling a purpose built diesel truck-and wining and people making it big in well known sport compact import magazines, i always seem to wonder when my moment will come, or when it may be my time to shine in the light….
With Heinkel Race & Fabrication fully up and running, maybe the light is already shining on me and i haven't realized it……Or maybe things are just suppose to be slow now. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but what i can tell all the people who take the time to read this blog, 2014 is going to be my year, or should i say our year…..
Saying goodbye to the legendary Hero was like saying goodbye to a friend. Things happen and people change. It was time for something else. Within the last year and a half, we made a complete change with everything, now owning four domestic vehicles and running one full time next year, it only made sense to buy and run a domestic car. Our plan for the Corolla was simple: Take a 5.3L LM7 out of a 1500 Sierra and stick it in the hachiroku, but with all the other issues with the car, "Hero" had other plans….
But enough of that. Having an extra space in the garage, we began hunting. We started thinking popular track monsters that can be great out of the box, cheap and easy to fix when it does decide to break. Looking heavily into the famous JDM monster, Nissan and there RB powered GTR kept popping in our heads. Finding several in the area, the Godzilla was put on the list. Thinking about what some USDM could do for us, we thought about running the Neon full time next year, since we already ran 2 events it did make some sense. But we wanted something rear wheel drive with massive amounts of power!
The 80's and 90's brought some serious power to the streets of Detroit. The biggest rivalry being between GM and Ford. Camaro's, Transam's, Firebirds and Mustangs were all looked into. During the 80's Ford and the Foxbody Mustang had it locked down kicking the ugly IRock Camaro out the door. This is were something clicked, a light bulb going off. Watching the American Iron Series on Youtube, the Foxbody dominated the track, and there's no question that it destroyed anything on the streets, even today eating everything in it's way. That light bulb going off made perfect sense: Hundreds of companies, and parts that are local, inexpensive, rear wheel drive, solid axle and most importunely, fast out of the box. So instead of breaking something, and doing "over night parts from Japan" a quick stop to Summit Racing could solve all of our problems.
After countless failures and let downs, one afternoon we found a black 86 Foxbody, cammed, lowered, blown and mint. Absolutely no rust found. By the time the evening rolled around, we were owners of yet another black sheep, something infamous.
Already putting money into our new monster, 2014 is going to be a stressful year, but now looking back, i can definitely say the lights shinning on us. We always were the different kids on the block. Trying the keep a solid axle, rear wheel drive, 475 horse power domestic on the twisties is going to be extremely hard, but that's what Heinkel's all about, being different.
-Thanks to all who read this.
Chris
But enough of that. Having an extra space in the garage, we began hunting. We started thinking popular track monsters that can be great out of the box, cheap and easy to fix when it does decide to break. Looking heavily into the famous JDM monster, Nissan and there RB powered GTR kept popping in our heads. Finding several in the area, the Godzilla was put on the list. Thinking about what some USDM could do for us, we thought about running the Neon full time next year, since we already ran 2 events it did make some sense. But we wanted something rear wheel drive with massive amounts of power!
The 80's and 90's brought some serious power to the streets of Detroit. The biggest rivalry being between GM and Ford. Camaro's, Transam's, Firebirds and Mustangs were all looked into. During the 80's Ford and the Foxbody Mustang had it locked down kicking the ugly IRock Camaro out the door. This is were something clicked, a light bulb going off. Watching the American Iron Series on Youtube, the Foxbody dominated the track, and there's no question that it destroyed anything on the streets, even today eating everything in it's way. That light bulb going off made perfect sense: Hundreds of companies, and parts that are local, inexpensive, rear wheel drive, solid axle and most importunely, fast out of the box. So instead of breaking something, and doing "over night parts from Japan" a quick stop to Summit Racing could solve all of our problems.
After countless failures and let downs, one afternoon we found a black 86 Foxbody, cammed, lowered, blown and mint. Absolutely no rust found. By the time the evening rolled around, we were owners of yet another black sheep, something infamous.
Already putting money into our new monster, 2014 is going to be a stressful year, but now looking back, i can definitely say the lights shinning on us. We always were the different kids on the block. Trying the keep a solid axle, rear wheel drive, 475 horse power domestic on the twisties is going to be extremely hard, but that's what Heinkel's all about, being different.
-Thanks to all who read this.
Chris
