The Pucker Factor Racing #85 '91 SE-R will be at it again trying to uphold the honor of the mighty SR20.

If we can get the brakes bled properly and keep the engine in one piece, we should do alright. Can we hope for a top-40 finish?

I hear the car has a Facebook page; having never been on Facebook, I can't supply a link but those who know how should be able to search for it. Grover will update the page Saturday evening and sometime early next week.

P.S. I wish to thank Matt and the crew for maintaining this fantastic web resource. I used it twice last week, once to find out the 280ZX gasket substitute for the Hotshot primary/secondary gasket and again to locate the part number for the alternator belt needed for the underdrive pulley set when removing the A/C compressor.

Best of luck to The Pucker Factor Racing!

Just make sure to secret lots of good beer and scotch near the "cheater" bits... :D

We didn't know about the scotch last year, thus we were hit with a 25-lap penalty for the header. You Left Coast cheaters have put a sour taste in their mouth for the SE-R. I was mighty surprised when they scoped the cams!

Any way, thanks for your well-wishes. I'll make a note next week on our results.

Scoped, as in put a scope in the valve cover to look at the cams? If so, wow.

Just make sure to secret lots of good beer and scotch near the "cheater" bits... :D

That includes the SE-R badge!

I think someone got a penalty last year just for running an SE-R...

Yes, Steve, they pulled the oil filler cap off and stuck a flexible scope w/ light in there to eyeball the cams. They spent a good five minutes in there making sure we weren't running S4s or similar.

We pulled the "R" off but kept the glue residue as a joke. Plus, we registered as an "SE-R" and made no bones about it. In addition, we were not the only SE-R there last September. Didn't have time to talk the other guy.

They use Nissan billets though, so I just don't see how they're going to be able to tell you've got S4s in there unless they've got some sort of digital imaging and a stocker to compare it to.

I do have an old, 13k RPM purple heart winning set of Tomeis that may end up in our eventual car. If they gripe, I'll tell them to check out all the custom scratches.

You Left Coast cheaters have put a sour taste in their mouth for the SE-R.

Yeah, the left coast is giving SE-Rs a bad name :rolleyes:

http://jalopnik.com/5476338/bring-a-sr20det+powered-se+r-to-lemons-get-9200-penalty-laps

and booo.....

91st and 88 laps down?

http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2010/02/500x_ltxs10-standingsprintsat-3.jpg

I vote for ban :tongue:

You're #1 on that piece of paper... :D

What broke?

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Another 24 Hours of Lemons has come and gone. Pucker Factor Racing’s #85 ’91 SE-R survived though not without collecting more dents. We finished a measly 70th place but that’s 15 positions better than our first try. Grover Pickering, George “King Turd” Roffe, Kevin Smith (dirt modified racer), Andrew Simmons and yours truly were the drivers for this event.

Once again, lack of reliability bit us in the arse. We lost an hour fixing the exhaust when it sheared clean behind the cat. At least the drive train performed admirably.

The shenanigans started early for us this race. We went through Friday’s safety tech with flying colors but somehow missed the BS tech. With an hour remaining, we drove back to tech to get judged for our cheats. We didn’t bribe this time and when asked if we petitioned for a residual value, Grover just said “No, we suck.” As the judges started to wind up and lambaste us for the header and whatnot, someone else says” What’s that puddle under your car?” And it was a BIG puddle. This stops the judges in their tracks and they disgustedly wave their hands over the car and say “Five laps. Get the car fixed and come back to tech.” So, we push the car back to our paddock space and determined that the passenger axle seal is leaking. We knew we couldn’t fix the leak in time to get the car through tech, so Grover suggested emptying the transmission and pushing the car back. We’d replace the seal afterwards when we had all night. We guessed we could drive the car out of tech for a few tens of yards to make everything look kosher without undue risk and that’s exactly what we did. Yahoo! Car was cleared to race, and only five penalty laps versus the 25 they gave us last time.

Grover rooted around and found a replacement seal in his Stash o’ Stuff but we needed more tranny fluid and some grease. While that was being fetched we determined that in our frenzied haste to replace the engine at the last race we forgot the three bolts for the axle carrier bearing. How we raced for two hours last time without the axle disengaging us beyond us. I noticed earlier while prepping the car that both front and rear motor mount bolts were loose and this was another instance of crap we overlooked last September. Anyway, the axle came out easy and we believed the seal to be undamaged, so a little grease was smeared, we reinstalled axle (replacement bolts also found in Grover's Stash o' Stuff) and filled the transmission through the speedo hole. We finished with plenty of time to eat, imbibe and get to sleep before midnight.

We ran clean all day Saturday but that afternoon the exhaust broke. We lost an hour fixing the break good enough to continue racing.

Sunday dawned cold and foggy. You know how airlines are now charging fat people for taking up too much room? Well, I was forced to drive first session because the dad-gummed lap belts were bolted too far back in the car and can barely be latched due my big belly. The consensus was to send me out first when there was plenty of time to struggle to belt me in rather than trying to do so in the hot pit. This was a blessing in disguise as rain moved in 15 minutes before my shift was up. We had drizzle from 10:15 to about 1 PM and this played hob with racing. At least we can say we can out-drive any NASCAR putz in the rain! Naturally, many fenders were dented and many spins were spun. A surprising number of cars rolled this race, most due to weather conditions. One car rolled right at pit out while we were changing drivers. Of course, no one was allowed back onto the track until EMS and cleared the car and hosed down the leaked fuel so we lost a good six or eight laps right there. We had three black flags Sunday for get-offs and one bump that was our fault. Grover spun to a stop on the track and then came in unbidden for punishment. The Lemon’s crew didn’t know why he was there (slow communications the entire event) so when asked he admitted to spinning. When asked whose fault, he said “Mine.” The judges were stunned (at least they played it that way for the crowd) that anyone would admit this and told Grover to just get back on the track. Minimal time was lost and a lesson was learned. Grover drove the final session for the checkered flag and 70th place.

The engine we took from George’s car that hadn’t run for nine years is strong and isn’t using oil at a worrisome rate. We are losing water but we haven’t determined if it’s being sucked in through the head gasket or leaking or just being pushed out the overflow bottle. The LSD still works and was much appreciated in tighter turns.

Thankfully we could and did run the NX brakes. We never wanted for more braking power and made a lot of passes under braking.

The 195/50-15 Yoko S-Drives have lasted two races and can easily finish a third. Between the very old Tokicos and the tires we ruled the Carousel, a 70+ mph 270° sweeper. It was stunningly easy to pass BMWs. In fact, I could pass any car anywhere in that turn. It was awesome. Sure, it would be nice to run AGXs, 300/200 springs and big honking sway bars but that’s outside the scope of LeMons. What we really need is wider tires and another 20 horses to run with the BMWs and FoMoCos down the straights. Oh, and to not lose time for penalties and repairs.

If you gray Sentra GTR drivers are reading this, nice try but what did you expect? Sorry you broke. Was it bad? Who are you? Your SERCA sticker is proudly displayed on Jalopnik’s write-up.

Here’s hoping I can get to the Convention with the race car. Otherwise, see you in September.