My little project-hangup will soon be sorted as my replacement motor mount arrived! Shame I couldn't get it without the stock insert and save myself some time! It may be prudent for me to eventually order a second one, along with a second polyurethane insert so I can have one "on deck" in case this new one eventually fails. Once this one is installed, I will have one more "difficult mount", the rear one, as I have to drop the crossmember. I'm starting to think that I'll leave the interior intact for now and run the car in Prepared FWD at a NER RallyCross next month as it's going to be at my favorite RX site of the year!
Meanwhile, I was doing other racing-type stuff this weekend with my winter beater:
What a weekend! It all started up in Dalton NH yesterday morning for a "Test-N-Tune" event at Team O'Neil Rally School. Going to this event was an extremely good choice as it was an absolute ball, especially during the morning portions with pristine ice and snow. Despite having a completely shot limited-slip differential along with smelling like burning oil / antifreeze and in general being a turd, I put in some of the fastest times of the day based on the results shown to me. In the afternoon, the weather turned to rain and turned the entire place into a sloppy mess, so I had fun entertaining ride-alongs with ridiculously sideways action. Took a convoy of cars through wacky weather displaying all twelve seasons of New England back down to Tilton for dinner at the Tilt'N Diner. Hosted a few friends overnight and then it was off to the BMWCCA Ice Race!
Brian Kuehl had offered to let me drive his sweet Civic, mechanical LSD and super-quick steering and all, in exchange for mounting up my Hakka7 wheels on his trusty steed for the day. All seemed to be setting up to be a fantastic day, but a mix of Mother Nature-related issues and perhaps some errors on the Organizers' part meant the event did not go to plan. The really fun previous course could not be used due to ice integrity, and we ended up with literally an "Ice Autocross" with no snowbanks on a very underwhelming near-oval course. The entire event became so slow and tedious that we decided to swap the tires back over and call it a day. However, that car is so damn awesome. Hopefully we can make our plan work better at an event next year! All and all, it was a fantastic weekend.