Thread: 24 Hours of LeMons

Anyone else running a Lemon? Kind of surprised not to see any other threads on this.

A mercury cougar?? And it is still running? This is madness!

geez.. that 200sx looks way too nice to be a lemons car!

I was thinking the same thing there are dudes on the forum with rusty beaters that would love to have that car.

Thank you guys, I take that as a compliment. But you must keep in mind, it looks clean because it was just spray painted. The reality of it is, this car is (was) a beater. The list of stuff we had to do to make this car track worthy would top most of the amounts I see these cars selling for here on this forum. Make no mistake about it, when it was bought, it was a rusty sub $500 bucket. It has 240K miles on the original motor, trans, and (prior to the race) clutch as well. The car didn't rev above 2K RPMs, the exhaust manifold was leaking because the studs were torn out and threads crossed, the gas tank was rusted and leaking, the struts were shots, brake calipers and pins completely wasted, ball joints, bushings and end links completely shot, CV joint boot torn, alternator dead, emergency brakes not working... and that's just what I can come up with off the top of my head, before you consider regular maintenance like belts, fluids, brake rotors, pads and etc. Needless to say, there's a reason we picked this car. This thing was a monster for the 14 hours we beat on it. And it also has a cool back story, as this car was originally mine before I sold it in 2005 and then got it back in 2012. Here she is back in 2005:

Now thats a cool backstory.

wow.. that is fantastic! gluck with it!

Well, that old motor decided it had enough this past weekend. Enjoy the show.



We are now looking for a replacement.

...where are you located?



Did you miss a shift?

I'm in New Jersey. Didn't miss a gear, the motor went on its own. Not certain as we have yet to tear down the motor, but based on what we could tell, one of the bolts connecting the piston rod to the crank had developed a stress fracture, and eventually ... kaboom. This is the outcome: