This was my first attempt at a quasi restoration, I did everything myself including my first full motor rebuild. I had to pull an all nighter before the race, with fellow board member EppJD, in which we discovered a hole in the chain case around 1 am. We went until 4:30 the morning of the race getting everything working. A few test laps in the yard and it was off to the races.
We completed half of the race before the crank drain rattled loose and we had to shut down before the motor melted down. After the first 20 miles I discovered 3 broken motor mounts, we were able to fix them with some borrowed self tapping screws. Another lap netted up 2 lost boogie wheels and problems with the throttle cable. I enjoyed the race but more testing will be required before the next attempt. It is a small miracle that things worked as well as they did considering the clutch was a complete guess, the motor was little more than an educated guess and 1 test mile around the yard before the race.
