[Fot] FOT Team Support at Thompson Midnight Madness HRG Races

[David Cutter]

Mike, that looks like a fun event, thanks for sharing the video.   Are you
racing at Pitt this year?

Cheers, Dave
Spit #142

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 8:29 PM Mike Harmuth via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Here's some in-car video of Jim (in Russ Moore's old Spit) and I racing in
> the dark after we got his car fixed back up.
> Thompson road course, last Saturday night. 2 red 63 Spitfires, we had LEDs
> on the roll cages so the spectators could tell us apart. Jim's were Red,
> Mine were Blue. The plug on mine shook out with a few laps to go and I went
> dark. Jim thought I had an off until we got back in the oval section of the
> track and saw I was still on his tail.
>
> https://youtu.be/FXzls1xzMTo
>
> mike h
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:03 PM Philip Gott via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Glad to be of help Jim! You certainly drove that car very well. All the
>> more remarkable as it is a relatively new car to you. Well done!
>> Phil
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Jul 7, 2024, at 3:32 PM, James Trudeau via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > 
>> > Suited up and ready to head to grid in 10 minutes hit my fuel pump and
>> starter buttons on my Spit, only to hear a lonely click and no motor
>> turning ignition. Again. Click. Out of car, hood up, frantically checking
>> for obvious problems: fuel pump, oil pressure override, loose wires?
>> Nothing obvious.
>> >
>> > Jumped on my bike to consult with FoT members Mike Harmuth and Phil
>> Gott. Get it push started and we will look at it after.
>> >
>> > I return to my car and strap in, when I look up, Phil Gott is there
>> orchestrating the push and as my group is released I get the car started
>> (to face a flag waving official in my path - don’t make me stall!).
>> >
>> > After my session, Phil came by and checked continuity- all good to the
>> starter: Phil’s prediction was a broken wire inside. Frustrating since I’d
>> replaced it two weeks ago!
>> >
>> > Since I has my old starter, Phil suggested I pull the new one and we’d
>> refresh the old one before the afternoon session!
>> >
>> > Jackie up the car, wheel off, transmission cowling off, oil pressure
>> sensor off and the bolts and soon starter follow.
>> >
>> > What followed was a lesson in troubleshooting as Phil and Mike tested
>> old and new starters with my lithium jump pack in the bed of a utility golf
>> cart. . The new starters internal jump was separated from its terminal lug.
>> The old starters solenoid was indeed grimy (which caused the intermittent
>> problems that had prompted the purchase of a new British Starter.)With Phil
>> and Mike sanding contacts and reassembling components, I was reduced to
>> tool supplier.
>> >
>> > With the old starters health rejuvenated, it was handed over to me to
>> install, with Mike down on the asphalt holding wrenches and making jokes.
>> >
>> > The solution worked, the car is again starting on command!
>> >
>> > So my thanks again to FOT’s Phil, and Mike (and Mark Wheatley on some
>> other questions) for getting this vintage novice “back on track.”  Mike and
>> I had some close racing in the later sessions (that Mike as HRG leader
>> organizes!).
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
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