We pull out early Friday morning to cross Canada. Headed for the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Road Course at Lexington, Ohio where the 55th Anniversary Can Am Classic Mini Challenge Races will be held June 27-29. More than 50 Classic Mini race cars will take to the grids...everything from F Production to GT5/GTLite, including a newly built sprint special...stay tuned.
Then we will see the Brickyard before swinging around Chicago (doing a day trip into the Windy City by bus) before going on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the continental Mini Meet East Meets West.
After Mini Meet - where we invite Mini owners in Western North America to come to British Columbia for Mini Meet West 2015 in our Fraser Valley - the trip will cross Iowa, South Dakota & Wyoming, turning northward in Montana for the 'Going to the Sun' road to cross the Rocky Mountains and our last days on the road to home.
Will get some photos up on this thread as we go!
Preparation for ROO included rebuilt suspension with new springs, new knuckles, new Hi-Los at rear, new studs & S drums (& hub repacks), new adjustable lower arms, new wiggly pins, tie-rods & bushings at front, new steering track rod ends, new heater take-off, new clutch master, pipe & lever/pins etc.
Interesting...when the Koni Sport dampers came off one was at maximum stiffness the other at just one turn???? Both reset at 1 1/2 turns from soft to stiff. Seems good at that.
Not enough time to complete the 1293 & tranny rebuild with pot joints, so the trusty 1098 will have to do some climbing to get across our mountains to the flat bit east of the Rocky Mountains.
