Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How to Build a (Potentially) Winning LeMons Racer

How to Build a (Potentially) Winning LeMons Racer

The appeal of the 24 Hours of LeMons, the world's best beater-endurance series, lies in its simplicity: Buy a $500 car and go racing. It's not quite that easy or cheap—even though there is a spending limit on the car, there's none on safety gear—and it's amazing how many stupid modification mistakes you'll witness in a given race weekend. (The series hosts 20 or so events per year, some likely at a racetrack near you.) We've pooled our collective knowledge from six years of LeMons racing into the lightly crashed Gen-2 Mazda RX-7 on these pages to help you make it to the top of the crap heap. We'll be there, too, as soon as we follow our own car-building advice, so be sure to wave at us when we're stuck tail first in the barrier. For further guidance, go to www.24HoursofLeMons.com. Our best advice: Read the rules. No, really, we mean it. Then read them again. (more…)



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