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11 oktober 2009
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16 december 2012
Thunderbird88, the guy who drag races Thunderbirds with his dad, brought me here, and promised that my writing in English would not offend. My apologies if it does. Nice site.

Me? I live in the US, in Davis, CA, which is between Sacramento and San Francisco. I used to teach and manage a microscopy/x-ray facility in Engineering at U.C. Davis, but burned out. Now I work at home writing books, software, and making videos. When I can, I get to the track to drive, where I also instruct new drivers. I've driven at nearly 50 events, and I have been racing in the 24 Hours of LeMons series for about a year and a half.

My ride? I drive a black 1998 Honda Prelude, mod'ed step-by-step as I learned to drive better and learned what the car needed. I started with seats and wheel and harness, because cornering G's were pinning me to the door and bruising my leg. Next, brakes and tires, which was a big improvement. After that, suspension - coil-overs and sway bars, which gave the car a much crisper response. Also, a Quaife LSD. These last two mods alone cut my lap times at Thunderhill (3 mile course) by 10 seconds.

I also do a lot of track video and my car is pre-wired for cameras and sound. I used to have about 100 videos on Streetfire but pulled them due to their advertising methods. Check out my channel on Vimeo/KStreetStudio for recent videos and coming uploads of my older videos. I'll try to upload one or two here.

My race car? A 1969 Opel GT that we found in an orchard, bought for $200, and transformed into a viable race car in 9 weeks. We've been racing it for over and year and doing well and having a ton of fun. Sweden, you must do a LeMons race!

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