July 21, 2011
John Morton and the BRE Roadster
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Show Summary
The show starts of with last a minute tire install at America’s Tire who supplied the racing rubber for Adam’s BRE (Brock Racing Enterprises) Roadster. Then Adam, Sandy, and the rest of the CarCast crew head to Willow Springs Raceway to test out Adam’s Datsun BRE Roadster. In for the inaugural test run is famed driver John Morton. John drove for BRE back in the day and had driven and fabricated many parts on the BRE race cars. Enjoy the open mike and candid pit conversations!
Show Links
And More information on America’s Tire / Discount Tire right at Tires.com Special thanks to Mark and his crew at the Glendale America’s Tire for another great and fast job!
Video
America’s Tire / Discount Tire Tire Install
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwF7aGoFLA
Willow Springs, John Morton, BRE 1
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OSgQ91j-c
Image Gallery
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Ace and Sandy!
Great “Shake down” show with the super talented John Morton!
I’m sure Monterey will be a awesome experience!
Jack
May be worthwhile to post on CarCast a video clip of Jim’s call in question to Adam on the 7/21/11 Ustream “Adam and You” (34:22 to 41:58), which covered the basics of torque/brake horsepower/rpm/displacement.
This photo is all about weird stuff going [on] with pants.
[ace – edited]
“going on”. Maybe in the next century we can edit our comments.
I fixed it up for you 😉
Sandy
How about Mouth Breathers Racing Concepts for a team name? My contribution.
Really good vid… I feel like the new ‘Car Show’ would be a lot better if it had some stuff like this, Ganz really needs to get on there and make the thing fun like these carcast videos.
Thanks for doing this Adam. Making me want to go rescue the 3(!) little roadsters right by my house, all in varying states of disarray. Sadly we are in the minority of people who think this is an important and worthwhile way to spend our time and money. Can’t wait to see future episodes with the Newman cars. LOVE that Camel car in your garage.
ACEMAN – what class are you going to run at the Monterrey Historics? Will you be there Friday for qualifying or just showing up Saturday?? Planning my trip and want to see the BRE in action!
I think Ace is running on Friday and Sunday. I don’t recall what he said about the class (Might be B-Production, but not sure but must be on line somewhere). I think he said he is not running on Saturday, but I think we are at the track for some spectator action.
Sandy
I was wondering: Was that extra hump on the roll cage added for Ace, or was it already there?
Also, I don’t know if it was intentional (probably not), but I dig the way Ace’s helmet echoes Buck Owen’s signature guitar.
Scott –
That was added because Adam is taller then the Average driver and his head was above the roll bar line, and he wanted at least something higher then his helmet. The paint scheme is likely old school Datsun BRE Team colors or something, but not sure.
Sandy
Really great show! Terrific video great guest.
Anyway of defaulting the ‘player’ to a lower volume? The default is ‘max’ volume when it opens [same for other ACE podcasts as well]
Greg
Don’t think so, it’s pretty simple and I don’t recall any settings in the code that allows a preset for volume. About the only thing I can suggest is before clicking on the Play button is to turn down the PC’s volume a bit.
Sandy
No worries – Thanks for reply Sandy – I’ll see what I can do.
Once you get things sorted out, take a screen shot of the gauges (oil temp, pressure, coolant, etc) and then rotate them in the dash so when at full operating temp/pressure, the needles all point vertically. Makes it much easier in a race to see that everything is working properly without actually having to read the gauge.
God what a gorgeous Datsun. and some awesome pics. cool to see Ace pokin’ under the hood. keep it up guys!
SU carbs? Bolt those Mikuni 44 or 50’s up! The car looks great.
Great shots with the track in the distance. I gotta build me a race Mini so I can play speed racer with you guys…
Greg