I just wanted to give everyone an update on our current timing. Assuming everyone can make it every Saturday and put in a full days work we will have the car completed and ready to start it and start working out bugs on the 28th of May. Realistically things will go wrong and best case on average 1 person won't be able to make it per week. This pushes us back to June 11th and this is where we can just start testing and trouble shooting.
After June 11th we should have the obvious issues fixed and we will be ready to start tuning the engine and fixing other on road bugs this is going to take a bare minimum of a month. This puts us at the middle of July.
After that we need to test and tune the suspension, steering and brakes on the road and on the track at least another month here too. This puts us at the middle of August and we will have missed our July 23rd race.
But we still aren't done at that point. We need to put together replacement parts, like the engine, transmission, driveshaft, differential, etc and install them and make sure they work this basically brings us to October.
So, we have basically 2 options here.
Option 1:We get serious and bust our asses and work the equivalent of 2 full days a week (Maybe add a couple days after work or something) and that could shave 9 weeks putting us at completion August 1st, which is clearly not July 15 which is our drop dead completion date to make the July race. I don't know what everyone else thinks but I am also willing to take carcation days from work to get us where we need to be.
Option 2: We miss the July 23rd race (lame) and race one race this year on October 8th. The big risk here is that we get out there, something goes terribly wrong, the race is a bust and we wont have another opportunity to race until 2017.
Not an option 3: We keep working at the current pace and we will be lucky to race in 2017 ( seriously)
I promise you guys this timing is realistic and we will not race this year if we continue the way we are so please think about this and let me know what you guys want to do?
My vote is to bust ass and try to get it done for July.
