Darius Rementeria is our featured driver this week

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Robert Lundbohm

Darius Rementeria is our featured driver this week

Darius Rementeria is your Assistant RE

Tell me about how you got into racing…was it AutoX? Or something else?

I always liked motorsports. Really it just came down to the trying of the 2 outlets available to me. I tried Drag and then AutoX. Drag just seemed kinda boring. Honestly, I was horrible at both of them. Some friends of mine had to explain that you didn’t actually wait for the green light to go at Drag Racing. I went with autoX but cause at least my hands were shaking when I finished a run…

What was your first car you raced?

Audi TT. I was working at Petersons, and already had a nice Audi A4. I bought the TT right off the truck, with 5 miles on it. Soon after the racing seasons started and I took it out to race it. It wasn’t the greatest AutoX car. I did a full season in BS and got my ass handed to me at every event by the other guys in the class…but I was hooked. Sold that car and searched for a couple years for the right time and opportunity to buy a better platform.

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Robert Lundbohm is our featured Driver of the Week…

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Robert Lundbohm

Robert Lundbohm is our featured Driver of the Week…

Since the rest of the Board are too chicken to send me their info…

You all get to laugh at me this week…

Robert Lundbohm is your new 2010 SRRSCCA Editor …

Tell me about your first car…what did you do to it…how did it handle…etc what did you drive next, now, what have you done to it…plan for it… etc…

Whoa…that took me back a few years. I grew up on a ranch in Montana and we had a 1947 Willys Jeep with a bad engine and we also had a wrecked 1958 C-10 with a good 283 so Dad and I put the 283 in the jeep for me to use on the ranch. I guess my first real street legal car with license plates and all was a 1953 Dodge (something?) with a push button automatic. It was an Ultra UGLY pea soup green/kinda/gray and slooooow, it was freedom on wheels though.

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Paul Owen is our featured Driver this week…

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Robert Lundbohm

Paul Owen is our featured Driver this week…

I’ve had several of you email me and ask about getting the scoop on the Board and do a Driver Interview for each. One thing though…no matter how much you want the lowdown stuff…I’m not going there. Hey, I gotta work with these guys, so it just aint gonna happen…LOL

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Driver Interview – Guy Pumpelly

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Robert Lundbohm

Guy Pumpelly is our featured Driver this week.

Guy has been racing his sweet ’77 Datsun 280 “Z” since July of 2008. He said it wasn’t too pretty at first but has metamorphosis it into a thing of beauty. Here’s a link to show how it progressed http://zdoctor.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=6724365

His silver rocket is not just Handsome but it cooks on the course as well now. I was about to call it pretty but that just doesn’t seem descriptive enough for the animal it has become. It’s a bit of a hand full without power steering and sometimes he can’t keep up with the steering because of the Bowtie power, thus the cone penalties…that’s his story and he’s sticking to it… AHUH…Right Guy… ?????

A little history and detail about this BADASS “Z”… He’s named it “Urzula”. Guy first bought the car for $400 out of a field in 1997 as a restoration project and has been customizing it ever since. His engine of choice? A mid 1970’s Chevy 350 fueled by an Edelbrock 600cfm. Power is then sent to the rear via a T-5 tranny. Today it sports Eibach 2.5 coil over springs and 5 way adjustable Tokiko strut inserts, urethane bushings through out, a 1” front sway bar, a stock 2+2 rear sway bar with custom top strut bars from Ammermans custom Exhaust. Stopping power comes from a 2+2 brake booster, stock front brakes for now and cross drilled and slotted rear.

His next quest for the car is to install true LSD to help with forward bite.

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