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Photos from home during service

Posted on 15 March, 2006 by | 1 Comment

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After each race the car comes apart and is cleaned and checked over.

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The trailer is washed inside and we prepare for the next race, usually the following weekend…there goes Saturday and Sunday.

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General maintainance on the engine is critical. We clean the fuel system weekly (methanol is very corrosive), wash the air filter, change the oil and filter, and check the water. We also do a leakdown each week to make sure the cylinders still seal properly, and check the tappets – these can give a good indication if there has been a failure in the engine. Finally we wash the cylinders with light oil and petrol, just incase some water got in during the wash or from the compressed air in the leak down.

All this takes me and my beautiful wife about 4 to 6 hours of our sunday and there is still plenty more to do (that is if nothing got damaged)!

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Team Peter Blake racing.

Posted on 23 February, 2006 by | 2 Comments

We have a two car team based in Kurrajong NSW. The team consists of a Top Doorslammer Drag car and 2 dirt Sprintcars. These are delivered to and from the track in our transporter. The transporter is a 410 hp Volvo truck pulling our trailer which holds up to 4 complete sedan type cars. It also has a kitchen, lounge, shower and sleeping for 5. There is also a workshop area, complete with spares, tools and tool boxes and some basic machinery, drill, grinder etc. This parks inside our workshop along side the race cars so we can work on them at home, same as we do at the track. To complement our team we also have in the workshop a milling machine, lathe, welders, grinders, oxy, plasma cutters and a complete range of diagnostic tools, including a state of the art, computerised fuel pump dyno (knowing our fuel systems is most important to us.) Almost all our work, maintenance and improvements are done in house, we also build our own engines there.

When we are at the speedway, as we are on dirt, the cars tend to get dirty (go figure), and between rounds it takes quiet some man (and woman) power to clean things up and make the necessary changes to set up in order to look good and go fast. To help with these tasks I have a great team who are always there for me, they include: Katie (my wife), Robert & Carol (dad & mum) Craig & Tracey (brother & sister), Rowan Walker (designer of this web site), Jason & Marie Newby, Mark & Donna Davidson (who have never missed a race yet), Warren Ferguson, and Rowan Williams. (Thanks guys for all your help!!!!)

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