On your Mark...
Well the car is ready, she got a new air intake filter, checked the fluids, put the plate back on, and put on the lucky (hopefully) 8 ball shifter. Tomorrow just have to check the tire pressure and off we go... Race Time!







It has been a fun week getting the car ready to go. Team LB Performance is ready for its big debut! Now I need to get some sleep and get rested for a long day tomorrow... wish me luck!

Just a little more...
Well today got the door panels, trim, and door handles off. It was not too difficult but we did it and got it primered. All there is left to primer now is the hood and the front bumper cover. The project is really moving forward, thanks to mother nature for bringing nice weather to work outside in.







Besides the car work it was a pretty slow day... looked around for apartments with Hermen and Ramiro. Nothing yet but we are getting close and I know we will find the prefect place any day now for sure. I love moving, getting a new place and figuring out were everything will go is tons of fun for me...

Alright I got to clean my place now, this busy week of working on the car has reaked havoc on my poor living room... got to bust out the vaccum.

Power Sanding
Alright now we really got work done on the car... we got the power sander out and went to town! Almost the entire car now is sanded and tomorrow Hermen and I will get it all primered up. We got the rest of the trim off, and tomorrow we just need to pull the window trim off, remove the door handles and spray primer. Lets just hope we get warm weather....

For those wondering exactly what I mean by racing, here goes... I am doing an event called an AutoCross this weekend. What this means is that there will be a track set up with cones, each car will run against itself and the clock. So it is very safe (especially for a novice racer like me) and I will not be bumper to bumper with other cars battling at 200 MPH (even though I might try that in the future, just not this time).

Rudy, Vic and Juan came and visited from Kalamazoo today. It was cool to see them and chill here at my place. I miss Kalamazoo and all the good times there, the road trip with Vic to the east coast will be a blast next week! Can't wait.

Well I am off to sleep now, so I can get up early and get back to sanding...

Primer Grey
Today I got a lot done. Worked at Student Life for a few hours and got some of the website work out of the way and started on the t-shirts for the welcome back BBQ in the fall. Hermen and I went looking for houses again... we found a cool house and checked out some others. We just got to get the roommate situation all set and ready to move.

Sanding on the car continues... we got the ground effects off and some of the trim so we can get the paint all smooth. The rust is not as bad as I thought it would be so the schedule is back on track and hopefully we will be painting soon.



Tomorrow after CompuCraft I am going to get back to sanding... and then put down some more primer. Got to love that primer grey color!

Well it is getting late and I am off to bed. This week will be busy as I prepare for my first race with the NX. I am excited and nervous at the same time. She is still mostly in primer and not looking all that great, but she is ready for the track. This paint job is a larger project then I had thought, but a great learning experience. Either way Hermen and I are having fun working on it. Please keep up with the NX section of my website for updates on the progress of the car.

Thanks Andy and Miguel for signing my comments and testing that out for me. I am glad I got this blog started and I will try to keep it updated. Off to bed....

Got Blog?
Well folks... I have a blog! Yes the time has come and I have started a blog to start the wonderful month of June. My Brothers wanted me to start one and of course I have to keep up. After some work I got this to work and I am excited to get this up and running. I hope you like the look, and leave comments for me. Thanks!

Trying to test the commenting abilities... glad haloscan started accepting signups again!