January 12, 2010 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
We had some problems with our instrument cluster in our 1998 Neon race car we used in the 24 hours of Lemons race in 2008. The tachometer didnt work!
Turns out, its a real common problem with first gen Neons where the solder joints break on the back of the pc board on the back...
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November 2, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
We got in some new tires for our 24 hours of Lemons endurance race car.
These are 15 inch Kumho Ecsta XS tires, and its basically a race track type tire thats street legal. They were only about $85 a piece as well so they were super affordable.
These will be FAR better tires than the passenger...
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October 27, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
Heres a car that was amazingly cool, but yet not racing in the 24 hours of Lemons. I believe it was an Art Car from Tulsa ? All of the lobsters and fish were animated ,and controlled by a computer inside the car. Songs would be played, and the lobsters and fish would move, and...
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October 26, 2009 at 1:36pmPosted in MP Blog
Last weekend, October 24th and October 25th, Modern Performance and its employees participated in the 24 hours of Lemons race. The 24 hours of Lemons is a endurance type race, where we race for 8 hours straight on saturday and 6 hours straight on sunday. The race track we raced at was the Motorsports Ranch...
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October 23, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
Here we are painting the lower half creme color.
Yours truly, painting the busted up passenger side.
Kyles painting the GOOD side of the car that wasnt demolished.
The final result ! It looks great ! Too bad we couldnt weld on a rotor to the roof like originally planned.
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October 22, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
We did more work to our Airwolf themed 24 hours of Lemons Racecar today.
Now that its been fully sanded and cleaned, its time to start taping it all off to prepare it for painting.
Heres our first coat of Airwolf gray paint. Notice how we are not painting the bottom so that we can paint the...
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October 21, 2009 at 2:59pmPosted in MP Blog
PLEASE NOTE: Modern Performance will be closed on Saturday OCT 24th because we will be racing in the 24 hours of Lemons!
You will still be able to place orders through our shopping cart, however our phone lines will not be answered on saturday due to our entire staff racing in the 24 hours of Lemons...
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October 19, 2009 at 3:47pmPosted in MP Blog
We did some bodywork to our race car to fix some of the damage done to our car in the last 24 hours of lemons race.
Here is a photo showing some of our crude low dollar bodywork. Here’s Kyle: one of our warehouse employees using a Progress swaybar to bend some of the crushed sheetmetal...
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October 14, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
We’ve received our race suits for our upcoming Lemons race. We’ve got 7 drivers, but in order to reduce the overall cost of buying suits, helmets, etc, we narrowed everyones sizes down to 3 size suits that we could share. I know, I know, it sounds gross to share suits, but it would be outrageously...
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October 12, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
We put in more wrench time on our 24 hours of Lemons Race car and we wanted to share some photos.
In this post you’ll see that we have removed the stickers to prepare the car for its new paint scheme, as well as fixed the bent hub on the front passenger side suspension. Because of...
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October 1, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
Modern Performance will be participating in the 2009 24 Hours of Lemons Race on October 24th and 25th this year at the Motorsports Ranch in south Houston.8
We raced in this event last year and were 23rd out of 78 cars, with many of our employees never having ANY racing experience. This year we’ll have a...
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September 5, 2009 at 8:00amPosted in MP Blog
MP has entered into the 24 hours of Lemons race event scheduled for October 2009. Lemons race is a endurance race over saturday and sunday, 10 hours a day, and its a race of $500 cars !
Its really quiet a blast, and last year, MP built a 98 Neon, and we called it Team Grocery...
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July 15, 2009 at 6:13pmPosted in MP Blog
Ok guys, 3 more days until we have the MP meet.
We’ve got a LOT of Neon SRT-4’s, Neons, Caliber SRT-4’s all coming to this meet, from as far away as Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin.
If your going to be driving out to the meet, please pay close attention.
MP has a fairly large...
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April 5, 2009 at 7:56pmPosted in MP Blog
We never had a place to post photos from this SRT-4/Neon/Cobalt meet on our site, but now that we have a blog, we decided to post them for your enjoyment here.
This was a pretty successful meet with about 40-45 Dodge SRT-4’s, Dodge Neons, Chevy Cobalt SS’s (super and turbo) as well as Dodge Caliber SRT4’s.
I...
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