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[mhiggins10]

What do you typically load up to take with you to the track?  I know some of you guys probably roll with trailers loaded with spare engines, subframes, transmissions and differentials, but what are your "must have" items?

 

I'm thinking (at minimum):

 

Socket set (extensions, deep well, regular, etc.)

Torque wrench

Breaker bar

Floor Jack

Hammer

Screwdrivers

Fuses

Electrical wire, connectors and tape

Crimper/stripper tool

Voltmeter/Multimeter

5 qts Oil

Spare Oil filter

Trans fluid

Diff fluid

Hand Pump

Spare set of brake pads and rotors

2 qt brake fluid

Speedbleeder/drain bottle

 

Other ideas?

 

I'm obviously excluding things like water/fluids for the driver, cooler, sunscreen, chair, ez-up, etc.- looking more at what you take for mechanical/field maintenance items.

[Duncan]

What do you typically load up to take with you to the track?  I know some of you guys probably roll with trailers loaded with spare engines, subframes, transmissions and differentials, but what are your "must have" items?

 

I'm thinking (at minimum):

 

Socket set (extensions, deep well, regular, etc.)

Torque wrench

Breaker bar

Floor Jack

Hammer

Screwdrivers

Fuses

Electrical wire, connectors and tape

Crimper/stripper tool

Voltmeter/Multimeter

5 qts Oil

Spare Oil filter

Trans fluid

Diff fluid

Hand Pump

Spare set of brake pads and rotors

2 qt brake fluid

Speedbleeder/drain bottle

 

Other ideas?

 

I'm obviously excluding things like water/fluids for the driver, cooler, sunscreen, chair, ez-up, etc.- looking more at what you take for mechanical/field maintenance items.

If you're not going to carry a spare transmission or diff, I'm not sure if there's any value in carrying around gear oil.  In three years of racing a Spec Miata I've never drained the engine, transmission or diff oil at the track. 

 

I have however, bled my brakes on more than one occasion.

 

Most of the spares I carry are to repair damage from contact.  Therefore I always have.

 

- Suspension parts for all 4 corners, to include shocks, tie rods, ball joints, etc...

- Calipers and brake lines.

- Pads and Rotors.

 

For reliability related items, I carry.

 

- Transmission and clutch

- Master and Slave cylinders for clutch.

- Brake Master Cylinder

- New Coil, plugs, wires, cam and crank sensors.

- ECU

- fuel pump

 

Things I should probably carry, but haven't acquired yet.

 

- Spare diff

- rear axles

- alternator

 

FWIW, I have a 26ft GN trailer and a relatively long tow to some tracks, so space is not at a premium, and my tolerance for fixing something before packing up and going home might be higher than most.

 

This also doesn't include the tools.

 

Duncan

[Caveman-kwebb99]

Pry bar assortment

Rubber mallot

Big hammer

Brake fluid

Diff fluid

Trans fluid

Oil

I have seen many bring a comealong and have seen a wasted car pulled straight at Gateway and made raceable

Upper front control arm they are same left and right

Upper rear control arm they are same left and right

Right lower front control arm

Left lower front control arm

Left rear lower control arm

Right rear lower control arm

Extra shocks

Motor mounts

extra sway bar end link

two extra front hubs 

extra rear knuckles with repacked bearings

1 extra rear axle

diff housing cover

spare trans

brakes and lines

engine wire harness

fuses

Alternator 

Belts

Zip ties and duct tape

Spare mirrors

crank sensor

cam sensor

spark plug wires

coils

head lights if i have some

tail lights if i have some

 

Most people think I'm crazy yet every weekend people are at my trailer asking for parts

[mvzante]

http://blog.miatarac...spec-miata.html

 

Here is a good baseline for you on some tools....

[FTodaro]

Kyle i thought you were just going to list my Trailer.

[Caveman-kwebb99]

thats just for the tools frank, i like your tools better then mine...

 

I think between you and I we have everything imaginable

[Jim Drago]

The OPM  and Advanced Trailers 

[Caveman-kwebb99]

The OPM  and Advanced Trailers 

 

Those have came in handy many times also

[Armando Ramirez]

Make sure BSI is going to the event, and if not BSI the Naon's.

 

[AJ Roderick]

 

Most people think I'm crazy yet every weekend people are at my trailer asking for parts

thats not why we think you are crazy

[Tom Sager]

One of the great things about our class is the just in time parts inventory at all events.  

[Alberto]

It's a Miata.  They don't break (knock on wood...).  Maintenance gets done at home before I hit the track.

 

Musts: Oil, lug nuts, jack, torque wrench, water, portable 24" tool box, tire pressure gauge, tiny portable air compressor

 

Also, beer.  Beer is good.

[pat slattery]

some of the well funded teams  bring additional 99 car, a 01 vvt, 4 sets of tires 2 spare engines spare tranny, etc..

[mhiggins10]

http://blog.miatarac...spec-miata.html

 

Here is a good baseline for you on some tools....

VERY helpful- thanks!  

 

This coming weekend will be my first away from a home track which has a full race shop onsite (my normal SM mechanic), so i'm trying to think of anything I might need on hand.  There will also be an auto parts store close to the track, and I've made use of the plentiful nature of miata parts before...

 

 

If the trans, motor or diff take a shit on me, I'm packing up and going home- I'm not at that level yet.  A broken diff cost me a weekend (broke on my first hot lap for Saturday qualifying), but I can't have several grand in spares lined up (yet...)

 

Thanks for the input guys!

[FTodaro]

One of the great things about our class is the just in time parts inventory at all events.  

And don't forget the guys who are willing to drop all to fix your stuff. We have all had to make a withdrawal of the Goodwill fund.

[Tom Sager]

And don't forget the guys who are willing to drop all to fix your stuff. We have all had to make a withdrawal of the Goodwill fund.

Yes, very thankful for the help I get from time to time.  I gave back to the fund over the weekend.  My trailer is no longer here.  Seems that someone else needed it.  Just don't know who that someone is.  

[Todd Tagget]

Just added a spare alternator to the list :-)