Plotting a K-ome Back

Long time no post eh? Well that happens when the racing hobby eats it's 3rd engine in 6 years and 2 fully built race engines in 2 years. I love racing, but there is a limit to the money and time I can put into it. In early August of 2022, this happened:

Two fully built race engines in 2 years which was well over $25k down the drain and hundreds of hours of blood sweat and tears. Both my sanity and my wallet needed a break. I parked the car did some investigation and when I found the broken cam shaft I pretty much knew there is little chance of resurecting it for 2023. The problems were several:

• First of it broke. It can't run until it's fixed (duh)
• I had justified fixing the last engine by saying "doing it right with the dry sump will make it last"
• I promised not to spend significantly in 2022 after the 2021 build one, declared a mulligan and swore to keep cost down for 2 years to compensate
• I was litterally doing almost nothing but working on the car preparing for races and racing for a solid 8 months prior, and at least 14 of the prior 24 months. There IS more to life than racing

So I took a break and did some other stuff... 

• I learned to fly a plane
  
  
  
• I traveled to China to see where my wife grew up
  
  
  
• I published a fantasy fiction book. 
  
  
  

It's been a good break and the feeling that I'm missing the rest of life has subsided. Now it's time to race again... And the title is a hint at what I'm planning 😉. Details soon...