I took the coupe out this weekend to Roebling Road Raceway for a weekend of instruction out on the track. Well going back a few months I put a fresher motor into the car for a weekend at Carolina Motorsports Park and ended up missing the weekend because of work. Long story short on that one I had to go away for a week, the week before the event and left the motor half way in the car and attempted to finish it the Friday of the event and failed. This brings us to Thursday befroe the event. The car made it all the way to and from Columbia, SC from where I live which is about 120 miles round trip for its allignment. No issues with the car. I check everything over that night before loading the car on the trailer. Everything looks good. So now we are up to date and here we are at this past Friday. The car is loaded alligned and ready to go. I go to work and leave straight from there to the track which is about three hours of driving. I get the car unloaded and find a puddle of something on the trailer deck. After grabbing a flash light and smelling it and what not it is determined to be coolant. Grabbing the working light and looking there is a small collection fo coolant on the transmission. After further inspection I find the hose from the heater core disconnected and dripping. Thank God it was not something major. Now we are at Saturday morning. I go to the all hands meeting, come back and start checking the car over once more and head over to the tech shed. They look the car over and hand me my tech sticker. I drive the car back over to my spot and head over to class. I get out of class meet up with my instructor whom I have meet at other track days but never had. We head to grid and BS some while waiting for them to release the cars. They release the car and I head out on track. I take the warm up lap and get use to the lay out of the track as this is the first time I have been to RRR. Green flag drops and we are off. The car is feeling great and the instructor is just watching the first few laps. He notices one thing in turns one and two and tells me about them. Now we are on the next to final lap... I am coming out of seven and into turn eight and I hear a knock. Not good. I drop the speed of the car way down and signal that I am headed into the hot pits. I pull in and as I am headed down the hot pit the oil light comes on. This is not going to be good. As I roll to a stop the car dies. Man this is really not looking great. The instructor and I jump out of the car pop the hood and look. The coolant that was there last night is burning off on the back side of the engine. So we notice that and can't really check much else. I hop back in the car as they have checkered the session and go to head back to my spot in the paddock. Go won't start. Joy. The instructor and I push it back to my spot (thank God it is completely gutted). Once the car has cooled back down we look the car over. There is very little oil on the dip stick... This can't be good at all. The plugs look good, there seems to be compression, so we drop some more oil in the car and start her up. At idle she sounds perfectly fine. I push the revs up to about 3000 and there it is, rod knock. The weekend is over for me as fast as it began. Talk about the suckage.

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Wow that is shitty, good luck with the fix man

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