We were invited out to an event at Thunderhill Raceway Park and to film a One Take with Matt from The Smoking Tire. Both of these are located in California so it meant it was time for a road trip.
I wanted to post updates during the trip but we were so busy that I couldn't make that happen. Instead, I'm going to do a recap here.
Our last road trip was to Tail of the Dragon. It was a shorter trip so we just flat towed Goblins behind Cobalts (link to TOTD trip thread). The California trip was mapped out to be double the distance so we wanted to use a trailer.
My dad, mom and I were going so we needed at least two Goblins. We decided to take the recently finished turbo car and P2. Our trailer, the one we rebuilt to deliver frames in January 2016 (link to delivery trip thread), is only 16 feet long so it wasn't even close to long enough for two cars. Instead, we borrowed a trailer from our office manager Jeff.
Jeff's trailer is 20 feet long, which is just a couple feet short of fitting two Goblins. However, we were able to build a structure at the front of the trailer to allow the first Goblin to park over the tongue.
The turbo car drove up and over the front rail of the trailer and nestled down onto the add-on structure.
The center line of P2's rear tires ended up being about a foot forward of the end of the trailer.
Our tow vehicle was the 2011 GMC Acadia that we towed the frames with last year. Towing two cars seems like a lot but they only weigh 3,070 pounds together. We've towed single donor cars that weighed almost that much.
We monitored coolant, oil and transmission fluid temps with an OBD2 reader. The Acadia had to work going up some of the mountains but it never got too hot. We averaged 12.5 miles per gallon over the entire trip and ended up putting right at 4,000 miles on it.
In my next post I'll cover the drive to San Rafael, which we split over two days.
I wanted to post updates during the trip but we were so busy that I couldn't make that happen. Instead, I'm going to do a recap here.
Our last road trip was to Tail of the Dragon. It was a shorter trip so we just flat towed Goblins behind Cobalts (link to TOTD trip thread). The California trip was mapped out to be double the distance so we wanted to use a trailer.
My dad, mom and I were going so we needed at least two Goblins. We decided to take the recently finished turbo car and P2. Our trailer, the one we rebuilt to deliver frames in January 2016 (link to delivery trip thread), is only 16 feet long so it wasn't even close to long enough for two cars. Instead, we borrowed a trailer from our office manager Jeff.
Jeff's trailer is 20 feet long, which is just a couple feet short of fitting two Goblins. However, we were able to build a structure at the front of the trailer to allow the first Goblin to park over the tongue.
The turbo car drove up and over the front rail of the trailer and nestled down onto the add-on structure.
The center line of P2's rear tires ended up being about a foot forward of the end of the trailer.
Our tow vehicle was the 2011 GMC Acadia that we towed the frames with last year. Towing two cars seems like a lot but they only weigh 3,070 pounds together. We've towed single donor cars that weighed almost that much.
We monitored coolant, oil and transmission fluid temps with an OBD2 reader. The Acadia had to work going up some of the mountains but it never got too hot. We averaged 12.5 miles per gallon over the entire trip and ended up putting right at 4,000 miles on it.
In my next post I'll cover the drive to San Rafael, which we split over two days.
