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Last weekend I took the Petty Cash Racing road race XJ to Laguna Seca to compete in two 7 hour races. This wasn't a 24 Hours of LeMons event as we've raced in the past, rather a more serious series for "real" race cars. We were pretty out gunned by a bunch of the car there, but we put up a...

Time to come clean about the adventures with our experimental 5.3/AW4 adaption: We couldn't make it work. Once the Chevy V8 was all the way up to full power (turns out a RENIX era fuel pump will NOT give it enough gas, but a 97+ will) the AW4 threw in the towel. We could only manage about 2...

Got some tweaking to do, but it looks like this is going to work! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHiaGcvjASI&list=UUq4NnY-jLWUr5G1OPu7PbWg&index=1

Hey guys, I started a road-oriented Jeep Facebook community page if anybody is interested. Just another way to stay in touch and swap lies about our Tarmac Rated Jeeps. Swing by, post pics, BS with others who think Jeeps have a place on pavement as well as the trails...

We've come in 2nd place for the third and final time. We just can't keep up with the lighter or more powerful cars and are tired of getting left alone on the straights. It gets boring: http://youtu.be/4HO4pRoQxbw So we're going to embark on a super budget oriented LM7 5.3 swap and retain...

Full write up on how we made the 4.0 last under track conditions (not as easy as you may think): http://pettycashracing.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/how-to-make-a-4-litre-survive-road-racing/ -Matt

So, I have been looking for a beater XJ to take out to the KOH while I'm staying in the LA area attending to little things on the Petty Cash Racing/Team NAXJA #4643 race car. I've been hitting refresh on the local Criagslist Cars/Trucks section for a week and nothing really promising has come...

Now that Ultra4 has announced the new structure for the Stock and Modified classes, help Team NAXJA pick their new number: Vote Here! Also check in as the race car gets built at Richard "Goatman" Gauthier's shop, G&G Offroad. Updates and details will be posted on the Petty Cash Racing FB...

Come out and root on Team NAXJA/Petty Cash Racing's Cherokee as it battles to protect Jeep's honor against a bunch of furrin sports cars. We'll be racing for about 16 hours at High Plains Raceway Saturday and Sunday, hope to see you there! http://www.highplainsraceway.com/

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Enjoy! Click here for the Petty Cash Racing blog entry Yes, that's the Jeep passing a Spec Miata race car: -Matt

Petty Cash Racing is heading to Reno-Fernley Raceway this weekend to compete in another 24 Hours of LeMons race, this time a full, honest to goodness 24 hours straight through endurance race (the normal format is to have the race broken up over two days). If you're anywhere near the area come...

I've wanted more camber for the LeMons race car so I picked up a pair of new -2 degree upper ball joints. After looking at them, I'm now wondering if I need to run -2 degree lowers as well? The ones I got are from Specialty Products (who seem to have a good reputation) but they don't seem to...

What are you all running? I've been meaning to add a slightly smaller diameter/thicker steering wheel on the race car for a while. I'm not sure if I should bother making it removable while I'm at it...anybody done this? -Matt

We've been having an issue with the power steering cap on the race car disappearing. At first we thought somebody was simply forgetting to replace it after checking the fluid. But this has happened three times now, and I'm 100% certain that it's coming off during racing. Has anybody ever...

Bwahahahaha! 123 hp! Not bad for a 245k mile old junk yard motor that was only rated at 177hp to begin with. Video of Jeep Dyno Run The best part is when the owner of the shop told me, "this is by far the biggest pile of shit I've ever had on my dyno." Awesome! Also, one of the guys...

A while back on another XJ forum, I was asked a series of questions on how I lowered my 24 Hour of LeMons XJ. I ended up spending some time answering a bunch of this guy's questions in depth so I figured I'd post the salient parts of that thread here too. I was writing to relatively...

What do you guys use for brakes? It's time for rotors and pads on the LeMons race car, and while the stock brakes have done alarmingly well, I was wondering if there's some trick you guys use. Thanks in advance, -Matt Petty Cash Racing P.S. Here's the car if you have no idea what I'm...

About a month ago I contacted Rory from RADesigns to see if he could help solve a problem I was having with my race car's (clicky for link if you don't know what I'm talking about) transmission. I had never run any of his products, but everybody seemed impressed with them and he sounded like he...