Jerrold ran the entire program this weekend with no crew!! Not the best E.T.'s, but he piloted the tired Limitless®Ikon CRX to second round eliminations performing all the maintenance himself. Jerrold will now drive the Rig back to Southern California to get the CRX cleaned up for Pomona. This will be the first time the CRX has been home since Madison, Ill

Thank You Jerrold for keeping the Team going through this Court ****.. –R

 

Jerrold he ran with history, Nelson 7.40, takes guts to run with that good job skeletor1320

 

WOW thats some gangsta *** ****! to jerrold thats some real dedication. whens that accord coming out??
-Roger

 

Is there any particular reason why that crx hardly ever makes it passed the staging lights for the past 2 years straight? And in the rare ocasion that it does, it will run a 13 or 12 sec. quarter mile. Has that thing even broken into the 9's yet in the last 2-3 years of running almost every event? But for maken the trek out there solo.

 

he has went 9.8and hit 9.5 once i think.

 

Keep it Gangsta Jerrold!!

 

Yes there is a particular reason .. Thank you for asking. At the beginning of the 2003 season Jerrold's original team that was with the car from the day it was conceived left him after the rained out Vegas race. Jerrold then stumbled upon a old friend that was involved with a Speed World Challenge Car in the GT class (Carol Hollfelder of Ameritec/Ford mobility// @ tiger-racing.com). Jerrold and his one crew guy set out to florida for the west palm beach race in 2003. The H22 made it a couple rounds in florida and gave up some valves. That was the beginning of the struggle in 2003. With minor knowledge of drag racing ,engine building and just the CRX all together the one crew guy was learning as he raced (he was a driver and not a mechanic). Before Gainsville of 2003 the CRX switched from the AEM system to FAST with the benefit of having Harv available from Venom racing to get the CRX tuned correctly. The CRX ran on the H22 map of Lance-o-lot from HPR until Oregon of 2003(don't ask). The CRX made it to the dyno before Vegas, more problems due to inexperience led to the car being tuned with no VTEC and it was shipped to Vegas only to be pulled over on the way there and impounded (inside was Bruce's #1 civic and Grant's #1 Tundra) This was our last race with Venom. The truck was received out of impound and we made it to the track late,late friday. we got everything set-up and the car had an electrical problem that led to a fire. The next day the car developed a major oil leak from the pump housing and soaked the belt in oil on the first eliminations the belt slipped off and bent the valves in the burnout. The CRX then got a new valve train and was sent to Oregon. In Oregon we had now major problems with the turbo. The impeller was chipped and proceeded beat itself to death the car was not tuned for VTEC and to answer your question Yes the car went 9's. The CRX went 9.62 @ 144mph. we made it to the finals and lost to Nelson. The rest of the 2003 season left the CRX with more problems with the FAST tune and and a engine that was not capable of holding the boost we needed, but it made it until Pomona and popped again in the burnout in qualifying the H22 was put back together with cracked sleeves and all running on 3 cylinders once again and tripped the beams in hope of nelson breaking. (give up ? **** no !! The car was on the bottle with three cylinders). After the 2003 season a lot of knowledge was obtained (priority thanks go to James, Rich, Vince and Harv of Venom Racing). The CRX was in search of the cash nessesary to rebuild the chassis. This cash came slow and late. The CRX missed Fontana and was shipped to where it all started West Palm Beach now 2004. The car had no engine , no windows, more welding and fab work was in it's future but we got Scott Kelly A/M911 the Toyo Tyres Bullet to the race and NHRA's property that made it possible for them to host the race was also in the truck for the season to come. From this point on we had difficulty getting the engine finished and shipped and the car went to E-Town. Getting to E-Town one week early the engine came to us at 2 0'clock Saturday afternoon. After final assembly the engine was in by nightfall. That New Jersey night brought a **** load of rain and the car had to be put on hold until the next morning. The CRX was still not ready to run, the car was yet to have any wiring in it at all and still lacked a lot of equipment. It was Packed up and left in E-Town. The next race was Atco and after 40+ hours of no sleep the CRX was ready to be started for the first time in 2004. The car started, (keep in mind still on the no VTEC half *** tune) 1 hour before final round qualifying and it had a major water leak from the service plug on the back of the block. Team Limitless®Ikon did not process the 14mm alan key nessesary to tighten this plug and any welded bolt and nut technique failed. It was decided to just trip the lights the car needed power to the gauges which due to no sleep and hasteful work ended up causing once again you guessed it a fire. This was one time that Limitless®Ikon Gave up. The car was put away and the next day was spent sleeping and the night was filled with alcohol and taking out some aggression on the rental car by smashing trash cans and lighting it on fire with a Limitless®Ikon favorite , Ether... The car was sent back to Southern California put together and sent to Colorado. ****, this would be the CRX's shakedown runs of 2004. On That same ******* tune. This weekend was a disaster the car would run great then it would run like **** at the line. It turned out out to be a grounding issue that was resolved when the CRX got home. The car finally made it to the dyno, we made a modest 600whp and then it was off to Vegas. Little did we know the H22 lost it's headgasket on the dyno and was set to finish it off in first round qualifying. The head gasket was replaced that night but with extensive damage to the head and block deck the H22 had yet again a bad cylinder. We finished up the weekend and where on our way home. With short time and short cash yet again the engine was rebuilt and (resurfaced to hell). The CRX was put back together and sent to Ennis. OK we should be good now right? Wrong the h22 head in theory took on some warpage as well as mating surfaces that were just not right. It was low on cylinder compression in the #1 cylinder and was limping once again. The CRX made it a couple of rounds and was eliminated it was also determined that the clutch was slipping, Bad!. The CRX also decided it didn't like the hatch or the wing and blew it off the back of the car at about 1100 ft. But on the bright side a Win for Scott Kelly A/M911 Toyo Tyres Bullet. **** yes brotha!! Scott and his Dad Larry have been with us since the beginning of 2003 and it was great to see all their hard work pay off when he destroyed Scott Mohler. Anyway back to the CRX. The rig was parked at Kenny Tran's Jotec Shop in Garland Texas ( thank you Kenny ) and stored until Madison,Ill. With plans of bringing a new head with us and fixing at the track. Well lack of funds hit us again and no head was obtained we had also lost the front shock in the car during transport. ( they where shocks from the beginning of 2003) The car was going to run on the bad head again. but there was another problem with the clutch this had been the problem that was ******* up the passes in Texas . The clutch was slipping like hell but a hatch needed to be built from lexan and aluminum L-brackets and being short on time Jerrold was told to nurse the car through the last two rounds of qualifying with the bad clutch. That night after a small amount of drinking and Murphy Lee (We all We got) we put a clutch that would work in the car an a longer ratio trans. Now on 76 hours of no sleep the CRX was ready for 1st round Sunday. The CRX was brought to the line with Blown front shocks, no tyre pressure and a air dam dragging like a *****(sorry Havier, that dude cursed at me on tv). The car was The CRX and Jerrold could not agree on going into the correct gear in and the burnout was sacrificed. Jerrold then with a fatigue driven mistake red light and got out of it half track. So who knows but the clutch may be working better. Now the Rig goes back to Texas (thanks again Kenny) with the intentions of going to Powerade. We return to the West Coast and try to gather money at this time the company is going through a co-owner withdrawal and we are trying to get our **** together. We missed Powerade and the car sat in Texas for the entire month of September. Jerrold picked up the truck and took it to Englishtown where he is right now. With the intentions of having crew fly out and put the car back together. The crew was not able to make the flight and he was on his own this weekend. And like a crazy mother ****** ran the car himself and did pretty ******* good.

In closing we had a very crazy first two seasons of racing. We are all still learning and are the first to admit to it. You can call us **** ups but we had fun being **** ups. We race because we enjoy it. Yes, losing ******* sucks but hey we made runner up three times last year taking it at both powerade events just by pure luck, because we where at the track having fun. We did well in the points standings in 2003 and finished up well considering our competitors. We will continue to race in 2005 with a new knowledge of the sport and a new 2005 Honda Accord Coupe, and Yes we are still running the Hell Driven CRX. Limitless®Ikon Racing will continue to fly the Honda Flag in the 2005 PRO/FWD class and will never sell out to another manufacturer. Thank You to all our sponsors past and present and everyone for their support.

IKON RACING™
LIMITLESS RACING™
2005 -®

 

wow, long hard struggle! interesting to read.

 

I can see the desire, and can appreciate it. But I like many others out here also see that the CRX is a car that does not need to be at the races. Especially the Extreme Rush Events. We have a hard enough time getting respect from the Powerade series as it is. I'm not trying to be a dick, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. I pray to God with everyting that I know, that if he does get the Accord running, that he won't bring it out till it has been properly tested. I wish him nothing but the best of luck in the future, but the CRX needs to be retired to Ecology Auto Wrecking.

 

Man, he needs to bring that car home and fix it\test with it until its a player.

 

I agree! Testing is the key to go fast!

 

Wow! you still want to race after all that? Just run the local track until the car works so you don't waste so much time and money. Better yet hire someone to help you guys with experience, I bet it would be alot cheaper and just as fun. Props for stickin it out though.

 

thats definately showing Heart right there! just like Mayorga getting his *** beat by Trinidad he kept getting up, refusing to stay down...

 

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Thank you.
Not everyone produced a good show at the 2003 powerade events. Remember we came in runner up that means the people that did not advance against the CRX did worse then we did.
Ecology Auto Wrecking...The CRX got us started in Racing and helped keep cars in the PROfwd class, it deserve more respect. thanks

 

Hey Jerrold, way to stick with it. The dan and chris @ Dan's Shop got your back if you ever race on the west side. call the shop if you want to pit together at the next race, we will try to lend a hand if u need it.


keep up the hard work

 

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I think that's how racing should be

Dan's Shop

 

the car looked as though it was in need of a front end alighnment this weekend.

 

WOW, what a intresting read...

sounds like you guys have had some hard luck overthe past 2 years and still continue to be out there racing, thats true dedication and hoepfully good things will come from it.

Reading that makes me relize what it is to be a small budget team( we have no budget) and were tryingto do the same thing here in Canada, race. Thats all we wanna do and nothing is gonna stop us from running in 2005 better and strnonger then what we did this year.

We didnt win any events this year, but we did do alot better then we thought we would... we qualified in the top 5 at every event, and hit some personal goals...

Stories like the one above make me relize there is hope... gives ispiration to guys like me, the so called "underdogs"

I always say, it cant get any worse...

GOOD LUCK IN 2005

 

dude, all I have to say is that's not easy to deal with and still continue !!!

hats off to you !!!

greg

 

mad props to jerrold Keep up the hard work and dont' give up man. the sport needs everyone it can get to compete.

 

Damn Rob why didn't anyone let me know. I would of went and helped out as much as I could. I talked to Jerrold today that is one dedicated guy. I give him all the props in the world. 2005 will be different for us.

Hey give me a call later.

 

bro, no offense, but i think its time to hang it up.

I've talked with you before at the races so dont think I''m just here trying to stir **** up, but i mean come on. Reading what I could in your article I know that the growing pains of running a race car suck, but you're supposed to learn from them. You keep bringing your car from race to race always working on it, it seems. Dont you spend time on it at home getting things right? You shouldnt be traveling, spending all that money with the car in the shape its in. Like everyone said you need lots of testing and seat time, which you should be doing at your local track... with a team so you can all learn together and get a handle on things.

Some of the things I picked out of your article are quite disturbing. You said you brought your car to the line with blown shocks, incorrect tire pressure, and parts dragging off of it? dood, are you ******* stupid? call me a dick but this is supposed to be PROFESSIONAL drag racing. You are competing against guys who have a lot riding on the line here, its very serious business. What would you say if you lost control and for some reason Nelson or Shaun or anyone wasnt way far ahead of you and you collided? "Yeah Honda power baby, you see me wreck that cavalier" ???? I cant believe they let you run... especially in Extreme Rush. You're really not helping in getting our sport recognized better.

I know this post was created to praise you and I'm sorry if I'm coming across as a dick but after your super long unreadable paragraph looking for sympathy I am just shocked that you have no clue. You are definitely dedicated but you really need to bring everything home and rethink things. You are so far off with every part of the car that you will never get anywhere in the class you're running. You need to get a crew together, spend a lot of time testing, and stop wasting your money traveling .

 

Yupp, exactly...People shud bring cars to events, 100%...I made that msitake once...never again. If it's not tested, the race gets missed.

 

for the heart and dedication to racing. But for letting that car run in extreme rush...just my .02 cents

 

Re: Jay Dirt

You raised some great points! Thank you.
Why would it be time to hang it up? We are just getting started.
We keep bringing the car to the races unprepared... ...yes we do, and this is obviously the problem. But in 2003 this would have been Venom's problem. They were a very demanding team that we were running with and they needed to be and were at every race. We were also paying a lot of attention to the points. If we missed a race we would drop behind.
In 2004 it would have been everyone's problem if we did not make it to races. We carry NHRA's equipment; mandatory to run the races. As well as bringing Scott Kelly's Fastback that slammed the MOPAR car to the ground in the finals at Texas. So it would have been Scott's problem too.
Maybe we are just too generous.? But this type of WORK prevents us from always making it home.

Am I ******* stupid? Yes, I am and we will just see how stupid I am At Pomona ® watch your ******* mouth.

I have seen cars that are built by professionals and driven by veterans fly across the center line in near collisions with the opposing car. ****, GM with their millions of dollars layed the Cavalier into the wall at Texas. It could happen to anyone, in any car at any track. &gt;&gt;&gt;" the, What if, man "

We are not helping the sport get recognized?
What are we doing then? We have done a lot for the sport. By keeping just one more car in a small class and helping other racers get to the track. Just our presence alone should be helping in some way, shape or form.

I simply answered a question, explaining our first two seasons. What the **** is your deal? You must have something against us. Why not just come out and say it? Or, you can just keep on beating our admitted mistakes to death

Thanks again ®