Willow Springs Raceway

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Will live on. New owners have started upgrading this historic facility


https://www.jalopnik.com/1972990/willow-springs-finally-gets-repaved/

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cse 9/25/2025 7:35am
9/25/2025 7:35am

This is great news.  Was worried when it sold.

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TeamGreen 9/25/2025 10:23am
9/25/2025 10:23am

That place is Too Much Fucking Fun! 💪🏼

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kmc140 9/29/2025 1:03pm
9/29/2025 1:03pm Edited Date/Time 9/29/2025 1:07pm

1000007025 0Willow opened in '53, a full 2 years before Road America which turned 70 a couple of weeks ago. Pretty honored to have dropped a valve on the 70th🙄

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TeamGreen 9/29/2025 1:39pm
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kmc140 wrote:
Willow opened in '53, a full 2 years before Road America which turned 70 a couple of weeks ago. Pretty honored to have dropped a valve...

1000007025 0Willow opened in '53, a full 2 years before Road America which turned 70 a couple of weeks ago. Pretty honored to have dropped a valve on the 70th🙄

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Is that a valve/valve-guide in your piston! 🥵

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kmc140 9/29/2025 10:09pm
9/29/2025 10:09pm Edited Date/Time 9/30/2025 4:11am

Hi Manny ... new adjustable cam that was timed in properly. Springs just didn't appear to be strong enough I'm guessing. All the intake valves ended up kissing the pistons. #2 had had enough. I have the winter, and another motor, to put it back together. Very disappointing with how the weekend was over by the third lap of first practice. One more addition to the wall of shame. If it was easy ... 

And yeah that's the valve head. It's wedged in there pretty good. Going to just leave it there. 

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