Cody Johnson Racing

Follow along on this page as we paint Cody's new Modified race car.

We're working a new web site to be sponsored by Codyjonsonracing which will cover all forms of racing here in Florida, www.racingnewsflorida.com watch for it be be completed by Jan. 1st.

Pictured below Cody's new Modified Mini car he'll be racing in 2010. Stay tune for updates on this page as we put the finishing touchs on the Mod Mini getting it ready to race starting Jan 2010.
When we got the car home it was right to work as we have less than two weeks to get it painted and back to Ricks shop. Pictured below Cody working on the front of the car. As with the Legends car its back to the DA to prep the car for paint. Cody's picked out a pretty cool paint job he wants it should be fun once all the sanding is completed.
Stay tuned for more updates soon.

2/22/10 - Cody finally got to make some laps in his new Mini Stock at Citrus Speedway as the weather finally gave us a break. We arrived at 6:30 and only had to 8:00 to get some laps in but Rick and Glen from Maguires Racing did a great job getting Cody on track. Cody did fairly well his first time out but stillneeds to adjust from driving a loose Legends car which runs junk tires to driving a bigger race car on race tires. Below is the video of Cody's first time on track. We used this to shake the bugs out of the new car also so we expect next Friday when we go to test things should go a lot smoother.

 

1/3/10 - Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years, we certainly did. Despite the cold and rainy weather over the last week we finally have the car painted. Lots of things we would do different but it certainly looks better than it did when we started. Now it's time to take it back up to Rick's shop to apply the numbers and sponsor lettering on the car. If the weather holds Cody's first practice will be this Friday at Citrus, he's first race will be sat. 1/9/10 at Citrus Speedway. The rest of the week we'll finish setting the car up for Citrus so when we get to the track it's ready to go. We'll post pictures of the car completely finished with numbers, sponsor lettering later this week.

12/27/09 - Well the car is now in primier, now we wait 24 hours and once again sand it again.

 

12/25/09 - Marry Christmas to everyone and Happy New Years. Work continues on the car shooting for the Jan. 1st completion date. We have all the sanding done and most of the body work so we are pretty close to painting it. Pictured below Cody practices the fine art of fiber glassing and straightening out some bent metal supports; he completely redid the front grill and it looks almost like new.

Cody will be going to Daytona Sunday for three days working with OGP at the WKA Manufactures Cup tuning karts for OPG customers. Stay tune for pictures from that race and update as to how the race goes. It's great he is working and staying in touch with all his buddies in the karting world.

12/20/09 - It rained on Friday so we didn't get to go to Citrus Speedway to turn some laps which was pretty dissappointing for Cody and everyone involved. On Sunday we went up to Ricks to pick Cody's car up to bring it home to paint it and generally clean it up before the race on Jan. 9th at Citrus Speedway. Cody did get to turn some laps around the race shop so he could get a feel for shifting the car and the brakes. (Pictures below)

12/15/09 - Well we have Cody's seat in the car and he likes it so I guess we are good to good. Thanks to Rick Mcquire for all his help it's nice to deal with folks who do what they say they will do when they said they do it.

We are headed to Citrus Speedway this Friday to put the car on the track for the first time. I already like this much better than the Legends car. We'll see how Cody does on Friday; his first time in a real race car.

Dec. 5th, 2009 - Below we went up to the race shop and Rick had Cody's new motor in the car ready to fire up forthe first time. Below is a short video I shot with my iPhone so you could hear it. The motor sounds very sweet when you hear it in person, loud as heck with header on it. The motor is a Ford 2.3 racing motor pushing about 180 horse power approx. 2300cc, twice as much as the Legends car motor.

The car has an ABC body on it with an all tube chassis which was at one time a Ford Pinto sort of. The rear suspension is leaf springs the front is Bilstein small body race shocks, A Frames. It has a two speed tranny in it with the usual gauges you see in most racecars. We have a lot to learn about this car but Cody and myself are very excited and can't wait to get started. I'll try and get more pictures of the car up next week.

This coming week a new gear will be put in the rear end getting it ready for Citrus County Speedway. Next weekend Cody will go up and have his Bulter race seat installed and the car will be scaled getting it ready for some testing at Citrus County later this month.

Once we get the car home we'll start doing some body work getting it ready to paint. The ABC body is a fibderglass middle section with late model nose and tail.

Stay tuned for more updates and pictures soon.

Pictured above Cody during the seat installation process.

 

Video above first time we fired up Cody's new motor.

 

12/20/09 - Two pictures above Cody driving his car for the first time.

12/20/09 - Cody working on his car.