Megarita (1 Viewer)
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Shan
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Can I ask a retarded question? What is the MegaRita?
In Del's own words:
"I don't remember the exact moment I thought it up, but the concept was based on various margarita mixers you see on lakes or hear about from friends. So one day I was looking around our shop and I figured we had enough old stuff there in the shop to build a fully running motor. It would be made of parts we don't use anymore, from the days of a 5.30 elapsed time run. I was looking ahead to our pit party that we throw on Sunday night in Pomona to close out the season and I just envisioned the world's most powerful margarita mixer, plain and simple. I built it in my spare time during the last two months of the season, which took me off the golf course for two months. I got an old motorcycle trailer, mounted the block on that, and built the full motor. We built it differently than we would a real race motor. All the seals and gaskets are silicone to cut out any leaks. When it was time to build the blades, I almost just welded up something that looked like blades. So I just took apart our blender at home and copied the blades, only five times bigger. My wife loved that one. I figured the thing would be pretty popular at the season-ending race. It has become a legend."
Shan
Nitro Member
The only thing that was ever a bummer about the Megarita machine was they couldn't fire it up past the 6:00 pm Sunday curfew. So if you wanted in on the margaritas, you had to get while the getting was good because not a drop went to waste, and it didn't last long in that crowd no matter how much they mixed up!!!
So if you wanted in on the margaritas, you had to get while the getting was good because not a drop went to waste, and it didn't last long in that crowd no matter how much they mixed up!!! 
