God speed to you Erron at this weekends NASA Time Trial Unlimted Time Attack! Give er' hell bro! Welcome the Stealth back to racing!
God speed to you Erron at this weekends NASA Time Trial Unlimted Time Attack! Give er' hell bro! Welcome the Stealth back to racing!
Need videos and pics. Don't forget.
Most definitely!Quote:
Originally Posted by anyonebutme
Good luck Erron
Good luck!
In for results.
Good luck!
Good luck man!
Good luck Erron, even-though I will be cheering from the stands. Woohoo!
Weather was a little less than ideal today. Winds were in the 40mph range. All in all Blue ran really good! Erron finished in 4th in TTU4 and I think 12th overall in his HPDE class of 30 something. I got some awesome footage of a great spin on a Viper ACR on E-Doggs camera. Car's running really great but needs some attention on the brakes. Pedal started getiing squishy and the fluid started boiling towards the end of the heat.
When I get some time I'll post up some pics. The good stuff's on Erron's cam tho. Farming spin was epic, ha!
waiting for pics!
Looking forward to seeing some vids.
We'll start with some corner weights...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_025.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_028.jpg
Wheel base...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_027.jpg
Wheel Stance...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_018.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_019.jpg
Front...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_020.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_021.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_007.jpg
Rear...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_022.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_005.jpg
Exterior...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_017.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_016.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_014.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_015.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_011.jpg
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_006.jpg
5 min call...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_023.jpg
2 min call...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/y...052712_024.jpg
more later, photo downloads taking forever on my crappy cell. :)
Looks like his stealth is confused lol nice pictures
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
what about the coolant overflow picture? :awesome:
Damn! pics don't work on my work PC :(
I'll check them out when I get home.
I think its a blown headgasket and have for a while now. He lifted the heads two years ago on the dyno shooting for 800 on the GT42 and has had issues ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by i3igpete
Was hoping to see him in action with the splitter to see if that aided but it got damaged when loading Blue on the trailer. Lastly, I also know that hood is a cowl (I used to own one), he refuses to believe it...
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y...4/IMG_3886.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...4/IMG_3888.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B...4/IMG_3851.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...4/IMG_3852.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...4/IMG_3866.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...4/IMG_3868.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C...4/IMG_3869.JPG
A few notes, that weight ^^ up there is with driver. 3322 without.
Ended up 6th overall out of 34.
I was DQ'd on my qualifying session for, get this, tire scrubbing. I wasn't told they don't allow it, so I was placed on grid dead last, 34th place. The times I ran I'm honestly surprised by. There wasn't a single lap where I didn't pass at least a half dozen cars.
It's not cowl buddy, see the lips on the front leading edge? That's the trick right there.. Without those, yes, it would be a cowl. Those lips lowered the coolant temp by over 30 degrees at lap 4.
The head gaskets were replaced when we blew them, 2 years ago. I don't lose the coolant into the over until lap 6, which is boil over. Same thing used to happen years ago on the 15g's, with a smaller radiator and more boost pressure. (read: mega heat generators) My true down side now is the front mount. It doesn't matter how much air it gets when it comes from the FMIC, it's just too hot. Looking at other options now. These new pads Raybestos ST47's takes from the old coefficient of friction on the old pads, mid 40's, up to the mid-high 60's range. They bite a tremendous amount and require less pedal pressure as well as later braking. The down side, they do make more heat as I learned on Sunday. I had taken off the brake ducting because it wasn't needed on the old pads (R4-E). These will need it for sure. That's in the works, no question there, it's a must do. Between session 1 and 2 we bled the brakes and it was good for a solid 6 laps, lap 7 however, became a "pump twice" before every corner lap. The tale-tale sign of boiled fluid. (Motul 660 mind you) I have quite a few things to address over the next couple of weeks but these are the first on the list. Other than that, the car really felt great. Clutch was fast and solid, the rear diffuser worked great and gave me so much more rear end grip that I now have the car pushing again instead of power on oversteer. The surge tank worked perfectly, never sloshed, down to a now tested 4.21 gallons. (AIM dash displays in gallons) Speaking of which, the dash is really nice. Now I only look for the lights. The shift lights and the 6 warning lights. Other than those lights going on it's considered to be good to go. I really like it. New camber settings on the Hoosiers were spot on. No roll of the tire, only some body roll. (see 3 wheel pic above)
All in all, it was a successful weekend. The car is alive, I'm alive, had massive doses of adrenaline, got to hang out with some good friends, and got to test about 10 new things on the car. I have a ton of video to process as well. I'll get some posted in the next few days. Thanks for filming Jer! The back straight vids are just priceless!
interesting find on the hood lips. do you think they'd work with the RRE hood vent as well?
It's hard to tell from your pics but do you have ducting around your FMIC to your Radiator? I was having some overheating issues and they are now non-existent after fabbing up some ducting to get all the air that passes through the front to my radiator.
I'm sure it would Pete. All that is really needing to be done is to raise the leading edge.
For instance, here's how it's done a Lola chassis..
http://www.mulsannescorner.com/Lola-MS2.jpg
It's even this way on the Viper gts now as well. The basic principle is to redirect the laminar flow "up" creating a void of low pressure behind it. Without that, the laminar flow will go straight down and hook around the louver or what we know as a cowl. Neat concept reall.
Maximal, yes sir, it is fully enclosed in ducting. Without that, it would go 220+ on the first lap. :)
LOL at HRD, aka 3rtech. Flap flap flap ... my crapcan world challenge rx-7 is the fastest car here blah blah, talking mad shit about us and our GT's. Ahemmm, walk over to lap board... Hrm 2 seconds faster than his dumbass, whada douchebag! You see how crazy his eyes get and how much of an a-hole he turns into at the track Err? He'll always be behind us but thinking and talking shit like he's in front. He was even sittin there doggin Ray and Baker. I wanted to swat him! I'm going to post our shit talk session and then the race results... blow him up. What a homo, ha!
Where's the vid's I shot bro? Post up the good sheiit!
Eh, don't bother. No need to interwebs bash anyone, the results are always just a short walk to the timing and scoring booth. :)
I'm really going to try and get the video processed tonight. I'll try and reduce it down to the fun stuff so it's not huge. It's all in HD though!
Thanks for filming bro!
Can't wait!
Nasa TT May 2012.mp4 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHXWe...ature=youtu.be
A little bit of both perspectives. :)
Dear lord! That straightaway section acceleration is ridiculous. I wonder if any of those drivers you passed thought to themselves " okay, and heeeeresss the tuuurnnnnn-JESUS F@%@! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!" as you flew by....
^^^LOL! That's probably right...
Congrats on a successful event & setup! Like you said, you're alive, car's alive, and you tested a variety of things at the same time. I'm glad to hear it and the video was a treat as well!
Erron, did you not run the new splitter? How did the diffuser work out? Sorry if I missed those in the thread.
Thanks, Lawdogg.
Green, the splitter was destroyed getting the car on the trailer. I could stand on it, but apparently running it head-long into a steel beam it could not take. LOL Oh well...
The diffuser was a huge success. Brought the car back to a front end push rather than power on oversteer. Very happy with that.
Awe that sucks! lol I was looking forward to a review on that. Good to hear the diffuser worked though.
It doesn't look or sound like you're pushing as hard as you could in the video, that wasn't the race was it?
Agreed. That was the race though. With the amount of TQ the car makes now, I don't need to rev the shit out of it anymore. You hear a few times though, it's actually wheel spin a few places. (wheel spin is SLOW)
I forgot to ask - any idea about lap times? Do you feel like you can squeeze faster laps out of the car? Any thoughts along those lines / are you happy with where you're at?
:suspect: ha haQuote:
Originally Posted by Erron Spalsbury
On Sunday Law?
2.06xx through traffic. A solid 5 seconds (and change) slower than my fastest at HPR. Just too many people on the track to get a fast lap.
That was some good driving my friend. I can't believe the power you're making, it was breaking loose coming out of the corners pretty bad in a few spots. The one part of the vid (I guess it's Jeremy filming) about 5:00 you can hear that big turbo spool. fap fap fapQuote:
Originally Posted by Erron Spalsbury
Yes sir, that's Jer filming. Breaking loose, on an 85 degree day, with Hoosiers that are up to temp, yep-torque is the new hawtness! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern