As some of you know, the plan is to run my car at the Run What Ya Brung this weekend at Santa Pod.
It will give me chance to:
Learn the car
Get used to the new clutch, gearbox, short shifter etc.
Learn about tyre pressures and launch technique with the Mickey Thompson ET Sreets
Possibly configure 2 step launch control
Identify optimum shift points
See if the thing holds together! :lol:
As you can see there is a lot to learn and it is pretty important to go, so I’m hoping for a break in the weather.
Anyone that wants to come along to watch, video or just support is more than welcome. The more the merrier.
I’ll post in this thread whether I will be going on the Sunday or Monday in the next day or 2 as the forecast keeps changing. Yesterday it was Monday that was looking better weather-wise, but today it is Sunday.
Good luck fella , hope the shakedown goes well and you see some promising times , then once all is well and your comfortable with your set up hopefully we will see some big hitting times :twisted:
I thought you had figured out different shift points? Your car really should achieve mid 11’s.
Ben is going to trailer the car up there and depending on whether he finishes the electrical work on the car and whether it doesn’t break, I may well be driving it home.
Would have loved to come and watch but i had my haernia repair yesterday so im a tad sore lol. Hopefully somebody will take a video camera for those of us that cant be there , good luck Andre 8)
2nd run video launching at 7000 rpm and getting an instant spin up, so partially lifted and reapplied. Less skating but missed 3rd…or did I? Was this as sign that something was not happy in the gearbox?
The 3rd run had 3 psi taken out of the tyres and launched at 6000 rpm (slight bog) but unfortunately I don’t have in car footage of that one, Mark and James do though. I see James has posted his, perhaps Mark could also?
The car partially filled its coolant overflow bottle with coolant and over filled one of its catch cans with milky oil during the 1st run! :shock: Oddly, there wasn’t a drop of either on the 2nd or 3rd run, so we came to the conclusion that it was most likely just a touch over filled.
I’d just like to add that I haven’t been quiet deliberately, I’ve been editing the footage and uploading them to Photobucket…yawn!
PS Please could a moderator move this post to Past Events?
