curly

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Dude are you moving in those pictures?

And try VEanalyze live, it's good enough for my track car apparently (aka: it's survived an HPDE), and runs my target AFR of 11.5.

Which apparently needs to be 11.6.

shuiend

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I was moving. Know where near as fast as I could be though. Those pictures were taken between turn 11 and 12. I don't think I started to get the line anywhere near right on turn 11 until the last session of the day. I get up to my highest speeds on that back straight. So I was going from 6th gear to 3rd. So between having to slow down and shitton and then down shift and turn, I was never hitting it right. Other then that I got the line down pretty well. I just now need a lot more time and work on becoming smoother.

I swapped from a 9.5psi spring to a 6psi Saturday at the event. I have done all my VE tuning with the 10psi spring in so unfortunately I have not hit all the cells around 6psi much yet. I will be saving up my money and hopefully getting tuned soon.

Gryff

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ya think! Lol.

I knew when you started the car from miles away cause of the constant squealing and then immediate engine stall

Just messin with ya!

Yeah turn 12 is a bitch, slow as hell turn, and its an increasing radius turn. so even when you do it correctly, it feels wrong. So you always feel like you screwed it up badly.

I had issues with that turn as well.

Was a great weekend though! Had an absolute blast!

shuiend

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So I finished another weekend at CMP yesterday. I had a ******* blast and did not touch a single bolt on the car. The only time I had to pop the hood was to show people my setup. I had an instructor with a MSM running a hydra and slightly better suspension setup then me. He was much better at giving me instructions since our cars were similar.

The only issue I had is after my last sessions there was a slight ticking noise around my turbo. The car still drove home fine and was not down on power. So I pulled off my intake to check and make sure the turbine wheel still spun freely, it did with not hitting. I then held the front of the turbo and I could move the chra around just a slight bit. I am betting that is what is causing the noise. I guess I picked up enough speed by the end of the day that the CHRA had backed out a little bit. Time to learn how to safety wire.

shuiend

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Nice big new intercooler. This is the Begi #3 intercooler. It should be more then enough for my goals.



New fender roller.

hustler

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I lvoe that intercooler...bugs and rocks don't bend the fins. would buy again.

shuiend

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My smaller Begi one has held up fine these past 4 years. I just wish I would have gone for this one originally.

shuiend

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New intercooler is mounted. I am still undecided about leaving it silver or painting it black. I figure I will use it some like this and then decide. Also how centered does it look. I tried to push the intercooler as far over to the passenger side as possible.


As soon as I get my turbo back from being safety wired the car will be back on the ground.

Seefo

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Shuiend, are you coming to RA in December? You better be!

Braineack

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not designed to be centered, so you can install with A/C...or in your case, perfect spot for oil cooler.

richyvrlimited

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Doesn't look centered at all. Paint it black do disguise the wonkyness of it. (i realise it's by design).

yank

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Mine is off center as well with provisions for the ac components. Ill eventually relocate the canister that is up front and get a larger IC that mounts center. Yes it may look a little "wonky" but it still works.

curly

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Black absorbs heat. Plain aluminum reflects it. That was enough incentive for me to keep mine blank.

TurboTim

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sixshooter

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Lars does not appear to be listed as a participant at Road Atlanta unless he has signed up under an alias.

y8s

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absorbs radiation from where?

black also radiates more heat than shiny silver. isn't that more reason to paint it black??

shuiend

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I will not be at RA in December. I am instead saving up to go to New Orleans for new years. The first track event at NOLA is that weekend and the Texas crew will be out there.

I am pretty sure Matt has done most of the math in a very old thread showing that a painted IC will not make any temp difference.

I am not really a fan of Bling Bling and the big silver intercooler just seems to me to be showboating. I guess I will run it like this and just see how I like it in a few weeks.

TurboTim

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That's the only engineering reason to paint it black.

y8s

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you mean the negligible convection heat transfer is a reason not to? probably miniscule as lars said i said.

TurboTim

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That's the only engineering reason to not paint it black.