Good to see your bumpers disconnects held up, I'm going to order a set too.

Mabe this is why my car is so pushy/slow. I have 1100/500 (about to go to 600) and the 1.25 bar/14mm SPM bar. It might just have too much roll stiffness. hm.

Either way, im kinda on the fence about going to NCM at this point. It looks like a hectic track, and my car is likely going to be junk again.

Possible part of why, though I don't think that's the only reason. And if you're close-ish to the track come on out! If I kept waiting until I thought my car wasn't garbage I wouldn't have gone last weekend and whaddya know it was the fastest GLTC car that day! Keep pecking away at your list, you'll get there.

Lolz


So got in touch with MikeySpec with Mspectuning.com , gave him all my logs and tune and he got revision together. Loaded it up this morning and ta da, the car is settled back out! Looking into doing a remote tuning session with him as well.

It seems to be coming together for GLTC weekend.

A long but successful weekend overall with GLTC!

I got there a day early and did the Winning Formula test day Friday. Scrubbed in the 225s in the morning and just got some seat-time. The car ran great that whole test day, with minimal blow-by out of the engine at the back of the valve cover and PCV. Worked with Mikey some on the annoying TPS issue and broken IACV. It just made it difficult to get around the paddock. I swapped in a new Acuity TPS and it actually got better, so I did in fact have a somewhat faulty Acuity TPS. Apparently, I'm still not getting proper TPS signal at super low loads and I either have a vacuum leak or map sensor is funky as there's a slight pull at that same low load.

In the morning I ran with the front-sway on the soft setting, which seemed fine. In the afternoon I put it on the stiff setting and it felt a tad easier through the esses and felt more stable going into T5 and T15(high speed). The soft setting might be faster, but the stiffer setting felt better for consistency.

Here's a practice session from Friday, 2:18.2xx was the fastest. Looking at my driving it's very apparent it looks like I'm just out for a stroll :rofl:. I'll be working on knocking off all my rust and remembering to drive hard over the next few events.



Saturday morning I put on the new 225s on 9.5s, practice session was wet so I just went out to kick the nerves. Then went out in qualifying and it was completely dry by then. My dumbass thought we'd only get 4 laps, so when I messed up T1 on lap 4 I came on in. They ended up doing 10 laps!!!!! I could have came into the pits, got a drink of water, and gone back out for another 4 laps uuuugggghhhhhh, lesson learned. We already know the car has 13s in it and I felt like I could definitely get into the 16s and aiming for 15s for qualy. Shoulda coulda woulda. Ended up 16th out of "42" in qualifying. I think only 35ish ppl showed up to qualifying though. 2:17.7xx



Race 1 my priority was finishing, so I was extremely timid. Which shows on this horrible horrible race start. Then I got stuck in traffic, eventually got around by luck and a pass. One more lap and I could have passed Bowling in the Cayman. It was still really fun and man this car is awesome.



I'll follow-up later with the issues I ran into over the weekend. It was mainly oil spraying everywhere in the engine-bay :giggle:

So my gopro battery was dead for race 2 and there was this wreck in the start of race 3. Not guna lie, it scared me slow(slower than I was already going).

The Boxster put himself on the inside of T5 and was a little too hot. Had a bobbable, over-corrected, contacted the Cayman, both spun, then it collected the red NB and the yellow NB in the chaos. The Boxster driver was approached about feedback and apparently he didn't take it well...... I was told he won't ever be back to GLTC :eek3:


We got black-flagged and waited in pits. Restarted the race single-file and I finished. Unfortunately my SD card was full for race 4 and it was pretty fun!

Visor down helps keep the crash debris out :)

Along with the fresh air. It was a lil toasty.

Yikes. Crazy how quick things can go pear shaped. That red NB went flying.

That guy hit George multiple times in another race as well in his videos. Good to know he won't be back.

I wasn't sure at first if it was the same guy, but yeah #986. Several really uncontrolled/uncalled for taps. Quite happy to hear action was taken if he ALSO caused this major incident.

There are ways of fixing that, y'know. In the meantime, you can run with the vizor all-but-down. I used to run with mine about a cm up, for that reason, but after a big shunt leant that lesson. If you do that, you need to ensure the locks inhibit upwards movement on impact.

Yeah, that Boxster was dangerous. He got me into a couple situations I wasn't comfortable with and I let him by. He was also super sketchy in every corner, his car was constantly trying to spin.

I wonder if he had contact in every race. He hit George twice in 2.

For the GoPro, hard-wire a usb plug near the camera mount and they battery will never die. Between that and my huge SD card, I didn't have issues all weekend. I can send you the info on my USB adapter.

Yeah I keep my gopro plugged in at all times and with a 128gb card I can goa whole weekend without ever removing it. Plus I mounted the remote so once I get in the car I turn the gopro on via the camera and when I'm lined up at grid I hit record/stop as I'm about to go out/come in

Lets see being a little warm for 20mins or loosing use of an eye for life. I've found scratches on my sunglasses after running races with the visor up. Also when if there is a fire, you're going to want the visor down to protect your face. I get it, racing can be hot and uncomfortable, but its a 15min sprint race. Not worth skipping safety. Its not just you, I told Marcus the same thing when he was complaining about his balaclava. The incident that Marcus posted should be evidence of how things can go bad fast and you aren't going to have time to slam the visor shut.

There's a remote to turn it on/off?! That'll make it soo much easier.

for 7 and below
For 8 and above
https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/mounts-...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

you have to turn the camera on first, or at least within 30 mins or soe thing like that, to use the remote. what sucks about the remote is it has a proprietary charger and its super short

Usually my routine is:

Turn on the gopro and remote on, by its button
helmet/hans on
climb into the car
Drive to grid and line up
Once the green flag is out
hit record on the go pro remote

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0b062353e5.jpg
Heres where its mounted

Thanks!

I made a last-minute trip to CMP in TT5! I put in 190lbs of ballast plus at least 3/4 tank to hit my min weight of 2580 at 170rwhp avg(173peak, 168 true avg 170 for the buffer). I had to use some dyno pulls that weren't actually the true power, but it gave me a buffer which is always nice.

This was my first time to CMP since they did the repave last fall. I've heard it was a much faster surface, which I knew was true because it couldn't get much worse than what it was before! It was absolutely better and I actually WANT to come back to CMP now.

My woman is mildly obsessed with going to the track, I ain't mad about it :rofl: It was mostly her idea to go tbh, I told her on Wednesday "I wish I was going to CMP this weekend with the other guys." she replies "Well..... why don't we?". Luke hooked us up with a bed and I was registered.
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Tip, don't leave the expansion tank hose off, especially while you have hood vents RIGHT at it :giggle:. It was spraying allllll over my windshield in practice, which made it hard to see by lap 5. It got all over the engine and at first, I thought it was oil, but after further investigation it was anti-freeze. I had to put some anti-freeze in it when I took it up to WF and it was in the 20s. Anyways, the hose was an easy fix, didn't happen again and get this........... NO OIL LEAKS FROM THE TIMING COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Much happiness.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f012402a43.jpg

For the second timed session, I came up to grid early, turned my engine off and it didn't start again! I ended up spending the rest of the day/afternoon troubleshooting and fixing the problem. I didn't have switched 12v so I tested and touched all sorts of wires/fuses/relays. After I confirmed battery, kill-switch, and constant 12v was good I went towards the k-swap parts thinking that was the culprit. Well hours later I ended up back at my OEM ignition, and then traced to the 40a ignition fuse, yup it was blown. Why didn't I check that fuse early on? Well, I'm retarded, that's why. This pic sums up my afternoon....... check all the shit that didn't have a problem!
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cc5f102497.jpg

Put another 40a in and yay I had switched 12v. Tried to crank it and notta, then no switched 12v. Checked the same fuse and it's popped again. Well shit, I have a short somewhere. Thankfully Will was around to be smart for me and decided "hey let's fuck around with the starter." Fortunately, the starter is pretty easy to remove on Kmiatas. Took it out and the solenoid had continuity to the case of the started. Got a new starter, installed, and ta da all is well again!



There were 10 people in TT5 both days! Kozlow has always been the guy to beat in TTD/TT5 in his e36m, he also has a good config in TT4 and has a handful of records. So I was happy with being in close distance of him the whole weekend.

Here's a few laps of session 1, two 1:42.8xx's (AiM reads one as 43.1). One of them was a 42.4 in the making but I missed a simple 3-4 shift :mad: It's at @3:35 in this video. Kozlow only managed a 42.377 this session so I was hot on his heels!



And here's my fastest..... with a huge lift in the kink for traffic, probably didn't have to but I did. My optimal from this session alone was 1:41.5xx :(



Again, it's nice to know I'm the only thing holding this car back! Until it breaks, but that's also my fault. Sunday morning golden session I was ready to put down some 41s, as Kozlow did a 1:41.6xx the day before in the other morning session! Green flag out, I go WOT, shift into 4th and nothing........ engine dies. I pull off to an access road and look at the relays that are sideways..... one of the wires looked loose. Get it back and yup the 12v for fuel pump relay was out of the relay socket/holder. It was obviously one of the wires I fiddled with the day before while trouble-shooting.

Overall a great weekend, especially considering it was a last-minute effort. Got to hang with the bros and my woman, finished well in 2nd and might get to claim 2 Hoosiers. Some big learns on trouble-shooting too, mainly being keep to the basics first before you go down rabbit holes of the swap.