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First rental event went smoothly!
Sonny flew in Friday, we rode bicycles Saturday and Sunday, track day Monday, bicycles Tuesday.
If this car is going to get any faster, it desperately needs FLCA offsets (over ELBJs since NASA penalizes the ELBJ). It is roasting the outside of the front tires with the OEM camber range maxed out.
Some take off SM7s on 9" Charcoal 6UL:
Sonny's "C" set of sticker R7s going on for the last session to scrub in and cure before next month's Championship.
That was the last event on the calendar for Tia. Tomorrow i'll be pulling my exhaust off of it and moving it back over to Button so I can put some mileage on Button before next weeks dyno session and NASA Mid Ohio event.
IIRC, High 45s on club course with the roasted SM7s. Mostly a re-familiarization day for Sonny, not aiming for, nor is this car capable of class leading pace.
I am going to try and upload data/video today.
Meanwhile, we found the culprit for the intermittent cylinder drop. The coilpack connector for Cyl 1&3 had a broken wire that was electrical taped together...(buy other peoples failed projects to save money they said...)
However, it only occasionally misfired and dropped a single cylinder. If you cycled the key, it would run fine again. If you were driving when the misfire started, you could rev it up over 4krpm and it would bring the cylinder back to life. Bizarre behavior.
Also, I have moved my exhuast back to Button, so Tia is now sporting a custom magnaflow catted midpipe and an OEM MSM axleback muffler. Probably costing it a couple ponies. Oh well.
Lastly, I am done driving Tia for the remainder of the NASA season. We have a couple events left and the car is available for rent.
Tia was put back into action this weekend. A quick once over at the Tarmac 88 shop and rain all day Saturday lead to 3 new track records every session and a win in TT6.
Today, in the dry, I got smoked by the national champ runner up who is a local. Racecar > streetcar duh.
NCM was "The Final Lap" of the Great Lakes season a couple weeks ago.
Saturday rained allllll day. I bartered for some old/scrubby Hoosier H2Os on a set of mismatched 15x7"s.
I was able to reset the TT6 track record in the rain. I sat #2 overall on the TT grid for two sessions before the 1/2/3/4/5 guys started using the pedal on the right. Cool.
Sunday was green track, and the local #1(Chris) didn't let me sneak up on him like I did at Pitt. He threw a bunch of development at the car for Champs and no amount driver mod could cover the hardware gap.
This is 2.1 seconds slower than my TTE time from 2016. Green track, down 12whp and 25-65lbs heavier. OEM 4.3 Torsen opened up occasionally, you might be able to hear it in "dropzone" leading to the esses before the front straight.
I snagged two NB Racing Beat headers from the classifieds here on MT, one for the ST6 car and one for this TT6 car. I also borrowed the Racing Beat exhaust from Button, my ST5 car, and cobbled together a terrible cold side intake(don't do it this way)
On the NASA dyno at Pitt Race it now makes 131(~ish, the dyno had some severe rpm signal loss), which is a bit shy of my goal. I'll probably throw a fresh set of plugs/wires, fancy oil and a better intake tube at it and re-dyno at Mid Ohio in August.
I also have/use a set of Smart Strings... however, I'm thinking about getting a set of Paco hub stands instead. Ever try a set?
Edit: I have Smart Strings because I knew i'd be doing at least 6 different chassis and wasn't thrilled with the old HubStands brand stands i'd used before in regards to caliper clearance and multi-PCD fitment.
Yea. I was just talking to a buddy about how I wish I had a set of hubstands, but it is a slippery slope.
Hub stands would allow reaching into the wheelwells for corner balance and front toe, but they alone dont give you access underneath the car for cambolts.
Ideally, i'd have a set of the 3' tall pad stands that I can drop the hubstand equipped car onto from the two post. That would allow a full chassis setup without repeated life/lower/jounce that I have to do now. Its only money, but even at my part time semi-professional scale the ROI is forever.
The Paco stands 100% give you access to the camber/caster bolts. You can even adjust them sitting down in front of the hub and watch the angle gauge change without being under the car. I got a set last year and have been doing my alignments in my garage since then. I'll upload a picture to my thread here of what the current version looks like so I don't clutter yours up. They let you set thrust angle and camber/caster really quickly once you get used to it. I'd recommend a set of strings/toe plates to supplement them, but they have been great for me so far.
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