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I saw that, the only other time I heard of that was last time we were off and I finished work early. It was "96° in the sheyiade" on my porch when I left for the track.
Also, unfortunately my friends said that after I left last week, the K24 MR2 spewed parts all over the starting line. I don't know what happened exactly, was hoping to hear that it did a 10.
Son do you see IATs going way up as you head down the track due to heat soak of the intercooler from the neighboring radiator? I'm seeing unnaturally fast temp rise after sitting in line for a long time (not running the engine).
Does anyone try to run their fan while sitting around? Anyone try putting cold packs on their intercooler?
I am seeing about 32-34°F increase with my current configuration during a pass. I have seen as much as 50°F with different configurations. I open my hood between passes and sometimes I bring a little spray bottle to spray my charge pipes and intercooler. I forgot it when I could have used it most, last time. My coldest logged IAT on Wednesday was about 95° IIRC, with 128° or so at the end.
Thanks - I need to get back to the track. Last time was 100F to 180F. Now I'm running a double size intercooler and ducting and, soon, hood openings. I'll report back.
Commiserating over my Roxanne moment, and on the 1st elimination round to a rookie.
Car 59 is the one of the only fast Subarus I know of, almost as fast as Vlad's, ok well not quite. 56 was a 17 or 18 mustang GT. 62 was a normal Subaru. Had a great time anyway, such a fun crowd out there.
Oh yeah, the fast Subaru only picked up 10°F with his huge COBB intercooler compared to my 35° or so. Interesting data point, he wants me to get a better intercooler. I love how people want my car to be faster than their own cars.
You gotta admit though: I don't think a single other car here has as many drag strip miles on it, and yet he's only gone through like 2 transmissions and still on original diff lol
I'm secretly envious of the ability to leave well enough alone. I'm in a constant cycle of never enough, never finished, always need more money with mine.
I have no desire to be part of the governmilitaracademic institution, so no worries there.
My car is a daily driver. I am on my 4th transmission. Going to the drag strip on Wednesday nights keeps me out of trouble. The truth is I put some Conti ECS' on my car recently, when I was worried they were going to say my tires were too bald to race. I can't 60' these tires for ****, my old Toyo all seasons were usually 2.0 something, even 1.9 once in a while.
Perhaps one day, but I can barely get off work early enough to get to the track at a reasonable time. I don't want to have to swap wheels too.
Plus, it's fun eating muscle cars with slicks and front skinnies, on street tires... In a Miata.
Where to start? Well, on my first pass my wastegate actuator E clip broke/failed/disappeared. Sure felt like something major broke. I knew I should have replaced it when I was messing with it a few days ago. I bent it a bit last time and even notice it looked fatigued.
Couldn't get the actuator back on at the track, and I almost decided to go home. I finally decided to run with it wired open.
Damn the thing is a slug. 15.17 was my best after the first pass. And...
I won 1st place. All kinds of jokes about who was losing money on my car in the spectator section.
Thanks man! I learned something from those Abarth guys, my car was almost exactly the same speed and E.T.
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Also made 5th on the top 20 packages list with my final pass, had an .042 package. Not too bad for a manual, I am the only gear jammer on the list. Perhaps I'll even get a "Wally" some day with this POS.
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