Adventures in PTE/TTE
#1222
Don't skimp on safety gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUuudil9cU
My neck is a little sore and that's all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUuudil9cU
My neck is a little sore and that's all.
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#1223
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Don't skimp on safety gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUuudil9cU
My neck is a little sore and that's all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUuudil9cU
My neck is a little sore and that's all.
Looks like something gave out on your driver's front. Is that your typical turn-in point orrr do you have any other video from that weekend to compare? Hope repair is minimal and you're back out soon!
#1224
The cast aluminum piece where the steering column mounts is cracked in half. At this point I don't know if that is crash damage. The wheel did not move much when I hit the tires. Which is good because I left my thumbs hooked like a moron.
Damage is light so far. Everything forward of the frame rails is toast. I'll replace a lot of that with pipe and plate since PT allows it for no points. Radiator support looks straight to the eye as do the frame rails. UCA on the driver's side is toast and I'm going to call all the ball joints over there toast as well. Hood/fender/bumper skin are all goners. Undercar plastic and steering rack are toast.
The off at T1 could have broken something that was almost failed, T3 went just fine though. That may have just been the inside tire not mattering that much combined with underdriving the turn. A previous wheel drop knocked my rear toe out, fixed that Saturday evening and the car felt right for (an extremely short) qual. I'm not sure rear toe can even cause the car to not turn that badly.
For speed reference you can hear the rev limiter in 4th right before turnin. I'm on 205 Hoosiers, 5-speed and 4.77 rear so that's about 106 - tire slippage. I need to dork around with my data logging phone, I left it on and it didn't save the session properly. I'm hoping the data is somewhere on the phone and I can convince it to come off.
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The off at T1 could have broken something that was almost failed, T3 went just fine though. That may have just been the inside tire not mattering that much combined with underdriving the turn. A previous wheel drop knocked my rear toe out, fixed that Saturday evening and the car felt right for (an extremely short) qual. I'm not sure rear toe can even cause the car to not turn that badly.
Good to hear repair will go smoothly! Hope to run with ya at ViR in Oct.
#1227
I didn't run CoTA this weekend, but a legit points build showed up and slaughtered my usual competition by 3 seconds (which is also 3 seconds faster than SM, so right in the ballpark for full tilt PTE/TTE build). Oh boy. Looks like I'm gonna have to go back to the idea of e85 and not just make 136whp peak, but do the Kansas power.
#1231
*2:38.8, which was ~3 seconds (Edit: 2 seconds) faster than SM for the weekend. A lot of SM national level drivers were running though. Hard to extrapolate SCCA vs NASA since they run completely different times of the year. SCCA is in February which is usually nice and cool whereas this past weekend was mid 80's.
#1233
I encourage all you to sign up for nationals and have some fun, u can look at the cota times all you want, we we're just testing, yes there is more time in a pte car, don't read into things to much, I know Chris ( the kid who was driving it) he wants some fast guys to show up and have a race
#1235
I've also been considering a 10.5:1 rebuild for my spare block, throw tomei cams at the head, ???, and hopefully make decent TT5 power. Because bad ideas.
#1236
Hyperfest, VIR, TTE.
I had a schedule conflict Friday, so I flew in to join the Supermiata/949racing gang on Saturday. Marcus was gracious enough to offer me a codrive, in a return of Team Just Gonna Send It.
Marcus drove Saturday, let me have 3 sessions Sunday before he loaded up early to get home tonight.
2:16.0 8:30a session. Weather was awesome, but track was super green from overnight rain.
2:15.9 12:20p session. Mid 80s. Hot. Found more time from line choice than I lost to the hot track.
Third session, 2:20pm. I almost bailed thinking the track would only be even slower. Marcus talked me into driving, since he had a student so couldn’t leave that early anyways. Track must have finally gotten some rubber laid down, because I still went faster. Not normal for the afternoon session to get faster.
2:14.8!
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At tracks you aren't fresh on, this can certainly be the case even though the track got a little slower. I wouldn't be surprised if you looked at the data and things like longitudinal G's were ever so slightly less in the afternoon with just a bit less grip, but you just drove it better. Which is crazy, because you matched the record in sub-optimal conditions.
Well driven.
Well driven.
#1239
looked up that 2:14.2 standing record from 2014 after the session, thinking Kohler had the record with another 2:14.8, but I was thinking of his TTE Champ lap from 2015.
I'd love for Marcus to trade his swaybars for an ECU and E85. Maybe toss some valvesprings in there... It would crush.