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Hey Steven, found this recently and they are in your neck of the woods..........
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Gaetano thanks! Those pictures help a lot and that is a pretty darn good deal price wise. I will mull it over until tax refund time....
BTW, you know you're only some carpet and a dash pad from being a pro touring car right? :) |
It ain't protouring until it has a sub box. :lol:
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Hey hey thanks everybody. Now that I've had the time to digest everything from RTTC, there are some interesting things to report
Results Road Course 1:47.5 Speed Stop/Slalom 25.035 Auto X 44.574 I am definitely happy with my results, all things considered. It's pretty weird that my road course time is a lot better than my autox/speed stop times; I cannot really isolate why this happened, other than that I felt comfortable with the car on the road course and felt like we were fighting on the other events. Knockback & Knockback Springs: I don't know of many people that have used these and written a review, so I decided to be the guinea pig and put some information out there. Each spring is 5.5lbs fully compressed, and I decided to install two of them behind the piston of my rear calipers. Theoretically, the springs push the piston, keeping the pads in slight contact with the rotor at all times. However, as soon as I popped the piston out of the caliper I knew that in practice these weren't going to do a darn thing. The theory is nice, but the o-ring in the caliper causes way too much drag with the piston to make it effective. The piston doesn't move with 11lbs of force, nor would I suspect it would with 20 or 30lbs. So, they proved to be pointless at installation, and even moreso on the track. My knockback has been degrading for a while now, as I am pumping the pedal constantly during autox, and 2-3 times before each road course corner just to get some bite. Pretty distracting. Solution? I really need to tear down the rear end and probably replace some key components, whether its the axle bearings or the housing itself...it's something I shouldn't be battling with. R-Comp Tires I wanted to try a different set of tires for this event. Figuring that the car was running on 300tw last year, I decided on 100tw R888's...at least I would be averaging 200. Being on a budget and out there more for experimenting, I scored some 255/40/17 fronts and 275/40/17 rears with $70 total invested into the set. Needless to say, they were pretty well used up to begin with. It was a great lesson in handling vs. grip. Handling The car handled so much better. R888's have really stiff sidewalls compared to my Goodyears, so it ratcheted the steering feel and overall spring rates up by a HUGE margin. The car felt so much more alive. And going from 245GY to 255Toyo was actually over an inch of width to the pavement so the car felt more balanced. From the video, you can see that coming out of the turns the car was pretty neutral. Grip Grip was a different story, and a great lesson in heat cycled tires. Outright, I don't think the grip level was that much greater than my Goodyears. I was still breaking traction in a straight line up to the same speeds as before, so that was a big indicator that I was about the same in grip. However, the Toyos seemed to like heat a lot more...they got progressively stickier lap after lap, whereas the Goodyears would quickly get slick. If I had to do it all over again for $70, I'd still choose the used Toyo's over the Goodyears. Next time I have $1000 for a set of tires, I will buy a new set, something that gets me on the official results list. Reliability It seemed to be a war of attrition out there this weekend, a reminder that what we are doing is hard on our cars. I am very happy to report that my car just kept going all weekend. Vitals were good thankfully. Good oil pan, oil cooler, accumulator, and 10W40 Redline is all it takes to make an engine happy! The TKO has a bit of a problem shifting at high rpm, but I just learned to be patient and wait for it to double-click before letting the clutch out. People It was the people that made this event so great. I met and hung out with a lot of gearheads with great cars and great personalities. Big shout out to guys of the Road Touring Customs, they're a really cool crew...you heard it here first, they are a force to be reckoned with in the near future. John, Aaron, Erich, Todd, Dave, Carl it was good hanging with you guys for however short it was. Here's a video from Friday's road course, putting down the power the best I could. I think I run about a 1:51, the 1:47.5 came Saturday. http://youtu.be/4qwcqPWndDo Until next time! |
That speed stop time can't be right. You weren't that far behind me when we raced. Maybe a second or two. I'd say more like high 22's or low 23's. If you have a video, use a stop watch. Your road course time is super solid! Congrats... R888's do heat cycle out and they aren't great cold. I don't think they are a very good autocross tire contrary to popular belief. They like heat, get a new set and wait until about 10 minutes into a road course session. :thumbsup: Anyway, you and Jon Rasmussen are in my top two of doing the most with the least. Look forward to seeing you in Buttonwillow this year.
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Definitely a solid time on the road course brother... and glad your car held together great. Was it the rear main leaking that we talked about? You gonna rip into that at all or leave it for now?
Yeah dude, was hoping to hang more but sh!t gets kinda hectic down there especially when in different groups. Nice report -- sounds like you are liking the R comps now... at least maybe ones with tread left. :D |
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