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Originally Posted by KAA
I reaquired my old El Camino this past July after "loaning" it out for the past five years.  It was back in 2006 when I last ran it on the road course. In the last six years I've been tracking "other" sports cars. I was real curious to see if, given the added driving experience, I could improve my lap time in the El Camino. My goal was to run under a 2 minute lap with the car in the exact condition it was in last time. My previous best was 2:02.67 and my best top speed was 148 mph. I went back to B.I.R. last Monday ended up running 3.4 seconds quicker at 1:59.27 and 5 mph faster at 153 mph. Goal met! 
It was quite the experience getting back in that car after driving something significanly faster. It pushes, it throttle oversteers, and in some corners it does both! It has an intermittent miss at WOT that was never there before. It was pretty violent. Almost like fuel cut or something. I suspect the ignition. I had to send the dizzy in for repair after it crapped out at Car Craft so that's high on the list of suspects. The left rear tire was locking up under braking. Just the left and it was shredding the tire. I kept backing off the rear brake bias but that didn't help much. The brakes are marginable at best for heavy track use. The springs are too soft, needs a more aggressive alignment, gas pedal is a mile away from the brake pedal, and more. Lot's to work on. |
It's amazing how many problems are exposed by getting faster...
Thanks for sharing the great video, and Congratulations on the driving improvement
We noticed your improved time was done with a passenger penalty...Double Bonus!
Regards
CurtiSS 69