I havent been great about updating this thread lately...
Car did awesome at TNIA in Portland a few weeks ago. Two solid 20 minute sessions before some weather moved in and I loaded up. Had a few issues with temps again being in the 217-220 range. Not something to worry about but it was warmer than I wanted it to be. Swapped in a 160 degree stat.
Also had a lot of understeer, so I got a real alignment done on the car as well. 2.7 degrees of camber.
Loaded up here at noon on Friday and headed North, ran into a nasty rolled over freight truck on highway 512 between Tacoma and Puyallup that held me up for almost an hour. Got there just in time for the drivers meeting.
Got the car unloaded, warmed up and got out to grid for my run group.
Oh man did my changes help a ton. They recently did a big upgrade on the back section of this track and its so much better, real curbing that you can drive over, even carry some tires too. Took a few laps to get the hang of the new layout and get a grip on the car.
Its a big fast track if you have never been before and has a monster of a straightaway. Although I am convinced that the rear end has 4.10's instead of 3.73's in it. Either way, the understeer is just about gone now, adding the camber made a huge change on turn in and corner entry, rear spring change settled the rear of the car down a lot. I was having a blast.
Temps were staying in the 190's so a huge improvement from the last track outing.
Brakes have zero fade no matter what I did. I need to work on my 4 to 3 downshift, have hit 5th a few times on accident. Need to adjust accelerator position up a little to assist with heel toe.
15 mins into the session or so, I came through turn 2 and felt the car do something weird mid turn, I couldnt quite tell what it did but it shifted over a few inches off the line.
Then on the next straight the steering wheel was no longer straight while I was going straight.......
So into the pits to see what was going on.
Unfortunately it appears that my steering rack has jumped a tooth. There was a pretty good clunk in the steering when working the wheel back and forth. Once under the car I could move the rack output back and forth a good 3/8".
Bummer that it ended my fun filled weekend of car stuff waaaaay early. I had planned on track night friday, Seattle cars and coffee on Saturday and Auto Cross on Monday.
Instead I had Dinner with my nephew and his lady friend and hit the road from Seattle about 9 for my drive back to PDX.
Saturday I tore this **** apart.
Picked up a known good rack from Scott and Taylor. Very minimal play in this one.
New Rack in!!! Get the rack in, fill with fluid and bleed a little before sleep time.
Woke up to a nice puddle under the car, not coming from the rack. The "rebuilt" pump was leaking now. It wasnt from the high pressure line like I thought as the car had not started yet.
So here we go again.....
I tried to round up a pump but with no luck this weekend. I ordered a new pump from Turn One this morning. This time it has a real rebuild on it, tested before it leaves with a new reservoir and a billet wheel so the pulley doesnt need to be pulled each time you remove it.
Bummer that I missed out on all car stuff this weekend but I did manage to get a ton of stuff done around the house. All hard surfaces got pressure washed, trip to the dump, goodwill, took care of some touchup paint on the interior of the house, installed out killer new bedroom ceiling fan, assembled a new bed for the spare room.
The wife got the best end of the 3 day weekend for sure.
I have an event on the 8th and 9th at PIR and really hope that this thing is reliable for the weekend