War
09-26-2006, 02:35 PM
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So I ran on my street tires, it was suppose to be cold so I didn't think it was worth bringing the slicks. As it turned out it got warm and slicks were the way to go. Oh well, overall I placed 5th out of 30 (I won my class) and I was 2 seconds quicker then the next person with street tires.
http://www.mrheavyfoot.com/files/results/E9-20060923_Raw_Overall.htm
There actually was 4+ other good drivers out that day on street rubber (2 on aziena's), so there was some good street rubber competition.
I had an overheating problem at the track, which turned out to be a air bubble that was in the line. The engine was running much better, I did some tuning inbetween the last event (sept 9) and this event. My biggest issues were that they designed a very tight course which didn't suite my wide of a car. And my street tires have a big stagger on them (225 front 285 rear) so I suffered from a lot of understeer. I tried to tune as much out as possibe by stiffening up the rear and moving the front sway bar to the softest setting. But in the end it just wasn't enough and the car really liked to push.
My fastest run ended up being my first run (which I took very slow), it just got worse and worse from there. One of the things that killed me is as the street tires heated up they began to get greasy (understeer got worse), and as I learned the course I started going faster in the open sections, but even with braking earlier it wasn't early enough and I would kill my line badly into the tighter stuff.
Here is a short video someone there took, it's actually of the tightest/slowest part of the track. I was struggeling to make it threw that section.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4710921840473576596
So I ran on my street tires, it was suppose to be cold so I didn't think it was worth bringing the slicks. As it turned out it got warm and slicks were the way to go. Oh well, overall I placed 5th out of 30 (I won my class) and I was 2 seconds quicker then the next person with street tires.
http://www.mrheavyfoot.com/files/results/E9-20060923_Raw_Overall.htm
There actually was 4+ other good drivers out that day on street rubber (2 on aziena's), so there was some good street rubber competition.
I had an overheating problem at the track, which turned out to be a air bubble that was in the line. The engine was running much better, I did some tuning inbetween the last event (sept 9) and this event. My biggest issues were that they designed a very tight course which didn't suite my wide of a car. And my street tires have a big stagger on them (225 front 285 rear) so I suffered from a lot of understeer. I tried to tune as much out as possibe by stiffening up the rear and moving the front sway bar to the softest setting. But in the end it just wasn't enough and the car really liked to push.
My fastest run ended up being my first run (which I took very slow), it just got worse and worse from there. One of the things that killed me is as the street tires heated up they began to get greasy (understeer got worse), and as I learned the course I started going faster in the open sections, but even with braking earlier it wasn't early enough and I would kill my line badly into the tighter stuff.
Here is a short video someone there took, it's actually of the tightest/slowest part of the track. I was struggeling to make it threw that section.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4710921840473576596