Muuuuch better post. It sounds like you had a good time and really pinpointed a few items that will help you go quicker next year. If the only thing to go was your ankle and the PS, I'd say that was a solid outing.
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I was a bit surprised about the PS pump. I have over 3000 miles on the car since the swap and build with no issues. It may have just been a POS reman and died, will never know now, but I know other guys have killed PS pumps in autocross and road. I also have the iron pump instead of the aluminum one, I was trying to save money when I was buying all the parts. I didn't really care about weight for a daily. Maybe that will be better. I may go with a Turn One pump for the Camaro |
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Well, no in-car videos I lost my memory card during the day :sad: I re-traced all the places I was during the day and I don't see it in any parking lot. My last hope is that I dropped it inside the building at work and someone picked it up. I am going to talk to the cleaning guy this afternoon and see if he found it
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whew, so I took a few hours out tonight to upload and sort out photos from the three cameras I used this past weekend. I have just got a GoPro, so I did not have the editing program. Sorry guys, videos will have to wait a day or so. I did do a bulk photo upload to flickr.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123927...57685958158483 I know it will just look like a bunch of spontaneous photos there, but ther is a story. Man! there is a freakin story. PolarBear did a great job of it, and just because I have to re-copy this narrative many places elsewhere, I will just do a full blown narrative..(in a day or two). sorry if it overlaps his. Here is a link to the quickly uploaded basic photo album, and I'll include a few cool photos too just because. MAN!!! WHAT A COOL EVENT. Talk about putting your car through the ringer.. this is a brutal weekend for the car, and even more-so for mine because I street drove it there 3.5 hours (filled with 200+ pounds of tools/gear/etc) then hammered on it for two days in an event I was absurdly uncompetitive at, and then street drove it home with gear. (and drove it to work the next morning too!). pro built high end cars were blowing superchargers, the red c5 corvettethat was whooping my ass on the road course... it blew a throw-out bearing and was d.e.a.d.d dead.. a turbo Grand National knocked his motor down hard, a modern challenger with an actual crew team and a spandex girl had their car catch on fire. one of the racers who is frequent and sometimes runs multiple vehicles at each event had his front wheel splinter off . soem cars did not make it back from the road-rally (a cannonball run type challenge to prove these cars are street cars) anything can happen. it is VERY DEMANDING ON VEHICLES. This is not trailering your car to a dragstrip, running, and trailing home. This is a very different animal. I will easily say that I am not fast on the road course because I have no top end horsepower with my setup, but to be hanging with these cars in the turns and bear and I during autoX and speed stop.... hell yea.. hell f'n yea This is by far my favorite car event of the year. I had a fantastic time... the entire time. I had some low fueling issues on the speed stop, and my knock sensor would falsely sense knock, and go into LIMP MODE on the big track, but I battled through it. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/...fd818e21_z.jpgIMG_7494 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4417/...175fe931_z.jpgIMG_7498 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4380/...6dda24cc_z.jpgDSCN5700 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4437/...855088bb_z.jpgDSCN5714 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4436/...376fa125_z.jpgDSCN5718 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4438/...a382256f_z.jpgDSCN5719 by David Martin, on Flickr |
a few more
the TA bear was mentioning: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4373/...97a594c6_c.jpgDSCN5720 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4357/...aebcee4f_c.jpgDSCN5725 by David Martin, on Flickr Mills makes 500+hp and has a 175 wet nitrous shot on it; it being a gutted, home built pro-touring LS track killing machine https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4441/...7d3aeac9_c.jpgDSCN5729 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4427/...585496cc_c.jpgIMG_7508 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4427/...523d7b60_c.jpgIMG_7512 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4412/...659ccec0_c.jpgIMG_7516 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4425/...a88b582f_c.jpgIMG_7517 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4358/...1e9cf67e_c.jpgIMG_7521 by David Martin, on Flickr |
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4397/...f2a0696a_c.jpgIMG_7577 by David Martin, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4437/...0a1229cc_c.jpgIMG_7579 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/...47851949_c.jpgIMG_7587 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4361/...92b605bc_c.jpgIMG_7591 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4436/...887bb265_c.jpgIMG_7592 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4346/...49e8168a_c.jpgIMG_7593 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4386/...c6e53080_c.jpgIMG_7597 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4398/...f1ddbb36_c.jpgIMG_7600 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4335/...9ae8436c_c.jpgIMG_7602 by David Martin, on Flickr |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4399/...94dc8b97_c.jpgIMG_7603 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4417/...34370005_c.jpgDSCN5731 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4361/...0af1b275_c.jpgIMG_7619 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4368/...5ec2323e_c.jpgIMG_7626 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/...278e802d_c.jpgIMG_7631 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4421/...6b810de9_c.jpgIMG_7633 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4363/...8c9dcfea_c.jpgIMG_7642 by David Martin, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4416/...9b15c5cb_c.jpgIMG_7653 by David Martin, on Flickr I packed the garage hand-tools I though I might need (and luckily I didn't) all in my trunk so I took out the complete 1900 watt amp and the 2 12" subwoofers. Lots a LOT of points for this in the "design and engineering " section, and I am fine with that. There is NO way I could have took all my gear along with the sound system. SACRIFICES! https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4366/...5cc99af4_c.jpgIMG_7665 by David Martin, on Flickr me vs a C7 corvette. speed stop event VIDEO. click on it. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4403/...0d063b36_c.jpgIMG_7673 by David Martin, on Flickr other videos of event to follow.. along wit full blown written recap |
Thanks for sharing all the pics, I am pretty excited to find out about this in NJ. I saw it on Roadkill a few years ago and have been dying to set up the bird for these kind of things.
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Awesome shots! Man, I have to make it out once. Just to watch, looks like a killer time.
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That fat guy in that yellow Firebird....
You got a lot of great shots, and of my car, thanks! A side note, I found my memory car, so I will eventually post up some of my in-car action. I have to combine a lot of the files since the camera breaks them up to keep them smaller. Quote:
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Cool pics Dave!
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Great pics and story Dave! Sounds like you had a really good and memorable time. I will need to make it out next time.
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The series will be airing a 1 hour episode for each event starting in about a month on MAVTV
I used to have to pay for this network, but the past 3 months, I have been able to get it for free on Verizon. Maybe it is an accident, maybe it is legit for free. Check your local listings. MavTV. I think it is channel 810 on Verizon Fios. It has all sorts of awesome motorsports action (tractor pulls, top speed boat racing, motorcycle action, etc) |
Yesterday I watched the video of the interview with Ken Thwaits, and my car was in the background for a good part of it, starting at -1:55
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I found this online just now
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Power steering overheating/cavitation has always been a problem for 3rd gens on the road course - our CMC guys all run big PS coolers to keep their steering units happy.
If you get the right tires on those wheels - there are some good options to make the class rules happy - you could pick up some good time and not have them get slippery in the heat. I can hep you with those choices. The 3rd gen high g fueling problem is a tough one - you worked around it with the 4th gen system, but the other options are the 1LE baffled tank or keeping the tank 3/8 full or better. Some choose to put in their own tank baffles. What are the suspension rules for the class? There are some easy parts that will make a huge impact on your lap times - assuming the rules allow them. Quote:
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As far as rules, there aren't any for the vehicle SPECIFICALLY, just the 200 treadwear on the tires. I wasn't really "ready" for the race since I was also preparing for my trip the following weekend. If I go again, I will likely have some aftermarket suspension pieces, and at the very least, some strut mounts and a track alignment for the front end. I actually had planned to swap the lower control arms and PHB for the race, but I ran out of time. I will have some better tires for next time too, I was also running out of money working on two projects concurrently. :kneeslap: |
yea, I was suprised about your power steering issue too
as for my fueling issue, it was definitiely due to the stock tank and low amount of fuel I had in it while doing "high" G driving. It remedied itself after I added about a half tank of 93. I will certainly need better 200 treadwear tires. Falkens, BFG rivals, or the Nitto NT05, sometime over the winter. Probably going to upgrade to Koni Yellows and bump the camber a bit. That said, it is a long way away till this event next year..and i would like to get some autoX sessions in either this fall or the spring, to just improve my driving, and test a few things. Just the other day after coming home from a nice car show in Califon, I peeled the stickers off the car and washed it... only for it not to fire up!?!? Turns out the MSD Digital6 Plus ignition box decided to be a jerk. I did some minor troubleshooting of it, but ran out of time to look into it and test it more. I pulled the stock ignition control wires from it and bypassed it (essentially back to stock spark voltage etc now). Fires up. Problem is, without that box, I can't/won't use the nitrous since the box I have dialed in 4 deg of spark delay. Thank GOD this box didnt act up when i was on the track or driving to/from the event. VERY ODD that it started acting screwy after a car show and a good 2 hours of driving the car that day. I'll recheck all wiring, and do some of the tests MSD recommends to troubleshoot it. So, until I remedy this... I prob wont be on a track or autoX course. I have most of the videos from USCA uploaded to my youtube account, the only ones I am missing are the actual go-pro ones from the road course sessions. they are huge in size, so I just did all of the smaller/shorter ones first. I need to find a good video editing program that is easy for a non-computer guru like me to use. I want to edit out some of the down time moments (under black flag, pre race gridding, etc) but the program that comes free with GoPro camera won't do it.. it can only chop the video into smaller individual videos. also to add text, and possibly a side-by-side or picture-in-picture feature I am brand new to GoPro, but even though I have the hard plastic case on with hard plastic rear cover, there is a LOT of wind noise. did not expect this. am i doing something wrong? |
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true. I also am convinced that my oem replacement fuel pump is not happy anymore. I might plan on upgrading to a bigger one.. but might want to do research since I eventually (hopefully in a years time) plan on going to a 406 or 421 EFI controlled small block making 500ish hp and then throwing a 200 wet shot on it. not sure what size/rating pump i'd need for that just yet. not a bad winter project to get done ahead of time.
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Well, I DEFINITELY cooked the power steering pump. When I was removing it it was all greasy in the bearing area, so some of the grease came out of the sealed front bearing. Also the fluid was completely brown and smelled bad, considering the fluid was clear when it went in, with a slight yellow tinge. I swapped out the pump and put in new fluid and I magically have power back. I didn't purge the system since there was no metal in the old fluid. I will drive it for a day or two and suck the fluid out of the reservoir, then change it again in a few days after that.
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