Haha. Thanks for the idea man.
Definitely been there. Happy Friday!
Happens on occasion doesnt it?
I'm there and my car is still a pile of parts. No motivation to fix the daily driver either. Happy Friday!
Trust me man, I totally hear you I was there about halfway through this build and needed some kicks in the ass to get going again to get it done. Glad its done now with nice weather here.
Well, Here is my short reply. I believe that the rear lower control arm bushing mounting and style are what are causing my weird front alignment. I am going to order or build some different lower control arms that have a real rear control arm mount. I believe that style of bushing is just not compatible with what I have going on.
After last weekend and this weeks repairs I was not really holding my breath that anything was going to work.
Friday after work I spent a little time going over some items, chatted with Racepak. Their tech support is not educated on anything with these dashes though. Is all he did was open the manual and read it line for line. Anything technical he had no idea how to do it or how it operated.
The bottom line is that you cannot manually program in any parameters for the speedometer (according to Racepak) and the only way to get the speedometer to work is to go through their auto calculation procedure. Seems rediculous to me.
So I go out, do their procedure and sure as **** I have a working speedometer!!!
I was pretty stoked. Get the car loaded up in the trailer for Saturday morning SCCA Time Trials at PIR with my buddy Kevin and his S10.
Got to the track, ran through Tech, no problems, registration, transponders and what not.
We got 2 20 minute practice sessions in the morning and 2 timed sessions in the afternoon.
Unfortunately my fastest lap was a 1:31.2 in practice and seemed to get slower as the weekend went on. They lined us up in our run groups by previous fast lap, Kevin and I were in the front 3 or 4 spots all weekend long so we got 4 or 5 good hot laps in before we caught lap traffic, me in front a couple times, him in front a couple, we had a blast chasing each other around and surprised more than a few people in our run group.
In impound after our session for a debrief. It was a great rundown of what happened in our sessions, what worked, what didn't and so on.
I chased Kevin all weekend but he was just faster than me and I had to settle for 2nd place out of 2 cars in our class of MAX 1. Either way though we had an awesome time.
After our first session, the steering wheel went to about 10 degrees to the right and stayed there all weekend, made a little adjustment and said f it and ran it. None of the hardware came loose. I paint marked all hardware before we left and nothing moved at all so that was good.
Only issue I had all weekend was that and the panhard bar came loose on my second to last session, going to need to add that to the list of things to check after every run. Got a little blip of low oil pressure on Saturday, was a little low so added in some oil and ran all day sinday without a problem. Reading up on it, Holley in very small print says to run an extra half quart if you are going to track their oil pans.....good to know. so its a 6.5 quart system now
Beautiful weekend for some racing!!
Car did awesome, figured out tires are much happier with 36 lbs in them than the 32 I started with. Rear end is happier softer than stiffer.
Driver needs to be more aggressive and I need some more power!!! Ill be ordering a cam and pulley soon.
I was able to hit 130 on the back straight away though, so its no slouch.
Thank you SCCA for putting on such an awesome event this weekend, I had a blast, met some new very helpful people and took home some awards. There is a long story behind the spirit of time trials trophy, but it really comes down to just being there for people when they need a hand, remember life is short, enjoy it and lend a hand when you can.
Kevins Truck is a bad machine, much more than meets the eye and it rips.
More to come soon.
Sean