At Cal Speedway this time. I went in with some older tires that had a bunch of heat cycles on them. Unfortunately I got out on the oval and realized pretty quickly that the car was down on steam. I was only getting 125 mph on the oval and could rarely even hit 129 even with a good tow. Normally it's good for over 135 with a tow. Something was clearly amiss.
For a point-and-squirt track like Auto Club, that was kind of a death knell. E Strong put together an awesome race and managed to get his first win. Great work!
Well, all I could do was drive the thing. I ended up finishing 4th out of 11 on Saturday, thanks to a mid-race retirement from the leader, who had his timing belt jump a tooth. Tire money!
Here's the first two laps:
Sunday came around and my tires were DONE. I was wondering how many heat cycles I could get out of those RRs. I didn't bother putting new ones on because I was so down on power, just didn't seem worth it. Still finished 7th that day, helped by retirements and people in front of me spinning off.
I made a bunch of lemonade that weekend.
Castro says my throttle position sensor was just out of adjustment, so I wasn't getting full juice. I may have him do a teardown anyways, since some of the internals in that motor are 4 seasons old.
For a point-and-squirt track like Auto Club, that was kind of a death knell. E Strong put together an awesome race and managed to get his first win. Great work!
Well, all I could do was drive the thing. I ended up finishing 4th out of 11 on Saturday, thanks to a mid-race retirement from the leader, who had his timing belt jump a tooth. Tire money!
Here's the first two laps:
Sunday came around and my tires were DONE. I was wondering how many heat cycles I could get out of those RRs. I didn't bother putting new ones on because I was so down on power, just didn't seem worth it. Still finished 7th that day, helped by retirements and people in front of me spinning off.
I made a bunch of lemonade that weekend.
Castro says my throttle position sensor was just out of adjustment, so I wasn't getting full juice. I may have him do a teardown anyways, since some of the internals in that motor are 4 seasons old.
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