Turkey Bowl 2012 - Summit Point, My First Vintage Racing Event |
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Turkey Bowl 2012 - Summit Point, My First Vintage Racing Event |
MikeSpraggi |
Dec 7 2012, 10:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 7-February 05 From: Silver Spring, Md Member No.: 3,570 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Here is a short in-car video of the second race of my 3 day race weekend at Summit Point Motorsports Park in W.Va. This race was black flagged on the second lap. I was down on power and torque, but ran the event anyway (getting that taken care of this off season). There were about 6 914's in the Group 2 (2 liter and greater) races with a lot of other nice vintage racers.
I built the yellow car specifically for vintage racing and this was my first vintage event that ever I raced in. What a rush! Oh yea, that green 914 in front of me on the start is a real GT. The #19 Max Moritz car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TD6PeZritI |
john rogers |
Dec 8 2012, 07:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,525 Joined: 4-March 03 From: Chula Vista CA Member No.: 391 |
Opps, sorry, the RPMs sounded a bit low and that is what you were talking about with being down on power. When I had the 2L six it was cammed to run up to about 8400 RPM in "emergencies" and normally shifted about 7200 to 7400 RPMs. I found that keeping the revs about 5000 in any corner made the car accelerate much better with little lag time. You will find the race sessions are much harder on the running gear and frequent oil changes (after every race weekend) and trans fluid changes will be the norm. I used to buy my 15-50 Mobile 1 oil in the big jugs at Walmart when they had them on sale and that was a huge help. I will imagine a trans cooler will be in your future also????
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MikeSpraggi |
Dec 12 2012, 12:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 7-February 05 From: Silver Spring, Md Member No.: 3,570 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Opps, sorry, the RPMs sounded a bit low and that is what you were talking about with being down on power. When I had the 2L six it was cammed to run up to about 8400 RPM in "emergencies" and normally shifted about 7200 to 7400 RPMs. I found that keeping the revs about 5000 in any corner made the car accelerate much better with little lag time. You will find the race sessions are much harder on the running gear and frequent oil changes (after every race weekend) and trans fluid changes will be the norm. I used to buy my 15-50 Mobile 1 oil in the big jugs at Walmart when they had them on sale and that was a huge help. I will imagine a trans cooler will be in your future also???? Yes on the trans cooler in the future, assuming that the Mayan calendar perdiction doesn't come to pass on Dec. 21 this year. |
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