well, today was a good day. 200 mile roundtrip and 13 timed runs and nothing broke.
the motor was running great.
the only small hiccup, that little oil-overfill that decided to fill up my puke-can and spill all over the engine and headers.
quote from a bystander: "dude, your car is smoking!"
oops ... i guess the top mark really means full!
now back to the topic at hand.
i need to get back to the drawing board in regards to the car setup.
i had *massive* understeer all day. backed off the front swaybar to full soft with almost no change.
people on course later told me that every time i hit the fast pedal, the front of the car would come up.
i guess you could call this "torque understeer".
of course, like any good wannabe racecar-mechanic, i changed a whole bunch of stuff since the car was last running and not just one at a time ...
a few things:
- i have too much negative camber front/rear. tiretemps were from mildly warm to cold (inside to outside) and the wear on the tires shows that the outside 3rd of the tire didn't do any work at all.
- i need more rear spring. a lot more. i'm guessing that now that i run the rollerbearings, i lost ~50 lbs of sticky rubber bushing springrate in the rear.
- traction. i simply could not get all that power to the asphalt. i ran the whole course in 2nd gear (including the start) and i was at 1/2 throttle at the most.
i tried a few times to go full throttle and it would just spin the wheels.
same goes for coming out of a corner trying to accelerate. the unloaded wheel would just spin.
i'm thinking in need a limited slip ...
and lastly, forget about trying to run a good line through the course.
whenever i came out of a corner and touched the gas pedal, i was instantly at the next corner.
no time to think or even try to set the car correctly.
my guess is this is just me needing to get used to drive a car with power, but man, what a damm workout that was ...
Andy