driftstyre
10-11-2007, 07:08 PM
Last week was a long week of ups and downs.
Our plan was to compete at Summit Point, stay the week in DC with some friends, visit the newer Air and Space Museum and then head to GTLive on Thursday. It was supposed to be a vacation pretty much.
We headed down to Summit Point in Old Mother Hubbard, towing the Maxi and Alex's Evo II Lancer. The tires I had saved up for and bought didn't arrive in time so I was on my well used avon 275s all around. The car has been handling very well after many test days trying new settings to achieve more rear grip. I drove the first day with the avons and then switched the rears to a used set of R6s after realizing that summit point requires a very good amount of low speed grip. The avons were't reaching optimal temperatures. Sunday morning came and I headed out for the morning test session with the R6s. The grip was much better and they were coming up to temp very quickly. I decided to bring Matt with me (our engineer/tuner) as he had never been in the car at speed and had always wanted to. Everything went fine for the good part of 6 laps. On the last turn before the main straight, I lost control and sent the car headon into the wall on the outside. My first reaction was to start laughing, then "well, so much for that". Matt entered his "You should probably turn off the kill switch".
Before
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8631-2/IMG_0456.jpg
After
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8698-2/IMG_0479+_Large_.jpg
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8715-2/IMG_0486+_Large_.jpg
Poor Maxi. She looked like some asshole smashed her face in with a hammer. I got towed back into the paddock and went over the damage. For the most part, the birdcage that my splitter mounts to absorbed a good amount of impact. The intercooler was twisted like a DNA strand. After replacing a broken -10 oil line, the car started right up (sans intercooler). Matt and Nick took the hood off and flattened it as much as possible. There was no engine or suspension damage so there was a chance we could get the car back out for the timed portion later in the day. We really just duct taped the sheite out of the entire front end (no bumper or splitter or any downforce at all...mainly just lift). I got a few practice laps in and there was a very obvious boost leak. I got some crazy instant weld stuff from my friend Burak and it sealed the giant crack in the intercooler. We got it together for the last timed session and I got some laps in. There were still some leaks in the intercooler and boost was limited to about 1.2 bar or ~250whp and slow response. The front end might have been lifting off the ground on the main straight because my steering inputs weren't doing anything until I slowed to about 80mph. On the Yump the car was seriously lifting and I crushed my titanium pipe from 3.2" to about 1.75-2" on landing.
Damn!! I think this might be the real strawberry face!
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8621-2/bill_air.jpg
It was fun none the less and thanks to Matt and Nick the car was able to compete. Alex had an equally depressing weekend as the headgasket on his Evo let go and he took the day pulling the head and getting ready for a fun week of unexpected spending and labor.
Monday we headed to DC with our friend Burak who took us around and helped us brainstorm the rebuilding of my front end and Alex's headgasket. Mach V is right near Dulles so Alex headed over there and we got a tour from Dan (a really cool guy) who got a headgasket overnighted and sent us to the machine shop down the road.
This is part one. I am going to the bar and will finish the rest in a bit.
-Bill
Our plan was to compete at Summit Point, stay the week in DC with some friends, visit the newer Air and Space Museum and then head to GTLive on Thursday. It was supposed to be a vacation pretty much.
We headed down to Summit Point in Old Mother Hubbard, towing the Maxi and Alex's Evo II Lancer. The tires I had saved up for and bought didn't arrive in time so I was on my well used avon 275s all around. The car has been handling very well after many test days trying new settings to achieve more rear grip. I drove the first day with the avons and then switched the rears to a used set of R6s after realizing that summit point requires a very good amount of low speed grip. The avons were't reaching optimal temperatures. Sunday morning came and I headed out for the morning test session with the R6s. The grip was much better and they were coming up to temp very quickly. I decided to bring Matt with me (our engineer/tuner) as he had never been in the car at speed and had always wanted to. Everything went fine for the good part of 6 laps. On the last turn before the main straight, I lost control and sent the car headon into the wall on the outside. My first reaction was to start laughing, then "well, so much for that". Matt entered his "You should probably turn off the kill switch".
Before
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8631-2/IMG_0456.jpg
After
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8698-2/IMG_0479+_Large_.jpg
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8715-2/IMG_0486+_Large_.jpg
Poor Maxi. She looked like some asshole smashed her face in with a hammer. I got towed back into the paddock and went over the damage. For the most part, the birdcage that my splitter mounts to absorbed a good amount of impact. The intercooler was twisted like a DNA strand. After replacing a broken -10 oil line, the car started right up (sans intercooler). Matt and Nick took the hood off and flattened it as much as possible. There was no engine or suspension damage so there was a chance we could get the car back out for the timed portion later in the day. We really just duct taped the sheite out of the entire front end (no bumper or splitter or any downforce at all...mainly just lift). I got a few practice laps in and there was a very obvious boost leak. I got some crazy instant weld stuff from my friend Burak and it sealed the giant crack in the intercooler. We got it together for the last timed session and I got some laps in. There were still some leaks in the intercooler and boost was limited to about 1.2 bar or ~250whp and slow response. The front end might have been lifting off the ground on the main straight because my steering inputs weren't doing anything until I slowed to about 80mph. On the Yump the car was seriously lifting and I crushed my titanium pipe from 3.2" to about 1.75-2" on landing.
Damn!! I think this might be the real strawberry face!
http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/d/8621-2/bill_air.jpg
It was fun none the less and thanks to Matt and Nick the car was able to compete. Alex had an equally depressing weekend as the headgasket on his Evo let go and he took the day pulling the head and getting ready for a fun week of unexpected spending and labor.
Monday we headed to DC with our friend Burak who took us around and helped us brainstorm the rebuilding of my front end and Alex's headgasket. Mach V is right near Dulles so Alex headed over there and we got a tour from Dan (a really cool guy) who got a headgasket overnighted and sent us to the machine shop down the road.
This is part one. I am going to the bar and will finish the rest in a bit.
-Bill