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After a weekend off from racing we showed up to the track yesterday worrying about weather, it just wasn't looking good. Got a few sprinkles, had to keep covering up the cars... Finally a bit of sunshine and they let cars of all classes hit the track together for some careful hot lapping to dry out the track, I could tell right away that Speedway GT was gonna be good tonight!
The spring BQS4 sent had been installed on the left rear, the coil it replaced went to the right side, the Compuscales indicated we had 56% crossweight which was a bit much and we were pushing again. But the engine really liked the corrected cam timing and 50/50 mix of 110 octane/91 octane at 36 degrees total timing!
We (special guest pit crew man was my brother Joe of the Spokane Police Department) cut a coil out of the new spring, added 3/8 wedge to the right, and added two pounds of air to the left front, this all took some cross out and I timed in at 15.88 which was third fastest in the class! Wow! That put me in the A Heat second row outside, (I hate being outside) and I ended up in fourth place, got around Mustang #64 which always used to beat me pretty good.
Competitors were all pretty impressed with #00 and it's candidate for Rookie of the Year, I got a lot of congrats from them. Weather wasn't looking too promising as we lined up for the Main, I started sixth row inside (inverted order) which I was pretty excited about! Sitting in lineup waiting for the Hobby stocks to finish it became apparent that the rulebooks maybe ought to have something about windshield wipers... Damn. The Hobbys went yellow, track wet, Speedway GT wet, track temp dipped to 45 degrees which apparently means it would be hopeless to dry it out if it quit raining, which it did, but the races were called. Rats. We had our car running and set up the best yet and were sure we could pull off a third place with some luck!
My wife said we had quite the cheering section in the heat race, people got on their feet when I went around #64 in the apex of turns one and two!
Our next race is July 9th. I am going to be on pins and needles the whole time! Might be a good time to put the new trans in. Has anybody got an extra bellhousing I can buy to make this swap happen ?
Huge thanks to BQS4 for the spring, it seems to have made a difference!
DTM, sorry I never got you the Vega second gear ratio, here it is. It appears to be right at 2.0 to 1, that is less reduction than the 2.156 of the Opel trans, would be going the wrong way in your car.
The spring BQS4 sent had been installed on the left rear, the coil it replaced went to the right side, the Compuscales indicated we had 56% crossweight which was a bit much and we were pushing again. But the engine really liked the corrected cam timing and 50/50 mix of 110 octane/91 octane at 36 degrees total timing!
We (special guest pit crew man was my brother Joe of the Spokane Police Department) cut a coil out of the new spring, added 3/8 wedge to the right, and added two pounds of air to the left front, this all took some cross out and I timed in at 15.88 which was third fastest in the class! Wow! That put me in the A Heat second row outside, (I hate being outside) and I ended up in fourth place, got around Mustang #64 which always used to beat me pretty good.
Competitors were all pretty impressed with #00 and it's candidate for Rookie of the Year, I got a lot of congrats from them. Weather wasn't looking too promising as we lined up for the Main, I started sixth row inside (inverted order) which I was pretty excited about! Sitting in lineup waiting for the Hobby stocks to finish it became apparent that the rulebooks maybe ought to have something about windshield wipers... Damn. The Hobbys went yellow, track wet, Speedway GT wet, track temp dipped to 45 degrees which apparently means it would be hopeless to dry it out if it quit raining, which it did, but the races were called. Rats. We had our car running and set up the best yet and were sure we could pull off a third place with some luck!
My wife said we had quite the cheering section in the heat race, people got on their feet when I went around #64 in the apex of turns one and two!
Our next race is July 9th. I am going to be on pins and needles the whole time! Might be a good time to put the new trans in. Has anybody got an extra bellhousing I can buy to make this swap happen ?
Huge thanks to BQS4 for the spring, it seems to have made a difference!
DTM, sorry I never got you the Vega second gear ratio, here it is. It appears to be right at 2.0 to 1, that is less reduction than the 2.156 of the Opel trans, would be going the wrong way in your car.
