Thursday, December 5, 2013

Wrapping up 2013

 2013 Nationals felt good, the car continued to run strong, and executed most everything we asked of it.


2 enjoyable seasons were enough to keep us motivated on this mid-engined journey.  Here starts vol.3 .... good bye to faithful yellow peanut (just outside the window), for a new to us 2009.  Some new acronyms to get used to, DFI, PDK, LC, and maybe others we have not found yet.

It will be a busy holiday season starting the teardown of the 2008.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Spring Nationals

We added some new graphics for this event, still not sold on it yet. The car had been handling great since the College Station event, so not much setup changes were needed.

Andy S. took this great picture from the national tour course.


Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mineral Wells ProSolo

Our car made the title page of the SCCA video for the event :) Follow the jump to check it out
http://vimeo.com/64652370


Some great pictures from our friends at dfwmiata.com. The cayman had good speed all weekend, but cones and red lights put a damper on the party. The courses were very challenging, with the 2nd half demanding a much looser setup than the high speed start.

    This is one large site, we just ran on about 1/2  of it.

     A little tire width mismatch in the L1 ladies class




Tuesday, January 29, 2013

So it was a busy year in 2012...

Sorry for the lack of updates, but between work, and car prep and racing, there has been near zero time to keep things up to date.  The car showed some promise at the Pro Solo's and at the 2012 Nationals, and will be back in 2013 with just a few minor enhancements. Some pictures over the season will follow:














Things that worked:
Guard TBD diff - super smooth, no noises, just works!

Sachs clutch and light flywheel - still smooth and solid after over 150 pro solo launches

WEVO trans mounts - now zero axle hop

Softronics flash - perfect driveability, no codes thrown, just works.



Things that could have worked better:
Fabspeed race exhaust and long tube headers - great performance, light weight, but 105 db sound levels.  We ended up with supertrapp plates added to the outlets to tame it down.  I have built a 2nd system with larger diameter magnaflow mufflers, but it is still too loud at high revs.

AOS (oil separator) failed when I tried out running the stock throttle body/plenum.  The stock TB uses 2 vacuum ports to the AOS, where the IPD plenum uses just one.  After one event with the stock TB/plenum the AOS started letting oil by and giving us smoky startups.

Power steering overflow line - for some reason ours was routed to the valley on top of the engine, causing the excess fluid to puddle there.  Not great as it has been known to catch fire.  It has been rerouted to below the engine bay now.

Assorted Cone mangled body trim

Duck tail rear spoiler - it looked nice, but not sure we could feel the difference...... 3M trim tape will allow you to build a no-drill spoiler though.