Please MR SST Owners that track tested their car, share here yours experience.
How SST holds at track? and after.
Wich mods?
Thanks a lot.

 

I attended the Jim Russel Evo experience at Infinion Raceway last week, great time! They have about 4 or 5 MR's that we and previous students have beat the **** out of exclusively on the track for 5-10K miles without any transmission problems whatsoever, not even an overheat! The cars are all stock 2008 MR's & MR-T's, with stock clutches, stock cooler, and stock OEM fluid.

I have had problems with my personal mostly street driven SST (do a search this section) but the "Evo Experience" shows that a stock SST will thrive in the most adverse of conditions; being thrashed on a race track by inexperienced drivers with no capital investment in the car.

As for how well it works, I like to leave it in s-sport auto on the track, it shifts perfectly keeping it in the power better and shifting faster than I could do manually. incredible car! On the street I keep it in manual mode as I like to feel more involved in the daily driving of the car, and, on the street only, situations occur that sometimes confuse the computer and auto shifts sometimes slow down from insitanious to maybe a second or so.

 

200+ 1/4 launches and full passes, only getting stronger and faster!

 

I have about 30 track days on my '08 MR. I have been dissapointed. Although in s-sport mode in both manual and auto it has shifted flawlessly, the transmission overheats. I teach for several high performance driving schools and consider myself a very competent driver. The transmission will over heat and give the dredded "slow down" warning in 15 -25 minutes depended on temp and the configuration of the track. I have even added SSP's trans. cooler and still have the issue.

 

I leave mine in S-Sport Manual for my track days.

I haven't had a slow down warning yet, but my local track (PIR) is high speed (140mph into chicane), and I've only driven on <75 deg days.

Mods: 325whp / 310wtq (dynojet) tune. ETS 3.5" FMIC, ETS UICP / LICP, ETS HFC, Perrin Catback, RS Foglight deletes.

 

My first outing at the track in the MR I was met with multiple slow down messages. This is on an MR with 330hp/340tq. The car was running JDM fog deletes and only had springs for suspension mods. Now I have an AMS trans cooler, stock fluid and an SSP deep pan. I have done multiple track events since those mods and have never had a slow down message running in supersport auto and manual. Trans temps never go over 210 and seem to hover around 180-190.

 

I have tracked my Ralliart at Autobahn South and I get the slow down message if left in Sport mode (Ralliarts dont have S-Sport). In Sport mode it upshifts too quickly in corners and then downshifts again when back on the throttle. Once I started shifting it in manual mode, it never overheated during the rest of the 20 minute sessions. By the end of the day it outlasted the stock brakes, they were completely toast!