What's the "first thing to go/notice" when doing trackdays?
Apr 17, 2009, 08:31 AM
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So w/ motorcycles I generally went a couple of sessions before refueling with my 5gal tank. and that tank plus a full tank of gas in the bike lasted me all day.
If my evo will burn as much gas as I'm hearing, how the heck do u guys have enough gas on hand to be refueling so much? Or are you buying gas at the track? (which I hate doing cause they jack the prices) Or driving out of the complex after every session to fill up?
If my evo will burn as much gas as I'm hearing, how the heck do u guys have enough gas on hand to be refueling so much? Or are you buying gas at the track? (which I hate doing cause they jack the prices) Or driving out of the complex after every session to fill up?
Apr 17, 2009, 08:51 AM
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I go with a full tank of gas and a 5 gallon can, that usually does the trick. We will see how I do on E85 on Thursday. I might grab another 5 gallon can since the E85 station is 20 miles away.
Apr 17, 2009, 08:52 AM
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So w/ motorcycles I generally went a couple of sessions before refueling with my 5gal tank. and that tank plus a full tank of gas in the bike lasted me all day.
If my evo will burn as much gas as I'm hearing, how the heck do u guys have enough gas on hand to be refueling so much? Or are you buying gas at the track? (which I hate doing cause they jack the prices) Or driving out of the complex after every session to fill up?
If my evo will burn as much gas as I'm hearing, how the heck do u guys have enough gas on hand to be refueling so much? Or are you buying gas at the track? (which I hate doing cause they jack the prices) Or driving out of the complex after every session to fill up?
If it's a more technical track or you're in a 'DE', then you could easily go 2 sessions w/o refueling. A lotta events have 2 sessions - lunch - 2 sessions so get gas at lunch.
Me; depends what gas I'm running as to where I buy it. I bring at least a 5gal container full with me. To start a full session, I really need above 1/2 tank to not worry about fuel cut in hard right handers.
There are some Fuel Surge tanks recently to the market. AMS has one here that I know at least they and Gates311 ran at SLB late last year. I heard RobiSpec was working on one.
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Apr 17, 2009, 01:39 PM
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When I went to Laguna last Monday I started with a full tank of E85 and took 6 5 gal jugs with me. 110 total track miles used 25 gals and that's better mileage than I expected. On my old 100 tune I used to get about 1mpg better.
My car is an 8 with stock cams and turbo and I was doing 1'42s.
Apr 20, 2009, 11:22 AM
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Ran 5 20min sessions this Saturday in a nice 70 degree day.
4 of the sessions I ran pretty hard. Struggled to stay firm in the seat even though I'm running 6pt harnesses. I kept bracing with my leg on the door! By days end my neck was really getting sore from the helmet weight under cornering.
As a friendly reminder - continually check all those intercooler hoses guys! Dam things loosen up in no time.
4 of the sessions I ran pretty hard. Struggled to stay firm in the seat even though I'm running 6pt harnesses. I kept bracing with my leg on the door! By days end my neck was really getting sore from the helmet weight under cornering.
As a friendly reminder - continually check all those intercooler hoses guys! Dam things loosen up in no time.
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