Thanks much. Same issue with my XTSS. Should have listened to all the horror stories.

 

stayin at the fairfield? i def wanna check your car out. ill be DE over on lightning.

 

r6's arent slicks. i refer to them as such accidentally on occasion.

 

Yeah, no problem buying one now. I talked to Jake today, I already have my license application in to him. $10 is no biggie.

He just told me he wanted me to send him my classing paperwork before the event.

 

I'm staying at the Hampton. I love that chain, I stay there when I'm at NJMP or at Summit.

 

True enough, they are DOT R-compound tires! I'm just used to running really ****ty 200 tw street tires, so they are pretty slick for me.

 

I was spoiled once with R100 slicks, and now I feel the R6's are ****ty .

 

There were several Porsche GT3s in DE4 last weekend running what looked like full Michelin slicks. I assume those are similar to the R100?

 

Mish's are faster but ya they're both full slick. Amazing grip but unforgiving when they slip. And maaaaaassssssssivily expensive. Last I looked it was up to 1750 for a set of hoho's, 2000+ for mish.

 

Yeah, considering the same guy owned two of the GT3s and the 997 Turbo that were running along with their huge trailer, I suspect that money isn't too big a problem for him lol. Some crazy crap running out there that weekend like a McLaren 12C, Ferrari 430 Scudaria, Audi R8, GT3 RS, Viper.

 

Woot, just ordered my transponder today. Got a hard wired one, seemed the better bet for me. R6s should be en route too, the shop is just checking clearance first.

 

Hard wire is the way to go.

 

I stopped down on Sat for a few hours, sorry we didn't get a chance to meet..
I would have loved to of seen the 430 and McLaren run in TT with a capable driver, curious as to what kind of times those cars could put down..

Good luck to you running TT in the future.

 

No problem man, I'll be at Thunderbolt doing TT with honda-guy next month, and at Hyperfest at Summit Point in June. Planning to do Pocono in July as well, so I'll be running on a bunch of different tracks this season. Any of those events just come on up and say hi. I'll be the sunburned dude in the Sparco suit with the long hair.

The 430 Scudaria was in DE4 and he was actually really quick. The guy was a massive tool (surprise) but he was fast. The McLaren 12C was in DE2! The guy seemed nice though, I talked to him for a few minutes between sessions. There were two Vipers one in DE2 I think and one in DE4. The one in DE4 was really really slow.

The fastest car in DE4 was a Turner Motorsports BMW driven by one of the head instructors. That car is insane. Second fastest was one of the GT3s on race slicks driven by another instructor.

 

Both Agile Auto and myself have been busy getting ready for my first TT event at Thunderbolt this weekend. During the shakedown event at Lightning I was experiencing a lot of boost creep problems at low boost levels. Wastegate boost was rising to 25 psi on my pump gas tune particularly at high rpms in 4th and 5th gear. This is the same issue that honda-guy was talking about with his BB FP-Red.

I had a long talk with Chad from CBRD as well as Hill from Agile Auto about possible solutions to the problem and my intended power levels. Chad showed me some testing he had done using the o2 housing that is the basis for the MAPerformance unit that showed boost creep issues in his testing as well. The numbers were dead on what I was seeing with wastegate (18 psi) creeping to 25 psi. He ran his tests back to back with his housing and found that design did not have a creep issue.

Both Chad and Hill were strongly opposed to porting the wastegate of the turbo itself as this can cause problems down the road. Instead Hill removed the o2 housing and took a good look at the design. What he found was that the o2 housing has a bulb that necks down into a small tube which causes backpressure and turbulence. By hacking off the entire assembly and effectively making a custom outlet for the housing he was able to remove the obstruction and throw it back on the dyno. The changes to the housing appear to have been successful and he ran some high heat/back-to-back runs at high gear/high rpm to try and get it to show creep and it seems to be fixed.

The car weighed in at 3080 lbs without driver putting my competition weight at 3235 lbs minimum. I'm not actually that light, but better safe than sorry.

Hill managed a solid 411 whp, 341 wtq on 93 octane for a modified P/W ratio of 8.17, well within the 8.00+ for the class.

I had my Hoosier R6 18/35/275 tires mounted, and vinyl applied, so the car is ready to go for this weekend. I'm really excited to get back on track, and I enjoy Thunderbolt a lot. The weather should be awesome this weekend too. It looks like a small field for this event, I only saw one other TT2 registered which is going to be a 1750 lb, 250 whp peripheral ported NA 13B RX-7 driven by the TT director for NE. Should be fun.

I will have pictures after the event, and before Hyperfest the car is going in for a vinyl livery.