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marc may find this interesting since he was talking to this guy on here and was at njmp last weekend.
The story in Hunglish, sorry for that.
So , we signed up for testing purposes for the Porsche club day in NJMP at Thunderbolt.
We got there of course late and we had no proper inspection as the club required previously from the event, so the inspection had to be done at your place not at the event... . I dont go to details here , but we got on track
I got finally the tarmac springs instead the 280 rated spring on my AST. I have to tell you guys, i have been ridden and drove many coils before, for track guys this set up is absolutely flowless predictable and AWESOME!. So i really feel after 2 years we got a great starting point on the car with suspension.
Second major thing was the ABS delete and the proper 2 master cylinder - brake bias controller pedal box set up.
RKTmotorsport fabricated for me with my original pedals that set up with tilton etc parts. Although my pads are absolutely not designed for this type of set up, the brakes are ridiculously precised and predictable. No fading no other issues. You feel the dust under you feet on the surface. It is ridiculous!
Summ it up, On stock tire size (2 year's old R888"s) and 3500 lb race weight my car handles spot on.
The Porsche club put me in the black grupe, which i was pretty mad. I previously told them , i have 245 whp and 345 wtq with my tire size and 3500 weight. I do not want conflict on track because of that.
And boy they were right! I got passed maybe 4 times and from always the same cars. But the grupe was really like 20 cars or more. All on slicks etc. Also that was my first time ever i saw that track.
BUT here comes the sad part. after the session 2 my connecting rod in the 4th cylinder gave up and blew up the engine. There is 1000 reasons why it could happen. Can be premature failure, before connected to previous tuner failures to too much limp mode some reasons -boost etc. But it happened what can i do?
I got called immediately from RKT motors to bring the car back for analysis. SO i took some picture before i left i will put the below.
The spark plugs looks like brand new and looks like nothing else is damaged besides the block.
Time to build the real rally engine and leave the stock behind. From the process i will post pictures and so. But if something confidential i will keep it ... sorry guys, shop rules are shop rules !
so here is the damage from out side:
this is how probably looks inside LOL /evo 8 engine parts/
and here is some pictures and video from the event what we was able to do with my wife.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6KJ...el_video_title
Thanks for reading it!
Rob
PS my new pads for rally new york for next weekend will be here tomorrow. Only sad part is i will not be ab;e to run it
BUt looks like i got sponsorship from Essexparts, and my new pads are....
The CL 's !!! you got to love French
So , we signed up for testing purposes for the Porsche club day in NJMP at Thunderbolt.
We got there of course late and we had no proper inspection as the club required previously from the event, so the inspection had to be done at your place not at the event... . I dont go to details here , but we got on track
I got finally the tarmac springs instead the 280 rated spring on my AST. I have to tell you guys, i have been ridden and drove many coils before, for track guys this set up is absolutely flowless predictable and AWESOME!. So i really feel after 2 years we got a great starting point on the car with suspension.
Second major thing was the ABS delete and the proper 2 master cylinder - brake bias controller pedal box set up.
RKTmotorsport fabricated for me with my original pedals that set up with tilton etc parts. Although my pads are absolutely not designed for this type of set up, the brakes are ridiculously precised and predictable. No fading no other issues. You feel the dust under you feet on the surface. It is ridiculous!
Summ it up, On stock tire size (2 year's old R888"s) and 3500 lb race weight my car handles spot on.
The Porsche club put me in the black grupe, which i was pretty mad. I previously told them , i have 245 whp and 345 wtq with my tire size and 3500 weight. I do not want conflict on track because of that.
And boy they were right! I got passed maybe 4 times and from always the same cars. But the grupe was really like 20 cars or more. All on slicks etc. Also that was my first time ever i saw that track.
BUT here comes the sad part. after the session 2 my connecting rod in the 4th cylinder gave up and blew up the engine. There is 1000 reasons why it could happen. Can be premature failure, before connected to previous tuner failures to too much limp mode some reasons -boost etc. But it happened what can i do?
I got called immediately from RKT motors to bring the car back for analysis. SO i took some picture before i left i will put the below.
The spark plugs looks like brand new and looks like nothing else is damaged besides the block.
Time to build the real rally engine and leave the stock behind. From the process i will post pictures and so. But if something confidential i will keep it ... sorry guys, shop rules are shop rules !
so here is the damage from out side:
this is how probably looks inside LOL /evo 8 engine parts/
and here is some pictures and video from the event what we was able to do with my wife.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6KJ...el_video_title
Thanks for reading it!
Rob
PS my new pads for rally new york for next weekend will be here tomorrow. Only sad part is i will not be ab;e to run it
BUt looks like i got sponsorship from Essexparts, and my new pads are....
The CL 's !!! you got to love French
i'm having second thoughts about this pro autox thing... looks like instead of 2-days there are actually 3 including the testing on Friday. I just can't justify being away from the fam for 3 days only to do a hand full of 1 minute runs... if I'm going to take that kind of time off I want to be getting more like 2hrs of seat time per day, lol.
Friday is check in, tech, and practice starts. I recommend the evo school that day if this is your first time. It's cheap, lays out how the event flows really well, and includes practice starts. Late Friday the courses open for walking.
Dan, that guy was pretty cool and for the few laps he was on track before his engine blew it looked like he was a good driver. It was sad to see him come back from his 2nd session on the flat bed 
Only 3 EVO's there total and one of them blew up, lol.
Only 3 EVO's there total and one of them blew up, lol.
) needless to say he was running the show making fun of us ricers listening to our boogie boogie music lol
You'll get 12 runs in grouped 4 at a time. It's a pretty intense session of runs. You don't get out of the car in between. Your person "pit crew" has to check tire pressures, etc for you.
Friday is check in, tech, and practice starts. I recommend the evo school that day if this is your first time. It's cheap, lays out how the event flows really well, and includes practice starts. Late Friday the courses open for walking.
Friday is check in, tech, and practice starts. I recommend the evo school that day if this is your first time. It's cheap, lays out how the event flows really well, and includes practice starts. Late Friday the courses open for walking.
I'm still doing the Pro because I signed up for it and because I want to try one... just not thrilled about the seat time vs. wait time or the cost vs. seat time. Do you know how the other drivers in our class are and how 'prepped' their cars are?
Carson, if you need a hand with the brakes let me know. Not that James doesn't know how to do it, just that I've done it so many times I could probably do it in my sleep. The motive really makes like easier too.