^I'm at 1.19s according to Marc's timer. My car was running 21psi, straight 93 pump, and street tires. Come at me Mike.

 

^ I was actually refering to his comment about dropping time on Thunderbolt, but really it applies to all tracks. As for Lightning, low 1:17's are some of my faster laps, I hope to turn some 16's at this upcoming event. 40lbs of boost, VIII turbo, pump gas, street tires.


Mike, you're not running on your starspecs?



Also, on a different note... Looks like Philly Region has the SM & T-SM/Sp guys running last again this Sunday. Total BS if you ask me... If that is indeed the case, I will not be going to Dover.

 

^ 19's, and that's with me holding you back from upshifting and downshifting on T6 & T7. No doubt you'll be in the 17's once you work on those things we discussed and don't have an extra 185# in the car yelling in your ear.

 

I am running my Toyo RA1 from last decade, need to use them up, they are 17" - Robispec old set up. If they suck it I will throw on the star specs.

Chu you talkin to meh?? Better watch out for me when were out there, don't need you holding me up forgetting to point me by.

 

I have a question, watching your videos no one seems to rev match their down shifts. Am I missing something, is that not necessary? It is something I have always tried to do in my cars, was taught that somewhere I think by an instructor. Rev matching makes things much slower and complicated, so you guys do it or not? What about your drive-train, any probs?

 

i always heel/toe rev match. saves the clutch and synchro and smoother weight transfer during braking and down shift. watch my video and look at the tach.

 

Your instructor was wrong. No need to rev-match, just jam it in there. IF it won't go in then push harder till it does.

I only upshift anyways, never down shift since it will slow you down. <-- pro tip right there!

 

chasing Marc around. he was on Chu's A6 tires and i was on street tires on sunday 2nd session. you need to step up your game son if i can keep up with you on street tires.
our power/weight level is about the same cause i only pull on him slightly on the straight, mainly cause i'm drafting him. i was only running 20 psi in this session because of street tires.

 

That was a fun event. That's the fastest I've ever driven at Lightning.

 

that was the session you let me run Chu's tires but I was running them with the beat side on the driver side, so I didn't have the grip you did on your sessions. I am also on 19-20psi and you are roughly 300# lighter than me and running 275 Nittos and 24-25psi... With that said it did look like you were keeping up

 

Any of you X guys feel like the 4b shouldve been a 2.4? Given the increased weight and all. Seems like they just cheaped out and changed the ratios instead.

 

Probably because WRC is limited to 2.0 motors only. While Mitsubishi no longer have a factory team, there are other teams out there that uses the evo. Not sure about other forms of rally like IRC though. Just a thought.

 

Granted I have no idea what kind of times my M will do in it's current configuration (i'd be happy with 1:20s), but 1:19s seem slow to me...I was doing 1:19s in a Spec E30 (168hp/2895lbs) on horrible, full tread RA1s. I was doing 1:22s in our $500 crap can (160ish hp/2900lbs) on Star Specs.

 

^ that would have been a better motor. isn't the motor in the dodge caliber srt-4 2.4L the same as or similar to the evo X motor.

 

any of ya'll have advice on which aftermarket radiator to get? was seeing high 190's low 200 coolant times this weekend on low boost. WOuld like to finally upgrade my 120k mile OEM radiator.