You got robbed. The porsche should have let you pass. There was a cone in the middle of the track. I saw that as a deadlier hazard.

 

LOL, the cone was from my two wheel off incident. Apparently I dragged the damn thing a couple corners and it dropped there. hahah

 

Bryan,
I cannot remember if I asked you about your heat wrap job on your manifold and turbine. Where did you get that material, did you use SS wire or inconel? Can normal metal snips be used to shape and trim it? Keep the videos coming! I can just imagine the lotus guy.....ok yeah Porsche I will let him by.... WTF is this on my @ss now !?

 

It's Inconel and I had a company do it for me. Advanced Thermal Products in Irvine, California.

 

Nice run. That 991 was definitely getting a bit sideways. Did you buy a set of SSB Designs knuckles yet?

 

Did some more work on the car today. I have to say I'm getting sick of working on the car again and just want to drive it.

Worked on making an oil cooler duct. This took forever (about 4 hours) and A LOT of back and forth and still not perfect. Used coroplast. It's pretty darn sturdy but looks super janky. I'll see if it does anything this next track event and then maybe have somebody fab the same thing out of aluminum later.

Also installed a tow hook because the organizers of my next event require it.

I got SUPER lucky with my off track excursion last event. Couple more MM's and my less than 300 miles on it Greddy FMIC would have been trash.



Oil cooler duct template made out of cardboard:



Then I made it out of coroplast and aluminum tape, jank-o-rama but it's sturdy:

 

Brakes looks awesome! Curious why you went with these rotors over Girodisc 2-piece? Any idea what the weight of the stop tech rotors are? Giros are 17.4lb I believe.

 

I didn't want to have to continually rebuild the OEM brembo calipers. The rotors are 14" and supposedly weigh 18lbs.

 

I was going through the car tonight in prep like I do before every track day. Taking plugs out to check everything over, my heart sank. Oil on plug, oil in cylinder. The weird thing is the car ran fine.

Going to do a compression check but not when it's night time so my neighbors don't hate me.

Super bummed right now. I hate cars.

 

 

That sucks...
Do you think it's leaking from valve stems? What are those white flakes?

 

Probably burned oil.

 

Who assembled your head? Were the valve guides clearanced for your valves and were new valve seats cut to line up with each newly installed valve guide?

 

How many miles are on the rebuild? Was anything reused? Is this the first set of plugs that have been used since the rebuild?

If the car was running fine before, I'd throw new plugs at it, drive on em for a couple hundred miles, pull em again, inspect and do compression and leakage tests. I've seen some freak stuff before where 1 or 2 plugs look pretty fouled but the engine runs fine, nothing wrong with compression/leakage, new plugs and they look just fine the next time they come out.

 

My plugs and pistons have been oil coated for a long time. I go through about 1 qt per 1000 miles. Runs like a champ. I wail on it every day. Its piston/ring/cylinder wall clearances are just a bit loose.