BlkCurrantKord
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Did you see or talk to the SlickMotorSports guys in their time attack Evo? They came to our autoX on sunday and couldn't say on course most of the time.
Redline Time Attack
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Ive done a couple days at NHMS in NH with the Yellow stuffs and one day at Lime Rock and they've been great the whole time. I was out braking STi's into Big Bend at Lime Rock. That, I have on film.
And I have SS lines already. They've been on for years. Ive owned this car for so long, I forget what else I'd done to the car! We are a Motul dealer, so of course Im rocking the RBF600. And the Motul 8100 engine oil.
FallenAngelHIM
Well-Known Member
Is is true Total is a subsidiary of Motul? I was told Total was like Motul's top of the line formula.
I wouldnt be surprised if it were. But I really dont know. Motul has some crazy expensive oils out there. Neither website is very telling for the whole story though. In fact both the Motul website and Total website kinda suck.
That was a long weekend. After a few last minute preperations, Matt K (the DSG tuner) and I left for Englishtown NJ for Round 6 of the Redline Time Attack series. We made decent time considering the rain and friday afternoon traffic, and I wish I could say that we arrived without incident. But I'd be lying. We got about 2 miles from the hotel flawlessly. But as I was changing lanes to get over to our exit, we hit a small crack in the road and the snap ring on my front right Koni didn't like what it had to say. It collapsed, and with it the whole right front. Again. Without even 1000miles on the brand new Koni. We limped to the hotel and I pulled the strut out. Bill, one of the owners and Master Fabricator at DSG, assured me it was repairable and he'd take care of it in the morning.
The next morning was wet. Very Wet. I didnt get my car back together until about noon. I managed to get a few laps in in the rain, but the car pushed so much that it wasnt very fun. And then. . . My vTeC-y0 decided to take a ****. Matt and I diaged the problem for the rest of the afternoon. I wasnt going to run the car with no vtec, its a dog without it. And its not good to rev the motor out with no load on the lost motion assemblies in the head, super lame.
Sunday morning was beautiful. Sunny and dry. Matt and I continued to work on the engine to get her back up-to-snuff. As it turns out, it was two seperate problems, coming together as the perfect storm. One of the VTEC pins on the OBDII-->OBDI conversion harness broke off. While at the same time I somehow lost continueity on the vtec solenoid to the ecu. So pretty much both VTEC wires to the ecu were busted. Fixed them both, bam, VTeeeeeeeeccccccccc!
Unfortunately, I was unaware that my compition was a 500whp MOPAR and Forced Performance sponsored SRT4, an 08 300whp Civic SI, and a 300whp Mazda Speed3. I was out gunned. But I had fun.
The rear wheel would lift about 6 inches on one hard right hander.
That EVO X is a friend of ours. This was his first track day and he destroyed his compatition by over 5 seconds to bring home a first place trophy. You see him shoot by me in the video.
All these pics were taken by my friend Vincent Soohoo. Here is the rest of the album. He is an excellent photographer.
http://vincents.smugmug.com/Transportation/Racing-Events/82809/9469913_r57Tm#636056627_p6fPj
Check out his other albums too!
And here is a little sample of some in-car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-CpaGJFBo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtA8n6dsH-w
The next morning was wet. Very Wet. I didnt get my car back together until about noon. I managed to get a few laps in in the rain, but the car pushed so much that it wasnt very fun. And then. . . My vTeC-y0 decided to take a ****. Matt and I diaged the problem for the rest of the afternoon. I wasnt going to run the car with no vtec, its a dog without it. And its not good to rev the motor out with no load on the lost motion assemblies in the head, super lame.
Sunday morning was beautiful. Sunny and dry. Matt and I continued to work on the engine to get her back up-to-snuff. As it turns out, it was two seperate problems, coming together as the perfect storm. One of the VTEC pins on the OBDII-->OBDI conversion harness broke off. While at the same time I somehow lost continueity on the vtec solenoid to the ecu. So pretty much both VTEC wires to the ecu were busted. Fixed them both, bam, VTeeeeeeeeccccccccc!
Unfortunately, I was unaware that my compition was a 500whp MOPAR and Forced Performance sponsored SRT4, an 08 300whp Civic SI, and a 300whp Mazda Speed3. I was out gunned. But I had fun.
The rear wheel would lift about 6 inches on one hard right hander.
That EVO X is a friend of ours. This was his first track day and he destroyed his compatition by over 5 seconds to bring home a first place trophy. You see him shoot by me in the video.
All these pics were taken by my friend Vincent Soohoo. Here is the rest of the album. He is an excellent photographer.
http://vincents.smugmug.com/Transportation/Racing-Events/82809/9469913_r57Tm#636056627_p6fPj
Check out his other albums too!
And here is a little sample of some in-car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM-CpaGJFBo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtA8n6dsH-w
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cvjoint
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Lovely display of Accord might!
Now please do tell how you got that 50/50 weight distribution...
Now please do tell how you got that 50/50 weight distribution...
I was super stressful. A friend of mine took a couple candid pics of me at the height of my frustration. Ill see if I can post them.
I was also battling a sloppy brake pedal all weekend. It just never gave me the confidence in the brakes that I was looking for. And one of the braking zones was very choppy, so if you went too hard on the pedal, it would just lock up the brakes and you werent stopping at that point.
And yes, that evo is sick. He has been inspired to do some crazy **** now too. I think we are going to slap on a big turbo and some JRZ's soon.
I was also battling a sloppy brake pedal all weekend. It just never gave me the confidence in the brakes that I was looking for. And one of the braking zones was very choppy, so if you went too hard on the pedal, it would just lock up the brakes and you werent stopping at that point.
And yes, that evo is sick. He has been inspired to do some crazy **** now too. I think we are going to slap on a big turbo and some JRZ's soon.
FallenAngelHIM
Well-Known Member
Is your car equipped with ABS? I remember I had the same confidence-failure with my brakes on turn 1 at VIR. Coming out of the last turn onto that straightaway into turn 1, I locked up twice.
I didn't have ABS.
I didn't have ABS.
FallenAngelHIM
Well-Known Member
Damn, no pics of the SRT. Fail...LoL.
