After a long hiatus w/no ITR, I finally have it back.

We burned a piston in the last event last season, and it's been out of commission ever since.

Putting break in miles on the new Sakai motor.

However, after not having driven the ITR for so very long, I am noticing things like how old the design really is, and the play in the axles after 80,000 miles on a car that has been tracked fairly heavily.

I have a feeling there's no way to avoid spending more money.

 

Congrats George

My ITR has been down for almost 3 months, cant wait to drive her again.

 

Use the right oil this time

 

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LOL... Steve delivered it with dino.

 

Good to hear GK.

I need to make an appointment with Steve once some remaining parts come in to get #151 track ready, now that there's some room in the shop!

 

burned?

 

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Now, don't make it sound like it's my fault.

Every racing vehicle took precedence, and Steve is still on the vampire schedule.

LOL... In fact, when he told me he wasn't even going to be <u>in</u> his shop until <u>9</u> <u>PM</u> the day I was picking it up, I got somebody else to open up the shop and I drove the car off.

Not sure Steve's even speaking to me at the moment.

 

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Yeah.

We apparently pushed the tuning a little beyond what the injectors could handle. We're lucky we didn't do a lot more damage.

Dave and Steve have some awful pictures around somewhere.

I remember in the Porsche days that everybody was hot on cylinder head temp gauges. Problems like this are probably why. The water temp showed perfectly normal, all the while a piston was melting.

 

I'm having trouble dealing with the couple of weeks I have been out of the R, How did you do it for so long?

Be nice and break it in hard

 

this thread is useless without pics

 

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whoa!!! chill out dan.

 

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I don't seem to have the very clearest picture of what's going on right now.

 

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lucky! glad to see you have it back, george..

i can't wait to get mine back.. although thankfully mine's not gone because of mechanical issues..

 

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elaborate on your thoughts?

 

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That, or the fact that back in the Porsche days you could stick your hand out the window to get your "coolant" temps

 

Great news *****-Hey.

I'll kick your car to celebrate it's new motor if I ever see it again.

 

bad ***!

just in time for exbl0 f0!

 

George, glad to hear. Let see some pics of it.....

How much WHP does the new beast have?

 

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make that two kicks

 

cool - sounds good George! Would an oil temp gauge have been any help in preventing this? Or maybe an exhaust temp or wideband instead...

Regardless, how is the new motor? What internals are you running? Stock?

Nick

 

Which cylinder has the melted piston. My EGT is running off the third cylinder as I think that one runs the hottest

 

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Hell yeah!

 

Great n00s gee-kay!!

 

Very nice, George. Will we be seeing you at Summit in July for Hyperfizzle or that FATT?