My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso..
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My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso..
So after years of saying "man, I wanna run nex time", I finally bit the bullet and entered my first competition at the track. The event itself was slated for Sunday April 7th, but I was there for Saturday's test session as well. Also, this time I was packing a little someting extra, a set of borrowed Nitto 555 drag radials (thanks Nick ). Considering my 60' times on stocks were always in the high 2.3 and up range, I was figuring I should pull an east 2.1 60' and high 13's all weekend...... ahh the bitter sting of disapointment.
After bolting on the Nitto's and lining up, I figured I'd take some shake down runs on the new wheels on 6psi. So I go ahead and do a dry burnout..*BAM BAM BAM*! Incredible wheel hop on the burnout alone! Hmm ok, line up at the light, 4k rpm, 3rd amber lights up and ii'm off with a quick slip of the clutch..*BAM BAM BAM*, for like 2-3 seconds all I get is violent wheel hop, the kind that makes you wonder how the hell my dash didn't crack in half... this was the story of my weekend.
Try as I may, up the pressure, lower the pressure, high launches, low launches, all weekend the single best 60' I could pull was a 2.31, also got a 2.35 and a 2.36, the rest of my passes (18 altogether between Sat and Sun) were all 2.4+ 60' times. It frustrated me so much, that after 2 passes Sunday, I went ahead and switched to my stocks, my next pass then netted me another sad 60' time, but also a 14.23 while missing 4th which was actually one of my best times of the weekend... on my stocks, go figure.
As for how I actually did, here are some #'s from the weekend:
Best 60'- 2.31 (wheelhopping like a jackrabbit)
Best E.T. (6psi)- 14.63 @ 95.01mph
Best E.T. (12psi)- 14.16 @ 100.30mph <-- strange coincidence, I ran 100.3mph on about 3 or 4 seperate runs..
Best Trap- 101.71mph
Oh yea, as for the actual competition, I guess between the wheelhopping, almost losing my DP (found it hanging by 1 bolt on Sunday) and almost losing a headlight on a pass, my mind was just a little cluttered, so when I lined up against a turbo Suzuki Swift (16.00 dial-in), I was a little to edgy and wound up redlighting (.345 R/T) and handing him the 1st round win. Sucked too cause his R/T was a horrible 1.2 and he missed 3rd, so I should have walked away with an easy victory in my first ever competition.. oh well. There's always next time
After bolting on the Nitto's and lining up, I figured I'd take some shake down runs on the new wheels on 6psi. So I go ahead and do a dry burnout..*BAM BAM BAM*! Incredible wheel hop on the burnout alone! Hmm ok, line up at the light, 4k rpm, 3rd amber lights up and ii'm off with a quick slip of the clutch..*BAM BAM BAM*, for like 2-3 seconds all I get is violent wheel hop, the kind that makes you wonder how the hell my dash didn't crack in half... this was the story of my weekend.
Try as I may, up the pressure, lower the pressure, high launches, low launches, all weekend the single best 60' I could pull was a 2.31, also got a 2.35 and a 2.36, the rest of my passes (18 altogether between Sat and Sun) were all 2.4+ 60' times. It frustrated me so much, that after 2 passes Sunday, I went ahead and switched to my stocks, my next pass then netted me another sad 60' time, but also a 14.23 while missing 4th which was actually one of my best times of the weekend... on my stocks, go figure.
As for how I actually did, here are some #'s from the weekend:
Best 60'- 2.31 (wheelhopping like a jackrabbit)
Best E.T. (6psi)- 14.63 @ 95.01mph
Best E.T. (12psi)- 14.16 @ 100.30mph <-- strange coincidence, I ran 100.3mph on about 3 or 4 seperate runs..
Best Trap- 101.71mph
Oh yea, as for the actual competition, I guess between the wheelhopping, almost losing my DP (found it hanging by 1 bolt on Sunday) and almost losing a headlight on a pass, my mind was just a little cluttered, so when I lined up against a turbo Suzuki Swift (16.00 dial-in), I was a little to edgy and wound up redlighting (.345 R/T) and handing him the 1st round win. Sucked too cause his R/T was a horrible 1.2 and he missed 3rd, so I should have walked away with an easy victory in my first ever competition.. oh well. There's always next time
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
Oh yea, here's the only video I've encoded thus far from the weekend. My 2nd best pass..
http://www.makuragi.s5.com/videos/Dave%2014.1.wmv
http://www.makuragi.s5.com/videos/Dave%2014.1.wmv
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
yeah i have that same problem
my car hops like crazy
only way i can get it to prevent wheel hop is if i launch at a low rpm and feather the gas but it will bog out
i plan on getting some traction bars
hopefully that will fix the problem for me
ive heard good things about them
my car hops like crazy
only way i can get it to prevent wheel hop is if i launch at a low rpm and feather the gas but it will bog out
i plan on getting some traction bars
hopefully that will fix the problem for me
ive heard good things about them
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
dont know what to say,you have 2500 posts to your name, you know what you gotta do now right?
P.S> pretty sure you can take the drag radials thru the water box also.
P.S> pretty sure you can take the drag radials thru the water box also.
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you know what you gotta do now right?
P.S> pretty sure you can take the drag radials thru the water box also.
P.S> pretty sure you can take the drag radials thru the water box also.
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I belive 21 or 22psi in the Nitto's was the lowest, gradually worked up to something like 28psi, no help though..
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i owuld have gone down to 15
Well, I'm looking at getting a set of BFG DR's myself so I can go for some revenge after the build up.
On a bright note, one thing that I didn't think about till after I left the track that kinda made me feel a little better. My previos times were all done with absolutley no exahust, right off the DP. This time I was running a complete exahust, makes me wonder how I would have run on open DP considering I did just as good now, even on my stocks Ahh yes a glimmer of hope
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
Good work actually getting up to Moroso ! At least you were able to enter and compete.. props on that !
Damn bro... got beat by a 1.3L ?
Damn bro... got beat by a 1.3L ?
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
Next time muh man.. Most important is that you didn't snap anything from that nasty wheelhop and the car is still in 1 piece... well that downpipe can be a pain.
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Damn bro... got beat by a 1.3L ?
Nick, yea I mean all n' all, it was alot of fun. I've never run infront of such a mass of people before, and considering how relativley empty (only a couple thousand) it was, I can't imagine how it'll be in July and August for the big shows (NIRA/Toyo/IDRC etc..). Fun stuff, but next time I'm putting on a 13 second show dammit!
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nope, based soley on weight and trap speeds, I'm laying down between 195-200whp guestimated.
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Re: My weekend at the Spring Compact Natls at Moroso.. (VTC_CiViC)
checked yr motor mounts??? are they in one piece? how is your alignment?? lower the pressure to like 12-15psi, slip more clutch, lower start rpm, tighen up the rear end, weigh each side of the front of the car and even that out . silly ? do you have a LSD or a spool? what are your shocks valved for?? what lbs springs you have upfront???
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