Pikes Peak is getting closer, and closer. the car leaves shortly to be taken to Port Kembla for transporting to California where we collect it and tow it to Pikes Peak.
so far we have set the suspension to where we think it should be, we used the Mt Buller sprint event in Victoria, Australia as a test session for the car and we won class, and got 11th overall. Which is near spot on for what we expected, achievment wise. Cath, my girlfriend, and navigator asked me at the start of Mt Buller where we think we'll end up, and being we are running an ex-street car and not a proper RS evo, I said we'll be top 15, but not top 10, so to finish 11th overall, first in class was a sweet result.
We went to Wakefield Park racetrack last week to get some data, and we found the sock injectors with the 272 cams were beyond their maximum load, and the duty cycle was running at 120% at times, which is not good at all. So this week we hope to have the 1000cc injectors in place, these will work well with the cams, and will be even sweeter when we tune for E85. We were actually slower than we've ever gone, but I put this down to the very old, and undersized (225/45/17) tyres, as we shouldve been running 235 series, and they were already 3 year old yoko's, and despite screaming in agony most of the day they didnt wear much, which tells me the balance is currently good also in the car. But also hardened tyres.
Yesterday I tried to install the Aussie-flag decals, and they were a mess. It seems the decals sheet had many crimps in the sheet, which wit the curves of the car, made it worse, but we appreciate the effort of Mike, from euro-graphics who dontated his time to make them for us and we'll try to clean it up later.
We tend to push on regardless, so we will continue to do so.
Jeff
Outside of the Cams, and 10.5 hotside the car is pretty stock.
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