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Oil cooling... this continues to be a problem, even with the single core Stillen setup... good news is I never went into limp mode... bad news is I routinely hit 280 and peaked near 290 in a later session... really looking forward to my dual core setup, which is coming soon !!
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I had a similar experience...although I dont remember any 290's. More like 260-270. Lots of WOT at that track though..
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Suspension... coilovers are performing well... and the car is cornering very flat... I played with the rebound settings a bit but didn't put effort into tuning today... next time out will be corner balanced and perfectly set up and that'll be the time to try and dial in the settings
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Good to hear the BC's are doing their job well!
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Power... for this short track, I had ALL THE POWER I NEEDED... when I timed it right, had no trouble keeping up with newer M3s and various race cars... I'm going to address the power/weight issue through further weight savings and will prob stop investing in +HPs... I think with 200 lbs off, I could have saved 1.0-1.5 seconds
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Same experience here. Most cars couldnt pass me outright on the straights, it was the corners that were the issue haha. I kinda want to start taking some weight off myself... Will focus on that once my suspension is done. How did your alignment settings behave? What were they? What would you do differently?
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Brakes... continue to be an issue... I'm confident that with ideal braking I could have dropped 1.0-2.0 seconds
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Tires... remarkably good and controllable for stock tires... these are fun to drive... I'm sure I don't have too much left though !  ... move to sticky tires should buy me 2.0 seconds at this track
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+1 But my car isnt ready for racing compounds yet. Nor are my skills
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Carbonetic diff... very pleased with this! I'm still new to mech diffs and trying to learn how to use it well, but when I played around with my corner exit speed, I found I was able to pretty much floor it coming out of turns and at worst I had very controllable oversteer, at best it sailed out of the corners!
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Good to know.. will think about this one in the future.
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JWT clutch/flywheel... this is a no-brainer... if you have the $, do it... makes driving much more smooth!
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This is my next mod after suspension
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Summary... feeling pretty good about the car... I think with just a little more work, I may be able to turn a 1:02 or better at this track
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+1 on feeling good about the car. Mine gets more solid and confidence inspiring with every mod I do to the suspension.