Originally Posted by travisjb Garage upgrade on the way! I'm gonna talk to you about that this weekend. those are on my shopping list too.
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10-11-2013, 10:15 AM | #1891 (permalink) |
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I'm gonna talk to you about that this weekend. those are on my shopping list too.
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10-11-2013, 12:35 PM | #1892 (permalink) |
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Sounds good. I'll be there from sat first thing a.m. and leaving before sat is over... let's catch up between sat sessions... white 24ft unmarked haulmark trailer + gray tundra
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I'm in garage 18 and paddock room 18
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11-02-2013, 01:58 PM | #1894 (permalink) |
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It might be another year or so before I start looking at branching out from my local HPDE stuff and doing NASA TT (and rules might change again!), but I was starting to look ahead at car setup and points and all that so I don't do anything too stupid to the car in the meantime. I know you've spent a lot of time going over the NASA classing stuff for our cars, so...
Basically under the current rules and given that I've already done a lot of changes to this car that rack up misc points (and probably weren't wise from a classing perspective, but meh), it looks to me like even without going FI, TT3 is simpler to deal with and doable, rather than doing the TTB/A base classing mess. Just running down the numbers on the forms, it seems like if I guestimate my car around 3000lbs, then depending on tires (275s for +0.4, or bigger for zero) and non-OEM Aero (-0.5 in TT3), my HP limit in TT3 can be anywhere in the range of about 313 - 344, which is a pretty reasonable target area for our engine NA. So basically I could see what I end up dynoing for at that time, and decide on a tires/aero choice that matches my RWHP as close as possible. But the numbers on the forms rarely tell the whole story. Would it be insane to run this car NA in TT3, even given that I'd be taking advantage of the freedoms elsewhere to make the most out of this car in that class within the basic prohibitions of TT1/2/3? Would it just be outclassed by the other usual cars in TT3? |
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Can't remember which trainy you have - there are points for automatic - can't remember what you have. No one has ever dinged me for SRM but then again mine doesn't work anyways. |
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11-03-2013, 03:16 AM | #1896 (permalink) |
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I do have the 7AT. In the TT3 rules there's no points for an automatic paddle shift w/ torque converter, but there are for a true DCT. I think I'm probably getting a cheap advantage there under the current rules; they probably don't realize (in the generic rules sense) how much better our 7AT is than most any other torque-converter-auto with paddles - they really should charge it like a DCT :P
To be honest I probably won't care about the competition much anyways, I tend to be more into competing with myself I just don't want to be ridiculously outclassed all the time for whatever group they're writing me up in, and it sounds like some the TT3 cars are pretty intense. But yeah, I'll know more once I start looking at times on local tracks and whatnot. Thanks |
11-03-2013, 10:27 AM | #1898 (permalink) |
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Ouch, I have some work to do to catch any of those guys. Even at the track I know best (MSR-H at the top of that list), I'm running ~1:50-55 and they're running in the low 1:40's. I'll get there though. I still haven't even moved up to real tires, my times are on 340 treadwear, so I'll use that as an excuse for now
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12-10-2013, 07:15 AM | #1901 (permalink) |
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Carbon+Pri...ght+Cover+370Z
should be able to find them for $80 or so... follow this link you'll need to make brackets to hold in place. warning: these will break easily. I don't have a solution for that, but I'm on my third set |
12-10-2013, 06:03 PM | #1902 (permalink) |
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Why not go the easy way and get a set of junk headlights and gut them? My 350Z "headlights" are like that and weigh next to nothing with the backs cut out. (Got them from John Evans/Laze1 when he got new headlights to be SZ legal since my headlights were ruined)
Though I may be confused as to the purpose from the link you posted. |
12-10-2013, 09:56 PM | #1905 (permalink) |
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can't remember who told me to buy a ruckus, but man I'm happy you did... love this thing! have been bolting all kinds of goodness on this thing recently - crappy phone cam pics follow
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