[s-cars] Speaking of VIR

[Manuel Sanchez]

PK,

Forgot a couple of things;

At the end of one session the worker in the hot pit had me pull over  
to talk. He wanted to tell me that one of the corner workers at the  
flag station near the end of the back straight observed "flames  
coming from my REAR brakes" while under heavy braking. FLAMES, can  
you believe it, out of the farckin rears. One of the other folks in  
my run group said she thought she saw that too. I didn't get black  
flagged or anything, I guess they see that kinda stuff all the time.

Needless to say my at the time rear pads were gone after the first  
day. It's a good thing my bro on law suggested we check the pads as I  
had about 1/32 of inch left on the rears , no problem with the  
fronts. Swapped them with something beefier between sessions. No mo  
flames.

Wish I'd gotten a pic of that.

I probably scared the beejesus out of a vette owner that was behind  
me exiting the horseshoe turn at the end of the front straight. Seems  
like the gearing of the 5 speed is not suited very well for this  
section of track, 2nd gear is a little too high in the rev range and  
3rd gear is just under good boost. I'm not very quick out of there,  
engine bogs as the boost tries to build, prolly shouldn't give so  
much gas but I want the damn thing to get moving. Anyway I think  
quite a bit of unburned gas accumulated in the exhaust one lap as a  
thunderous back fire blasted this vette once coming out of there.  
Nice cloud of black smoke to boot. It's no Aston, but Jimmy Bondie  
would be proud.

Car is running better now, although I don't think I've got all the  
power I should based on running with my Bro In Law nose to tail in  
our run group, but much better than before. Switched from Mihnea's  
chip to Uncle Bob's, among a few other things. No Mo coil problems  
(knocks on wood).

Oil temps got a bit toward the high end of the gauge on the warmer of  
the 2 days, think I might need to get a bigger oil cooler. It's a  
good thing the events I attend are during the cooler months.


Checked out your blog... that's awesome, keep 'em coming.


Regards,

-manny
95.5 urS6 Avant (mostly RS2'd)


On Nov 21, 2008, at 4:30 PM, <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:

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> Manny Sanchez'd:
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> <<<Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: <manuelsanchez at starpower.net>
> Subject: [s-cars] Speaking of VIR
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>
> It's no R8 story at VIR that Wylie can speak to, but...
>
> Just returned from VIR HPDE event last weekend....tons of fun as  
> usual.  Ms Piggy did pretty well I'll say. I usually get a few  
> folks come over and ask what the hell is under the hood. Of course  
> there was plenty of more powerful iron there, but some of the  
> owners don't let it all hang out I suppose…………………………..snippy>>>
>
>
>
> Right on Manny!  Great report, thanks for sharing.  And _FU_ for  
> getting out there an 'doing it'!  Awesome.  Your car's gotta have  
> quite the VIR odometer travel by now I'd say.  Impressive.  Kudos!
>
> So you finally resolved your misfire, etc. then I assume?  Seemed  
> you never would at one point.
>
> Keep up the good werk down there.  Tx for jumping in and spicing up  
> the //Snoozealert List!  8-)
>
> -Paul
>