Bremerton track day, Flaming Brakes on V8

[scott.john.mockry@bangate1.tek.com]

The Bremerton event was great as everyone has mentioned, much thanks to Bernie Strub,
Stan, Brigitt, Max, Ned, Al, Alex and all the instructors who helped out.

It was fun to drive my recently acquired 89 200TQ at a speed through the back section
that I would never imagined possible. The quattro system is amazing! One of the
instructors (Todd Warren from the Porsche club) showed me just how fast you can
go with these cars. Definetly an E-Ticket ride! My stock 10V 200 is in desparate
need of more boost  to try and stay up with those '91 20V 200's. I think there were
three or four of those 91 20V 200 cars at the track. Alex  purchased a nice silver 
one recently.The stock supension and tires on my car are also "hurtin fur certain". 

The owner of the black V8 (Fred ?) allowed Todd Warren to take his car out on the track
during the 10-15 minute session where the instructors were out there by themselves.
Can you say flames coming out of the brakes!!!!!!!!!
Todd asked me to come along and it was incredible! I think he needed some ballast in
the back seat to even out the load. Fred was next to me in the back with a video camera
 and his friend (wife or girlfriend) was in the front seat. 
Todd was chasing this older  BMW 325 who would not let us pass on the straight
and at one point the BMW spun out right in front of us on the back straight with the 
large S turns. Todd barely slowed down  and just waited for the BMW to spin out of 
the way near the concrete wall before blasting past him. It  was at this point the 
front seat passenger got a little nervous and uncomfortable.

I was holding on for dear life in the back seat but I noticed near the end of the run
that the oil temp on the car had risen to around 150 degrees C. All the hard braking
(with flames) that Todd did actually straightened out the warped UFO front brakes
 on the V8 after all was said and done. 

Ned was there with a modified computer for the  200 20V engines. As 
someone mentioned he let the owner of the 91 200 wagon try the computer out. 
That guy was working the suspension on that big car! Ned showed me the inside 
of the computer and pointed out the new 300kPa pressure sensor that was installed
 in place of the stock one. This sensor had a Bosch part number on it and was completely
different than the ones used on the 86-91 10V ECU's. It was about 2 " X 1" and about
3/8" thick. It was in a sealed plastic housing that was mounted in the center of one
of the circuit boards inside. Ned also showed us what looked like a commercially 
available circuit board hanging outside the ECU with some   a few surface mount components
 that allowed you to have two PROM's (stock and modified) mounted on this board 
side by side and Ned had a toggle switch that would swap the address lines to  utilize one
 of the two chips whenever he wanted. The modified chip said MTM K27 Racing on the label.
 Ned mentioned something about how he was running a larger turbo (K27 ?) on his car these
 days.  I can only imagine how many HP he is pushing with that motor. (400+) ?
I heard his car running out in the back part of the track where the slalom was set up, 
it sounded like a jet was taking off!

Marni Ritchie showed us some photos of their recent trip to the Audi factory
in Ingolstadt and they had some shots of the cars in the Audi Museum. The museum is 
apparently only open on Tuesday. Ned had taken many photos of the turbo layout
of the engine that was in the Pikes Peak rally car and had some shots of the turbo engines
in the other record breaking Audis in the museum. I also saw some photos of what looked
like a A4 (nice blue one) at some other shop location that was getting a HUGE intercooler
 mounted in the front. Maybe this is the European shop that Ned deals with.  

All in all, it was a great day and  a very well organized event.

Scott M.

> lap at the track.  Over everything else I think I was most suprised by the 
> braking power required on a track(witnessed by the V-8 with the flaming 
> UFO's).