All the rest of my pics from a day out at the track........

click>> US 41 Private Track Day - May 30, 2009

 

Congrats on the turbo setup. So did anybody set any records?

 

Sorry, cruizin', I went backwards by 1 mph, and 1/10....so more to do...need to do the cooling mods next, maybe switch pulleys...but as the thread goes forward, until Tom's problems are figured out, and I hear the results from RIOTS rebuild, I am going to watch and learn some more. My best w/ street tires was 12.6, 111...before that at Muncie Speedway, it was 12.58, 112 mph w/ street tires. I did get a 13.1 out of Matt's car, pure stock...except for an LET tune.

 

13.1 indeed. but it should be noted it is not a full custom tune... just a simple ECU flash. the tune is waiting for the pulley, HE, etc...

i'm pretty sure it could have gone 12.99 with a 1.8x 60', but the track prep was terrible. and by terrible I mean nowhere in sight.

i think this also contributed to slower times...no sign of track prep anywhere.

oh well, still a lot of fun. the best i did driving was 13.27 with a damn 2.04 60'. not bad for the first time down the track.

 

More video clips to come tonight of Dave Mcguire, Tom2112 and Oledoc2u.
Also Matt (Zahanma) was shooting videos yesterday to post here as well.
For now the Chi-town weather is just to nice to be inside uploading videos so it's time to get out and do some driving

HAVE A GREAT SUNDAY EVERYONE

 

Sorry I missed the event...two guys got hurt where I work...so I had to stay and work all day Saturday.

K.

 

We missed ya Riot. I was looking forward to seeing you lay down an 11-something. (That'll be about as close to the 11s as I'll get!)

 

Here are the track videos from yesterday........

Doc's runs:
YouTube - Oledoc2u - Crossfire SRT6
YouTube - Oledoc2u - Crossfire SRT6
YouTube - Oledoc2u - Crossfire SRT6

Tom2112 & Doc:
YouTube - Oledoc2u & Tom2112
YouTube - Oledoc2u & Tom2112

Tom2112:
YouTube - Tom2112

Dave McGuire:
YouTube - Dave McGuire

Test and Tune runs:
YouTube - Test and tune run #1
YouTube - Test and Tune run #2

 

that second video of Tom and I, the starter was yelling something, and Tom took off, so I took off, but we stayed the same all the way down the track...the first video was a good run. The starter was a pain, my F1's G3s were acting like slicks that day for sure, he had me back up to the water again, cause he said I was tearing up their pavement...LOL So skip the 2nd video, that was a distraction, not the old guy falling asleep.

 

Woody, if you watch the video's, you will see Tom and I both only getting 1 wheel to hook up...I had to work at it to get both to hook to clean the tires, so the limited-slip may be a winter project for me, along with the cooling mods...heat soak came quickly...

 

heck yeah it did...it wasn't bad on the drive to the track but after about 10am the clouds burned off and the sun started beating....couldn't get away from it.

great day all in all...

i'm working on a project for work that i have to get done by the morning...but i'll get the videos posted up tomorrow evening...

i have a couple of doc and tom running and a couple of me and some other MB's and BMW's...all good.

The Cobalt SS was hilarious...good guy, but just couldn't quite keep up...with anyone.

 

I just wanted to thank everyone out there, it was my first time to this event and I will not miss another, it was Crossfire, Mercedes, Bimmer heaven. Everyone was great, did some ride alongs, saw some cool cars (turbo XF) and had a geriatric trying to hit on my girlfriend LOL j/k Doc

I will put some pics in my gallery as well, some amazing cars out there (even some VERY amazing non-XFs)

Thanks you all.

John