Hi All,
Thanks for the support..
Round 5 of the NSW Supersprints took place on the 20th of July at Wakefield Park after a very long break. This break gave us the further opportunity to review our setup from the earlier Supersprints rounds.
Spouting the Toda quads, the MFactory Superprint Civic's Engine was a work of art (Forgive the airbox and headers for now). Unfortunately, as participants know, prepping a car for an event is never complete. Trying to understand the potential of the engine, we ran a stock ITR headers and an SRI, not ideal for the setup, but away we went anyway.
When the day opened, it was extremely cold and slippery - I had to pick my way around the track very gingerly to avoid my usual opening lap spin outs, but as the day went by, it turned out to be a nice cool day for racing. Having initially set the suspension alignment at the beginning of the year and only playing with damper settings thereafter, we managed to pull a string of Sub 1:10s @ Wakefield Park during each run - I was very happy to have been pretty consistent instead of doing one lap wonders.
I had a couple of drama's during the runs as well including one where I was abruptly cut off going into turn 1 almost resulting in a collision, but was fortunate to avoid it. No one's fault really, just the usual track incident.
At the end of the day, we came away with a class win and breaking the previous class record by more than 1.5 seconds.
A testament to the build and tune abilities of Adrian, saw us not only racing and winning on the tune but also achieving a less than 1/2 a tank of fuel to get to Wakefield park (238km) cruising at 100km/h. We could even go out onto the track and did 3 sessions before deciding it was better to refuel as a precaution.
And always happy to share - a couple of 1:09 laps in the Civic - Turn the volume up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yekvq0Q4M4
and as usual, thanks to Toda Racing Australia and MFactory for the incredible support and know how.
Like my squirrel chin up bars? That the secret....
Thanks for the support..
Round 5 of the NSW Supersprints took place on the 20th of July at Wakefield Park after a very long break. This break gave us the further opportunity to review our setup from the earlier Supersprints rounds.
Spouting the Toda quads, the MFactory Superprint Civic's Engine was a work of art (Forgive the airbox and headers for now). Unfortunately, as participants know, prepping a car for an event is never complete. Trying to understand the potential of the engine, we ran a stock ITR headers and an SRI, not ideal for the setup, but away we went anyway.
When the day opened, it was extremely cold and slippery - I had to pick my way around the track very gingerly to avoid my usual opening lap spin outs, but as the day went by, it turned out to be a nice cool day for racing. Having initially set the suspension alignment at the beginning of the year and only playing with damper settings thereafter, we managed to pull a string of Sub 1:10s @ Wakefield Park during each run - I was very happy to have been pretty consistent instead of doing one lap wonders.
I had a couple of drama's during the runs as well including one where I was abruptly cut off going into turn 1 almost resulting in a collision, but was fortunate to avoid it. No one's fault really, just the usual track incident.
At the end of the day, we came away with a class win and breaking the previous class record by more than 1.5 seconds.
A testament to the build and tune abilities of Adrian, saw us not only racing and winning on the tune but also achieving a less than 1/2 a tank of fuel to get to Wakefield park (238km) cruising at 100km/h. We could even go out onto the track and did 3 sessions before deciding it was better to refuel as a precaution.
And always happy to share - a couple of 1:09 laps in the Civic - Turn the volume up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yekvq0Q4M4
and as usual, thanks to Toda Racing Australia and MFactory for the incredible support and know how.
Like my squirrel chin up bars? That the secret....
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