PTUNING: Red Line Time Attack 09 Season (Takes 1st place at RTA in E-town, NJ)
05-18-2009, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by dave2610
ill be at etown
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05-18-2009, 07:33 PM
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If I have the spare $500 sitting around, I just might enter the E-Town event. It also depends on if my car can fit inside our new trailer.
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
05-19-2009, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by GammaTNT
when and where will the TA at?
I wish i can see your car in action.
I wish i can see your car in action.
Autobahn Country Club
Joliet, Illinois June 20 - 21
Nashville Super Speedway
Lebanon, Tennessee July 25 - 26
Carolina Motorsports Park
Kershaw, South Carolina August 08 - 09
E-TOWN
Englishtown, New Jersey August 29 - 30
Spring Mountain Motorsports Park
Pahrump, Nevada September 26 - 27
Auto Club Speedway
Fontana, California November 14 - 15
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05-23-2009, 08:26 PM
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Here's an updated pic of the engine bay. Here's the same production turbo manifold that's used on our turbo kit.
We've still have a lot of changes we want to make but that might not happen until after the first race in illinois. We'll post more pics when we get a chance.
MrC
We've still have a lot of changes we want to make but that might not happen until after the first race in illinois. We'll post more pics when we get a chance.
MrC
God I love that you all arent far.
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05-25-2009, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by CarbonXe
If I have the spare $500 sitting around, I just might enter the E-Town event. It also depends on if my car can fit inside our new trailer.
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
As for driving, they kindly offered me the drivers seat back and I didn't hesitate to accept the offer.
We took the car out yesterday to a NASA autoX to test the car out. we learned quite a few things, like 500whp.... its insane, there is nothing else that can be said about that. We also need to replace a battery terminal and other really trivial things. We are hoping to make it to VIR or NJMP to test the car out on track before Autobahn as well.
I hope to see you all at RTA events this year, since we are defending our 2008 Champ status we really want to make it a solid year. Between the PTuning built motor, which provides 500whp all day 100% reliably, to the Progress Technology suspension, to the Advan wheels and R888's this car is the complete package, and anyone standing in our way will really have to be on top of their game to have a chance at beating us
05-25-2009, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by spazegunn213
Originally Posted by CarbonXe
If I have the spare $500 sitting around, I just might enter the E-Town event. It also depends on if my car can fit inside our new trailer.
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?
As for driving, they kindly offered me the drivers seat back and I didn't hesitate to accept the offer.
We took the car out yesterday to a NASA autoX to test the car out. we learned quite a few things, like 500whp.... its insane, there is nothing else that can be said about that. We also need to replace a battery terminal and other really trivial things. We are hoping to make it to VIR or NJMP to test the car out on track before Autobahn as well.
I hope to see you all at RTA events this year, since we are defending our 2008 Champ status we really want to make it a solid year. Between the PTuning built motor, which provides 500whp all day 100% reliably, to the Progress Technology suspension, to the Advan wheels and R888's this car is the complete package, and anyone standing in our way will really have to be on top of their game to have a chance at beating us
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06-01-2009, 09:08 PM
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We finally took our TA tC to the drag strip on Sunday for a test and tune session. Although we are not much into drag racing, we did learn a lot from our testing.
Other than a zero degree front camber setting and lower front tire pressures, the car was tested in actual Time Attack trim. That includes the 18 wheels, front splitter and new, much larger rear wing. We wanted to see what the car would do mainly in terms of trap speed. The car was set up at a slightly lower ~450WHP set-up for Sunday.
We obviously knew that our E.T. would only be ho-hum at best given the fact that a 30 series r-comp tire with a stiff sidewall designed for cornering is no where near as sticky as a drag radial, much less a drag slick.
Anyhow, all our runs were at 126+mph with our fastest run being a 12.77 at 128.55mph. This is essentially with granny launches, since the r-comps provided little to no traction for a proper drag launch. Could we have gone quicker and faster with drag slicks and without the front splitter and rear wing? Of course, but we wanted to test the car as-is minus the front camber setting. Mathematically, the car with drag slicks should be a mid to high 10 second car, but we will never know since we have no plans to take her down the strip on drag slicks.
What our testing tell us too is that with the right components, it is possible to build a pump gas/WMI tC that can trap at 120+mph all day long. Btw, our race car as it sits now is no super lightweight in case anyone was wondering, It is only about 250-300 lbs lighter than a bone-stock tC (roll cage adds most of the weight back). A full-weight stock tC with the same power plant should probably see about 123+mph.
Now for the bad news. We took out fourth gear AGAIN! This was only between the multiple dyno pulls and the 4-5 runs down the track. Fourth gear is pretty much the first gear that can sort of put the power to the ground and therefore sees the greatest loads. Our runs put us at about 7600+rpms in fourth.
So yeah, it looks like we'll need to look into transmission fortification sooner than we expected. Oh well, just part of racing and R&D.
- Toan
Other than a zero degree front camber setting and lower front tire pressures, the car was tested in actual Time Attack trim. That includes the 18 wheels, front splitter and new, much larger rear wing. We wanted to see what the car would do mainly in terms of trap speed. The car was set up at a slightly lower ~450WHP set-up for Sunday.
We obviously knew that our E.T. would only be ho-hum at best given the fact that a 30 series r-comp tire with a stiff sidewall designed for cornering is no where near as sticky as a drag radial, much less a drag slick.
Anyhow, all our runs were at 126+mph with our fastest run being a 12.77 at 128.55mph. This is essentially with granny launches, since the r-comps provided little to no traction for a proper drag launch. Could we have gone quicker and faster with drag slicks and without the front splitter and rear wing? Of course, but we wanted to test the car as-is minus the front camber setting. Mathematically, the car with drag slicks should be a mid to high 10 second car, but we will never know since we have no plans to take her down the strip on drag slicks.
What our testing tell us too is that with the right components, it is possible to build a pump gas/WMI tC that can trap at 120+mph all day long. Btw, our race car as it sits now is no super lightweight in case anyone was wondering, It is only about 250-300 lbs lighter than a bone-stock tC (roll cage adds most of the weight back). A full-weight stock tC with the same power plant should probably see about 123+mph.
Now for the bad news. We took out fourth gear AGAIN! This was only between the multiple dyno pulls and the 4-5 runs down the track. Fourth gear is pretty much the first gear that can sort of put the power to the ground and therefore sees the greatest loads. Our runs put us at about 7600+rpms in fourth.
So yeah, it looks like we'll need to look into transmission fortification sooner than we expected. Oh well, just part of racing and R&D.
- Toan
