Recent content by gotovato

So it’s still not where I want it but I changed up my drive style a little to compensate and it seems to have worked. Messing up the front end of the car definitely fucked shit though. Not enough compression right now and even droop I’ve limited some how lol. It was definitely not happy to...

I am but since alot of my logging and tuning happens on the street the car is still plated and insured. Makes it easier to take it to the shop if I need to as well

Fucking weird classing idk. It’s pretty shit but whatever. I did alright I guess. Learning a new track layout was fun LOL everyone gives me shit for the plate bracket. I zip tie the transponder there it makes it easy but yes looks like shit. I always put my plates back on before leaving the...

Went time attacking yesterday. Reverse layout on a track I’ve done a bunch of times before in the regular config. Nobodies done reverse though. It was a game of learning the track asap that’s for sure. Lost to an mk8 golf R and if you know anything about those cars they are dumb fast. With...

Well hit a snag on engine assembly. Rod bearings appear to be too tight. This is after sourcing some difficult to find bearings. Machine shop measured with the paper work listed 55ftlbs or whatever it is and not the 75ftlbs I ended up at with the rod bolt stretch gauge(70-80ftlbs is common...

Engine has been picked up from the machine shop. Assembly began yesterday on the short block and ill finish it this weekend. Pending a head gasket and few other parts from the dealer before i can assemble the long block. thatll be next week. then...its swap time.

It was yup. I went faster than him in straight up raw time but the stupid pax system fucked me and he gets first place cause he’s got less pips than me. Annoying The car was kinda shit still anyways. New tires helped a bunch but seemed more like a bandaid. The car still ain’t right

Little P2 action today. Tried to enter into my frs buddies class and they wouldn’t let me. Ah well

Hoping for a good weekend this week. Friday i am planning to be at the track for testing. Have the day off and car is ready to go. If all goes well Friday, i will compete in some time attack on Sunday. This leaves saturday in the middle to get sticker tires mounted and make any setup changes...

Sitting in the car right now while it’s on the scales. Good time to reply lol So I asked the fortune auto engineer since I had the thought, Why softer springs when I can just delete my front sway bar? His reply, “I would advise going with softer springs and keeping the bar, that will...

This. The weight transfer was huge with the old springs. I could really feel the front end roll while the rear end stayed completely flat. it was an interesting feeling but the front end was biting hard. Felt great under braking, turn in, trail braking. With the new springs i lost that dig, even...

Tire wear. 5 events. One of them kinda wet. This is with 3 days on the old front springs and 2 on the new. I swap the left and right tires around to even wear 100%. Sometimes I wanna quit for sure. It’s such a fight some days but I must say when the cars good…fuck. It’s good. Makes it all...

Yea so part of my problem is the new springs gaining me a half inch of ride height up front. To fix that, either gotta lower the front by dropping the spring perch(fucks up your compression travel) or need to shorten the shock length which fucks the bump stop height. I had maybe a half inch...

my shop mans said this. fuck how it feels if its fast its fast just keep on sending it. While this may be true i feel like i am leaving something on the table. If i could get it to bite just that little bit harder, just dig in a little more, that would be ideal but maybe im wrong. yea i have...

we redid the alignment but didnt throw it on the scales -3.5 camber 0 toe 9* of caster