The car looked really solid and fast
Those fast runs at Laguna cost me 2 bent wheels. I hit a curb in T8 and T10 in my quest to use every inch of the track. Good thing they are only $500 each and not $1500 each. No wheel would have survived.
Today I went to a hot mess of a “for profit open track time company which shall not be named”. There’s no culture of safety at these events and people with no experience register for very advanced driving groups because they own a potentially fast car. It makes me feel good that I can pass all of them but it’s risky AF.
Here’s some 1:57 laps, with a couple of Audi R8 V10’s I know holding me up (1:56 would be the adjusted lap time). One of them is a supercharged 700 HP deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVJliLCQFc
Here’s 2 corvettes and 4 mustangs that apparently aren’t very fast, and one of them crashes at the end. I had enough of that shit and went home afterwards.
Are you replacing them or just dealing with them? Does it vibrate? can a shop bang them straight?
there’s no such thing on earth as a supercharged Audi R8 that makes 700 hp. Those companies that sold those kits were lying morons.
I didn’t even know it was bent until I got new tires. Most of the damage was to the inside bevel. One was really bad and we tossed it out, though it was repairable. I kept the less bent one as a full size spare and mounted a new tire on it. Sometimes I have to end a track weekend a little early because one of the front tires cords. With the wing, the rears are getting much more of a workout (they come up to temp and pressure).
Really? Even the V10 with a blower couldnt reach 700hp. I wouldnt think thats a problem.
Didn’t they use something really small like a M90 for the V10 kits?
I dont know about every kit out there but a few of them were major fail. Its been pretty majior fail for most attempts at supercharging these NA audi motors. So far APR did ok but JHM is cleaning house with real reasuts.
These cars run so hot and then they just bolt a super hot heat source ontop of the motor and expect to not see rediculous intake numbers. One of the few companys that has since been laughed out of the market tried to post intake temp numbers from late january when the actual temps were below zero. The few issues with that were… They were posting them in july trying to make it look like the logs were from july and that even in the sub zero outside temps the blower output temps sucked hard…
yes but you believed j conz and the dyno game so that’s understandable
When did i believe Jconz and the dyno game? Please refresh my memory
Yeah, i know most of the companies advertise ridiculous bumps in exaggerated power, i just would think/assume it wouldn’t be hard for the V10. I know we were talking about Blowers but the Twin Turbo cars were claiming 800 plus HP.
Only blowers i was familiar with for the V10 were VF which released a bigger blower, ESS (dont know much about) and APR which we know failed and i dont believe they make anymore. Unfortunately with most of these big money guys, they just go by the claims and never seem to take them to the track. Just take the companies word for it.
Faster than the M3. Slower than the 997 GT3 modified heavily for track duty. GT4 isn’t really quick in the hands of most drivers, though in the hands of someone who is a top 2% driver you’ll never catch it.
http://i66.tinypic.com/2j4vtc6.jpg