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Originally Posted by redlined600
So you upgraded to the corsa? Which one did you have before?
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I had the SmartyCam 2.1 HD before this; I only picked up the Corsa since a friend bought it, decided he didn't like the 67* FOV, realized the FOV can't be changed without buying another entire SmartyCam, and offered it to me for a great price.
After a weekend with the SC3 Corsa I like it a lot - the video quality is very much improved. It's also super nice to be able to download the videos off the camera, add them in RS3, and have all of the data alongside the video and broken into individual laps to compare.
The new overlays are nice, but I feel like the G-plot updates slower than on the SC2 and the delta / delta to fastest lap need some work since it resets every session and doesn't start until the second full lap, which is pretty damn annoying.
I didn't bother chopping up my fastest lap from this past weekend since it didn't feel that great, though it was good enough for a new TT5 record by a little over a second. Here is some example video from another session from when I was getting disappeared by BTR Justin in his TT4 M3 though.
Couple pics from the weekend.
There was only one other guy in TT5 this weekend since comp school was going on, but I dropped the TT5 record by a little over a second for Podium Club @ Attesa CW to 1:43.5. I felt like I was a second or two off pace of where I should have been.
The car seems overly tire and setup sensitive to me, so I'm making a couple of changes to try and help that. I feel like I've been a day or two behind in realizing what is going on with the car setup wise for whatever reason, ideally I wouldn't have to screw with it at all and I'd just drive the car.
Currently on 500/600 springs, 22mm Perrin front bar on full soft and Mann Engineering 13mm rear on full stiff. After doing a bit of thinking I'm going to 450lb springs up front and a Karcepts rear bar.
Karcepts doesn't list that he sells a rear bar yet, but he sent me this:
And here we go
I think this should make for a decent improvement on where I am now, we will see in a few weeks.
I also ended up getting a CanChecked MCE18 so I can add a few more inputs to the Haltech. You wire the thing to the Haltech CAN network and it emulates a Haltech IO Expander. ProWire AMP SuperSeal solid pins are super nice to work with compared to the annoying crimp style pins too. First thing I added was a fuel pressure / fuel temp sensor, next I'm going to be adding a transmission temperature sensor and very likely a transmission cooler.
Last NASA event of the season is December 9th, but I'm hoping I can find something else later in the month. I tried signing up for the 12/2 and 12/3 86Cup events at Chuckwalla a month ago but never made it off the waitlist, apparently motor swapped cars can't even class into Unlimited with 86Cup so no reason to take up a driver spot anyway.
Regional TT5 championship win is wrapped up and in the bag, along with a total of 7 Arizona region TT5 track records and another two NASA SoCal (by association) TT5 records. I guess I'm going to leave the car in TT5 spec until Utah nationals, we shall see, I have a few ideas on things to change but I guess it depends on what NASA does rule change wise for 2024.
Arizona Motorsports Park CW - 1:46.361
Arizona Motorsports Park CCW - 1:47.747 (Should hopefully go lower on Dec 9, CCW is usually half a second to a second quicker than CW)
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway CW - 1:58.709 (NASA AZ + SoCal)
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway CCW - 1:58.277 (NASA AZ + SoCal)
Podium Club @ Attesa CW - 1:43.578
Podium Club @ Attesa CCW - 1:41.579
Wild Horse Pass East - 1:02.144