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This concludes my bucket list and I fulfilled a commitment to my father in the process. It was a 2 year plan that culminated in the achieved target - a Top 10 in a national event.
The car was flawless BTW. Never had the engine/trans/diff out, never skipped a beat, brakes work great, maintenance is low and car is crazy fun to drive. I really thing the 86 is one of the best platforms and T4 really is the ideal class to play with it in. Totemo and I did "budget builds" with his being more budget oriented than mine, yet finishing better at the Runoffs and consistently having faster lap times. The fact of the matter is that we just raced against people who bring what seems like a F1 budgets to club racing. I'd like to think that we aren't that far off the pace. On the Monday test day the best I could do is 2:50 then Q1: 2:46, Q2: 2:44, Q3: 2:42.0 then during the race a 2:41.0 and I was clearly leaving time on the table. I'm confident that we if had a bit more time and experience at RA we would have found a way to be comfortably in the 39's. My Lap timer showed low 2:40's several times on the predictive only to have it interrupted by passing, defending or mistakes later in the lap. I'm still 5-7 MPH too slow on T1 entry, 3mph too slow around the carousel and I'm not doing 7 and 13 completely flat and I absolutely should be. Carrying speed really pays dividends at RA. Finally - we have improved as drivers as a result of this experience that will make us faster at our local tracks. RA really showed me where the gaps in my driving exist, along with my data analysis and the comparisons we did with Nick Leverone. I'm more excited than ever to start next season. Y'all should get started on your T4 builds!
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10-15-2020, 02:40 PM | #142 |
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Contemplating it!!
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Great job to both of you, and an awesome tribute to your dad! You both looked great out there IMO, and the announcer(s) definitely noticed your comeback @rice_classic (albeit a little late). I was very surprised to see you in p8, good racing.
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You're in a special place in the PacNW because you can race with both SCCA and ICSCC in competitive and populated grids. We have a friend who is looking for cheap FRS's to possibly start his T4 build this winter for the Runoffs next year. If there were 4 of us locally - it would be a damn good time and you'd always have someone at the track with spares and help if something goes sideways!
DO IT! I'm quite happy with T4. It's sort of my ideal set of rules and I can run it with the local conference (ICSCC) in CT4 which has very good sized grids. I expect to be running T4 as long as I have the car to do so. What I may do is run it in other events in a trim as close to T4 as possible - like with the LuckyDog series (when it's eligible in 3 years) or in E3 at the 25 hours of Thunderhill.
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The race broadcasts are now up for anyone interested:
Link to T4: https://www.scca.com/videos/2039602
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I found this in Utah. Flew into SLC an drove 871 miles back to Seattle the weekend before last.
I wonder what I should do next. Link to build thread: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...57#post3393257 Last edited by Turfer; 12-15-2020 at 01:12 PM. |
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy.
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Did the same and the liquified grease came out of the low mile used axle I replaced mine with as well. heat shielding from the exhaust pipe seems like a good idea.
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I also wonder if that's intentional. "liquid" grease for the sliding joint so it continually coats the grooves and a thicker grease for the fixed outer joint.
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I could see some bright eyed young engineer recommending this and some grizzled production engineer smacking the shit out of him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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"No you dumb shit! The production gets more complicated, and what happens if the axle is installed backwards? What happens if the lube is installed on the wrong side in the factory? You know what; there's too many reasons why that's a terrible idea to even continue; now go away!" Or conversely: "No, just... no. Terrible idea." |
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.... And then the bean counters get involved.. "Wait, you can save how many pennies per car by using cheaper grease in one joint? ...OK do it."
There are literally teams of engineers (interns usually) that scour over cars on the production looking for ways to save money. If they can shorten a fastener length by 5mm and save a penny a piece, they'll make a production change. Do that 50 places in a car and then x 100,000 vehicles? yep. that rookie engineer just paid for his salary. Not saying that's what's happening here, but I've heard stranger things. What gets me is almost no matter what age the axles come apart, the sliding inner joint almost always contains chocolate milk looking liquid. Nissan, Honda, Toyota/Subaru.. all same that I've seen. |
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Seems like a trend. TOB failure are said to be related to crappy grease. The new ones look identical beside a white marking (new grease type). Not hard to imagine they cheaped out there as well. Maybe some greases work better even when liquified compared to the factory one. As long as repacking the CV fixes the problem. Who cares, I guess. lol
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