R50/53 Interesting Day at Second Creek
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Interesting Day at Second Creek
The Rocky Moutnain B5 Club invited MINI5280 to join them at Second Creek raceway in Denver last Friday.
There were about 35 drivers: ~10 MINI's, a new red Viper,
a Carrera, and
a Subie STi;the rest were mostly B5 chassis A4's, S4's and Passat's.
A couple of highlights:
Randy Webb had his new front mount carbon fiber intercooler there. Unfortunately the carbon fiber cracked along a seam after a few laps and he had to put his ALTA back on. While it was on it sounded great - I could hear it half way across the track while in my car. It crapped out too soon to see if there was any performance benefit, but it sure looked and sounded great.
Brad had a new digital dash that he had put in. It replaces the tach and can log up to eight data channels. It was interesting to see the download of the log into a laptop. It uses and accelerometer to draw a picture of the track, then you can run a lap in real time and watch what the various sensors are doing and compare the laps to see where you can gain and lose time. His mechanical problem was that one of the welds broke on his driver's side Corbeau seat track.
Grant and Carol were there with a Supertrap muffler mounted in their GS contending MCS. I was following Carol around the track and saw her lose her RR marker light. A little later the black rr fender lip started to go away from the car like a little wing held on byt he wire from the marker light. Turned out that the muffler had melted a lot of the plastic in the RR corner of the car!
I was going around turn one and heard a big thunk like I had run over a rock. I slowed down them came into the pits. It turned out that two of the studs on my LF wheel had broken. I spend the rest of the day fixing these so I could drive home without losing a wheel.
I think the wheel studs breaking were the remnants of my hitting the tire wall in June. I had another one snap the day after I had hit the wall. Good lesson: replace all the suspect parts that might have been stressed in an accident.
I did get a UNIchip put in by Randy, so all was not lost
It was too bad that the faster MINI's were the one's that had problems, usually we can turn bunches of laps with nary a problem. All in all though, despite some of the problems, it was a great day.
There were about 35 drivers: ~10 MINI's, a new red Viper,
a Carrera, and
a Subie STi;the rest were mostly B5 chassis A4's, S4's and Passat's.
A couple of highlights:
Randy Webb had his new front mount carbon fiber intercooler there. Unfortunately the carbon fiber cracked along a seam after a few laps and he had to put his ALTA back on. While it was on it sounded great - I could hear it half way across the track while in my car. It crapped out too soon to see if there was any performance benefit, but it sure looked and sounded great.
Brad had a new digital dash that he had put in. It replaces the tach and can log up to eight data channels. It was interesting to see the download of the log into a laptop. It uses and accelerometer to draw a picture of the track, then you can run a lap in real time and watch what the various sensors are doing and compare the laps to see where you can gain and lose time. His mechanical problem was that one of the welds broke on his driver's side Corbeau seat track.
Grant and Carol were there with a Supertrap muffler mounted in their GS contending MCS. I was following Carol around the track and saw her lose her RR marker light. A little later the black rr fender lip started to go away from the car like a little wing held on byt he wire from the marker light. Turned out that the muffler had melted a lot of the plastic in the RR corner of the car!
I was going around turn one and heard a big thunk like I had run over a rock. I slowed down them came into the pits. It turned out that two of the studs on my LF wheel had broken. I spend the rest of the day fixing these so I could drive home without losing a wheel.
I think the wheel studs breaking were the remnants of my hitting the tire wall in June. I had another one snap the day after I had hit the wall. Good lesson: replace all the suspect parts that might have been stressed in an accident.
I did get a UNIchip put in by Randy, so all was not lost
It was too bad that the faster MINI's were the one's that had problems, usually we can turn bunches of laps with nary a problem. All in all though, despite some of the problems, it was a great day.
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Clunk, Thud, Goodbye Gears
is what happened to me. Maybe I was shifting too fast. Lucky to get stuck in 3rd so I was able to limp home. Strange thing tho - got ready to take it to the dealer on Sat and the darn thing shifted into 1st, but nowhere else. REALLY limped it over there, but Schomp will do the job and have it going in no time.
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Yes, It was alot of fun at the track,
Special thanks to to Grant, he took my seat home that night and welded it back to health and then brought it to the BMWCCA auto-cross the next morning. Grant I'm sorry we didn't leave at the same time last Saturday, but I have not forgot and I will bring you some Fat Tires for the help.
Thanks a million.
Brad
Special thanks to to Grant, he took my seat home that night and welded it back to health and then brought it to the BMWCCA auto-cross the next morning. Grant I'm sorry we didn't leave at the same time last Saturday, but I have not forgot and I will bring you some Fat Tires for the help.
Thanks a million.
Brad
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