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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:44 pm
by SLOroadster
da-man wrote:datsunrides wrote:Sears is a cool, yet dangerous track. I raced motorcycles there for 4 years and just about every race I attended, some poor guy took a helicopter ride out! My favorite part was coming out of 11 and going WFO to turn 2 under the bridge that used to be there. I always HATED that off camber turn 2, always felt like I was going to crash there. Will, did you run the old course with the carousel ( if they still use it)or the "NASCAR" course? Did they put a chicane on the drag strip to slow down the entry to turn 1?
Mark
Mark:
I did alot of that myself! Any chance we'd know each other from that track?
but on topic: i'm interested in what kind of lap times you were seeing out there? I've done 1:44's out there on the superbike, and I'm curious what a car will do.
I think we got down to a 2:10 or so. I have a friend who has run a 2:05 in a 914. I think the car is capable of a 2:00 with a healthier engine. Having one soft cylinder isn't helping anything.
Will
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:04 am
by da-man
datsunrides wrote:da-man wrote: I've done 1:44's out there on the superbike, and I'm curious what a car will do.
Showoff
HEHE. funny you'd say that. I was actually a little embarassed to post that, since the "fast guys" are down in the 1:35's....
9 seconds is a REALLY LONG TIME......
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:36 am
by SLOroadster
da-man wrote:datsunrides wrote:da-man wrote: I've done 1:44's out there on the superbike, and I'm curious what a car will do.
Showoff
HEHE. funny you'd say that. I was actually a little embarassed to post that, since the "fast guys" are down in the 1:35's....
9 seconds is a REALLY LONG TIME......
Oh yeah? I think my fastest time is a mid 7 min out there on my bike. I was getting dropped like a bad habit as well.
Will
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:37 am
by spl310
SLOroadster wrote: I think we got down to a 2:10 or so. I have a friend who has run a 2:05 in a 914. I think the car is capable of a 2:00 with a healthier engine. Having one soft cylinder isn't helping anything.
Will
Your car has a cylinder down? Or is that the 914 guy?
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:47 pm
by SLOroadster
Sid,
Its my car thats unhealthy. 3 are showing 180 and one (#2) is showing 155. I did a wet (a little oil through the sparkplug hole) compression test and it was showing 190 so I think its a ring issue. I don't know how long its been that way. The last time I tested it was right after I got hit back in 2006 and I forgot to open the throttle so I had a low reading anyway. It doesn't smoke, burn oil, make weird noses, and still seems to drive ok.
By the way the guy driving was a fellow roadster owner.
Will