Hey guys,
Just got back from the Shift Sector runway race. All told it was around a 7 hour drive round trip including a snow storm (!) Friday night going over the pass. Only had a few hrs of sleep last night. So I'm fairly exhausted.
The event didn't quite turn in to the FFTEC vs. RB turbo shoot out we were all expecting. Apparently they wanted to use today to tune the cars and tomorrow to race them. So I didn't race any single turbo cars and I don't think any of the other RB cars there today did either.
The FFTEC guys and their customers were great and Shiv was a gentlemen as usual. Although he voiced his displeasure at me asking his customers to race. Not that I was expecting to beat anyone but as I told him when am I going to see 7 single turbo cars in the same spot again? He asked me to come back Sunday to race but that didn't work for my family & schedule.
Other than that I had a great time. I ran the 135 in 500rw trim and it did very well. It was running around 160mph at the cones and did a best of 7.8 60-130 on the VBOX on an incline. It was fender to fender with Eric's tuned E63 (580rw), and put a few cars on Longboarder's supercharged DCT M3 (~560rw IIRC).
After the morning runs 5th gear started acting up again so I lowered the additive from 80 to 70 to reduce the power a bit. It helped for a run but then finally let go on my last run. "Sick335" who also has RBs also lost 5th gear. So it appears this may become a trend for those running these power levels. I'll start troubleshooting it. David was there in his manual trans RB car and was hauling ass all day. Overall I think the RBs did very well.
The only other N54 I was personally able to race was Wedge's who came all the way down from Oregon for the event. FFTEC told me he put out 500rw on the dyno with stock turbos. It sounded a bit high to me but it seemed to be something they were keeping under wraps so I didn't ask too many questions.
Our first run we were not able to coordinate the start. I got up to 50mph at the cones, but he was a few cars behind, so I slowed down, then he went, then I went, then I think he slowed down, so I slowed down, and then next thing I knew I wound up a couple cars behind having to chase him down. The next race we had the same problem only I just left when I got to the cones with him maybe a car behind. Second race I just let the trans shift itself at redline hoping it would hold 5th but at around 140mph 5th gear finally let go so I just coasted through the cones. I didn't see how far back he was. By then it was 3:30pm and they closed the lanes for the "top dog" races, so I headed home.
Will post up some logs, etc, when I can. I see I have 58 emails awaiting me so I'll get to work on those in the AM.
Just got back from the Shift Sector runway race. All told it was around a 7 hour drive round trip including a snow storm (!) Friday night going over the pass. Only had a few hrs of sleep last night. So I'm fairly exhausted.
The event didn't quite turn in to the FFTEC vs. RB turbo shoot out we were all expecting. Apparently they wanted to use today to tune the cars and tomorrow to race them. So I didn't race any single turbo cars and I don't think any of the other RB cars there today did either.
The FFTEC guys and their customers were great and Shiv was a gentlemen as usual. Although he voiced his displeasure at me asking his customers to race. Not that I was expecting to beat anyone but as I told him when am I going to see 7 single turbo cars in the same spot again? He asked me to come back Sunday to race but that didn't work for my family & schedule.
Other than that I had a great time. I ran the 135 in 500rw trim and it did very well. It was running around 160mph at the cones and did a best of 7.8 60-130 on the VBOX on an incline. It was fender to fender with Eric's tuned E63 (580rw), and put a few cars on Longboarder's supercharged DCT M3 (~560rw IIRC).
After the morning runs 5th gear started acting up again so I lowered the additive from 80 to 70 to reduce the power a bit. It helped for a run but then finally let go on my last run. "Sick335" who also has RBs also lost 5th gear. So it appears this may become a trend for those running these power levels. I'll start troubleshooting it. David was there in his manual trans RB car and was hauling ass all day. Overall I think the RBs did very well.
The only other N54 I was personally able to race was Wedge's who came all the way down from Oregon for the event. FFTEC told me he put out 500rw on the dyno with stock turbos. It sounded a bit high to me but it seemed to be something they were keeping under wraps so I didn't ask too many questions.
Our first run we were not able to coordinate the start. I got up to 50mph at the cones, but he was a few cars behind, so I slowed down, then he went, then I went, then I think he slowed down, so I slowed down, and then next thing I knew I wound up a couple cars behind having to chase him down. The next race we had the same problem only I just left when I got to the cones with him maybe a car behind. Second race I just let the trans shift itself at redline hoping it would hold 5th but at around 140mph 5th gear finally let go so I just coasted through the cones. I didn't see how far back he was. By then it was 3:30pm and they closed the lanes for the "top dog" races, so I headed home.
Will post up some logs, etc, when I can. I see I have 58 emails awaiting me so I'll get to work on those in the AM.