jacobcartmill

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things needed to make it to the Road Atlanta HPDE saturday and not be slower than my roommate's e46 M3 or my friend's turbo miata:

haltech install DONE
LS1 coils install DONE
custom plug wires DONE
weld vband in bottom of downpipe DONE
install LCD monitor for haltech gauges DONE
make laptop mount in storage bin DONE
6262 turbo tial MVS wastegates Turblown manifold install DONE
alter downpipe for new manifold DONE
recirc wastegates so i dont want to blow my brains out every time i hit full boost DONE
replaced rear wheel bearings DONE
flush brake fluid with RBF600 DONE
install poly diff bushings DONE
fix fuel leak at fuel rails DONE
flush trans and diff gear oil with royal purple 75w90 DONE
remove and sell RA OMP adapter DONE
install Pineapple BT idler pulley DONE
install banzai OMP adapter DONE
make access hole plate for block/trans DONE


stuff left to do in the next two evenings:

install brake pads (Hawk HT-10 front and rear)
install ignition coil (plug wire arc'd onto coil and burned part of it)
repair plug wire
solid mount LCD monitor
change 2 pillow ball bushings
create simple air ducting (need to seal up air passages in VMIC)
create heat shield for LIM
change oil (15w50 mobil1 full synthetic)
flush antifreeze (90/10 water/antifreeze, with water wetter)
install engine wiring harness boot

wish me luck.

djseven

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You in Nasvhille now? I just moved back to my home town of Hendersonville. We should get together at some point.

jacobcartmill

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yes sir i've been in nashville or murfreesboro for about 4 years now. i am now living in brentwood.
yes lets get together! i need some more FD stuff going on around here.

gordon, the touch screen is only a monitor, no self-contained carPC. i installed windows7 on the macbook air and am using it to connect to the haltech via USB, and using the display OUT hdmi cable to the touch screen.

TheAsset

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We need a Midwest meet.

jacobcartmill

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how about a midsouth meet, and you just come to that, savior

Dliverance

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You're not worried about the macbook running hot in there? I like that double din touch screen. Might have to invest in one of those.

jacobcartmill

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FD officially survived its first track day. and it didn't only survive, it did very well.

we went to road atlanta for a single day event. the car did very well, but i had to be in the novice class, as it was my first time at road atlanta. it ended up working out well, and i got a great instructor, who was a fellow rotary guy (rx8).

coolant temps never got over 195, and intake air temps didnt get over 140.
i'm not totally comfortable with the intake air temps, as they're borderline high, but this was at Road Atlanta going about 145 in 5th gear.

car was basically perfect, and i got two totally clean laps following a 2008 911 turbo, who couldn't lose me on the track! best time was ~1:50. of course the 911 was faster, but i am happy i could keep up with this guy.

pics to follow


it does not overheat. the black area on the back of the macbook air that you can see in the pictures is the heatsink, which is exposed when it's mounted in the storage bin. it did not get hot (verified with my core temp program). seemed to work very well.

had to fix a fuel leak on an injector (bosch ev14 primaries, ID2000 secondaries)



made a nice heat shield for the LIM and put some gold foil on it.











made it home

TheAsset

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Very nice man, what did the Porsche clock in for lap times? How did your brakes perform? (I can't remember your brake setup)

jacobcartmill

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no idea what the lap times were, but when i was running with him he was about 1/2 second faster than me around the whole track.

brake setup is HT-10 pads front and rear, RBF600 fluid. brakes were amazing.
other handling stuff is hankook RS3 tires, stance GR+Pro coilovers, front swaybar brace, front strut tower bar.

also, ran out of time to edit above, we also changed the diff bushings the weekend before:



also replaced all the tail light bulbs and cleaned the tail light area.






speed bleeder for the win



more track pics

Brent Dalton

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Nice! Did you have John or Don as an instructor? You should check out www.garx8club.com when you get a chance. That's where all the RX-8 guys talk track stuff. Really good group of guys. Mark puts on some really good events.

jacobcartmill

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dalton, i had john williams as an instructor.

he was very good! very helpful. he also said he's done 60+ track weekends on his stock-ish RX8. crazy.

Brent Dalton

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Cool! John is extremely fast. He's been focused on his family the last couple of years as he has a couple of young ones, but he still makes a few events a year. He is OnRails on the garx8club. The big event for us is always the December NASA Road Atlanta event. It's always alot of fun on and off track. We post up on the hill by 10a. Quite a few people camp out. Drive all day, eat some good food and have a few beers at night. You guys should try and make it out if you can. I'm going to try and fly in from TX for it.

jacobcartmill

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link to the 3rd session (6 total) when i had john in the car instructing. linked to 14:22 when we got out of traffic and me and the 911 got some space. notice him walk away from me on the back straight. that thing was fast.
and sorry for the 9:16 aspect. had my buddy's crappy Flipcam mounted sideways and didnt know it couldn't be set to accomodate the mounting. it's still watchable though.

i had a faster lap later in the day (chasing the 911 again) but this one was almost as fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...JzWpXrE#t=857s


i love the sound of these precision anti surge housings

gabytremmy

hope the 8 hour ride wasnt too bad

jacobcartmill

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it was a 4 hour ride. 8 hours round trip.


not too bad.

jacobcartmill

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i've had a nice few weeks off of working on the car

but my metalwork fabricator friend is back in town now.

i'll be swapping my turblown manifold out for a non-warped replacement i got from Elliot with the correct MVS flanges on it, which he says will not leak.

so i'll be doing this, then my buddy will be remaking the downpipe and wastegate recircs next week. the current downpipe has been hacked up a few times and was made in a rush to make it to road atlanta, so this will be re-done and all high quality.

excitement.

jacobcartmill

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i used a friend's "flip cam" and didn't know the camera had to be pointed "up." so we had it recording sideways in the 16:9 ratio. you can't watch it sideways, so we had to flip it with software after the fact, which made it the same area as 16:9 widescreen, but top-to-bottom instead of left-to-right. does that make sense?


i just bought a sony action cam AS15 and made a mount on the rear strut bar. the test videos (of my morning commute to work) are MUCH better. 1080p@60fps with SteadyShot. here is a link to my youtube channel if you're curious, gordon: https://www.youtube.com/user/jacobcartmill/videos
the latest video of the FC drifting is with the new camera. check it out.

jacobcartmill

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pics of remaking downpipe, about half done.

MinotaurRacing

What size bore of pipe is that? Looks a lot bigger than the usual 3"

jacobcartmill

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it is 3". it does look a larger in the pic for some reason.

here's a more complete pic.

Dliverance

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That flex piping is sexy.

jacobcartmill

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finished, on the car, and wrapped.

Grinch

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looks good man, can't wait to get mine this far along and test out the 6266.

jacobcartmill

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thanks grinch.

i am going to re-dyno in a few weeks hopefully. i got the boost control setup with the haltech and it's holding 11psi to redline now (was previously hitting 10 and bleeding to about 8psi by redline). car is noticeably faster now.

jacobcartmill

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gordonzola,
it's probably 350whp on a dynojet.

probably 320-330whp on our local dyno dyamics.

11psi, not breaking a sweat!