my money is on rick, whatever his s/n is now.

 

Awesome! Those street races are so cool! I completely understand your distaste with the forum FD community. You'be been active on here without a break in service longer than anyone I know. I have to come and go from time to time. I find myself more and more on other car forums due to a better owner demographic. BTW, the best FD's are the ones like yours that are constantly upgraded over time with really nice parts, and fine tuned after each series of upgrades. It os not just another "run of the mill single car"

 

^Thanks Brent, we military guys understand each other

I'm going to try and keep the thread on 'track' here.....

The SBG Oil Coolers have so far met or exceeded my expectations on the street. I monitor my oil temps pretty religiously and they've dropped about 10-20 degrees depending on driving conditions. They also come down much faster after sitting in traffic (for example heat soak to 190F in traffic then the needle swings to 170 right after I start moving) and temps don't rise nearly as much after shut-down. This is in comparison to my old R1 cooler setup w/R-Magic ducts.....same '99 front bumper.

The real test will be on track---I have one weekend in October with my buddy Nick and Renna at NJMP/Lightning, and am contemplating another one coming up this month out at Pocono.

 

Rich, I would like your opinion on something if you don't mind. I might have figured out how to adjust fuel vs ethanol content on the PFC, however I don't think there's a way to do IGN. If you run e85, odds are you will have an aftermarket secondary rail, eliminating the fuel temp sensor that resides in the stock rail. If you convert that signal to read from a 0-5v output from the e85 content sensor (found in GM, Ford, and other FFVs) and do some math to figure out which temps relate to what voltage, you can figure out how to adjust the injector flow. Settings 2.

 

Wow man, my oil temps are much higher than that.. my oil temps are in the lower 200s.. this is not good for me.

 

anything over 250F and under 170 sustained@ operating temp. is no good. Sounds like your fine to me.

 

You guys think about offering a ducting product to go along with your oil coolers? I think hand made would be perfectly acceptable, and probably a good deal of interest! Oh, and the AI tank too

P.S. Sorry to hear about your troubles Rich, glad things are back on track.

 

I've been pretty busy lately, but have found time to continue the transformation of my FD into more of a track oriented machine

Currently the M2 Chromoly Rollbar is at the powdercoaters getting refinished in matte black, thanks to Fritz for the easy purchase and Scrubs & Austin for the legwork

Also, my latest pickup...... Recaro Profi SPA Carbon/Kevlar. I *barely* fit in these things, now I have one more reason to be on a diet

The black looks so much better with the VR paint, and the quality of these suckers is top notch. Thanks again to Fritz for an easy purchase and to Costas/R-R-Rx7 for driving WAY out of his path to pick these up for me

 

are those new the recaro spg's ?

 

hey that looks great!

 

Sweet new seats. Hey, I could break them in for you if you'd like xD

 

damn...didnt know fritz got the seats with Kais car! i would have snagged them

 

Actually, ideally your oil temp should be as close to, a tad over 212*F as possible, whether you're on or off the track. The oil temp that is being measured in the stock location on the rear plate is not the actual oil temp. The hottest point that you could and should be measuring (because the most of us don't have the tooling to gather temps from inside the rotor) from is the pan or the return passage to the regulator. Seeing a difference from the bigger oil coolers is fine and dandy, but being to low on temp is almost as bad as being too high.

-J

 

And Richy-booby, the black recaros are the shiz!!!

-J

 

The black Recaros look really nice but so do the red ones too. Loved the way the red ones felt the one time I got to sit in them.

 

Also, my latest pickup...... Recaro Profi SPA Carbon/Kevlar. I *barely* fit in these things, now I have one more reason to be on a diet

Thats what you get for doing all those squats

 

Richie...what do you plan on doing for harnesses? The one thing that is a PITA is that you can't really use the stock seat belts with aftermarket seats...at least not easily.

A word to the wise, I've been down the "build a track car" road and the better option is to just leave the "street car' as it is, in all it's pristine glory, and just build a race car. Anything else will be a compromise that you won't be happy with.



Regards,
Crispy

 

Like the new seats RICHIE RICH the BALLER!!!

Crispy, I hear ya.. I took my car on a country side road drive today with a friend and realized how I miss the stock feel of the car. I've decided once I find a shell to do a 20B swap, I'm turning my MB back to street car with stock seats and softer suspensions.

 

Daym, I miss my seats already....enjoy them Rich...

 

Seats look AWESOME and are much safer than your others for track use. I agree with you too on the Spirit R seats not looking as good in a VR car as others.

Agreed, you compromise street comfort when it comes to getting in and enjoying your car on the street and you compromise safety on track as you can't have a full caged car if you are going to drive it on the street. Been there and done that as well... have a silver FD sitting in storage doing nothing because of it. It's better than nothing, but not great at either. Kudos to Rich for doing safety mods though, as it is often neglected...and for driving your car on track the way it was meant to be driven Rich's car is plenty fast enough to do some serious damage. Not to mention, if something happens to his pristine FD that he has soooo much blood, sweat, and tears invested in while he is on track, he would be a miserable human being. I know Rich and I talked about that at Petit LeMans last year though. Hell, I think half the forum would be miserable is something happened to Rich's car. It's a staple of this community... as well as Crispy's.

I still have my VR FD, which was the first FD I ever purchased and has the basic bolt on's, stereo, ac, ps, etc... and is an absolute dream(still sequential) to drive around. It constantly reminds me of why I love these cars... even when I have race car woes.

 

Rich, lookin good!

 

Damn, man! Where you been??

 

For realz +1

-J

 

LOL just busy focusin on what's important, ya know? Besides; thought I'd give my post count a rest a bit. Give you guys time to catch up

 

WHAT!!! Did the earth just frozen over??

Good to see you back on Ramy! So you more reasonable schedule these days?? Still got the FD or you now leaving us for good and getting something more baller? Hope to see you again... maybe at my event next year?