TonyG > New Race Car Build Thread
09-16-2014 | 09:36 PM
#1157
Thread Starter
Rennlist Junkie Forever
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,978
Likes: 2
From: Los Angeles
I do feel like I'm out on a causal Sunday drive when I race now that i think about it.....
TonyG
TonyG
My take is that the 5 speed would suit the V8 and it's 'lazy' torque. That's tongue in cheek when I say lazy but they do seem to inspire more of a leisurely driving style no disrespect intended. Clearly the early and flat tq curve is great in this respect. Having said that, driving our i4 bigger bore motors, there's no lack of tq exiting turns if wheelspin is any guide. Remember while you're at a possible 2000rpm out of a corner the only time we see 2000rpm is when unloading the car off the trailer. We're certainly never lower than a reasonable tq number on track.
09-16-2014 | 11:37 PM
#1159
Thread Starter
Rennlist Junkie Forever
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,978
Likes: 2
From: Los Angeles
09-17-2014 | 12:49 AM
#1160
Rennlist Member
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 18,926
Likes: 99
From: Australia
I still prefer the somewhat more involving little i4's. Extracting the laptimes we get out of these is highly satisfying. I can see for endurance racing how a V8 would make particular sense though.
09-17-2014 | 11:05 AM
#1161
Basic Sponsor
Rennlist
Site Sponsor
Rennlist
Site Sponsor
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 14,447
Likes: 94
From: California
Ok Tony, now that you have the beast, top it up by winning a podium, so you can show these four banger champs that the v8 rules, we really need at least one of the 944 v8 guys to win something.
09-17-2014 | 11:29 AM
#1162
Thread Starter
Rennlist Junkie Forever
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,978
Likes: 2
From: Los Angeles
09-17-2014 | 11:34 AM
#1163
Basic Sponsor
Rennlist
Site Sponsor
Rennlist
Site Sponsor
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 14,447
Likes: 94
From: California
10-01-2014 | 10:30 AM
#1170
Thread Starter
Rennlist Junkie Forever
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,978
Likes: 2
From: Los Angeles
The car with both fuel cells (the rear is quickly removable) and 12 gallons of fuel with driver just is 2840lbs. This is exactly how the car came off the track at the last race.
Take away the rear fuel cell and associated brackets/hardware approx 40lbs, the fuel 70lbs, and the suited driver 185lbs and the car should come in at just under 2500lbs.
The reason we had so much fuel in the car is because prior to the race, we tuned it to run E85 and ruined the capacitance ATL fuel level senders... a $400 mistake. We put new fuel level senders in, but did not have time to calibrate them. And we were busy setting up the car and didn't have time to mess with pumping all the fuel out and putting in just enough to race with. So we just ran with a bunch of fuel.
TonyG
Take away the rear fuel cell and associated brackets/hardware approx 40lbs, the fuel 70lbs, and the suited driver 185lbs and the car should come in at just under 2500lbs.
The reason we had so much fuel in the car is because prior to the race, we tuned it to run E85 and ruined the capacitance ATL fuel level senders... a $400 mistake. We put new fuel level senders in, but did not have time to calibrate them. And we were busy setting up the car and didn't have time to mess with pumping all the fuel out and putting in just enough to race with. So we just ran with a bunch of fuel.
TonyG