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I've been doing SCCA Track Night in America events at Palmer (above) and Thompson. It's basically open lapping broken up into novice, intermediate, and advanced. I run intermediate, point by passing only within designated zones. I did take a HPDE driving course at Palmer earlier this year. It...

There are a few different lines and lower power cars benefit from taking the shortest route around. Many of the turns are hairpins and are close to double-apex when done right. For example, I gain time between turns 3 and 4 by braking late and positioning the car mid-track. Staying wide on...

Watch the E30 chase me down starting at about 6:00 in.

I just signed up for the 8th at Palmer. Might stay over to catch some of the SCCA racing the next day.

Another fun night on the track. I was running similar lap times to a Turbo Miata and E30. I tried to keep them in my rear view but they had the straight line speed. Hit a personal best 2:04.66 on session 2 and backed it up with several more 2:04s during the final session. Watch me try to...

I'll keep my eyes pealed!

I'm doing Palmer on Thursday. That'll probably be it for me for the season. Doubt I'll have time in September but you never know.

More fun at Thompson. I'm starting to really like this track. It's tight but offers plenty of challenges. Dropped a second off my best time with the rear sway bar disconnected. The car tended to plow a little bit exiting corners but at least i wasn't in constant fear of it turning for me...

Nice! I drove the Rx7 to work today after driving the REPU around last night working on the tune. Needless to say, the carbureted 12a is a bit of a disappointment compared to the fuel injected 13b....but at least the brakes are better. I'm hoping the weather forecast is clear enough for me to...

Do it!! Is the MSP ready for track time?

On the diagram, the idle ports are right below the fuel injector port. Inside the throttle body there is a passage that routes past the butterflies. After a cold start last night I adjusted them to 2.5 turns each. https://www.jenvey.co.uk/images/stories/virtuemart/product/TB45_D.pdf...

Oh, and there's other stuff I've been messing with this week: 1) The left rear turn signal isn't working. I traced it back to the Hopkins tail light converter I used to combine the signals from marker lights, brake lights, left and right turn signals. It replaces the old set of relays the...

Here's a quick example from the log. Once I'm at about 25% throttle at 2,000 RPMs the car settles into an AFR between 13 and 14, but getting there it leans out and stalls. You can also see here the erratic MAP sensor reading. It goes from 25Kpa straight to almost 100Kpa (no vacuum) with the...

There is more room than the photos may lead to. I'll address the vacuum issue below.... So, the lack of instructions (i.e., no instructions) for the intake, and my relatively beginner status when it comes to these things rears its head again. I took the vacuum barbs that came with the kit and...

Sure thing, maybe a fall meet or something. Another update. Let's see... The base tune Lui put on it last week fouled the plugs. Of course we spent several hours scratching our heads as to why it wouldn't start and actually found a few other issues, none of which got the truck running...

Well once it's running I plan to just start driving it until next winter. No more projects that will take it off the road. However I do have some things I need to tweak... The fuel lines and fuel filter under the bed of the truck need to be upgraded. I have a filter, I have lines, I just...

Started the truck up for the first time yesterday. It still needs to be tuned but Lui got it to idle. There were a few things to iron out over the last few days but it's all sorted now. Fuel pump was junk. I diagnosed everything else and had it working at one point but as soon as I upped the...

Don't forget, Saturday August 5th is the Mt Washington auto road meet. Register now to save $5. I'm most likely going to make a day trip out of it, so if anyone else is driving up that wants to caravan, let me know. http://www.nema.club/climb Also, I just signed up for a few more track...