Summit Race Report

jimpastorius · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:22 am

A teaser from this weekend...

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:27 am

That’s Barney in the midst of that! :eek:

Did you come out unscathed?

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Are the corner workers sleeping ?!?!

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:23 pm

Jim - you finally score a pole position, then decide to brake check the entire field...

Didn't you expect to get turned a little sideways for that?

jimpastorius · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:36 pm

scottjohnson wrote:

Jim - you finally score a pole position, then decide to brake check the entire field...

Didn't you expect to get turned a little sideways for that?

By Sunday, the pole was well out reach because of motor issues that arose after Saturday's qualifying. We were in a large group and I was behind the 95 Camaro and the sideways Firebird. The other Camaro made contact with the Firebird, which was no surprise since he cut me when I attempted a pass on top of hill.

Amazing how things slow down when you are staring at brake lights and then the passenger door. I saw I had a small opening to the left, cut to the left and then was worried someone would collect me there. So I knew the track was open to the right :-)

I finally got the car straight at the exit of 5 (where the blue/gold Mustang is in the photo).

Amazingly, there was not a mark on my car. I was sure I got hit once or twice. Plus I heard something banging around. Turns out in all the tossing and turning I had knocked the fire extinguisher loose :lol:

WalterHouston · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:47 pm

"And rubbin' son is racin'"

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:19 pm

...and people thought the 24 Hours Of LeMons was a demolition derby. :roll:

Glad you made it out OK Jim.

Kevin Allen · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:42 pm **Posts:** 3479

Glad you didn't get hit.

Video, please!!!

jimpastorius · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:23 pm

Kevin Allen wrote:

Video, please!!!

My video camera decided to turn itself off prior to exiting the grid. But I do have great video from Saturday's start. It will make Walter giddy and appall Vincent :-)

Here is some video. I was beside the camera car...you be the judge.

jimpastorius · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:33 pm

From Saturday's race. When you are down on power, you have a tendency to over drive the car ...

I did manage to get the corner worker's attention.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

jimpastorius wrote:

Kevin Allen wrote:

Video, please!!!

My video camera decided to turn itself off prior to exiting the grid. But I do have great video from Saturday's start. It will make Walter giddy and appall Vincent :-)

Here is some video. I was beside the camera car...you be the judge.

Wow. The camera car sounded just like a Mustang, and handled like one too. Oh wait, it was a Mustang

When did they put in the gravel trap and wall behind turn 1? Whatever happened to letting the mud pit slow you down if you blew your turn in?

Stacy King · **Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:49 am

Damn... looks about like some of the GTR2 and Rfactor online races I've been in .

MartynWheeler · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:30 pm **Posts:** 303

MikeWhitney wrote:

Are the corner workers sleeping ?!?!

Old post, I know, just catching up.

The corner workers are doing their job exactly correctly. One person is watching upstream to see if the incident moves into their area of responsibility and in case it threatens the station, the others are watching their area of responsibility.

There is no incident at or past this corner station. The green status is correct.

We can't see the station upstream. One would hope they are waving that yellow for all it's worth, and making informative calls to race control.

Kevin Harvey · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:49 pm

Great pics!

jimpastorius · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:13 am

You know yo are leading a good life when you can put the car on the dyno and replicate on track power issues.

Last week, finally got around to taking the Camaro over to Carolina Auto Masters for a little testing. When the car's temperature was under 200 degrees, it was making stupid power (240/307). But as the temps came up, there were serious power drops. These showed on the graph as sleep valleys. When the temp got around 220, the motor never recovered from a drop at 3400 RPM, dropping the power to 203/303.

The scanner showed that the computer was not pulling timing. A new coil showed no improvement. So by the process of elimination, the distributor became the main suspect.

I pulled the old one when I got home. Nothing was broken, but it did not rotate freely. When you spun the rotor, it felt notchy, almost clicking like. I could not remember doing that when I rebuilt it last year. Oh yes, I did actually rebuild it myself. So off to the Summit catalog for a new MSD distributor. Surprise, spin the rotor on the new one and it is smooth and silky. Plus it is all polished and adds some bling.

While I am at it, I will replace the water temp sensor for the computer just to be on the safe side. The car separate sensors for the gauge and the computer, go figure.

So it off to Summit on the 11th to try it out. Hopefully, this will address the power drop I have been feeling since June that came to a climax in August.

So I will not be adding distributor rebuilder to my resume any time soon :-)

A special thanks to Jeff Creech and his boys for all the help, 75 minutes of dyno time and 14 plus pulls.

In case you are wondering, there is a reason the numbers stated don't match the three pulls on the chart :-)

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