My new brighton

Here are some better pics, car is still sitting about an inch higher than it will be once I do the corner balancing and alignment.

 

I have already driven it on the street a bunch, but the car is so quick its hard finding places I can open it up around here. So we have a private track event coming up in 3 weeks, then we are going to Mid-Ohio, and then another private track event we are running before onelap. Gives us plenty of time to shake her down in my opinion. I have three sets of different springs and 2 sets of different sway bars. We will be trying them all out till we find the combo best suited to Luke's driving style.

 

Nothing new really, just made a cheap front lip for the stock bumper which I will run at onelap, since I don't want to damage my pimp new front bumper, carbon splitter, and undertray. I had planned on running the car at onelap with the front Aero package, but something about cruising 120mph at night and hitting something destroying $1500 bucks worth of front end didn't set well.

I also got a new pimp momo steering wheel with a 90mm ofset and finished up everything under the hood.

 

that is a custom maf that I made... works really well. I was going to go blow through, but they max out around 380hp without a utec. That wouldn't work for me since I wanted to be able to tune the car using Ecutek by itself and still make big power. This way if the utec takes a crap on me I can still race the car with just the ecutek at the same power level. But as of now I am running both an ecutek and utec that way I have maps tuned for both of them. Plus the utec has 2step and flatshift.


Edit: the above dynographs are from when I tuned the car with just the ecutek, its now running the utec/ecutek and makes the exact same power but I have extra features

 

Actually we will be racing everyone, the classes are just there because some people like to go for class wins against cars of equal standings (even though that is rarely the case... take us for example). First in class you get a very nice plaque, but first overall gets a huge trophy.... hell 10th overall gets a nice sized trophy too. We will be running economy class only because thats were our car stands, its MSRP is under the 20k limit and we don't meet any of the other class requirements.

Matt and Scott are runing MidPriced Sedan which is 4dr cars from 20-40k. Even though we are running different classes we will still be competing for overall position just not class points.

The way onelap works is your awarded 5 points for ever car that is entered be it overall or in class. So say there are 100 cars total entered first over gets 500 points while last gets 5 torward your overall score. Same thing goes for your class, only there are usually on like 20 cars in it, first place would get 100 points and last would get 5 torwards your class score. You get your points from how you finish each event, in the end all the points are added up to get your total standings.

 

One a different note, tomorrow I am going to the DMV to get my tags... I was thinking of doing a custom tag. Any Ideas??

 

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Its officially done. Put the passanger seat in her today, and finished cutting the sheetmetal for the trunk floor.

Next up is mid-ohio this weekend for some shakedown runs.

Woot Woot.

 

Finally made it to the hotel, today has been a day of mixed emotions. After feeling like the trip to ohio was all for nothing it came together. The car was amazing, and even more amazing to watch. It was all worth it when I got to watch Luke duke it out with a C6 Z06 and kill him. I was simply amazed how much speed the car would carry down the straights as was the Z06 and other cars as he would pull them on the straight. Overall power was one of our major downfall's with last years onelap car. We just couldn't compete with the big power cars, that is now not a problem.

So much speed it had our brakes glowing red at the end of the straights.

Now what Luke doesnt know is that I also ran the car at some dragstrip down here in London, Ky. Figured why not.... we stopped to get gas and they were like " Yui Runnen dat thang at teh strip" which got Clark's and I attention. Come to find out there is a really nice NHRA dragstip here. Only catch is its in the middle of nowhere.

Car ran good at the strip, on racegas 23psi just like Luke ran it at Mid-Ohio the car ran really good(edited for content). . Not bad since it was my first time to the strip with it and only got to make two passes since we got there at 10pm. I have learned many things today, and look forward to the next track event coming up on the 30th. We got alot accomplished with the suspension setup, but feel we still have alot left on the table to gain.



Stay tuned............

 

small photos... but still pimp. I like the top one alot. I think I may have to get a larger copy.

 

Took the car to Talladega Grand Prix today... on street tires we had a best time of 61.9 with consistant low 63's. We were very happy with these times as it was our first time at that track.

 

Got the new bumper and sideskirts fitted. Still need to do some small tweaking to get it all aligned right and mount the front splitter. Then its off to the paint shop. I think I am going to paint the hood, front bumper, side skirts, and flares all red to match the rest of the car. Should look like a new car then.

Untill then enjoy the new pics.