gmreider wrote:I am going to Giant's despair HC in 2 weeks with the green car. I may be the only SAAAB there unless Jeff is ready to go again. Giants is a good hill for a big turbo. I might rob the LSD trans from "Red" for a little while will the rebuild process starts. I'll have some photos later.
I got nothing else going on except work, so why the hell not? My car is in fully operational condition still, I think it thinks it's a Honda Civic in terms of reliability. Tomorrow I'll pop Garys race tires off and go for a 500 mile junkyarding run with it It just wants to go.
I do have a list of little stuff I would like to get done before the next race, but... all I REALLY need to do is belt up and run it again. I didn't hurt the car at all, and I have AAA 200 mile towing. So far the thing has driven to and from both events under it's own power.
I still have my monster engine and trans in the build process. But the engine / trans it has in it has been doing pretty good even with it's drawbacks. I think once the other Saabs start beating me, then I can add the LSD and another 50-100 HP. The set up it has might be a better thing for me to learn these hills on rather than something that will really fly. Once you are going up the hill under race conditions, it's a lot different feeling than going up when the road is open. 95 MPH between turns 5-6 at pagoda was scary enough at the moment, if it were doing 115 I would have shat my pants.
Also, I think our spring rates are not optimum for race tires. With the race tires, I get a lot of lean and general funnyness when things are really loaded and there are any sort of imperfections in the road. Could also be that all my rear bushings are worn 280K+ components. Maybe fixing those is step one...