Thunderhill April 26-27

#1

Who’s in this weekend? 19 so far:

Team Clough Construction
Team Mad Hamster Racing
Charles Pratt
Sean Quinlan
Team BW Racing
Andre Schagerer
Sylas Montgomery
Scott Neville
Brian Sien
Aristotle Balogh
Team Edge Motorworks #2
Anil Singh
Bennett McMicking
James Gouveia Jr.
Richard Safreno
Larry Moore
J.P. Cadoux
Derek Welch
Team North Bay Bavarian Inc.

Normal Saturday schedule, but Sunday’s LlihrednuhT and we’re running a 40-minute race WITH a full warm-up AND qualifying. Here’s the schedule: http://nasanorcal.com/events/2014/april/schedule.pdf.

Hurry up - the cut-off for not paying a $25 late fee is end of day Tuesday and registration closes at noon on Wednesday (after that it’ll have to be at the track and there’ll be a $100 trackside processing fee).

See ya there!

#2

Larry Fraser’s in to bring it up to 20 - who else is coming out? Tick tock…

BTW - the link to the schedule was broken, this should work: http://nasanorcal.com/events/2014/april/schedule.pdf

#3

I’m out…

Where to begin…Well I can blame not coming due to it being Vals B-day on Friday but she is fully supportive of me going racing.

The simple truth, why drive 700+ miles, take 4 days out of my life only to show up to race one of my favorite tracks & likely be DQ’d.

At the last race we discussed a Norcal supplement to modify the current HP rule. What we ended up with was a modification to the HP & loosing the weight penalty (which were both positive steps) but in turn we ended up with new torque rule & subjective interpretation by an official if the dyno happens to be reading a bit high or low on that given day.

What wasn’t addressed is still the simple fact that a stock motor with fresh head can exceed the MAX HP rule resulting in a DQ. What hasn’t been addressed is an "approved means by NASA to “detune” a motor that exceeds the HP limit.
some of you know that I dyno tested on Thursday prior to the season opener. TFB found a “JUNK” AFM out of the throw away parts. My Uber motor was trimmed down to 155HP that made me legal, however, the motor on track ran like complete shit & fell over at 5k rpm’s & would not pull.
Frustrating, YES. Disappointing, YES…Willing to race the car/motor again with the same setup…ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Hope all of you have a great time this weekend…Have fun & be safe.

#4

Take a look at this thread/post.

http://spece30.com/forum/28-great-lakes/76682-april-mid-ohio-dyno-runs?limit=10&start=20#76773

#5

that was a great weekend. thanks for fun folks!