Cmp Southern Discomfort-Post a brief synopsis of your weekend. (Page 3 of 4)

"The JoHann"  was damn fast in that car.  i would compare it to a Z06 closing on my E36 at VIR.  if you say there is no CHEATONIUM in that car then i believe ya'll. 

extremely fast down the front stretch.  curious how well he must have been getting off turn 14 to carry that much speed.    by far the most consistently fast car i encountered all weekend.

he damn near lapped me at the end of Saturdays session.  and i was running 1:04s.

Heck we were back at the hotel watching the Bud shootout. Friday we were out of the track by 2:30 right after we got through tech.

I like the graph I have never seen that done before though.

nope, no CHEATONIUM in that car. 

On Mylaps you can see the graph of any car in any race.  You can't see the exact lap times unless you own that transponder.

..... Don't have 12:1 compression like that Miata?

we didn't vote for them either.  they were fast but they were clean mostly.

That's true, but that car stilled pulled harder than other Miatas. Driven well? Yes. Does that matter when you pull away from other cars on the straight? No. Maybe it's just a good-running example. Maybe it's full of cheatonium. We can only guess. They did drive well, and in the absence of clearcut evidence of cheating, they shouldn't have gotten as close to being cursed as they did. The CMP habit of cursing the leader after one full day is BS. That doesn't mean we can't sit here and theorize as to what makes them faster, though. My buddy has a gorgeous 1.6 Miata, with a built motor. You'd never know to look at it, but it makes almost 50% more power than stock. Saying they can't really cheat in a 1.6 Miata is inaccurate. Saying they didn't is fine, but if you didn't build the car, how do you know for certain?

I try to take fellow racers at their word, being a stand-up guy myself. Sometimes, though, the claims of stock don't match the performance level of the vehicle. Superkak comes to mind.  Other times, the driving makes all the difference. My lap times were 2 to 5 seconds a lap faster than my other drivers. I turned a 1:01.69 Sunday, with a broken rear sway bar and flat-spotted front tires. One was into the steel belts!  Does that mean I cheated, and they didn't? Of course not. Murilee has been saying all along the driver makes the biggest difference in Lemons. He's right. I have the advantage of 15 years of po-po experience, plus more racing experience than they have. I'm hoping they will get faster. They need to for us to have our overall shot.

My hat is off to the Endurance Karting gang. They built a great car, and drove it cleanly. I was proud of being able to hold it off, and like I said, they didn't deserve to be that close to a curse, IMO.

That would have been the one that earned us the We got screwed award or as Jay renamed it We Screwed ourselves award. We passed under yellow as the tow truck was coming in on pit lane. We got it due to our driver in the car gettig the belts undone when he came in but we were going to just get a stop and go but our driver didn't know that.  We were under the assumption that we were going to get a bigger penalty due to the black flag that we did get on Saturday during the first hour of the race after we got hit in the passenger door going into turn 1.  At least this time we now know that you can't pass until the truck is fully on pit lane and not just on the entrance to pit lane. After that black flag we weren't really more conservative but were having to baby the car home due to the transmission losing everything but third.

Yeah, They didn't deserve a crush. They weren't BLATANTLY cheating and they drove clean. We didn't vote anybody for the curse, but thought about cursing the Diamante for it's terrible driving and what it did to the poor Meineke Celica.

But, I am very very VERY suspicious of that car. It was way faster on the straights than any other Miata i've seen out there. Plus it was lugging around 17" wheels which also hurt it's gearing! THey commented on the 4wd stance due to the extra tall wheels. And they STILL smoked the other M's on the straights. Something smelled very cheaty around that car......

Sorry but 150 WHP on a NA Miata will get noticed.  Lets say you stroke it, shave the head, RX7 AFM, but if you don't do cams, it wont do much good.  Cams will be noticeable.  Plus the $$ involved for a stinkin' Lemons car just doesn't seem plausible.  I'd love to see your buddies car.

I don't know whether the car was cheating or not (and I don't really care).  If the judges call it legit, then I tend to believe them

Last year:
- Used pads of unknown origin that came with car in Front and Rear
- Used rotors that came with car in Front and rear
- Fresh DOT4 fluid; all 4 corners bled

This setup looked good, and worked really well last Fall for about 4 hours.  Then the left front wore down to the backing plate.  This overheated the caliper, which blew the seal, which caught on fire when the fluid hit the hot rotor.  When the caliper went out, the brake pedal went all the way to the floor, which damaged the seals in the Master cylinder.  We struggled the rest of the weekend, with multiple pad/rotor changes.  The only bright spot was my wife bringing me a powdered sugar scone when we finally threw in the towel Sunday afternoon.  Our team of go-kart drivers learned the hard way about the need for strong road-race brakes.

This past race:
- New ebay front rotors, freshly turned used rear rotors
- New Hawk 9012 Blue pads up front, New Autozone premium pads in rear.
- Correctly bedded in pads & rotors
- New ebay Master cylinder
- Ghetto cooling ducts to each front rotor
- Fresh DOT4 fluid; all 4 corners bled.

This setup worked really well.  We still need to measure the parts to see how much we really 'consumed', but they probably will be good to go again for at least another full day.