Anyway, our car is a 5.0 V8, not the 12 like yours. The only degree of reduced complexity is that the V8 only has 1 throttle body where the 12 has dual ones, electronically controlled. My advice for a successful first couple of races? Don’t simplify. Let the beast keep all the electronic stuff. The brakes are really good (get Porterfields and RBF 600, though) and they work even better when the ABS is still on board.
There’s a wire jumper trick in the diag plug that just knocks the ASR out, we did that years ago. Unplugging on of the two coolant sensors makes the coolant fans run whenever the key is on.
All the stuff like the door lock vacuum pump and anything in the doors, can just get unplugged and pulled. Assuming the wiring harnesses are in decent shape, not losing insulation, the Bosch electronics in these cars are pretty hardy. We don’t tend to do deep diag at the track.
Had more than 12 races in the beast, roasted the original rad and engine at 210,000 miles at Buttonwillow 2013 in the 105 degree heat. It ran to the end of Sunday with some pinging at WOT... turned out the heads were toast, second engine ran through 8 races until SOMEBODY knocked the belt off and didn’t notice the temps. Third motor made it three more races before another belt incident, this time it got hot enough to cook bacon on the intake manifold two hours later. We also ran it hard enough to get metal fatigue in the upper control arms, but that was 12 races in. All running stock electronics. There is an intermittent cough at 5000+ rpm that I suspect has to do with the EGR, can’t figure out what since the ECU, harness, engine, transmission have all been swapped over time, yet it still happens at times. When it doesn’t cough, I let it have it all the way to the 6500 limiter in 2nd... sounds good through the Flowmaster and pulls hard. DOHC 4 valves tend to do that without dramatics
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