The track day was a blast. The track is 3/4 mile with 11 turns. With a straight long enough for me to get to 85. All the cars ran one at a time, like an AutoX. 3 laps per run. I got 8 runs in and could have done more but just plain got tired. So we quit about 2pm. When we left I had the fasted lap of the day. So I was pretty happy.
For the most part the car did really well. I spent time adjusting the delay on the ignition cut out on the pingle shifter to get clean shifts with out back fire. I pretty much got that ironed out except it won't down shift while braking with my foot off the gas. It only down shifts with a little throttle so I'll call Pingle today and work on that.
I got what I felt was excessive fish tailing. It felt like the back tires wern't hooking. I did a lot of playing with tire pressure. I started with 23 lbs and went down from there. I got down to 20 and the back tires were kind of hopping through the corners. So I need to work on that. Hopefully adding sway bars will help.
Then my starter crapped out so the last few runs I had to get push started. But no major problems, and it ran cool all day. And timing in the fastest lap of the day was pretty good also.
I did take some videos and will get them posted later.
What is the problem with backfire? ( meant as a serious question)
