THMotorsports
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Hey guys.
We have been supporting the Mazda community for a while now and try to help out with those pursuing their passion. We too are passionate about racing and building cars and here is one of our cars that we have been making some progress on.
Not sure how many people on here follow Red Line Time attack but we have been busy for the last year putting together a nice competitive car. We ran at Sebring a 2 moths ago and experienced a ton of problems, and slowly worked them out. After that we went to a few local-to-Chicago track days, with mixed, but better and better results.
We took the STi to Autobahn Country Club Race track this weekend for a high speed autoX. Basically standing start HOT lap, and a fly by finish at the finish line. Pretty fun...great competition.
Well.....we had some issues. After tooling around with the ECU and figuring out why its not regulating boost correctly a light was shined down on us through the gloomy clouds.
We ran the waste-gate with the stock spring set at 1.2 BAR, instead of using the faulty boost controller which was supposed to be set @ 1.8 BAR. Instead the boost controller would randomly let the turbo go as far as it can. 2.2 BAR+ (not fun/good)
With a nice steady boost delivery we focused more on the driving. We were able to knock out lap times that were basically just as fast, if not faster faster than our competition did at Red Line Time Attack at the same track 2 months ago. We should be very competitive in the up coming season if we keep this up.
Overall a great learning experience and yet another track day to further prepare us for Redline Time Attack next season. We want this car to be more than bullet proof.
BTW our Ghetto lip is a new test in progress. ha ha...it turned out pretty good with lots of grip. We basically lowered it by about 3 inches to see how it would react. It did very well and we will make a nice non duct tape version of it.
Also front overfenders were finally painted and rear overfenders will be going on as well. Updates soon.
Thanks for looking...videos coming soon.
BTW check out THM Racing for some of the past event details including our build thread.
Adam@THM
We have been supporting the Mazda community for a while now and try to help out with those pursuing their passion. We too are passionate about racing and building cars and here is one of our cars that we have been making some progress on.
Not sure how many people on here follow Red Line Time attack but we have been busy for the last year putting together a nice competitive car. We ran at Sebring a 2 moths ago and experienced a ton of problems, and slowly worked them out. After that we went to a few local-to-Chicago track days, with mixed, but better and better results.
We took the STi to Autobahn Country Club Race track this weekend for a high speed autoX. Basically standing start HOT lap, and a fly by finish at the finish line. Pretty fun...great competition.
Well.....we had some issues. After tooling around with the ECU and figuring out why its not regulating boost correctly a light was shined down on us through the gloomy clouds.
We ran the waste-gate with the stock spring set at 1.2 BAR, instead of using the faulty boost controller which was supposed to be set @ 1.8 BAR. Instead the boost controller would randomly let the turbo go as far as it can. 2.2 BAR+ (not fun/good)
With a nice steady boost delivery we focused more on the driving. We were able to knock out lap times that were basically just as fast, if not faster faster than our competition did at Red Line Time Attack at the same track 2 months ago. We should be very competitive in the up coming season if we keep this up.
Overall a great learning experience and yet another track day to further prepare us for Redline Time Attack next season. We want this car to be more than bullet proof.
BTW our Ghetto lip is a new test in progress. ha ha...it turned out pretty good with lots of grip. We basically lowered it by about 3 inches to see how it would react. It did very well and we will make a nice non duct tape version of it.
Also front overfenders were finally painted and rear overfenders will be going on as well. Updates soon.
Thanks for looking...videos coming soon.
BTW check out THM Racing for some of the past event details including our build thread.
Adam@THM
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