So the season is starting!
http://www.shannonville.com/index.cfm?action=ca

This weekend Ill be there watching A Drift Event..Drift4kids! Ryan would have more info.

First MixnMatch on April 21st full day!


Common guys get your motors running! Dont make me represent with my 17sec auto!

I do have more info, thanks bud!!!

Some of my good buddies are drifting at this event, however proceeds are going to Children's Mental Health Services. There will be a helicopter flying all of 50' above the ground getting video of the drifters and you can ride with a pro drifter around the track.

Responsible rides will be there supporting the event as well!

So next Test n tune is the 11th.. If im there I wont be racing.. too busy.

Next mixnmatch is 24th.. I want to be there racing both cars.. then meet up at the Cineplex for the open nite of Fast n furious 6!

I know I suck

lol, my car is not track prepped at all...slow start this year...my goal now is to be ready for the shootout...big 16g swap is coming soon...13's here i come!

Whos gonna be there tomorrow? If everything is still running ok I should be making a few runs with my 2g.

I'm still waiting on parts.

Definite maybe.
Haven't been home much last little while so I might try to drag the family down for a bit.
Perhaps a nice dinner out - at the track.

You can get poutine there! If the snack bar is open.

True French fine cuisine.

Still no pound of ice cream for $1

True story.

I'm hoping to be up and running by June. Parts should be in by Tuesday, as well as my tires. If all goes well, I should be back to a rolling car by Tuesday night.

Ok.. so as of todays scedual... there is only 2 tst n tunes left this year.. and 2 mix n matchs. The tnts are july 5th.. and Augest 10the right before shoot out. Then there is a MnM during the shoot out.. and one on the 27th of september.

Common guys... get your cars running or your gonna miss out.

Mine's running, and running well but with 2 businesses on the go, she's a bit difficult to get out there....

I'm hoping to be at the next one. I've got all the kinks ironed out and plan on doing a bit of tuning in the next week or so, to get that boost up.

Are you going Jay?

Id like to play with my timing some his week but the 2g should be good. The 1g is having shuggish issues Im working on since I installed the new ecu and chip. I think I may be looking for a cheap afc to lean it out a bit at take off.

But I have to decide to eather go racing on the 5th and go camping on august 10th. Or go camping on the 5th so I can get some racing in just before shoot out.

Its looking looking like 5th for racing.

How's your AFRs and Boost on the 2G?

havent had a chance to do any more pills since I last talked to you. I am around 10.9 at 6000rpms tho. at 18psi. My 1g is showing 139 low fuel trim but my mid and high fuel trims are 100% with. o2 at around 87 at wot.

July 5 test and tune! 6-10 pm.

Aww crap... I was planning on being there for 5:30... guess I'll have to wait a half hour...

RACING TIME!!

2g is running awsome! 1g is bogging off from the launch. The burn chip is leaning out right off the get go. Wasnt doint it with the stock ecu in. Gonna swap the stocker back in tomorrow. Hopefully the 2g maf and bigger injectors will eliminate the boost cut. And sandra will beat her 17 from last year.

Anyone have any goals for tonight?

I'd like a repeat of last year. 11.4 or better would be nice. Tonight will be a good shakedown night to see what all this new lost weight will net me.

As soon as everyone has there car's ready to go mine breaks.
But the bro's evo should be finished this weekend.

Goal: To avoid the rain and make it to the track.
If I achieve that goal, then I'm with Ryan: to meet/exceed last years best (hopefully at a lower boost level).
Very interested to see what this new billet wheel and cams do for me.

I want to make it down the strip with out blowing up! And dont laugh... ive raced autos for many years.. and street racing aswell.. I can only imagine what ill do with a clutch and starting off a tree.

Then Ill sart setting goals. Sandra wants to beat her 17... mabe a 15.

I hope you guy's have a good night at the track! I can't go due to family dropping in

Sure didn't.

First run I didn't stall up the car, just put my foot in it. Pass was a 13.8 on low boost/no timing.

Cranked everything up, wanted to give'r the onion. Car was beautifully tuned at 31psi, but couldn't come up on the converter due to it being a million degrees outside.

My last run, they aborted me. I was starting to come up on it, and as I was inching to the full stage lights, they flipped the switch and ran the tree.

Shannonville has a bunch of underqualified, off-the-streets asshats running the show. They get all of 2 minutes of "training" and are shown which button to push. I wish there was something close by that was run less as a hobby track and more as a professional track.

But it's all we got. I guess a bad night at the track is better than a good day at the office.

Still drove it home.

Well i blew a clutch line in the staging lanes before I got to make my first run. poopy...Fixed it with a hose clamp and 6 zip ties... got to carfully drive it home but no racing for me.

Sandra ran a personal best of 16.7501! winning 2 out of 6 races! 14 counts of knock. it still needs some work. But shes loving it!

Hello all

Tonight was a pretty good turnout. Lots of cool cars and a good turn out for the DSMs.

I was really disappointed when they lit the Tree not allowing Ryan to stage. Boneheads. We would of have fun racing together.

As for myself I did pretty good. Ran 8 times and got a best of 12.1200 at 117.47 mph with a .6810 r/t and a 1.7699 60'. My last run was with Jamie Valcamp. I got him at the Tree and won by .0199 sec. My e/t for that run was 12.2289 at 118.10 mph, his was 11.9889 at 114.50 mph. He pulled hard in 3rd 4th; I was flipping of excitement. T'was quite the race.

I do not know when the next event is scheduled for but will do my best to attend.

Night night!!!

Ghislain

Not a bad night for the first one of the year for me.
Reached goal #1 but not #2.
Didn't break any records but did get to surprise a street bike on the way home. He was not expecting that!

Next time boys, next time.

Im with you on that one!

I guess i was the only one that had a good night

Took my first 5.0L mustang with the help of the new big 16g, then another, i also got an early 80's trans am/firebird, a genesis 2.0T and a couple honda kids.

two best runs were 14.3 @ 95 (running 9-10psi pig rich) better than my previous best with the 14b by .3 seconds on the same actuator. since then i've turned the boost up to 12psi and got my fuel maps straightened out... now that i can actually tune the ECU myself, i'm pretty confident she's a 13 second car...Giz, i don't forsee 12's in the near future so i'll need that sticker with a 13 on it...

Anyone know whats going on his saterday at shannonville? It says some calibration day with car testing or something? No hours.. no detail or anything.

You must not have had much coffee yet

I see a "Celebration" day, not a "Calibration" day.


...then again, I haven't had any coffee today, so I could be completely wrong.

LOL Im on holidays.. and acouple days ago I had 2 ice caps.. and 3 huge timiies coffees.. Have had a head ache ever since . so Ive been avoiding coffee.

Just had this pic from my brother sent to me.

This was my day at Shannonville on the 5th. Notice Sandra ready to race behind me.

OK... So shannonville has just announced a MiXnMatch this friday???

With new pavement??

Anyone going!

http://www.shannonville.com/index.cfm

I see the Mix 'n Match schedule, but don't see anything about new pavement...

It was on my facebook.

Is anyone going? Id like to make it down the strip this time.

Not sure.

Ghislain

let me know.. I dont wanna be the only dsm there...

i won't be racing this year. New clutch will be necessary for the car's travels and unfortunately, that whole setup isn't quite within the short term budget.

Last testntune at Shannonville this saterday... I will hopefully make it down the strip!

Last? Maybe for this month. The last test and tune is always thanksgiving weekend.

I'll hopefully be there.

Soory.. last tnt before shoo out.

There is 2 mix n matches and one more tnt for the year.

So noones going out for this one either?

May come out for this. Probably not, but we'll see.

I'm out, my night is just WAY to busy to even think about Shannonville.

Besides, I'm saving all my car's glory for next Friday night.

Ryan I might need a ride home from Belleville tonight, lol

I would have liked to test and tune, but right now i'm grampy driving to reset my monitors so I can pass an e-test.

Anyone go out tonight?

I wanted too...and was deciding whether or not to go... and then I blew a IC coupler. So That pretty much ended my tuning for the night.

what size, i have a bunch of 2.5" straights

Just got back from sville, got personal best in my green car.
12.6/110mph on stock exhaust. Bst cntr maxed out but only 22psi.

me and Ryan

My night sucked. The only good launch I got was the one with Paul, and my 2 step was too high and it pulled through the brakes. It all went to sh!t from there. On a no-launch pass I did a 12.4. My final pass something went wrong with the nitrous and as it was coming up on the converter, it was like the nitrous shut off.

I didn't get a clean pass all night.

Here is Wade picking on a poor Mustang

sh!t part is, when you red-light the clock starts counting, and I held it though all 3 yellows, I tripped the red by the first yellow. By my log from the time my wheels started turning till I got out of it was an 11.08 second run.

We'll try it again some other time.

2 more dates at Shannonville... I want to be in 12s by the end of the season..

you'll get it jay...just got a few things to iron out

Shannonville just announced a mixnmatch this friday. Anyone going?

no can do, on nights, too late to take leave...

I should be there around 7pm. Just in time for some nice cool fall air.

I might be able to make it, turns out I have tomorrow off...i'll post tomorrow if i'm going...

Well that was eventfull!

Got 1 run.. spun the tires and rev limited the way down the track to get a 13.9.
Was working on my tune... when sandra txted me from the stands with Theres a car on fire!

We look over and a Porche is burning to the ground! Just bought. 2 days ago too!

And that ended the evening.

At least we were there! Yeah that was crazy about the Cayman.
I only got 2 runs in best a 12.6; having troubles with the manual
boost controller so I bought Matt's profec S-low and high settings on the go here I come!

Pics ?

I think Paul got some footage.
It was quite the bonfire. A solid 20 min of 20 foot flames with a few explosions and lots of black smoke.
Early end to the night but feel bad for the guy. Preventable or not, quite a tragedy for a nice car.

My night didn't go all that well. With only one run, I did get to learn that my clutch is slipping pretty bad. One good launch got me a 1.68 60 ft but then had to feather it out the rest of the run to avoid completely glazing the clutch. Ended with a 12.4 @ just 91 mph. Looks like the tranny is coming out in the next few days to be rectified. Got a few more events to see what she's capable of.

I got my 12.6/7@110 with slipping clutch. i will post up the pics/video of the fire

holy sh!t! what happened?

I wonder what the insurance company will say if it burned up at a race track...yikes

Word is he parked on the grass after sliding off. Hot exhaust and/or brakes ignited the dry grass.

I suspect insurance would be tempted to laugh. Unless he had racers insurance.

Edit: Realized what happened.

Delete this, please.

I think I may require a stickier track for 12s..

Looks like it used to be a Cayman.

But I doubt dry grass started that fire. Any other idea's or "rumours" about how it started?

Ya... he spun out... and hit some tires. Then he got out of the car to see if he scratched it. Noticed the grass on fire under the car.. and ran away. The grass was dry and long.

Oh sh!t, I thought buddy had just parked it there. WHY ON EARTH RUN AWAY??? frack THAT! I'd jump RIGHT back in and GO!

I wonder if he thought to tow it the road, then make a claim..

......you want to tow that?


...how?

And I wish you luck convincing an insurance company that the car burned down anywhere else. In case you've never seen one before, car fires tend to make an "impression" on the surrounding area

Oh ya... black smoke for miles!



I believe the kids was a little new to racing.

Anyway, heres a vid me and Jamie.

I've heard of a guy with a vette who did that at mosport a few years back. BUT, I doubt the ENTIRE car burned to crisp like this one.

I would have cried.

*can't watch youtube vids at work *

Test 'n tune Sept Sat 14 6-10 PM

I havent seen that one posted yet.. I dont think ill make it to that one.

There is one on sep 27th. oct 5th is an all day. We are definatly going.. I will have my 12that day.. and sandra will beat her 16 with a big 16g, and front mount!

Its not posted because its part of the Luskville tour, so the track will be better prepped and timing will be working properly. Imho this is the best chance all year to get a good time.

25 to race 5 to watch?

I need a pair of slicks...can anyone help a brother out?

whats your bolt pattern? If it is same as mine you could borrow for a run or two?

5x114, need to be on 15's or bigger, cause 14's won't clear my brakes...I've got a couple used sets on kijiji i'm looking at...

Won't work mine are 4x114.3

Just got back, got personal best in the green car 12.0/113.6mph

Nice!

Wish I could have made it but the car wasent ready.

Congrats Paul! Not bad for a big wheel e3; you beat my best run of the night, 12.2@123

I'm back on track. Loving the nitrous at the launch. A 50 shot gets me up to 4K in 3 seconds, it's great!

Kept it modest to dial in with 100% meth running 2 nozzles. At the end of the night, seems my alternator is getting tired, and only pushing about 13.0V with everything on, making everything inconsistent. I clicked off a 12.4 running 29psi. Drove it home.

is it still on stock exhaust?

no, i just put on 3 inch, it gained me .6sec and 3.5mph over stock.

Is it louder now?

What do you think Jay?

Ok.. Letme try... Is it an open obnoxious exhaust? like on your white car? or does it have a chamber muffler with some effort of quietness.

I have a 3" for sandras 1g with a magnaflow muffler on it. But she dosent want the car to be as loud as mine . So the stock exhaust remains.

Don't assume Alex, when I went to a three inch exhaust from the stock exhaust with after market muffler it was quieter at idle. Sure when I opened it up it got louder.

Yes, its much louder then stock with magnaflow muffler, no its not as loud as my white car.

I just went back to stock for several reasons....I am surprised yours was quieter at idle, wow