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Ben Lipman Goo Roo NT Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
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Sunday, May 23, 2010 - 09:37 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Round 3 of the NAMSC series was run at Hidden Valley today. Being the car's first outing since the open heart surgery (roll cage install) I was a little nervous I'd missed something. I was sure there would be some little electrical gremlin that would show itself on the track.
I went out during practice and managed to run a 1:6.8 which was very worrying. At the start off the year I ran 1:25 with a bad setup. I decided to lower the hot pressures to 35PSI all round based of the tyre temps across the face.
Race 1 saw 2 good laps of 1:25.8 which was a bit of a comfort. I left everything alone and ran it as is in race 2 where I ran 1:25.1 and 1:25.2. Much better.
The car felt 'soft' in the rear end, especially through the fast corners, so I stiffened it up for race 3, which turned out to be the wrong thing as I only managed 1:25.9.
I changed it back, and decided to add some rear wing. I never got to really test it out as some bloke in a Monaro decided to substitute horsepower for talent and got the jump on me at the start (standing starts to lapsprint up here for some dumb reason) and wallowed around in front of me doing 1:29s. On every straight he had just enough power to pull a gap and make it impossible to commit to a pass. Ahhh, you win some,you lose some. I'll post the video of his heroic performance up on you tube later.
So end result: After adding near on 60kg, completely changing the handling characteristics, and altering the driving position in the car the net gain/loss is exactly zero.
