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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - 07:24 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Went out to Mallala as planned. As expected, it rained. The first session was dry, but I had none of the lap timing gear sorted out. You don't realise how out of touch you can get when you don't do something for a while. Any way there was a bit of a vibration in the front of the car at speeds around 140 plus kph. Spectators let me know it was the splitter hitting the ground.
It was raining for the next two sessions, but I managed to get the laptiming on the racechrono sorted, as well as the RacePak. Couldnot for the life of me get the gear ratio input done, meaning the dash stayed in gear 1 regardless of what the car was doing. Frustrating.
My best lap in the rain was 1:26.2 which seemed to spark some interest. A spectator hand timed one of the dry laps and claims it was a 1:18. I would be bloody stoked if I could believe it.
The front splitter was flapping so badly by session three the marshals grabbed me in the pits to let me know about it. It was pretty bad in the car so I called it quits- and then discovered one of the front bar mounts had broke clean off! I was standing on that two weeks ago bouncing to settle the suspension. Must have been some significant forces going through it to break it. It has been fully seam welded back onto the chassis.
I am trying to sort out the front bar and splitter. The gel coat has all cracked, and it is a bit floppy. I am trying a combination of aluminium rails in the splitter section and filling the splitter with polyurethane expanding foam. The good news with the rain is it is the perfect conditions for the PU foam to expand and set. I don't hold much hope, but if it works (and by work I mean I can stand on it!) I will leave it alone. If it doesn't work, I guess I will look at making one from carbon with more reinforcing built in.
