3rd in the FR unlimited class.
5th overall.
Press release, pics, and video to come. You will not believe this story:smile:
5th overall.
Press release, pics, and video to come. You will not believe this story:smile:
3rd in the FR unlimited class.
5th overall.
Press release, pics, and video to come. You will not believe this story:smile:
Everyone at Factor X pulled out another miracle and gave me a car that I could drive for 1 lap. That's all I got, that's all I needed, but the real story was the team:What a way to end the season! We ended up taking 3rd in class and 5th overall all while only getting one full lap on competition day.
So much happened its hard figure out where to start. The short of it is...practice the day before we put quite a few laps on her and were pleased with the results. On the last lap when Billy came in we noticed the oil pressure a little low. Oh well we attributed that to the extreme temps the car ran for so long. We figured drain the oil and start her in the morning.
Next morning we made suspension changes and let the car warm up. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!! Holy crap, rod knock! The elimination rounds start in a half hour. Utter silence in garage.....Check , Sounds no one wanted to hear...Check, Disappointed crew...Check. The decision was made to load her into the trailer with our tail between our legs and soak our sorrows at Seamless with a few bottles of JD. Through the grapevine we heard something about no qualifying sessions for this Super Lap… There is hope! After verifying with Elliott we quickly put a game plan together.
We find out we have till 2:30 to get the car running to make a time count...It's now 9:00am… Plenty of time to rebuild a motor with spare parts that we didn’t have right?
The never say die crew stays back to rip the aero off, remove the turbo in piping, and remove the oil pan. Myself, Panda and Mike hop in the bang bus in an effort to located some 327 chevy bearings. Should be easy right? We don't know anything in this town. Jumping to our third parts store getting further and further away from the track we finally make headway. Try explaining to a domestic stroker kit shop in Bakersfield that you need a rod bearing for a small journal SBC for a 93 Acura NSX. A little weird. BTW, we made a conscious decision between us three who would take the first second and third ticket. Thankfully it never happened.
We make it back around noon. The crew has her all stripped down. Number 3 bearing decided to fold unto itself. Removed bearing. Used sandpaper to remove residual material on crank. The bearing then needed to be modified to fit our crank and rod system, so we used a electric cut off wheel to "machine" the bearing. Just then Ed Bergenholtz walks into our garage and says " Are you guys really redoing the bottom end?" You guys are hardcore! He says and watched the madness.
We know the motor wont hold up very long despite the “precision machining.” Billy is given instructions to stay very mellow on the warm up and let her loose on the second lap. Thats all we got. Billy was able to pull a 1.47.965! good enough for third place in our class and 5th overall all with on our Yokohama AO48s! Billy did an incredible job putting together a one lap miracle.
Thanks to our supporters, Chris, Robert, Nils, Toni, Curtis, and our other friends that stopped by to cheer us on. Bigger thanks to the CREW. Bruce, Fes, Jay, Keoni, Panda, and team mom Emmi.
Thats dedication.
And of course thank you to our sponsors, Yokohama, Cricket Wireless, KW suspensions, Exedy, NEO Synthetics, Light Group, Autovation, Daliracing, Brembo, RC Engineering, Tial Sport, Upgrade Motoring, and Back in Balance Chiropractic.
Now what times could we have gotten with more laps and some new sticky tires? Next year:biggrin:
Thank youLIKEWISE. great job!!! Let us know your schedule on the west coast. I look foreward to driving(following/chasing) with you again. Take care, Kip
Rod knock + last minute cheeseball repair (try explaining to the guy behind the counter at the local NAPA/Kragen equivalent in Bakersfield California that you need a Chevy bearing for a Honda NSX....lol) = 1 lap to get it done before it fails again.Any explanation of the rod knock? Low on oil? Any potential weakness that all of us other "lowly" NSX owners need to worry about?
Yeah that old man is still around They will be in the series next year with an RX8. Great guy!
Forgot to mention we were also able to take 1st overall in the street tire class with Nils killer EVO and drving skills:biggrin:
Congrats to all our nsx track rats who do some amazing stuff to compete at the top level of time attack! For the guys that were there Esp if Andrie is lurking what was the difference in tune between the top s2000 by c-west at a 46 and the N-1 s2000 in the same class at a 55 That is a huge difference in pace.
Billy can you answer my specific question about the s2000's thanks.
here you go, 550whp, turbo.... it's exactly a factorX competitor..
http://www.turbomagazine.com/editors/turp_0810_honda_s2000_brian_crower/index.html