Thanks to everyone that showed up at the event. I wish I was able to spend more time with everyone but we had quite a few issues we had to overcome. Billy is still our driver. He was at a Grand-Am race this past weekend. Matt Andrews will serve as co-driver when there are scheduling conflicts.
We ran great on Fri-Sat posting a 1:37.2 on low boost and with tires that had about a dozen sessions on then. This was still a few seconds faster than the team that won the race. Not bad for Matt's first time in a new untested car! However, on Sat night we discovered that our wastegates had failed on us, so we replaced them with another set from AFI. (Thanks Mike/Josh!) Apparently, there was an issue with the batch of gates and we happened to get a set.
Sunday morning on the first qualifying session they failed again, over boosting the motor and causing damage to our ATW core. We packed the car and took it to Wicked HP to fab up essentially a new turbo system in about 2 hours and then dyno it. We then found out the extent of the damage to the core and had to come up with a quick fix to get in a lap.
Too much drama to even mention here ensued with RTA and hours later we were able to run the car. Our fix only yielded us about 3/4 of a lap and that was the end of our race day.
But not the end of our night
..... The other part of the race that consumed much of my time was helping with the filming of our team. The video is going to be insane!
. Good luck in the NSX!
