Electrical gremlins (alternator) is what did the 240 in. It was somewhat managable at first, but the car started having misfires and random cut outs, then when we had to turn the lights on it got really bad.
Y'all should have put multiple batteries in series on the passenger floor and connected to the normal battery's position with jumper cables, doubling or tripling the capacity.
Alternating 2 or 3 charged batteries would have got y'all at least to the end.
What seemed to be killing the battery, was the ignition's higher demand at high revs, just as much as the lights were.
But sure enough, every time the car passed T14 and revved up the straight, the engine would die.
Thought Carver would have figured this out but it wasn't in my interest to go over and mention it.... ;D
It's ashame because the car has a great combination of race pace and excellent fuel mileage.
Yep...y'all pace was good, faster than we wanted to go with stretching the set of tires we used.....as it is, there might be 10 more hot laps left in our fronts before they would be corded.
If the fuel is accurate, that's also some great mileage, around 14mpg...... way better than we got at around 10-11mpg...... although I'm intrigued to know how/why y'all would know the car had 9 gallons...?
What did y'all use, 4.5 gallon jugs or did y'all just short fill one of them at the pumps...?
Have a mark on the gauge...?
Fuel + air = HP and Carver's car makes at least 10-15 more than Frankie. The rate of fuel burn on the Nissan should theoretically be more than the 944 but maybe the misfire was actually helping fuel economy.....can't see how though.....the misfire comes from too much fuel for the quality of spark delivery and if the engine would have leaned itself, the misfire would have disappeared.
I couldn't believe Carver was able to run over 70 laps in his first stint on 9 gallons of gas and got out of the car with a double digit lap lead.
Technically, y'all lead was overestimated.
There is an error in timing and scoring.
We were on the same lap when we came in at lap 46.
Rebstock pitted in while we were fixing Teddy's cool shirt that cost us around 9-10 minutes more than y'all stop.
The sheet that came out on the hour showed us to be 11 laps down to y'all and DC and Gary will vouch that I was already questioning this deficit because they were standing right there.
Do the math.....y'all were running in the high 1.31's-1;33's at the time.....6 laps x 1.30 = 9.0 minutes, nearly exact to what we lost in the cool suit malfunction.
More to my point....., go look at y'all laps, 1-109.
There is no pit stop deficit accredited to car #76 until lap 109 when Carver got out of the car.
Now either,
a) Rebstock tele-ported back into the pits at around lap 45-ish and Carver tele-ported into the car,
b) Carver drove from 1-109, making y'all fuel mileage actually 21.8mpg
c) there was an error in timing and scoring.
The highest time y'all transponder was attributed was 1.36.812 all the way through lap 50.
The only other explanation would be that y'all completed a pit stop in 1 minute and 36 seconds, complete with dumping 2 4.5 gallon jugs of fuel and a driver change....
Anyway....Teddy was on average close to the 240 over his entire stint so y'all didn't makemuch ground there and in my stint, I passed the 240 twice which should have put us at a 4 lap deficit, recovering 2 laps from our extended stop for the cool shirt.
Y'all came in and lost another lap right when Eon got in because y'all came in simultaneously and Eon made one full circuit before Allen waived y'all on, making the gap 2 laps reality.
Eon could have made two laps on y'all even if the car would not have finally stopped as he was lapping at 6 seconds average faster per lap than y'all were.
The only time y'all had more than a 5-6 lap lead after we had the extended 1st stop was when we pitted before Carver, as soon as y'all pitted, the gap went back to the norm....5-6 laps until I un-lapped us twice with Carver in the car for 16 of those laps and Smith for the rest.
Actually, when you figure in the fact that Rebstock got away in cleaner traffic, putting a 30-something second gap on 4master, as soon as Scott got cleared of the cars we figured we'd get around, he closed the gap to Rebstock to around 12.5 seconds when he pitted so car-car, driver-driver, our first stint was quicker.
This is before any running issues with the 240.
Oh well, you know what they say "to finish first you must first finish".
Yup....Carver shouldn't have taken that smack talk swing the other day...., I had a brand new Bosch alternator in the box as backup... ;D
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