Post by Flying Tiger on Oct 25, 2011 11:59:57 GMT -6
I am witness to the empirical fact that either category is pure Hell at times! Learning how to drive isn't easy, and it isn't all there is to racing, either. I love it, pain, warts and all, but sometimes it taxes my puny brain beyond its limits.
Last month (I now have learned) my ride height was off, my tire pressures were off, and the vibrations I was feeling came from a bad left front hub. That's the second allegedly "new" hub to go bad on this car since I got it 2 months ago. I replaced the 3rd one in search of the fix, so I am right proud of the fact that, according to my 6th grade math, I only have ONE more hub that should fail in a fortnight. We'll see.
In the meantime, I shipped my autometer a/f ratio meter back to the factory because the guy I bought the car from had a hose clamp sticking out in a perfect place so it could rub through the microscopically thin wires on the wiring harness leading to the meter. After shorting our several $15.00 fuses, the meter apparently decided to go on vacation where there was less lightning. So, it happily registered 14.7 to 15.0 afr regardless of what the engine thought it was actually "seeing". It was so happy, it reported the same 14.7 to 15.0 readings with the switch on, but the engine OFF. It's a dang good meter than can read air/fuel ratios when the engine ain't running! OR, otherwise....
Anyway, ride height is fixed, tire pressures are scheduled to be adjusted to track conditions and maybe, just maybe, I'll get the AFmeter back before the race. Otherwise, I'll race in the blind.
Who is coming racing with us for #3?
Last month (I now have learned) my ride height was off, my tire pressures were off, and the vibrations I was feeling came from a bad left front hub. That's the second allegedly "new" hub to go bad on this car since I got it 2 months ago. I replaced the 3rd one in search of the fix, so I am right proud of the fact that, according to my 6th grade math, I only have ONE more hub that should fail in a fortnight. We'll see.
In the meantime, I shipped my autometer a/f ratio meter back to the factory because the guy I bought the car from had a hose clamp sticking out in a perfect place so it could rub through the microscopically thin wires on the wiring harness leading to the meter. After shorting our several $15.00 fuses, the meter apparently decided to go on vacation where there was less lightning. So, it happily registered 14.7 to 15.0 afr regardless of what the engine thought it was actually "seeing". It was so happy, it reported the same 14.7 to 15.0 readings with the switch on, but the engine OFF. It's a dang good meter than can read air/fuel ratios when the engine ain't running! OR, otherwise....
Anyway, ride height is fixed, tire pressures are scheduled to be adjusted to track conditions and maybe, just maybe, I'll get the AFmeter back before the race. Otherwise, I'll race in the blind.
Who is coming racing with us for #3?
