I'm a maybe on anything, tonight lol waiting on some other peeps, too

Worse comes to worse, Monroeville or something? Long as the rain stays away

FWD launching will always suck, no matter what. Physics just implies it. Weight transfers backward when launching. RWD or AWD just make sense.

Only launched, hard, one RWD car, my old neighbor's '93 M3. We swapped cars, and he said I could launch it. Wasn't faster than my RL even when the RL was stock, but didn't matter. FELT like it, and that's all I really care about.

Ever launch AWD? I've done one EVO and an STi, neither a high RPM clutch dump. But still...I enjoyed it even more than the RWD, cause there wasn't spin. Just a slingshot. Just wish AWD didn't weigh so much, and sap power.

 

id be up for monroeville or pepboys or whatever.... the construction was cancelled on 376 this weekend! yay

 

Pep Boys or Mt. Pleasant. Im game. Just not diggin the monroeville drive lately. If yall come out this way im pretty sure there will be stuff out. Everyone and their mother is at the steelers open training session at Latrobe High School.

 

I'd do something in GBG.

 

walmart? haha

 

So who, where, when?

 

I'll do something if someone can make a call.

 

PM me your number.

 

im down for whatever im bored as hell

pep boys?

 

Someone buzz me if anything's going on. I'll be out and about for a bit, but free a little later.

 

well since no one wants to make a call.. why dont we say pepboys ~ 9:45ish?

 

sweet 5 min away

 

yeah im waiting on my buddy to show up at my place, im planning on leaving arouind 9 so id imagine 9:45 arrival for me... see you guys up there

and if we get rained out we can always go get some beer and food

 

Did anyone else actually say if they were going or not?

 

I'm sick and probably have to go to work tonight so I'm out.

 

me, dan, you, i saw steve say he would go, possibly jon, and maybe jay, and wes is thinking about it at work lol

im heading out now

 

Sweet...no work tomorrow for me, so anything up for tonight?

Oh and just thought of something. After seeing how my car stacked up against the LS2 last night, I'm calling Renee and her Purple People Eater out for a re-match I'm thinking driver's race.

And no, Jay, you can't drive it. You can just tell her haha. I'm sure she'll remember to turn off TC.

Best of three.

 

So Jon, you ended up running against either Jay or Matt i take it?

 

Matt, from a dig. He had a car and a half on me, or so (least that's what Dan, watching, said), by the end of their "quarter." I thought he had a little more, but wasn't watching him lol. So it wasn't a slaughter.

What can I say, FWD sucks. I got to watch him put then keep those lengths while I was spinning lol

From a 60 roll, pretty much even. Dunno when we let off...I let off first lol. But bragging about roll racing is like bragging about whacking off. Seemed like a good idea, but then you're left feeling like you haven't accomplished much

 

I roll raced Jay and he had me in the vacinity of a car, maybe higher or lower, I dont think my front bumper ever went past his rear. That was before the cat delete though.

 

Would make sense. Watched Jay and Matt run, last night. Matt's got the advantage outta the hole. Jay's got two extra gears lol

 

and a few more whp

 

doesnt the a4 run out of steam up towards the top though?

 

We'll have to find out I'm not much of a fan of being in 4th gear, pedal down, on the street though haha. Top of 3rd's good enough for me.

What's the power band look like for you goats?

*edit*

Found one for an LS2



Love the HP "curve". Looks a lot like ours, but def. not the torque curve. No surprise there.

I see it dipping, just a little, after 6k. Nothing bad, though. Very linear. Makes sense, given the couple races I've had with the goats. We get to play catchup between 5k - 7.4k+ rpm. I gotta scan my dyno, if I can find it. Takes us a little bit of time to make power, but there wasn't a dip. Damn engine would keep making power until the s/c melted, or something else blew up haha

And, thinking about that, I did find out what happened last night, as big D guessed. First time I ran Matt, near the top or 3rd my IAT2s spiked from ~150 to almost 200, in a split second. Car pulled timing like mad, so I backed off. STILL have some air bubbles in the i/c lines. Got a few out today.

 

Geeze you are still fighting with bubbles in the H/E. I would have thought they all would have burped out by now. You sure the intercooler pump isnt spazzing out? Or maybe a kink or some type of debris in the lines somewhere?