So a week has gone by since the first race this year I actually got to attend at and I probably should write something about it.
To get you in the mood - short review of the whole last week:
Monday - BMW ready for dyno.. so full of optimism we got there.. melted the engine of bmw.
Tuesday - In the evening got the bmw back to garage, where, while i was elsewhere trying to get another car running, Rannet and Martin started to take the engine apart.
Wednesday - Me still building the other car, Martin started to put together new engine and as the day went, i joined and together we got the engine running again by the evening.. which meant new chance of dyno. As it still wanted to knock awfully, we kept it safe with low boost and ridiculously little ignition advance. So the car was running but with low power (200+kw).
Thursday - As i got nothing else to do.. tried to replace turbocharger for smaller one.. hoping it would work better with the badly breathing intake manifold and resulting in less detonation... well few runs on road showed that it didn't change ****.
Friday - Last chance to try something... i pumped out the gasoline and poured in ethanol. Result? - No knock whatsoever, got 1,5bar of boost with almost 20 degrees of ign. advance and no sign of knocking.. everything running damn good and lots of power, got the car loaded on the trailer, and trip to "home"(read: dragstrip) could finally begin.
Trip went smoothly and both racedays quite easy also.
Had some loss of power due to very hot weather at the airfield and the fact, that it had rough tune with rather cold and moist weather, so it didn't run quite as good as friday, but still managed to run personal best times.
And if some of you are still with me, you finally get to know what times we ran... Well yes you can be disappointed because i didn't run 9 seconds or not even 10 seconds... and not even 11 seconds
But 12,6 seconds with 194kph topspeed.
So i finally got into 12 seconds.. but with new working gearbox and better rear diff i should be in 11s quite easily.
Overall was a very good race, lots of awesome cars and as always - very nice people together. Super happy that everything worked almost as planned, and trying my best to be faster at next race, which takes place in already two weeks.
Also some eye candy for you... if you are as retarded as i am