Another track weekend done with the Falcon. Must have done about 100 laps screaming at 6700rpm without a major issue. The brake cooling ducts, hub spacers and 1 1/8” sway bar seemed to help. She cornered very flat and the brakes were predictable the entire weekend.
I bought an $8 app called “Track Addict” that uses the phones GPS to give speed time and some crude track telemetry. Turned out to be very useful and showed me exactly what I’m doing all the time. No more fantasizing that I’m actually fast
Best time 1minute 46 seconds. It’s a good baseline for improvement.
Here’s some pics.
Track Addict screenshots showing my speeds around the track and times
Mr. Pantera DID NOT want to be passed. Even though I was faster in the turns he refused to wave me by. A courtesy the track organizers stress every single event. Some guys don’t care and wave you by (like me) and others are just stubborn and refuse to do it. They’re slow in the turns and then mash the throttle on the straights to try to outrun you
Some get away…this guy didnt. Video coming soon. (So much for the C Fred
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Action pics. Btw I added vinyl door numbers. I guess I could have been a little more creative with the number
Video of one of the sessions.
https://youtu.be/1MKDz2u7pGc?si=UOi7EU_fxeDR0ilH
The GoPro saves the videos in chapters. So it gets cut off. Im uploading as I go along. They’re huge files and my Wi-Fi apparently sucks
Im learning to heel/toe downshift. Doesn’t always happen. Some laps Im just trying to hit the apex’s and be smooth annd others Im trying to go for time…and sometimes it ain’t pretty
When another car is around Im trying to outpace them or catch up and pass to have some fun.
So technical issues- I lost my speedo again. I don’t care this time because the app tells me how fast I’m going. I think I’m going to replace the 66 style gauge with the original sweep gauge because it looks cooler.
The big one…engine temp. As you can see in the video it runs very cool. Around 150 degrees. Is that ok? Sitting in the pit lane it’ll go up to 180 when the t-stat opens and stay there. As soon as I hit the track and higher RPMs it immediately drops to 150 or so. Im not sure I like it. Let me know what y’all think.
A few more vids are coming soon.
Joe