[Supras] First event on Torsen

Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 09:34:44 CDT 2007


You on the new brakes yet?

On 9/4/07, Walker, Brian (Rich. Dist) <Brian.Walker2 at vdot.virginia.gov>
wrote:
>
> I ran the first event with the 3.73 Torsen in this weekend. It does have
> a little less acceleration with the gearing but feels good being able to
> throttle oversteer easier and get both wheels gripping out of corners.
> Rear was smooth and easy to control. I didn't drive it for all it was
> worth since it's just been put together but it felt to offer more grip
> than before (didn't seem to get to limit of tires as easily) Next
> weekend I'll push a little more and see how it feels, so far I think
> it's an improvement but some of usual competition has jumped to R'
> compounds so I'm playing cath up but was second on street tires (grey
> Wrx took first on street tires, I coned away a matching time time on the
> vid run). No, I didn't have a prayer of catching the fastest time, my
> buddy's Miata on 275 Kuhmos :)
>
> Sunday's results:
> > http://www.get-fast.net/nasacross/9207res.htm
> >
> > Here's some vids, first are some friend's Miata and Wrx:
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...68331&hl=en
> > <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7614159916411668331&hl=en>
> >
> > Here's a vid of my runs:
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=30...93097&hl=en
> > <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3004315861041093097&hl=en>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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