[Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear

[Bruce Malachuk]

well I was running between 2nd & 3rd alot, that is till Ron rode with me and
told me where I cshould be driving. He had me leave it in 3rd all the way
around the track which I think kept me in the good RPM range, but it felt
wierd not shifting. I was using 2nd thru the 3d/4/5 turns. I found that for
my car with the ES100's I could run that pretty hard and not have to brake
as much, just a little lift of the go pedal on the 3D to 4 turn with some
slight braking on the way in, but then the car was up high 5000rpm ish when
I mashed back down. When I went with ron the car was down round 3500ish in
that same section, but I was braking smarter, and not driving like the
"sunday driver" in the middle of the course. I was sure that we were getting
around the track faster. At that time my car didn't feel like it had much
till the secondaries open, but now it feels like I have better HP and TQ
(even on a 3.0) from about 2500 up. The porting i think has helped a little
down low, as well as cleaning some gunk outta my airbox, and cleaning the
MAF.

I'm looking forward to the next track type of event that I can get to. Hmm
reminds me that I should rotate my tires, it's almost been 3500 miles since
I put them on.

Bruce
94 Opal Frost MTX
93 Black ATX - winter beater then parts car :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nunnally" <manunnal@netheaven.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:48 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear


> >Kirk asked me
> > when we were at Blackhawk what gear I was running, I replied 2nd thru
some
> > of the turns he was listening at. 2nd @ 7000 for about 1/4 of the
course,
> > and I routinely am up there in day to day driving.
>
> I meant to ask some folks about that, if they used 2nd gear much.  Looking
> back at the video's I wonder if I could have tried 2nd on the backsight
> "tight" part of the course.  Don't think I dropped below 3800 rpm or so in
> 3rd  much though, and the 3.2L makes pretty good torque from there so I
just
> ran the whole course in 3rd with 4th on the front stretch for a brief
stint
>
> anybody else used 2nd gear much?  I suppose tires makes a difference, as a
> track tire'd car is  gonna have a bit more corner speed (keep the mph/rpms
> wound up a little higher)
>
> mark
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