[Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear

[Mark Nunnally]

come out to NHIS this tues, I think they still have spots open!

www.scda1.org

I'm running crew for this, let my buddy who welded on my cage run the 89
there.

mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
To: "Mark Nunnally" <manunnal@netheaven.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: blackhawk/gear


> 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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