Just got the call from Doug... they are heading to South Bend and calling it a day. Doug is too much of a perfectionist to take an untested pckage and push the limits on a track. So, he and Luke are heading home and passing the torch to the other Subarus and Supra to bring home the Import Win!
This completely saddens me, but it is truly the hard decision of a Professional to make. Mad Respect little Bro!
The brighton is done. I can't describe the disapointment. It boils down to goofy electrical issues we can't nail down. Likely caused the first problem, and after trying to road tune the second time, we were having the same issues and didn't want to destroy a second engine.
From an outsider standpoint, it would seem we were pusing the limits of the engine. But Doug was actually conservative w/ the tune, and it's the same setup we had last year - and that car is still running awesome.
A huge thanks to COBB.
Christian worked with us the entire time to swap the short block. I took a nap to prepare for the 9 hour drive ahead of us. When I woke up at 2am, Trey Cobb was there helping out, unbelievable. Super nice guys, very nice shops, lots of engineers and computers going on, they really know what they're doing. And i saw the carbon car!
Also thanks to:
TopSpeed - Doug built a car that could've won. You'll see it at some events in the near future - dominating.
Ultimate Racing - turbo kit ftw.
Rota - rock solid wheels, as always.
Robert Zafaras - he bought my old STi and wanted to pay our entry fee this year. if you need any land development work in Pittsburg, look him up. Thanks Bob.
Racing Brake - 6 piston kit ftw.
Bill @ SoJax
while we talk a lot of smack on the boards, the GSC, SOG, Boxer4Racing guys are all very laid back and groovy. we've all helped each other out along the way - which is part of One Lap.
edit: This is Doug, I just wanted to post something techincal since I am sure alot of people will ask. On our way from Mid-America we had our oddesy battery break a plate causing an over charge condition. This cause the large ground wire from the battery to melt, we never caught this problem before going out with the new battery at Miller. At miller the car was breaking up not plugs but the car was physically turning off. Luke made it two laps before the car stated to smoke. During the first two laps we were actually 3 seconds faster than the DaVia porsche and only .5 seconds behind the Hennesey Viper. A very Huge thanks to COBB, they went above and beyond to help us get the car back on the road. When the motor was ot we found that the number 1 cylinder's skirt had broken. At around 3:30am we were done with the shortblock swap and began out drive to pueblo. Arriving at pueblo to a huge crowd of clapping onelaps we started feeling better about our decision. After unloading the car and putting some racegas into it I went out for some road tuning. This is were things got screwy again, the car was not runing or reacting how it should. But would run very inconsitant almost like we had a huge grounding issue or the ecu twas TKO'd. At this point we threw in the towel, not wanting to risk anything and still being able to drive the car back to south bend. Only thing I can assume is when the oddesy battery went it took out more than just the large ground. We will get the car back to the shop and figure out what happend. Expect to see up around as we will be running some of the east coast time attacks.
Like the saying goes "see you next year"
Doug
(Post on Nasioc.com from Luke Russell, and Doug)
Tray M
Val for President!
Nice update. I bet it was an awesome experience. Props to you guys.
What/When is the next race you guys will attend here on the East Coast? I'd love to come check it out.
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