The Daytona: June 26, 2008
by Russ Knize on Jun.26, 2008, under Daytona
Another awesome time at SDAC has come and gone. The performance driving school was a blast as always. The Daytona did great overall, but the stress did highlight some issues. The intercooler definitely needs to be kicked-out at the bottom to allow some air to get around it. The loss in cooling capacity was very obvious after a few laps, though it will happen on the street in traffic with the A/C on as well. I’m thinking of buying a new fan as well. The other issue was oil pressure. I know the pump has issues and when the oil temps got high, I was seeing only about 30psi of pressure at 5000rpm. Not good, so I think it’s time for a new pump.
I made 14 passes at the drag strip. Times weren’t what I had hoped (was shooting for 13s), but I didn’t break the car. I couldn’t get the car to hook nor could I get it to make more than 18-19psi of boost…even with the wastegate unplugged. I also trashed 3rd gear by the end and it seems that it will need a new syncro. Did a bit of tuning, but most of the effort was spent trying to learn how to launch the car. Best time was 14.269sec @ 98.87mph.
React | 60′ | 1/8 ET | 1/8 MPH | 1/4 ET | 1/4 MPH | Comments |
0.659 | 2.757 | 11.049 | 70.65 | 16.261 | 94.11 | First run. Completely borked the launch and then missed 3rd. |
0.277 | 2.669 | 9.949 | 77.33 | 14.896 | 95.98 | Swapped to BB60.14 cal. Slightly better launch. Hot-lapped. |
0.634 | 2.654 | 9.923 | 76.15 | 14.894 | 96.78 | Hot-lapped. |
0.253 | 2.717 | 10.060 | 74.62 | 15.094 | 95.95 | Crappy launch. Hot-lapped. |
0.590 | 2.544 | 9.968 | 75.76 | 14.904 | 94.35 | Hot-lapped. |
0.494 | 2.620 | 9.899 | 75.60 | 14.803 | 102.99 | Added boost to the cal. |
0.510 | 2.498 | 9.792 | 75.12 | 14.732 | 99.98 | Switched to grainger and dropped tire pressure to 35psi. Ended up with 15psi of boost. |
0.514 | 2.364 | 9.380 | 76.51 | 14.275 | 100.08 | Cranked up boost to 17psi. |
0.339 | 2.437 | 9.674 | 75.63 | 14.598 | 100.19 | 18-19psi of boost. Best MPH. |
0.145 | 3.092 | 10.719 | 74.40 | 15.686 | 99.53 | Bumped trans out of 1st during launch. |
0.261 | 2.265 | 9.276 | 73.87 | 14.269 | 98.87 | Finally a decent launch. Best ET. |
0.260 | 2.525 | 9.917 | 72.34 | 14.968 | 98.04 | 3rd grinding bad. |
0.371 | 2.698 | 13.899 | 47.47 | 22.392 | 54.02 | Turtle race (lost). |
0.159 | 2.410 | 9.792 | 76.13 | 14.802 | 95.75 | 3rd is done. |