As the pre season testing has gotton underway, im going to write a short summary of how things are going on with each day that we are out!
I will be adding more reports as each session goes by.
Series: ITCC 2012
Team: KMRmotorsport
Driver: Kevin Moran
Car Number: 46
Make/Model: Honda Civic Coupe
Engine: b16b
Estimated power output: 242hp
Sponsors:
BC Designs walkinstown
Hughes Recovery Blessington
Taylor Engines + Tuning
CT Motor Factors
B-Racing Chassis Alignment and Preparation
SimAutoParts
D4DPhotos
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Hello Everyone,
many of you already know the somewhat succesful build up of my Coupe and this year im going to see what it translates to on the track in teh Irish Touring Car Championship 2012.
Pre-Season Testing/trackday-February 8th Mondello Park Intl. Circuit
Weather: Wet with greasy track and standing water in places
Temperature:7-10 degrees
Saturday the 8th saw the new car out on the track for the very first time since its conversion to a race car. Almost instantly there were issues. Manifold heat wrap which had soaked up some oil was set alight after running temps got pretty high, but luckily we noticed this in the pitlane before we went out on track and was not a big deal.
So we set of out on track for the first few bedding in laps.
Unfortunately on the outlap our ignition switch got fried which killed the power and we had to be towed back into the paddock by the marshalls. Luckily we had a spare and within 5mins we were back out on the track.
Things started going pretty well, the engine seemed strong the new diff was pulling hard through the corners and cornering setup was working really well.
After 4 laps of tipping around and getting everything up to optimum values, i decided to open up the taps a little and go that little bit quicker. No sooner had i went through 3 turns when the differential in the gearbox seemed to seize and i had no other option but to beech it in the graveltrap.
We got pulled back out and i drove the car back in but it seemed a bit sluggish. I put this down to a pebbel or something getting stuck in the brakes or something.
Once i had the front end cleaned up again, out we went for more laps. This time the car felt really sluggish and lacking in power so I came back in after 2 laps. We jacked the car up and guess-diagnosed the problem to be a differential seizure possibly due to being shimmed to tight.
So that was our day over in a nutshell.
Plenty of positives to take from the day. The engine is very strong and the handling is right on the money. Even though ive only got a handful of laps under my belt, things are looking promising.
Going to tackle the differential problem this week and sort out some other small issues which we encountered.
The car will be back out on the 28th of February for more testing and hopefully we should have a much stronger setup for that.
Stay tuned for more updates as the season progress's.
Cheers,
Kevin.
I will be adding more reports as each session goes by.
Series: ITCC 2012
Team: KMRmotorsport
Driver: Kevin Moran
Car Number: 46
Make/Model: Honda Civic Coupe
Engine: b16b
Estimated power output: 242hp
Sponsors:
BC Designs walkinstown
Hughes Recovery Blessington
Taylor Engines + Tuning
CT Motor Factors
B-Racing Chassis Alignment and Preparation
SimAutoParts
D4DPhotos
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello Everyone,
many of you already know the somewhat succesful build up of my Coupe and this year im going to see what it translates to on the track in teh Irish Touring Car Championship 2012.
Pre-Season Testing/trackday-February 8th Mondello Park Intl. Circuit
Weather: Wet with greasy track and standing water in places
Temperature:7-10 degrees
Saturday the 8th saw the new car out on the track for the very first time since its conversion to a race car. Almost instantly there were issues. Manifold heat wrap which had soaked up some oil was set alight after running temps got pretty high, but luckily we noticed this in the pitlane before we went out on track and was not a big deal.
So we set of out on track for the first few bedding in laps.
Unfortunately on the outlap our ignition switch got fried which killed the power and we had to be towed back into the paddock by the marshalls. Luckily we had a spare and within 5mins we were back out on the track.
Things started going pretty well, the engine seemed strong the new diff was pulling hard through the corners and cornering setup was working really well.
After 4 laps of tipping around and getting everything up to optimum values, i decided to open up the taps a little and go that little bit quicker. No sooner had i went through 3 turns when the differential in the gearbox seemed to seize and i had no other option but to beech it in the graveltrap.
We got pulled back out and i drove the car back in but it seemed a bit sluggish. I put this down to a pebbel or something getting stuck in the brakes or something.
Once i had the front end cleaned up again, out we went for more laps. This time the car felt really sluggish and lacking in power so I came back in after 2 laps. We jacked the car up and guess-diagnosed the problem to be a differential seizure possibly due to being shimmed to tight.
So that was our day over in a nutshell.
Plenty of positives to take from the day. The engine is very strong and the handling is right on the money. Even though ive only got a handful of laps under my belt, things are looking promising.
Going to tackle the differential problem this week and sort out some other small issues which we encountered.
The car will be back out on the 28th of February for more testing and hopefully we should have a much stronger setup for that.
Stay tuned for more updates as the season progress's.
Cheers,
Kevin.