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Testing the 87' Coyote powered Road Race Cougar at Summit Point
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<blockquote data-quote="03'Darin" data-source="post: 16296806" data-attributes="member: 6164"><p>[ATTACH=full]1601398[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601399[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601400[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601401[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601402[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601403[/ATTACH] Thought I'd add some more updates.</p><p></p><p>Since the Road America race I posted about last we have run Indy (dual 10 hour races) and AER Series at Summit Point (dual 9 hour races).</p><p></p><p>I had mentioned about the tranny issue at the RA race. When we got the car back to the shop we almost couldn't get the car in and out of 1st gear when it was running. We swapped the clutch master cylinder thinking it was bad but still had the same result. So we bled the line several times with no improvement. So we swapped in another MC thinking that maybe the one we used was also bad. When we were bleeding the line again we discovered that pressure plate was moving when we pushed the clutch. Here the bolts that hold the pressure plate to the flywheel had come loose. Knowing that we had used loctite and torqued them we decided to buy new bolts.</p><p></p><p>Next event was Indy. Tight and mostly flat course. Not a good fit for our big, heavy car. Turned out the trans shifting issue showed up again. Interesting thing is each time that happened its after roughly 14 hours of run time on the car. Before we pitted to address the issue we got wrecked. A car was trying to overtake us went way too deep in the braking zone basically t-boning us. Right front fender, bent the spindle, pass door, right rear quarter, right rear tire and wheel and broke the sway bar. We fixed the car (pressure plate bolts were loose AGAIN) but were obviously well out of contention.</p><p></p><p>At the shop we ended up using a set of the locking bolts designed for headers. The ones with the splined head and the locking tab.</p><p></p><p>Next event was just a few weeks ago at Summit Point WV. This event was with AER (American Endurance Racing) Series. This series classes cars strictly by lap times. There were 56 cars at the event. They break down 5 classes. We ended up qualifying 18th overall and 8th in our class of 15 cars. That put us in group 3.</p><p></p><p>Saturday race was cut short by 1 hour due to lightning. The course closes if there is lightning within 6 miles. Probably for the safety of the corner workers.</p><p></p><p>We finished 6th overall and 2nd in class.</p><p></p><p>Sunday we were again grided 18th overall and managed a 7th overall and another 2nd in class.</p><p></p><p>Car worked great! We got 17 hours out of the Falkens! Summit is hard on left side tires so we swapped them left to right after saturday and they made it.</p><p></p><p>We were the ONLY American car in the entire field! Not just our class, the entire field!</p><p></p><p>We're done for the year now. Winter plans as of right now are to cut some weight (car weighs 3,400 without the driver) with tubular front k-member, coil overs and trimming excess metal off the car.</p><p></p><p>Here are some pics from the weekend:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="03'Darin, post: 16296806, member: 6164"] [ATTACH=full]1601398[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601399[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601400[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601401[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601402[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1601403[/ATTACH] Thought I'd add some more updates. Since the Road America race I posted about last we have run Indy (dual 10 hour races) and AER Series at Summit Point (dual 9 hour races). I had mentioned about the tranny issue at the RA race. When we got the car back to the shop we almost couldn't get the car in and out of 1st gear when it was running. We swapped the clutch master cylinder thinking it was bad but still had the same result. So we bled the line several times with no improvement. So we swapped in another MC thinking that maybe the one we used was also bad. When we were bleeding the line again we discovered that pressure plate was moving when we pushed the clutch. Here the bolts that hold the pressure plate to the flywheel had come loose. Knowing that we had used loctite and torqued them we decided to buy new bolts. Next event was Indy. Tight and mostly flat course. Not a good fit for our big, heavy car. Turned out the trans shifting issue showed up again. Interesting thing is each time that happened its after roughly 14 hours of run time on the car. Before we pitted to address the issue we got wrecked. A car was trying to overtake us went way too deep in the braking zone basically t-boning us. Right front fender, bent the spindle, pass door, right rear quarter, right rear tire and wheel and broke the sway bar. We fixed the car (pressure plate bolts were loose AGAIN) but were obviously well out of contention. At the shop we ended up using a set of the locking bolts designed for headers. The ones with the splined head and the locking tab. Next event was just a few weeks ago at Summit Point WV. This event was with AER (American Endurance Racing) Series. This series classes cars strictly by lap times. There were 56 cars at the event. They break down 5 classes. We ended up qualifying 18th overall and 8th in our class of 15 cars. That put us in group 3. Saturday race was cut short by 1 hour due to lightning. The course closes if there is lightning within 6 miles. Probably for the safety of the corner workers. We finished 6th overall and 2nd in class. Sunday we were again grided 18th overall and managed a 7th overall and another 2nd in class. Car worked great! We got 17 hours out of the Falkens! Summit is hard on left side tires so we swapped them left to right after saturday and they made it. We were the ONLY American car in the entire field! Not just our class, the entire field! We're done for the year now. Winter plans as of right now are to cut some weight (car weighs 3,400 without the driver) with tubular front k-member, coil overs and trimming excess metal off the car. Here are some pics from the weekend: [/QUOTE]
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