| Sgt.Gator | 07-24-2014 12:50 AM |
[quote=Joel Gat, 1.8L;42295149]Hello,
Ahem. 2001 TeamSMR with the not-yet-released-to-the-public 2002 WRX... :)
Joel[/quote]
Hi Joel,
Sorry! I did a lot of research but somehow missed the TeamSMR connection. There are many references to the Subaru Road Racing Team when I did my searching, but nothing came up on TeamSMR. I see in your sig on the first page of this:
2002 Impreza WRX
Sheehan Motor Racing
Subaru of America Factory Backed Professional Road Racing
2001-2003 United States Touring Car Championships, 2nd overall
My apologies! I found a history of the team on Gary Sheehan's website.
Ahem. 2001 TeamSMR with the not-yet-released-to-the-public 2002 WRX... :)
Joel[/quote]
Hi Joel,
Sorry! I did a lot of research but somehow missed the TeamSMR connection. There are many references to the Subaru Road Racing Team when I did my searching, but nothing came up on TeamSMR. I see in your sig on the first page of this:
2002 Impreza WRX
Sheehan Motor Racing
Subaru of America Factory Backed Professional Road Racing
2001-2003 United States Touring Car Championships, 2nd overall
My apologies! I found a history of the team on Gary Sheehan's website.
| Cone Klr | 07-28-2014 04:56 PM |
It was fun dusting the cobwebs off and updating/servicing the wagon. Glad to see it's out making people feel bad they got passed by a wagon!!
| slide | 07-28-2014 09:26 PM |
I miss my ole 94 legacy wagon.... It was n/a but boy could it handle... Track days really shocked a lot of people back then. No love for subies in the 90's in the US, that was for sure...
| Sgt.Gator | 07-29-2014 01:39 AM |
Last weekend at Oregon Raceway Park was hot. 90+ hot with track temps in the 120s - 130s. In the counter clockwise direction it was especially hard on the brakes and trans temps. The brake problems come from the CCW direction down Valkyrie Hill. And the straights aren't long enough to get high speed air and time to cool the discs. There is no place I get to 5th gear.
I had channel alarms twice for transmission temps. The trans went over 228 degrees even with the cooler pump and fan on the entire time. I'll have to look at getting the diff/trans cooler better airflow, and the routing of the trans lines down the center hump, not far from the exhaust, is probably not helping. I'll see if I can re-position the lines or the cooler system.
My brakes went spongy on Friday in the last session, almost in bad way at the bottom of Valkyrie Hill. Saturday morning I put in new front pads and bled the entire system. In the sprint race they went spongy at 17 mins, I backed off a bit and within 2 laps they were firmed up again. I was able to finish out the race with no problem.
During the Enduro we were doing great, in second place right behind Michael Contatore's STi. This was incredible because it wasn't just 2nd in class, but 2nd overall! We were running 1:59 laps. (159.277 best).
I pulled into the hot pits at the 30 minute mark for the mandatory 60 second pit stop. Other teams switch drivers and add fuel, but I don't, so I just sit there for the 60 seconds then go. However the ORP hot pits are not level, so I had to keep my foot on the brakes. Normally in the pits I put the car in neutral and take my foot off the brakes.....it's standard procedure to not put on your parking brake after hot laps, and I don't even have a parking brake, but I wasn't thinking about the hot pit not being level and needing to shut off the engine and put the car in gear to keep from rolling.....
Unknown to me this caused too much heat to be absorbed into the calipers. I came out of the pits and down the hill, at 90+ mph I went to brake for Turn 14, brake foot went to the floor...I went straight off the track, still going down the hill. Pucker brush flying, mowing down grass and small mammals, but it was ok until the bottom where there is a 2' berm then back uphill on the other side of the ravine. Right about then I was wishing I had Subaru Rally Car Skid Plates!
I hit the berm hard, sailed thru the air a bit and came to a stop further up the hill. Now the really scary part is the sage and grass is so dry that #1 worry is a grass fire, but despite some smoke, no flames. I almost pulled the Fire Bottle pin, a fire there would be a disaster.
Preliminary Damage: Front lip and bumper are destroyed. . That's no big deal, I planned to replace them anyway. Side skirts may be trashed too. The FMIC looks ok even though it and the radiators are bent up and back towards the engine several degrees, so the radiator supports are tweaked hard. The radiator will probably have to be replaced. The main problem is the oil filter and oil cooler adapter ripped out of the engine block. I don't remember how long the engine ran at idle speed while oil poured out the filter hole, but it wasn't more than 30 seconds. The right front wheel is pushed rearward a few inches, so no doubt I'll need at least new upper and lower control arms. Maybe more. Pics attached.
Friends helped me get the car in my enclosed trailer. It has not been turned over since the excursion.
The car is at my brand new sponsor, Subaru of Bend, being triaged. More info soon on what needs to be done!
Luckily:
1) This was at ORP with 95% desert to run off into. In fact going CCW it would be really hard to hit the one wall. At a track with a wall 20' away it would have been totaled and I might be hurt badly or dead. I'm uninjured other than a sore lower back from the berm slam.
2) I hadn't put my newly rebuilt JRZs on yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the K-Sports are blown.
3) No fire erupted!
[B]Oil Filter/cooler adapter, the lines are still attached to the cooler radiator:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7tMkfaJ-iUo/U9WH8huqbhI/AAAAAAAAAjc/GhcydL-VLN4/w1529-h860-no/20140727_160613.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O7VEcEBGm1U/U9WIznz_8nI/AAAAAAAAAkM/QPuEnIz0yPw/w1529-h860-no/20140727_160559.jpg[/IMG]
[B]The FMIC and Radiator pushed in at the bottom:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RYdR7yEI3P0/U9bIEm_u9kI/AAAAAAAAAkg/FZ8mAWJK9lo/w484-h860-no/20140728_121308.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uH1bxJw1RME/U9bKjIv_KCI/AAAAAAAAAlI/qIYNKyp_NZo/w484-h860-no/20140728_121330.jpg[/IMG]
[B]My new right front wheel position:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sqqL6wjIdYs/U9bKanMiQpI/AAAAAAAAAk8/_9-pcJCfikM/w1529-h860-no/20140728_121320.jpg[/IMG]
[B]What I'm glad didn't happen![/B]
[IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KT68vro-Aak/U5OVgs8MjWI/AAAAAAAAAPE/jBe5DBcUBjw/w1529-h860-no/20140607_154257.jpg[/IMG]
That's actually the view from my back deck a few weeks ago. Fire is scary here. I'm going to get a hand held fire extinguisher to mount in the trunk just for these situations. It was at least 3 minutes before the first safety truck was able to 4 wheel out to my location, the car would be fully engulfed by then if the sage and grass had caught fire.....
I had channel alarms twice for transmission temps. The trans went over 228 degrees even with the cooler pump and fan on the entire time. I'll have to look at getting the diff/trans cooler better airflow, and the routing of the trans lines down the center hump, not far from the exhaust, is probably not helping. I'll see if I can re-position the lines or the cooler system.
My brakes went spongy on Friday in the last session, almost in bad way at the bottom of Valkyrie Hill. Saturday morning I put in new front pads and bled the entire system. In the sprint race they went spongy at 17 mins, I backed off a bit and within 2 laps they were firmed up again. I was able to finish out the race with no problem.
During the Enduro we were doing great, in second place right behind Michael Contatore's STi. This was incredible because it wasn't just 2nd in class, but 2nd overall! We were running 1:59 laps. (159.277 best).
I pulled into the hot pits at the 30 minute mark for the mandatory 60 second pit stop. Other teams switch drivers and add fuel, but I don't, so I just sit there for the 60 seconds then go. However the ORP hot pits are not level, so I had to keep my foot on the brakes. Normally in the pits I put the car in neutral and take my foot off the brakes.....it's standard procedure to not put on your parking brake after hot laps, and I don't even have a parking brake, but I wasn't thinking about the hot pit not being level and needing to shut off the engine and put the car in gear to keep from rolling.....
Unknown to me this caused too much heat to be absorbed into the calipers. I came out of the pits and down the hill, at 90+ mph I went to brake for Turn 14, brake foot went to the floor...I went straight off the track, still going down the hill. Pucker brush flying, mowing down grass and small mammals, but it was ok until the bottom where there is a 2' berm then back uphill on the other side of the ravine. Right about then I was wishing I had Subaru Rally Car Skid Plates!
I hit the berm hard, sailed thru the air a bit and came to a stop further up the hill. Now the really scary part is the sage and grass is so dry that #1 worry is a grass fire, but despite some smoke, no flames. I almost pulled the Fire Bottle pin, a fire there would be a disaster.
Preliminary Damage: Front lip and bumper are destroyed. . That's no big deal, I planned to replace them anyway. Side skirts may be trashed too. The FMIC looks ok even though it and the radiators are bent up and back towards the engine several degrees, so the radiator supports are tweaked hard. The radiator will probably have to be replaced. The main problem is the oil filter and oil cooler adapter ripped out of the engine block. I don't remember how long the engine ran at idle speed while oil poured out the filter hole, but it wasn't more than 30 seconds. The right front wheel is pushed rearward a few inches, so no doubt I'll need at least new upper and lower control arms. Maybe more. Pics attached.
Friends helped me get the car in my enclosed trailer. It has not been turned over since the excursion.
The car is at my brand new sponsor, Subaru of Bend, being triaged. More info soon on what needs to be done!
Luckily:
1) This was at ORP with 95% desert to run off into. In fact going CCW it would be really hard to hit the one wall. At a track with a wall 20' away it would have been totaled and I might be hurt badly or dead. I'm uninjured other than a sore lower back from the berm slam.
2) I hadn't put my newly rebuilt JRZs on yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the K-Sports are blown.
3) No fire erupted!
[B]Oil Filter/cooler adapter, the lines are still attached to the cooler radiator:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7tMkfaJ-iUo/U9WH8huqbhI/AAAAAAAAAjc/GhcydL-VLN4/w1529-h860-no/20140727_160613.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O7VEcEBGm1U/U9WIznz_8nI/AAAAAAAAAkM/QPuEnIz0yPw/w1529-h860-no/20140727_160559.jpg[/IMG]
[B]The FMIC and Radiator pushed in at the bottom:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RYdR7yEI3P0/U9bIEm_u9kI/AAAAAAAAAkg/FZ8mAWJK9lo/w484-h860-no/20140728_121308.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uH1bxJw1RME/U9bKjIv_KCI/AAAAAAAAAlI/qIYNKyp_NZo/w484-h860-no/20140728_121330.jpg[/IMG]
[B]My new right front wheel position:[/B]
[IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sqqL6wjIdYs/U9bKanMiQpI/AAAAAAAAAk8/_9-pcJCfikM/w1529-h860-no/20140728_121320.jpg[/IMG]
[B]What I'm glad didn't happen![/B]
[IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KT68vro-Aak/U5OVgs8MjWI/AAAAAAAAAPE/jBe5DBcUBjw/w1529-h860-no/20140607_154257.jpg[/IMG]
That's actually the view from my back deck a few weeks ago. Fire is scary here. I'm going to get a hand held fire extinguisher to mount in the trunk just for these situations. It was at least 3 minutes before the first safety truck was able to 4 wheel out to my location, the car would be fully engulfed by then if the sage and grass had caught fire.....
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