ridered74
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First off, thanks to Livernois for an awesome track day. If you live within a six hour drive and are a customer, you should go to their next customer appreciation track day. This was a great opportunity to practice launching and mess around with tire pressures. You could literally run down the track, the drive right back to the staging lanes and run again immediately. I had several passes with only 4-5 mins in between time stamps. To put it in perspective, I drove in with 70 miles remaining on my tank, and the last two runs I made it showed 0 miles remaining. One thing that surprised me was that my best runs were usually when I had no break at all between runs.
I was surprised at the times I ran with the LMS tune. I was expecting it to be a tenth or two slower than my gearhead tune, but it was within hundreths.
I loaded the LMS aggressive E30 tune Thursday, and put about 250 miles total on it before I drove onto the track. I logged every single run, the first couple for each tune I downloaded the datalogs after each run so I could verify my launch rpms. Later on I was logging 2 and 3 at a time between downloading to the laptop. I was at E34 on all runs, times below.
LMS aggressive E30 tune.
12.338
12.246
12.429
12.244
12.306
12.256
Gearhead tune that Matt sent me earlier this week:
12.248
12.300
12.409
12.486
12.330
Original Gearhead E30 tune:
12.364
12.226
12.273
12.218
12.213
12.225
12.213
12.462
12.214
Best part of the day was when I was about to leave, another SHO pulls up after his pass and I asked him how he did. He said he ran a 13.01 and hadn't been able to break into the 12's. He just had a 93 tune with 3 BAR and said all he wanted to do was see a 12 in front of his time. He had been close a few times but just couldn't do it. I asked if he took his spare tire out and he said he hadn't thought of that, so he took it and the jack out and had his son (or maybe grandson) stand guard over it while we went for a pass down the track.
I got to the time slip shack first and saw his time was 13.1, so rather than pull over and talk I just went straight back to the staging lanes and he followed me. When I got to the time slip shack I was more excited to see his time than mine, and sure enough he ran a 12.975 and achieved his goal for the day.
I beat my personal best by a couple hundredths and enjoyed the best track cheeseburger I've ever had, so I would definitely say it was worth the 3 hour drive each way. Thanks again to Livernois, the only suggestion I have for improvement is I would do this every single month.
I was surprised at the times I ran with the LMS tune. I was expecting it to be a tenth or two slower than my gearhead tune, but it was within hundreths.
I loaded the LMS aggressive E30 tune Thursday, and put about 250 miles total on it before I drove onto the track. I logged every single run, the first couple for each tune I downloaded the datalogs after each run so I could verify my launch rpms. Later on I was logging 2 and 3 at a time between downloading to the laptop. I was at E34 on all runs, times below.
LMS aggressive E30 tune.
12.338
12.246
12.429
12.244
12.306
12.256
Gearhead tune that Matt sent me earlier this week:
12.248
12.300
12.409
12.486
12.330
Original Gearhead E30 tune:
12.364
12.226
12.273
12.218
12.213
12.225
12.213
12.462
12.214
Best part of the day was when I was about to leave, another SHO pulls up after his pass and I asked him how he did. He said he ran a 13.01 and hadn't been able to break into the 12's. He just had a 93 tune with 3 BAR and said all he wanted to do was see a 12 in front of his time. He had been close a few times but just couldn't do it. I asked if he took his spare tire out and he said he hadn't thought of that, so he took it and the jack out and had his son (or maybe grandson) stand guard over it while we went for a pass down the track.
I got to the time slip shack first and saw his time was 13.1, so rather than pull over and talk I just went straight back to the staging lanes and he followed me. When I got to the time slip shack I was more excited to see his time than mine, and sure enough he ran a 12.975 and achieved his goal for the day.
I beat my personal best by a couple hundredths and enjoyed the best track cheeseburger I've ever had, so I would definitely say it was worth the 3 hour drive each way. Thanks again to Livernois, the only suggestion I have for improvement is I would do this every single month.
