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| *edit* I realized near the end of part 2 was way too dark to see anything. Weird, it wasn't like this in the raw footage, must have been Youtube compression. I brightened up the second video and re-uploaded.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNvDQbiUVE
Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnU7p8j3EZQ
Supplemental material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ErOnWtcrc
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| WE DID IT~~!!!
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1 minute 14.65 seconds!!!
Saturday, June 27, was our first time rolling our with r-comps. Honestly, it was a terrible day for me. Basically, I spent the day in the torching sun, with a gas mask on, adjusting camber for Tin Man. Peter drove for the entire day, I didn't even get to sit in the car.
Everytime Pete pulls into the pit from a hot lap (he couldn't do cool down laps because it would screw up the tire temperature readings), me, Chi and Joe would jump out and take the inside, middle, outside tire temp readings, and pressures for all 4 corners, ground temp., time of the day, best lap of the session... etc. etc.
Pete's time kept dropping with each camber adjustment made. We finally managed to shave off 4 full seconds from our previous record.
Now, we're only 1.5 second away from the top of Onyx's leaderboard, 1 minute 13.2 seconds, set by a race-preped 350z that rolls in on a trailer.
I think Tin Man can do that time the way it is. How sweet would that be? Beating a track car's time with a street car, and probably a quarter of the money spent.
Thanks to Chi and Alan, enjoy the pics!!
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| I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Chi's photos!!
Had an AWESOME track day on Saturday. Way too many pictures to post or even sort through (Chi took a total of 800-ish pictures), as well as way too much progress to blog. Too tired, too little time.
One thing is for sure though. Tin Man achieved 1 min 18.7 sec on Saturday. Pete was the driver (I'm about 3 seconds slower than Pete at the moment). 1 min 18.7 sec!!!!! This is one fast time. And we have the lap timer as well as a video footage to prove it.
Oh I forgot to say the most important thing, we were running on the same shitty-ass street tires as last year. 
We had to break in our new racing slicks, and let it sit and cure for 48 hours (standard procedure), so we only ran a few laps with them in the beginning, then removed them and ran the street tires for the remainder of the day.
We were hanging on with the guys on slicks.
Too bad I didn't get as much track time as I'd like to improve my driving, cuz the car still experiences overheating problems. There are a couple of turns I wish I could carry the speed through and just punch it flat out, but just lack the confidence. Another track day or 2 should fix that, I hope.
Pete's the best driver we have.
I built the best car in my limits for him to drive.
Chi is the best project manager and organizer we can ask for.
Go Team Function Racing!
Oh ya, I love this lap timer thingy.
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