Was going to update last night but I got home late. Woke up Sunday morning and saw that there was an open lapping day at Toronto Motorsports Park which is only 2 hours away. Probably the nicest day of the year outside and I’m like I have to somehow get my car ready to go.
Rushed over to where I store my car and get to work. I need to install my new Sparco harness and bleed the front brakes, get the car of jack stands and mount Wheels, bed in the brakes somewhat and then hopefully have enough time to drive to the track without anything going wrong. Keep in mind I have not driven the car much and only once since it got tuned but never did a pull or anything really.
Long story short I got the car ready in time and head out. About 45 min into my drive I throw an EPC just cruising at like 2600 RPM in 5th. Weird. Pull over and restart only to throw one again. f***. Ok so right off the bat I know it’s wastegate related since my tuner told me we need to adjust it a bit so I wasn’t worried but contemplated turning around and not wasting my money at the track in case I can’t even run it but decide to carry on.
Fast forward a bit, unload everything and get my tire pressure set for the first session. Double check everything and head out expecting to have an issue or something but finished the session with no issues surprisingly and I threw down a very fast lap time with traffic and not really pushing. Hell yeah!
Noticed an issue with my wastegate though. Didn’t throw an EPC but the car stops making power in 4th at certain RPM which is an easy fix BUT my god the power is insane. I can’t explain it but it’s just savage. I have so much power down low I can stay in 3rd gear instead of 2nd gear like I would last year. 991 911 in 3rd gear couldn’t pull away from me in a straight. I have to get used to the power though as it’s very easy to make mistakes now.
The biggest surprise to me was how balanced the car was off the bat. I don’t know if I got lucky or just built everything right but holy crap the aero is very very noticeable. Every lap I tried to push harder and harder to find the limit and simply couldn’t. The car has so much in it now that I have to drive this track I’m so familiar with completely different and it’s a weird feeling to do so. Going to take some time to get to 10/10th again. One thing that really really surprised me with the aero was control under braking from about 185km to 90km. The car was so stable and with the new Rotora brakes my old braking points completely changed. I could brake scary late into a couple high speed corners and trail brake under complete control. When it came down to control in the corners it was great. Rotated even better than last year with the larger tires up front and the aero really kept things planted. I can only imagine how good it’s going to be with the MCS dampers and 16k spring rates.
All in all a great day. Just need to sort out the wastegate issue with VCDS and I feel like it’s just me as a driver that needs to figure out the rest. Lol.
Here’s a quick clip of what the car sounds like coming around onto the front straight.
https://instagram.com/p/Bh5KcRtgA5d/
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