In the 10+ years of track experience we have had, we’ve made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot of lessons. Hopefully, the lessons in this article will make life easier for you. First things first, I may interchange the words water and coolant, don’t get mad at me. In practice, you use water … Continue reading How to make your street car’s cooling system race and track-day ready.
The gentlemen at Gears and Gasoline put together an amazing little video recapping the 2019 Gridlife Midwest Festival. We are heavily featured in it and are ever so grateful. Please take a view and show them some love!!! https://youtu.be/mV75O2YIfQI
It was 10 months in the making. After two engine failures, a fire, and coming so close to the fastest lap ever at Super Lap Battle 2017, we knew we had a big rebuild ahead of us. In that time we’d repair the bodywork, rewire the entire car, update our data acquisition system, install a … Continue reading Back in the Saddle Again at Gridlife Round 5 Gingerman
I'll be blunt, the first round of aero testing on the Project Miata was a mixed bag. I (Dan O'Donnell) got 3 clean laps in and Devin Giles only got 2. I drove on the stiffest sway bar setting and the car was a little loose, so we switched it to the middle setting for … Continue reading Low Power Miata Aerodynamic Testing
There are two types of Professional Awesome mornings. The mornings I enjoy are the ones that consist of 11 am wakeup calls, good breakfast and a comfy couch for the remainder of the day. The other type of morning is a different animal all together. Generally the air is chilly, the Sun has yet to … Continue reading Gingerman Test Day Fall 2010
Looks like all of those sleepless nights paid off! For testing, we were running ~100 less horsepower than we were running last season so that we can safely break in the car. We were faster than we were last season. Coming down the front straight, faster than ever before. How is this possible? Let’s take … Continue reading Gingerman Testing : Success!
