7evin
08-11-2008, 02:49 PM
Hey Guys thanks for your support.
As many of you already know we were at Road Atlanta this weekend.
Friday during test and tune we were coming down the front stretch on our 4th lap
and the oil filter came loose and we dumped 4 qts of oil at 8500 rpms.
We finished Test and Tune on Friday after Loctiting the oil filter on w/o any other
problems.
Saturday morning we hit the track ready to run top 5 or maybe even set the RA Time Trial
Record. Well it wasn't in the cards. After the first lap Mojito would not stay in Vtech.
From all indications she appeared to be going into Limp mode. (I hate it when that happens :ack: )
We work feverishly between runs to resolve the issue. It appeared that the never failing
Honda ECM had failed. We searched every junk yard and dealership with in a 150 miles
trying to find a replacement, to no avail. Mandurath (Marc) found one on Ebay at a place
called HPC. My wife searched their web site and found the owners name and we gave him a call at home. He agreed to come in on Sunday morning open up and sell us an ECM.
I called Brian Anderson (the brains and talent that designed and builds the S2K) back to let him know that I got lucky and found an ECM, He was already on a plane with 3 ECM's
headed my way (broken ribs and all).... Wow... I could hardly believe it.
We picked him up from the airport
at 1:30 am and were back to the track before 3 am.
Sunday: We were up at 6:30 am and working on Mojito prepping her to do battle at 9.
We hit the track ready to put the hurt on some corvettes and porsches... We made
it one full lap with Vtech and she started doing the same thing.
We were still holding 12th position, But not where we wanted to be.
We decided to rewire the ECM supply voltage to the battery cut off switch so that
every other lap I could cut power to the ECM for 20 seconds and reset it.
20 seconds coasting with no power on a race track seems like an hour.
This didn't really help. It appears that the issue is with the oil pressure...
Not enough of it once the engine gets hot to keep the Vtech open.
Lap times:
Friday: 1:34.210
Saturday: 1:40.105
Sunday: 1:36.589
There were 3 7's represented at the event.
David Seybold in his smokin hot red and black Super Stalker. He came all the way from New Mexico to run with us.
The ever fast Paul Whittle in his silver bullet Super Stalker kept the heat on all weekend long.
We did not get much of a chance to hang out and talk because we were working our butts off to get the car right. But what we did I really enjoyed these guys were very cool people..... of course they own 7s.
We finished 8th overall and 6th in TTR (Time Trial Race)
Just thought i would bring you guys up to date.
Thanks again for all your support.
Cheers
7evin
As many of you already know we were at Road Atlanta this weekend.
Friday during test and tune we were coming down the front stretch on our 4th lap
and the oil filter came loose and we dumped 4 qts of oil at 8500 rpms.
We finished Test and Tune on Friday after Loctiting the oil filter on w/o any other
problems.
Saturday morning we hit the track ready to run top 5 or maybe even set the RA Time Trial
Record. Well it wasn't in the cards. After the first lap Mojito would not stay in Vtech.
From all indications she appeared to be going into Limp mode. (I hate it when that happens :ack: )
We work feverishly between runs to resolve the issue. It appeared that the never failing
Honda ECM had failed. We searched every junk yard and dealership with in a 150 miles
trying to find a replacement, to no avail. Mandurath (Marc) found one on Ebay at a place
called HPC. My wife searched their web site and found the owners name and we gave him a call at home. He agreed to come in on Sunday morning open up and sell us an ECM.
I called Brian Anderson (the brains and talent that designed and builds the S2K) back to let him know that I got lucky and found an ECM, He was already on a plane with 3 ECM's
headed my way (broken ribs and all).... Wow... I could hardly believe it.
We picked him up from the airport
at 1:30 am and were back to the track before 3 am.
Sunday: We were up at 6:30 am and working on Mojito prepping her to do battle at 9.
We hit the track ready to put the hurt on some corvettes and porsches... We made
it one full lap with Vtech and she started doing the same thing.
We were still holding 12th position, But not where we wanted to be.
We decided to rewire the ECM supply voltage to the battery cut off switch so that
every other lap I could cut power to the ECM for 20 seconds and reset it.
20 seconds coasting with no power on a race track seems like an hour.
This didn't really help. It appears that the issue is with the oil pressure...
Not enough of it once the engine gets hot to keep the Vtech open.
Lap times:
Friday: 1:34.210
Saturday: 1:40.105
Sunday: 1:36.589
There were 3 7's represented at the event.
David Seybold in his smokin hot red and black Super Stalker. He came all the way from New Mexico to run with us.
The ever fast Paul Whittle in his silver bullet Super Stalker kept the heat on all weekend long.
We did not get much of a chance to hang out and talk because we were working our butts off to get the car right. But what we did I really enjoyed these guys were very cool people..... of course they own 7s.
We finished 8th overall and 6th in TTR (Time Trial Race)
Just thought i would bring you guys up to date.
Thanks again for all your support.
Cheers
7evin