My circuit racing set up VX GTS - Part 1

[HSV Listy]

Couple of videos from the weekend. I had the DVR set too sensitive on the Gforce so it split up the videos under the hard braking until I changed the setting later in the day. I will edit the videos over the coming days to make one video. The main hoop mount is being made up so next outing the camera position will be better.
The voltage is fine too. Just needs a bit of adjustment on the DVR.

[macca_779]

Hey Tony any reason why the TPS refresh rate is so slow? Very clean lapping mate. Shame I never got to hidden valley for a car track day. Will be racing at winton next year though when my car is finished.

[Alex81]

Ahh that reminded me of riding my bike around that track, got to just over 260km/h down the straight. That was some nice driving i liked all that info on the video.

[HSV Listy]

Hey Tony any reason why the TPS refresh rate is so slow? Very clean lapping mate. Shame I never got to hidden valley for a car track day. Will be racing at winton next year though when my car is finished.

Not sure on that and I am already looking into it. Seems to update ever 2 second or so. The LM2 TP output is super quick so it must be something on the OBD2 interface.
Also the engine load does not pick up on the GTS but does on the Avalanche. I guess so much have been mucked around with the GTS it is not surprising stuff is not showing up.

[HSV Listy]

I found the issue with the TP sensor. I set it up to read every 2 seconds instead of every .2 seconds. Easy fix. The temp is now sorted as that needed a adjustment on the min/max readings. New bit of kit so still ironing out the leaning process.

This is the slightly different intake tray set up. All one piece and just slides into place now and I slip the trumpets over the throttles. Much easier and better set up. The top cover is not shown. I have made up some filters for the top too to get more air in there and utilize the scoop in the bonnet.

[HSV Listy]

It was round 6 at the track today and all went well. Won the day which was good.
Not as fast as last time but the tyres and some camber issues were the only reason. It was a stinker and cars were dropping out through out the day from temp issues. Just so glad the GTS is right for these temps now.
I took a bit of angle off the rear wing to pick up some straight line speed and I picked up about 5 to 6km/h atleast.

The camber the tyre bloke set was off for some reason. Not sure why he put so much on it but it looked funny when I picked up the car but through nothing of it (I think around -6 degrees drivers and the normal -4 passenger). At the end of race three the drivers front tyre had delaminated and was through to the metal on the outer edge. I swapped it for the back on and finished the day.
The understeer was really bad all day and it was pretty obvious why. I will hit the tyre bloke up tommorrow to see what went wrong and why it was not on my normal settings (killed a good tyre out if it)

Best lap for the day was a 1.22.1 which I am wrapped with considering the understeer. The extra speed down the straight would of made up a bit. The average for the day was in the low 1.22s up until the last round due to the shagged tyre but managed some low 1.24s still

I have a spare tyre for the last round in a month so it will be fine.

I will uploads some videos over the coming days.

One no good point for the day a bloke with a new evo hit the wall and plenty of damage front and rear. ( i got it on video and will post it later. The bloke said it was ok to do. )

[GHZ28]

Did that tyre wear through on the inner or outer edge?

I would have thought that too much camber would wear the inside edge not the outer. I have 5.5 degrees negative on mine, but it runs slicks not semis.

[HSV Listy]

Garry, it was from the turns as that is the way the track goes and the outer edge that was wrecked was the highest loaded tyre

Bit of video

I did not miss the start either. The bloke next to me should of stayed. Gave me someone else to chase so all good.

Also big sorry for the dam beeping. Gforce alert was set to on on the DVR and should be off for racing.



This the the poor evo driver. He told me it was ok to put up and wanted a copy too

[HSV Listy]

Here is another vid without the beeps. More budget type system so not flash HD videl here. It does a good job still and the sound is exactly what the car sounds like to the ears. Crazy intake sound those 8TBs.

[HSV Listy]

Little update. I was made redundant from my job late last year. 6.5 years I was with them but it was a voluntary one anyway. I have put in for a few job and got a top job which I am starting next week. Government job so I am saying goodbuy to private industry.
The redundancy money was good which I used for a good holiday and paying off some bills. The new job comes with a car so the GTS will now be parked up as a weekend car and racetrack car only from now on. The sponsorship has stopped now too so I am going to see if I can find somone else over the coming months.

Plans for the car will be pretty minimal this year. The usual new tyres and that is about it. I am thinking about doing some aero work on it with the front undertray, under car and rear diffuser and also start using the car for motorkhanas now as they are getting more popular up here.
If I pick up sponsorship thinks may change again but we will see.
Happy new year.

[Benno25]

Sounds good Listy, see you out at the island next week.

Might see you down at the next motorkana if your entering?

Cheers
Benno

[HSV Listy]

No worries Benno. Looking forward to it out there.

I plan on doing the motorkhana on the 22nd at this stage.

[Djbarnstar]

That sounds tough!

Can you pls pm me with a price for this system if you still sell them? The budget vid system that is that you use in the above vision.

Cheers!

[HSV Listy]

Quiet year for me this year. Brand new job and much smaller funds from sponsorship (no$10k / year budgets now). Other than some aero bits modifications there is not much going on. I have a few smaller sponsors for this year which is good so get free tyres and basic maintenance. As yet no word when the decals will come off and change over to the new sponsors.

The new job has a work car so the GTS is all retired from street duties. At the end of this year I am reassing where things are at with the GTS, circuit racing so a change may be at hand. I officially can not get the Improved Production race licence due to medical so no actual proper bumper to bumper racing for me in the long term. I may look at going some FI on the GTS to give it that much needed power upgrade.

I will put some photos up as things go. The next race is on the 14th May so finially we are underway for the season. Late start due to a number of delays at the track

[OED666]

Listy, if there is a problem with selecting reverse, did you contact Mal Wood Auto about the problem???

If there is a problem with it, it will be fixed under warranty! I'll personally make sure of it! While it's there, we can change the springs in the shifter to sharpen up the side movement of the stick.