2011 IPRA Nationals

[Cooker]

This weekend is the 2011 IPRA Nationals, held at Mallala in SA. Our 2010 IPRA National Championship EG Civic is there to defend it's title. We had quite alot of new parts not arriving in time for this event, so the car is not as quick as it could of been.

Car went well on Friday and posted fastest times in class. Also today it posted fastest times in class and won in it's class.

It is doing 1:18sec laps with the top IPRA guys not in our class doing 1:15sec lap times.
The next fastest car in our class is a little Datto that is very quick and tidy and is posting 1:19sec lap times.

Final race tomorow.

[Bludger]

good luck. Go the Honda's

[Cooker]

We did it, 2011 IPRA National Champions again.
Can we make it a hat trick and win next year in Tassie?
Wait another year to find out.

[Cooker]

Oh, forgot to mention, lap record at Mallala also.

[Benson]

Well done guys. Doing well Reppin the Honda's

Question, why was this event on when there was a state round in NSW as well?

[Cooker]

Thanks Benny.
Yer last year the nationals were only 1 week from the nsw final IPRA race.
Not very good organization IMO.
You would think that they wouldn't make the nationals so close to the NSW round when NSW has one of the biggest IPRA entrant numbers, especially in U2L.

[jdm_b16a]

Sometimes it's all down to the CAMs calendar and usually events are organised around other more major events. So there is inevitably a clash of dates. You'd think there was little difficulty in organising decent time spaces between events but it's not as easy as that!

Shame really as the NSW boys could have given the rest a good shake.

Congratulations on your team being 2011 champs, again.

Peter

[Cooker]

Yep defiantly, NSW has the strongest feild of U2L cars in the nation.

Even though we are the IPRA National champs for 2 years running now, unless we compete directly against the top NSW cars then it isn't really true if we were to say we are the fastest U2L IPRA car in OZ.

Likewise, people from NSW (In any form of motorsport, IPRA, TIME ATTACK, SPRINTS, HILLCLIMBS etc) shouldn't make claims that they are fastest in OZ unless they have competed and won against the top cars from every state.

[Tegzieboi_BAR]

Holy crap!!! You guys managed a 1:18!?!? :O that is an amazing time, congratulations! I came out to have a watch on the Sunday and only saw you guys lapping 1:22's but 18's is an amazing time especially with all the regulations of an IP car.

We have a very competitive Time Attack series and with a time like that you would be pretty close to a top 10 finish and that's against some serious, pretty much unrestricted cars.

Well done, gives me something to aim for with my EG :) hope to see the beast out there again next year.

[sadlerau]

Holy crap!!! You guys managed a 1:18!?!? :O that is an amazing time, congratulations! I came out to have a watch on the Sunday and only saw you guys lapping 1:22's but 18's is an amazing time especially with all the regulations of an IP car.

We have a very competitive Time Attack series and with a time like that you would be pretty close to a top 10 finish and that's against some serious, pretty much unrestricted cars.

Well done, gives me something to aim for with my EG :) hope to see the beast out there again next year.

Went to Mallala for the June race meet to see how the car went on the track in preparation for the Nationals. Fastest time of the weekend back then was 18.03 on the Saturday on tyres that had already done 20 odd laps, and a very tired motor.

The Nationals are not so much about how quick you are, but about who finishes first. I did the times necessary to keep in front of my opposition, and to finish the 20 lapper, no more or less. The other "rider" was that our engine builder has let us down very badly and we are still using that tired old engine we were using in June! I have no doubt that with a fresh engine and green tyres we would see a low 17 sec lap, and with a better driver maybe even more? ;)

[Tegzieboi_BAR]

The Nationals are not so much about how quick you are, but about who finishes first. I did the times necessary to keep in front of my opposition, and to finish the 20 lapper, no more or less. The other "rider" was that our engine builder has let us down very badly and we are still using that tired old engine we were using in June! I have no doubt that with a fresh engine and green tyres we would see a low 17 sec lap, and with a better driver maybe even more? ;)

Completely understand and agree, why push harder than you have to and risk issues :thumbsup:

Any idea how Platters EG went? I believe they were having some problems and didn't run in the final. He still run the B16 setup?

[Cooker]

Yer he still B16. He was running 1:20, very respectable for a 1.6L

[sadlerau]

Finally have some in-car footage from the "black beast".

Gavin Reynolds is doing the driving this year, and this was his first "Race" meeting and only his third race! :)

The car has some issues to resolve - new motor which we can't rev out because of oil cavitation problems from the K20 oil pump [being resolved]. It also did not have the optimum front suspension
package, as we have a damaged upper ball joint on that set-up which should [finger's crossed] be resolved for our next meeting. Gearing is an issue with the extra power form the new motor, and
this will take some time to sort out - but we will get there.

Lastly the Integra was using the much grippier Yokohama 050 rather than the 048s we were using. Anyway enjoy the race :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EIhKNwAN8HE

[sadlerau]

Oh and he set a new IPRA Under 2 Litre lap record on the second lap - big opposite lock moment and all :eek:

[Fraser]

Lastly the Integra was using the much grippier Yokohama 050 rather than the 048s we were using. Anyway enjoy the race :)
[/QUOTE]

That Integra is running a B20 I believe so he would be short 30 odd hp on your car and he won 2 out of the 3 races too.He was great to watch and the way it jumped off the rather large ripple strip was quite scary.Keep up the great racing.

[sadlerau]

That Integra is running a B20 I believe so he would be short 30 odd hp on your car and he won 2 out of the 3 races too.He was great to watch and the way it jumped off the rather large ripple strip was quite scary.Keep up the great racing.



Colin's ITR is running a B18 with a sleeved block, not a B20 block - with Quad throttle bodies and many months of development work! But I would be surprised if he was giving away 30hp at peak, as the speed difference at the end of the straights wasn't that big. The biggest difference between a B and K motor is in the mid-range, where there is as much as 30hp difference but at 6000rpm. At 8000 the B is catching up, and wont finish that far behind by the time they reach 9000 :)

I am really looking forward to watching those two race over the next few months [almost as much as I would, doing the driving!]. There is going to be some great races, as they respect each other and give each other racing room.

Oh, and a little birdie tells me Colin is already well advanced on building a K20 powered EK :cool:

[Stevil]

Great footage sadlerau ! I reckon Gav's a little too polite, I would have rubbed all the goddam blue paint off that pricks bumper, specially after that manouvre at 8.50. Looking forward to more footage

[sadlerau]

Getting a little excited aren't we? Colin's not a prick by any means, a very nice polite guy off the track, but a bit of a demon on! But that is what I would expect from someone at the pointy end of the field :D

That manouvre at 8:50 is a fairly common one at Barbagallo Raceway - the car behind dive-bombing the car on the racing line, and the smart drivers give the car coming through lots of room - as Gavin did. Nothing to get too excited about :cool:

[patchwick]

enjoyed watching that vid..nice battle with the dc2 :)

[Fraser]

Obviously not racing for sheep stations as both passes on the Integra, driver Colin gave plenty of room.Very polite.I couldn't help myself I would have braked on the right hand side and made the Civic drive around the outside.I hope you post up future races for our enjoyment.

[sadlerau]

I think Colin was being "nice" because it was Gavin's first meet. Don't remember him being so generous when I was out there!! :D

[Fraser]

We are all waiting for the latest vids from the 22nd,hoping they are even better or did the blue Integra get you.

[sadlerau]

We are all waiting for the latest vids from the 22nd,hoping they are even better or did the blue Integra get you.


Unfortunately there won't be any vids form the July meeting :(

Some issues have developed on the car. We ran it at the Tuning Day prior to the race meeting, and Gavin reported that the engine felt "soft" in it's power delivery. So on the following Wednesday night she was sent off for a dyno run, which it was running slightly down on power and the culprit seemed to be the air-fuel ratio which was much leaner than the previous run. The injectors were taken out to be flow checked [we have had issues with these in the past] and sent for evaluation Thursday. Back in the workshop on Thursday night Gavin decided [being the VERY thorough person he is] to check the fuel system. To his horror, the first item he checked, the pre-filter, was chock a block full of small metal fillings!! As was the main filter and some minute traces even made it as far as the fuel rail :(

The fuel injectors came back with a clean bill of health and Saturday morning Gavin and Dev set about replacing/cleaning the fuel system in preparedness for a dyno run late Saturday afternoon for a final check out before the race meeting on Sunday. The only concern long term is we will be replacing the foam filled fuel tank, as there is no chance of getting that clean! Where did the metal fillings come from you ask? I had bought a brand new, fancy rotary fuel pump to decanter our E85 out of the 200 litre drums it is delivered in. It seem that the expensive pump was only good for creating more expense! From now on it's the plastic jiggler hose for that duty :)

The car dynoed ok, still a bit down on peak power but otherwise healthy again. Gavin drove the car back to the workshop to do the final preparation work for the race meeting, and on the way home [15 minute drive] he noticed a slight vibration coming form the engine at low rpm. When he pulled into the workshop he could hear a faint rattle from the engine!! A panicked few hours of looking and running dianostics on the computer eventually exposed a problem with the VTC pulley not playing it's part. It was varying it's cam phasing without permission from the computer! Doh. The motor down low is ok, as an "Oil Check" has given the oil a clean bill of health :)

Upshot is we didn't make it to the race meeting, and as of today we will begin the investigation into what has happened.