We went back to SLMP for the second track weekend of the year. This time we brought the EVO III Swap (known as the POS project) that I've been working on for a year now.

I got the POS there, now renamed Evil POS. In the last few days before loading I had to swap out a master cylinder, then built an alternator since re-mans do not get new brushes anymore it seems. Then as I was doing final setup of the fuel system I had a hard time getting the high boost to run, I ended up removing part of the E-Manage and just used airflow conditioning and wow this thing scoots with about 350 hp. But as I was moving the car around getting tires mounted it became reluctant to start. Finally three hours after it was to be on the trailer I realized the ECU had failed. At O dark thirty on Thursday I pulled the big injectors and stole the ECU from Carolyn's Galant VR4 and the car fired right up. I then loaded the trailer and we were on out way.

So I got it there, down a hundred horses from the day before but by the time I got on the track the car is not ready for the power. I started Friday on the track with a set of Dunlop D5000s and the car drove nice, I was troubled with the power steering reservoir puking all over the inner fender. I pulled the filter out of it and all was good but I had excessive tire rub.

I started Saturday morning changing to a set of Michelin Pilot sports. No tire rub but low grip and horrible understeer. With the clutch type LSD unit at both ends of the car you can not touch the power with understeer. It was fighting a point and squirt car. I came up with a tire pressure setup that reduced the understeer but then my issue was engine cutting out on corner entry this was preventing me from getting the car to take a set. It was not until laying in bed after getting home did I realize the Bog was due to the Blow off valve vented to atmosphere with the stock ECU causing the engine to flood during braking. Drats I could have dealt with that at the track.

Next year it will have a proper suspension and a standalone ECU. All in all the car came home better than it went there, I never got below a minute this year. I did try :).

Now I need to figure how to bring this and the Tubeframe car called the Other one next summer. Carolyn drove her old Miata, spun it once and put it part way around a few more times. She had a good time.

Dave was FTD both days, has sore arms from driving so much.

Weather was good during the days but Sat night when we were up town for dinner with most people staying back at the track, we had a mini hurricane blow through Taking out the clubs canopy, it went airborne over a new Mazda 3 tripped on my trailer then got hung up in my canopy. I did not have the fly on my new tent expecting rain would fall from above not across as this was. A group took to securing there canopy and then dropped my tent down as well as my canopy greatly reducing the amount of water filling our bed. We were grateful. We also had bought most all our fuel a week before so we did not have to travel on the inflated prices. We saw $4 a gallon in northern NY.