2013 Event #7

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mmarshall

Member #053
Location
Florissant
First Name
Mike
Last Name
Marshall
Rick and I ran event #7 today at family arena. I also had my friend Gary co-drive with me. Tim showed up and took his 1st ride in the Coupe and allowed me to demonstrate that I still have oversteer issues as I spun on the very 1st lap. After the 1st runs we started to develop clutch issues which caused me to put the car on the trailer 2 runs early. Most of the day I had to put the car in 2nd gear and then start it and immediately launch in 2nd gear as the car would not shift from 1st to 2nd. This slowed things down a little, but I was able to log 1 fairly fast lap before we packed it in for the day.

I was so busy with my problems that I really did not keep up with Rick's results.

Here is my best lap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX_H2XwlbxA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUd16s9zwPBUCB8EpK7OAzJA
 
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I didn;t post the fun I have been having. Between Event 8 and 7, I decided to rebuild my distributor, fearing an intermittent problem with the GM/Delco ignition module and/or pickup coil. I thought that might account for the slow times at Event 6. Yesterday, I decided to clean the spark plugs, put them back in, and one had gone dead while cleaning. And it has gotten difficult to start without flooding the engine.

At Event 7, I was a half second behind Mike on the second run, and his third run dropped his time another second-and-a-half. I chased that time for the rest of the heat. I dropped .3 more seconds off my previous time, then overdrove the offsets at the end and lost a lot of time avoiding hitting the cones. My last felt really fast, and I was ready to slam on the brakes to go through the end offsets clean and smooth, but the engine cut out in the wallums, it belched and burped, I hit the clutch, coasted, then it came back on. I was thinking maybe fuel starvation from sloshing the gas away from the fuel pump pickup.

On the way home, going down the big 270 hill south of Manchester, it backfired like a cannon, stopped running, and wouldn't restart. After coasting to a stop, I ran the codes, and it said lean O2 reading. Followed by an adventure walking to find a tow truck in Manchester... And a tow home.
I'm thinking the O2 sensor might be bad.

The unofficial times:

Mike: 52.973
Mike's Competition: 54.486
Jacob: 57.080
Richard: 57.148
Gary: 63.695
 
Sorry to hear about your troubles Bill, hope you get it fixed. Had a great time Sunday each run I made we knocked a little time off. It took a couple runs to feel out the car with Mike's autocross tires on the back. Hadn't felt the car push the front end like that before but it worked out in the end. Wonder what a full set would do. Might have to look into a set of used wheels and see what I can find in tires. Anyway it was good to see some club members come out for the fun hope you enjoyed it I know I sure did.

Rick:)
 
Was a fun time, and thanks for the ride Mike. Rick, I think I remember your worst time at 68 and best time of 57 on the 6th run, with a passenger I might add. Both of you did a great job.
 
I realized after posting the times, the wrong-hand-drive Integra managed to sneak past you guys. During the heat, I was concentrating on catching Mike, and afterwards, I assumed he brought up the rear. Rich had one of those all-too-common situations with .00000000X seconds separating finish times. And Gary really caught the worst of the shifter problem.

I swapped the suspect O2 sensor into another car and it fired right up. I might find out later that it is running lean, but it isn't the source of the non-starting problem.
I swapped in my spare, new, OEM, always-stays-on-the-shelf, break-glass-only-in-case-of-emergency, distributor. The car fired right up.
Now I am thinking the Accel HEI super module I used in the rebuild has probably crapped out in 14 days of use. The muscle car guys say only use genuine Delco, everything else is junk made in China. The AC Delco parts store has none even in the warehouse. I said the thing is used in all the 85-95 GM cars, there have to be some people taking good cars of 95 Camaros and Corvettes... The guy looks at me like a 1995 car is some kind of antique. So mail order it is.
Meanwhile, I am looking at Fiero websites with descriptions of how to mount a heat sink to the base of the distributor... Or maybe I should remote mount a 12 volt fish tank air pump and run the hose into the distributor breather hole... Or buy a bunch of plugs and wire and remote mount the module (with a heat sink) on the firewall...
 
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