A couple of weeks back I headed out to Tsukuba Circuit to do some testing on our reprogrammed ECU and some adjustments that have been made to the suspension settings on our demo car.
Although the weather was still a little warm on the day ( 29 C ) we needed to get some data from pushing the car harder than can be done safely on the road… as it turned out the car handled the conditions very well and in addition to getting a lot of useful data I managed to set our best lap time to date at Tsukuba with a time of 1″04.06.
I was pretty happy with the way the day turned out even though I was having quite a bit of trouble with rear end grip through the last corner that was robbing valuable time… if we can get the car better set up at the rear for that last corner then I am sure there is still a fair bit of time to be gained so I am looking forward to working on that before the next time I go to Tsukuba.
Also worth mentioning is the difference in the way the car sounds now with the new exhaust… no longer does it sound like an asthmatic vacuum cleaner when hitting the higher RPM range… check out the video below compared to some of the older videos with the stock exhaust to see what I mean.
Until next time… thanks for looking.
