Yes, this was a fun read...
Thank you!
In reply to Tom Suddard :
Glad you pulled out the shoe horn to fit Mike into your Miata. That boy can drive. Too bad about the breakage.
Awesome, glad everybody enjoyed it! Thanks for following along.
And here are the official results. Looks like Race 1 is posted, but Race 2 is just a placeholder for now:
https://race.americanenduranceracing.com/event/aer-at-road-atlanta-2018/results
My turbo miata would stretch studs like they were made of taffy at race pace..er..track day pace. Iconel studs will be the way to go. After that, they never stretched. Then I had to figure out how to use stage 8 locking bolts to hold the parts together on either side of the studs!
What bolts not studs?! Thats the problem right there that's turbo basics 101.... Thermal expansion is a bummer
We had a new exhaust exit after those bolts stopped acting like bolts.
AER puts on a good event. I have done only one but it was a blast. I need to do more, but with two kids a weekend away is not an option right now. Thanks for live blogging it, I read it all as it happened and it helped put off the race withdrawal!
Fun read!
Sorry to hear about the turbo hardware failure. Guy who assembled my engine decided to use grade 5 bolts to attach my turbo to the manifold. Wanna guess what happens when they've had a couple heat cycles run through them? Hint: bad things.
On the plus side, the engineering has already been done for you here. I went with stainless ARP's that will likely prevent a future failure in my case. If you want to take it to the next level (both materially and financially) then Iconel is your new best friend.
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