Posted by Bart_Banaan on 2007/10/6 9:00:00 (1913 reads )
Friday 5 October 2007
Today there were 5 more frequency controlled practices, and Roelof started with his JP Eagle which was still on the MRX4-R chassis from yesterday. It was hard to give the engine some power in the low RPM regions, but at high RPMs the engine went very well. Roelof and Fedor had to work on the tuning of the JP. Since Roelof and Fedor had some other engines which needed to be broken in and configured, they used the 2nd, 3rd and 4th controlled practices to get these engines in a basic set-up. In the 5th and last session of the day Roelof mounted the JP Eagle engine again, after Fedor and he had done some work on it; with one head sshim less the engine had more compression which worked a lot better since Córdoba is 400mtr above sealevel which caused the engine to loose some power in respect to our normal 'sealevel' racing here in Holland.
With the rebuild JP Eagle the fifth session went very well; lots of torque and a high topspeed. This made Roelof one of the fastest cars on the track in his group. The chassis went very well, but only the rearside was a bit 'loose' which will be solved with the new body which Fedor prepared for Roelof.
The other drivers on the track also showed some nice racing in these practise heats...
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Jilles Gosskamp had some problems to get used to the difficult combination before entering the straight, Roelof has made a film of Jilles on the track which can be seen when you are logged in as a Member to this site. Shimo uses the new OS Max engine, and Roelof toke his time to check out Shimo on the track and he is impressed by the skills of Shimo and the potential of the new OS Max engine, which needed some more fine tuning to run optimal. Also Rick Vriellijnck from the Mugen Team had some troubles with fining the correct lines before entering the straight; this is a very difficult corner combination on the track!
The wetter was changing in the course of the day; al lot of wind and the temperatures dropped, so probably on saturday it will be colder and maybe there will be some rain. Even when it rains Roelof and Fedor will get to he track to test some rain set-ups.
In our Day 2 Photogallery you will find pictures of the NEW KYOSHO EVOLVA and ofcourse the new orange body of Roelof which has been prepared by Fedor....
