Hyde got his ass kicked. Duryea Hill Climb

[PearlGT]

hah i like that video, very nice run for a first time.

[Ace$nyper]

vid was so worth the D/L thanks for posting it great run too man!

[JekylandHyde]

Originally Posted by PearlGT

hah i like that video, very nice run for a first time.

lol ... "for a first time" ... I beat the hill record for my class by 3.5 seconds. I think that is good for anytime

Serisously, I'll get better tires and analyze the hell out of that video and next year will be very different.

Originally Posted by Ace$nyper

vid was so worth the D/L thanks for posting it great run too man!

Thanks!

[tha_new_guy]

Is he still on the old tires you sold to him?

[JekylandHyde]

He is on the same brand of tire I sold him.
I believe he has since replaced two of them.

[SR20DETpower]

that was awesome sir!

you race with your t tops open? does that take away your chassis stiffnes at alll?

that car has great turn in, I notice it seems like you try to gun it to early with the line your taking, I would try to feed it some more power earlier and ride out the racing line more to the edge of the road with a little less steering effort and trying to keep the rear end planted. it just seems like you cut some of those corners too hard and lost a lot of traction comming out of the turn.

what do I know though, i've never driven your car.. but thats my critical analysis of it. looks like you need some better brakes perhaps.. looks like you took it easy comming into a few corners... tires? saving the brakes? rough road?

that was some good driving though lol, I loved how the rear end slipped out a lil on the top of the hill, thats one of those moves you just do instinctively without thinking and that takes balls to do running it that hard on a hill climb.

[JekylandHyde]

SR20DETpower, thanks for the critique and feedback.
To answer a few of your questions:

1. You are not allowed to have the T-tops in during a hill climb.
They want to limit glass during an accident especially glass under flex like a T-top. I do not lose any rigidty since I have a 6-point rol lbar in my car. I assure you my car is plenty stiff.

2. I agree on cutting the corners a bit hard and losing some grip. My intent was to allow room for the rear to step out if need be. My "lines" were a little conservative, but (a) this was my first time (b) my priority was driving teh car home

3. I have wonderful brakes. The corners you saw me coming into "slow" I was screwed on gearing. If you watch again, you might catch that I fully wind out 2nd gear a few feet before those turns. It is an awful choice between cruising in 2nd OR grabbing 3rd to only have to downshift right away again.

4. I've been racing/driving MR2s for 10 years, the rearend stepping barely makes me flinch any more. To be honest, the moment you are refering to I forgot about until I saw the tape. From the crest after that point on I am in 4th gear full boost and the car is skating across the road ... THAT was unnerving and that is what got my adrenaline going.
So much so that I forgot about that stepping out point

Thanks again for the critique.

[MR2Driver]

Is that a fire suit Jeff?

[JekylandHyde]

Yes, to do the hill you need:

Either a 2 layer fire suit OR a single layer with nomex underwear.

You also need nomex socks, fire proof gloves and shoes and a helmet.
If you have facial hair you need a nomex sock for your face (forget the name of those)

You also need a roll cage that meets SCCA specs and a fire extinguisher with metal nozzles/brackets/handles.

.... one last thing, if you have at -top car, you need arm restraints as well.

[Rating]

JekylandHyde, this maybe a stupid question, but ATS whats it stand for, because there is an ATS Performance shop here where I live, and I wanted to know if that has some type of connection.

[JekylandHyde]

If you click my siggy photo you will go to ATS racing's site. They are in Texas.

ATS is threee guys names.
Aaron and Scott ... I am not sure of the 3rd guys name.

[SR20DETpower]

yeah I guess I never thought about the T tops that way/didn't see your roll cage in vid.

yeah I did notice you topped out a few seconds before a couple corners and were just kinda stuck at that speed... not too much you can do about that I suppose.

I don't know much about the mr2 transmission, do they have a selection of final gear ratios you can choose from, is yours stock? A lower ratio might actually help you out with the turbo boosting away, you had no problem winding out the lower gears on your current setup. Everyone is always talking about higher gearing for racing, I kind of like a little bit lower one to broaden the speeds i can reach in a gear.

what a good day that must have been man, that looked like a lot of fun LOL, we have nothing like that down here in South East Florida.

[JekylandHyde]

Yeah, my tranny is 100% OEM.

I only know of one alternate gear set for the MR2 and you have to order from Japan ($$$$).
The easiest way to change gearing in our cars is to alter your over all tire + rim diameter.

[SR20DETpower]

I've seen a company that makes dog cut gear sets starting at 7 grand LOL.... thats just rediculous, Im talking about the final gear though, the one connected with the differential. This a lot easier then changing out the entire gear set. I've never had a 5spd mr2 come to the shop before so I don't know much about their transmission. Do any other cars share that transmission? is the AW11 or sw20 N/A transmissions the same? Do they have different final drive ratios?

that could be worth looking into next time you have the transmission pulled.

[JekylandHyde]

AW11's are entirely different.

The 5SFE (the NAs) bolt up to the 3SGTE engine, but I am not sure about individual gears.
I know the trannies were designed for entirely different power bands.