The best lap of this session, and my first session ever on this track, was a 1:57.532. Best lap of the day was 1:55.709

Speed Ventures at Auto Club Speedway in my Mitsubishi Evolution X running red group. My first time at this track. Had serious fuel starvation issues at turn 17 coming onto the oval. Starting at lap 4, and every lap after that, you can hear the car back fire in quick succession and lose power as I come onto the oval. This would happen everytime my fuel dropped below 3/4 of a tank.


A BIG thank you to Massimo Power and Naji at Looney Tune for helping me sort my fuel issue at the track. At first we thought it was a tuning problem so MC (who was at the track with us) called Naji (who was at home) and he did a quick edit on my tune and emailed it to MC. MC then hooked up his laptop and flashed my car with the new tune, but I still had issues during the next session. So once again Naji did another tune and sent it to MC to flash to my car. Finally on my last session of the day I was able to get in 8 laps without issue. On the 9th lap the issue came back. At the end of the day we figured it was fuel starvation which was caused by the high G left hander coming onto the oval (my datalog shows me at 80+mph in turn 17).

By the time I figured out it was fuel starvation that was causing my problem the battery on my gopro died (my fault for not fully charging it) and I couldn't record my best lap. The last session of the day I managed a 1:55.709 with a full tank of gas. All 8 laps of the last session were 1:55.xxx to 1:56.xxx.

Now that I know I have to run a full tank I can concentrate on the car setup next time. I think I have a 1:53.xxx in me at this track. Hope to have a fuel surge kit setup soon to resolve the fuel starvation issue while not having to run a full tank of gas...and the added weight to go along with it.

All in all not bad for a stock turbo full interior street tire daily driver :)

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