Leroy on August 27th, 2010

Looking forward to another race with the outlaw pontiacs this fall. Should be a good time – decent speeds and good ET. Excited to compete again!

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Leroy on May 24th, 2010

With the weather looking average, and no real plans for the weekend (other than catching up on work and cleaning up for Jr’s arrival) we decided to go racing. It was a real blast! We got to make 2 time trials and one full pass for eliminations. My opponent red-lighted so we had a free [...]

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Leroy on April 19th, 2010

We lost 1st round That’s the summary. Nah, it doesn’t need to be so glum. Here is the real deal. We had pretty good lights all day (between .030 and .070) and we had super consistent 60′ times (between 1.52 and 1.53). We also were able to get the Racepak to record a full pass. [...]

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Leroy on November 29th, 2009

Here’s a picture of the kit of parts we ordered. I did some tweaking of our wiring and got a switch and wiring hooked up. Once we get the unit installed we’ll have power for it. Decided to wire it to the network on the car that has power to the switch 100% of the [...]

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Leroy on November 23rd, 2009

I’ll post some pics once I get them from the camera in the garage. I got a chance to sit down with all the documentation and look at all the sensors. Crazy to me how light weight the whole thing is – and there are almost no moving parts – especially in the main computer [...]

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Leroy on November 12th, 2009

Well, I was going to be pretty excited to get my new RacePak this weekend.  I was led to believe the kit that I ordered would be tested and packaged to be sent by the beginning of this week, giving it plenty of time to get here all the way on the right coast – [...]

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Leroy on November 3rd, 2009

Made the first big purchase of the winter.  In a few weeks we’ll have a new Racepak system arrive at the house.  Gonna spend the winter discovering how it all works and getting it setup/tuned.  Its going to take some fabrication work but I think it will be worthwhile because we have always wanted to [...]

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Leroy on October 29th, 2009

Data Power – Buddy Fey Competition Car Data Logging – Simon McBeath Analysis Techniques for Race Car Data Acquisition – Jorge Segers Competition Car Data Logging Manual – Graham Templeton

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Leroy on October 26th, 2009

Wanted to share with you some details from our exciting day of racing. The long and short of it is: We ran in TWO final rounds! We lost both but we had a blast all day long! Here is a rundown of each class and how we fared:

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Leroy on October 13th, 2009

I’m very excited that we are planning to race on Oct 25th.  We’ll let you know how it goes.  Hoping for quick times and consistent lights.

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