CSX3170 at SCCA Nationals

[Cobra #3170]

We were invited to bring the car to the CAM (Classic American Muscle) invitational competition in Lincoln Nebraska last week. We also participated in the CAM S class for sports cars but unfortunately only Scott and I were entered. We ran the challenge on Sunday morning and qualified first but did not run at noon because it rained hard and there were big puddles that would have dumped water in my intake filter from the hood scoop.
The car was working well until we "adjusted it" on the practice course Monday and it was awful the first day of competition Tuesday. I was 5 seconds behind Scott and he was slow too. Tuesday night we realigned it, reset ride heights and shock adjustments back to our standard set up and the car was great on Wednesday. I got within .5 seconds of my co-driver which is a personal best for me, he usually gets me by 2-5 seconds but when the car is "right" it is easy to drive fast. This is a video of Scott testing the car on the practice course. It shows a new device I built that shows acceleration/deceleration "g" loading on the left 8 lights = 1.6 G's and throttle opening on the right, 8 lights = full throttle. We had great traction at the start but as soon as the engine gets anywhere near 3500 the throttle
has to be reduced. We found acceleration good for 1-3 lights, over that and the car spins the tires so hard that it noses over. We review it on video afterwards to see how well we are modulating the throttle.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7PDHbbOSgg[/ame]

My best run ever!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4QnntDzkE[/ame]