Eunos Arc Intake and 2007 SCCA Autocross Season

Arc Intake: In addition to adding the very very slightly more? negative camber to my bimmer on Friday, I spent last Sunday installing this brand new "used" Arc Magic intake bought off of Yahoo.jp - courtesy of http://www.tetsuyagarage.com/. The install was really easy with the new part just slipping in. The challenging part was getting the old intake piping out without having to remove the top radiator hose.

At first I tried to jack up the passenger side of the car to see if I could "move" all of the coolant to the driver's side to remove the top hose. But that wasn't working...so, I just ended up playing Rubik's cube with the intake piping till I finally shimmied out. Surprisingly, although the right side looks more open, the piping came out on the left side of the hose!

Took it out for a quick spin and I guess??? it does pull a little stronger in the midrange. But who knows??? Should have actually done some "scientific" testing (3rd gear pulls from 2k to 6k) with my datalogger...but...with the gusty winds this past weekend, the data would have easily been flawed. Oh well...at least it looks better!

One downside I can see is that the new intake will be VERY GOOD at taking all the heat from the radiator and dumping it into the intake charge - as the aluminum is a terrible insulator. At least the stock plastic parts transferred less heat! I think I'll be going down to home depot tomorrow to look for some insulating sheets or something!


2007 SCCA Autocross: This coming Sunday will be 2nd race of Oahu's 2007 SCCA Autocross season. Even though I put the new top-of-the-line RE-01 rubbers on my bimmer, for now, I've decided against racing that car in STS for lack of having enough negative camber. I figure, no sense in destroying those brand new tires. Instead, I'll run my brother's car again in CSP but this time with the new Arc Intake .

At the last race, in CSP, there was an E30 M3 that smoked me by 2 and 1/2 seconds!!!!! So no matter what help the intake might add, I don't think it will make up for THAT much time (lol). Plus that, this guy must be an awesome driver since he took 2nd FTD! Oh well....(again) My brother's eunos is actually THE car to have in STS2. In CSP, the 1.8 eunos is a better match up to the M3...

BUT...all is not lost...since the books I'm reading have really helped in teaching how to better "read" a course, and along with the datalogger, hopefully he doesn't put 2-1/2 seconds on me again...we'll see...

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