Board breaking 14 Oct 2009

Bride Holding Monster strikes again

I picked up one of these today - Bride Stradia with low cushion.

Installation:
1. Unplug seat belt buckle sensor plug from factory seat.
2. Unplug air bag plug from factory seat.
3. Unplug third plug (I can't be bothered looking up what it's for) from factory seat.
4. Remove factory seat.
5. Plug in 2.2 ohm resistor into air bag plug connector in car.
6. Remove seat belt buckle from factory seat.
7. Attach seat belt buckle to Bride seat.
8. Bolt in Bride seat to car.
9. Reconnect seat belt buckle sensor plug.

No DIY is a success without the obligatory fail, quite the paradox. In my haste and glee that I had completed step 5 and that it worked, I had forgotten steps 6 and 7 and proceeded straight to 8. As all good fails would have it, I did not realise I had failed until I had completed step 8. But alas, patience is a virtue and I reversed step 8 and did not attempt to rush it by completing step 7 with the seat bolted in.

A big thanks to Dan (c2888) for his electronics expertise and Kam80 for the online assist when I was picking these seats up.

MGCC Sprints - Sandown Motor Circuit - Further analysis

Here's a comparison of Kam's speed graph and mine. Kam also drives a 350Z and I can see where I can improve.

- Turn 1 - I'm slowing down too much
- Turn 1 - I'm not getting on gas early enough
- Turn 4 - As above
- Kam carries almost 10 kph more through the sweeper/chicane
- Turn 8 - I'm not getting on gas early enough
- Turn 11 (coming on the front straight) - I get on gas earlier than Kam, but Kam has some crazy (almost vertical) acceleration. I'm thinking my gear change from 2nd to 3rd was a bit slow there.

MG Car Club Sprints - Sandown Motor Circuit

This day comprised of a drag and sprint component. Each competitor had two drag runs, one on each straight of the circuit.

Drag
Best run (according to RaceChrono):
60 feet - 2.43 s
1/4 mile - 14.49 s @ 157.1 kph
0-100 kph - 7.19 s

Sprints
Tyre pressures that worked for me: Front - 34 PSI hot, Rear - 33 PSI hot.
Tyres: Dunlop D03G/D02G
Brakes:
- First time trying Ferodo DS2500 at the front, they held up very nicely.
- Also got some titanium shims for the front, brake pedal still felt spongy after each session though.

Session 1
1:34.2000
1:33.2000
1:33.8900
1:35.1700

Session 2
1:50.9500
1:33.8100
1:32.3100
1:33.1700 <- VMax 197 kph Session 3
1:38.8700
1:34.7300
1:32.4200
1:32.5300

Session 4
1:33.4500
1:32.1400
1:32.2000
1:31.6100 NEW PB
1:31.7800

Full results:
http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?11/10/2009.SAND.Q1.I

Comparison of my previous PB to the new one:

High/low speeds for PB lap:

Thank you:
- Kam for technique consultation
- Dave for chasing me and applying the pressure for PB
- Shaun for the lunch run and support
- Drew, Anja, Jason and Ray for taking photos and support
- Dan and Ying for the Porta-Gazebo
- The rest of the crew who competed or came to support