I went to the race track on Sunday morning. We had a private event in which about 30 cars showed up and we were testing out our performance cars on the track to see who could get the best time for a car to go from 60 miles/hr to 130 miles/hr.
The winner last time this same event happen was a Toyota Supra that ran a 4.6 seconds to go from 60 to 130.
Saw lots of cars run and we had a car we felt was going to be the winner for sure. We were expecting a time below 4 seconds. We had a Porsche that puts out 1102 horse power to the wheels, so the actual horsepower is about 15% higher at the crank.
Here is where racing gets interesting and you experience where things can go wrong. Akram our Porsche expert had fixed the car all night on Friday night, trailered the car and then drove it to Arkansas to get the car to a Dyno and get the tuning done perfect. (That is right, the best tune shop for Porsche is run out of a farm in Arkansas). Drove back all night. Meanwhile we had ordered some new longer lug bolts since the changes we had made required us to put some spacers on the back wheels.
So finally the car gets back to the racetrack after Akram has been working on this car for 3 days straight. We put the new lug nuts in at the racetrack and then realized that the lug nuts were to short. Tried a short run for about 100 feet with some power and checked the bolts afterwards and the bolts were all twisted and we of course for safety reason shut down the car and did not race it after all that.
So in the end, all that money, time and effort were lost because the wrong size lug bolts came to us after we ordered the right ones.
It was a crazy weekend to say the least.
New Experiences. Realized that we need to have a better Quality Assurance program in place. We will have a long talk and make sure that this never happens again.
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