Midtenn

iTrader: (15)

It was great meeting you. Glad you semi-sorted your braking issue out. I meant to follow up with you after the event to see what became of it. Sucks about the radiator hose.

RASKAR

Thanks! Hopefully another second or two if I have full confidence in the brakes. Still wont get me far in my class lol, 1:27 from 1st place in StreetMod is crazy. It was dope to get to finally see your car in person though after following your build thread!
You also! Im just glad it isn't anything more major than that. Still sucks as the hose was brand new before the event haha. Also I appreciate all of your PCV/breather help, draining the can back to the pan definitely helped a ton.

On that note I may as well tie up the catch can craziness. My hunch that at least *my* car was sucking the liquid oil into the can from the exhaust side seems to have been the case. For overview, I ran the exhaust side, with internal baffles opened up, and dual 10an lines to one can, and the PCV side to its own can. I also put a drain from the exhaust side can back to the pan as I felt this side was the issue, but if the PCV side ended up the issue I brought everything I needed to cap any of the fittings or swap the drain to either can.
Setup:

Also for context, I was over flowing the larger rear can in a few laps at Pitt the week before this event. This was the PCV side can after my first session out Friday at Mid-O:


Not nothing but, basically nothing. I was having brake issues Friday but I was still cornering at my normal pace, plus I know Mid-O much better than Pitt so if anything I was driving harder here than I was at Pitt when it overfilled. With the rear (exhaust) can draining and the PCV can barely catching anything I left it like this all weekend and didn't have to empty the blue can at all. It does suck that having the drain in the rear can means I can't quantify how much the extra holes in the baffle walls or the extra 10an line helped, but I didn't want to not drain the can and risk blowing oil all over the car and track again and potentially ruining a session for everyone.

As far as the life update, in my frustration of how the car performed this weekend, plus the amount of money put into the car last minute just to get it to run half of my sessions, I am going to take a break from running this car for awhile. That sucks as far as this build thread is concerned but I will not be getting rid of the car or anything. I am going to fix whats wrong with it right now and get it back to a running and driving, streetable state and keep it like that for the time being. I am planning on finally going back to school this fall to get my bachelors, and I don't think I will have the time, money, or patience to keep trying to run the car on track while also working full time at a job I like and try at, plus trying to succeed towards a degree that will probably be quite hard haha. I don't want to stop track stuff with my track friends so I will keep running the NB in casual HPDEs as I have really enjoyed running that car this year and how nice it is to track a mostly stock car that just works. I also maaaayyy consider running the NB in Sundae Cup as it is basically already set up for that minus an open diff and some ballast. But anyways, since I wont be tracking the racecar I don't need a trailer (it will be for sale soon if anyone is interested), and if I dont need to tow then I dont need a truck. If Im not going to the track in a truck then I cant take the Grom... see where this is all going. Grom is sold, truck is gone, and trailer will go sometime soon once I rectify my multiple miata rollers at various locations (also may or may not sell one or both of these). This lets me worry about less things, have some more money right now, and get back into a Mk7 with a lower monthly payment than my truck as I have missed my Mk7 GTI ever since getting rid of it for my Ranger. It will be sad to stop tracking this car for now, but it will also be nice to just keep it driveable for more than 5min by not tracking it haha. Also obligatory more pics of the R since I am really enjoying having a fast daily again haha

SimBa

I'm sure that's a hard decision to make, but it sounds pretty logical to me. No sense making the car a burden instead of a joy. What do you plan to go to school for?

RASKAR

Mechanical Engineering. A decent chunk of my friends are engineers so I watched them go through school and know it will be a struggle lol. Its going to suck but I think it is the right thing for me to do for the future as I am pretty maxed out with how high I can go at my job with my current associates degree. I really enjoy what I do, but I don't want to be just a tech forever. Hopefully I can enjoy the car on the street for now here and there and have fun tracking the NB.

Fireindc

iTrader: (13)

Thanks for the catch can updates, nice data points at least.

I feel you on the life updates, just focus on what matters and maybe you'll be in a better place to finish sorting and race the NA. I don't blame you for enjoying tracking your mostly stock miata. They really are great.