Trackday Red Bull Ring

Here's some footage of the last trackday at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. Filmed from the Cuda of course, with some other Mopars in the picture as well.

Tremec upgrade

Prior to installation the tremec transmission was upgraded with parts from Liberty's Gears. That includes bronze shift fork pads, an internal shift linkage upgrade and carbon fiber blocking rings on 2nd, 3rd & 4th gears.

I hope that will remedy some shifting problems that have occured with these transmissions in e-bodies in the past.

Going manual

Work is progressing on changing the transmission in the Cuda. A 5-speed  tremec TKO 600 will be passing the power to the rear instead of the torqueflite in the future. The 0.64:1 final drive of the tremec will reduce rpms on the highway, a much appreciated improvement considering the cruising speed of 85 to 90 mp/h  on the left lane around here :-)

 The 4-speed hump has been grafted on to the floorpan of the Cuda, along with some modification of the passenger side front of the transmission tunnel to acomodate for the bigger bulk of the transmission. Again, Doc Stinger of the Mopargarage is performing the work.

Number 146

More pics

Cars running in a pack during the warm up lap. Being at the back of the field in the beginning lets you pass more Porsches in the race :-)

 Hard cornering in turn one!

Cool competition

Some images of the competition, race spec vintage cars are always cool and this Capro RS 2600 is no exeption,

A very beautifully prepared Ferrari in Italian livery.

 One of the most unusual cars on the grid is this Kellison J 5, a kit car from 1959. There are a total of 3 of these in Austria which must be a substantial part of the worldwide Kellison population.

Marcus Lipp from Prototech brought his immaculate Group 2 Alfa Romeo GTV. The transaxle Car is race prepped in accordance with the FIA rulebook, very light and well balanced. Even though it lacks some top end power, it is quicker around the course than quite a few more powerful cars.

Christian Kornherr, editor in chief of the Autorevue, Austias leading atomotive magazine, taking the hot seat in Macrus' car.

Classic "Jägermeister" livery on this Porsche, I wonder when they stopped promoting  alcohol on racecars...

Reinis 59 Corvette next to the 'Cuda in the pits, he ran hard all day as well.

A day at the races

So, here are some pics of the 'Cuda action last saturday on the Red Bull Ring.

Braking was much improved over last year, no fading and confident performance all day long. 

As always, there were many Porsches in my group, so many you get the impression they are still falling off the assembly line in Stuttgart.

 Doc Stinger from the Mopargarage brought his 1970 Super Bee along, sporting a 440 and a Tremec 5-speed manual transmission. The Bee ran flawlessly all day, chewing up front brakepads as if they were going out of style.

Flat out on the main straight.