Running meth on road racing.

[tsirider13]

Hey guys,
Is anyone of the road racers running Meth? I am thinking about getting a kit for my car but I not sure on how convinient is for R.racing.

Since the rpm on a road race car is always from like 4000 to 8500. I would think the car would bug sometime during the transision of the course.

Am i right?

If you are using one FOR road racing please give me a feed back.

-Manuel

 

[bmoha2]

will it help or hinder?

 

[tsiboosted]

All the organizations I have raced do not allow meth or NOS in the cars on track. You may want to check with whoever you would beracing with to see if they even allow it before you do anything else with it. Just a heads up.

As far as the car "bugging" on course, are you referring to lag or something similar in the turns etc.? There are other ways to compensate for that. Left foot braking, go through that turn in a higher gear to imply the "poor man's" traction control. Adjust your boost control to allow the turbo to engauge quicker. Things like that.

 

[Ludachris]

Meth injection is not allowed in NASA or SCCA to my knowledge, but water injection is okay in NASA... at least, we allow it here in our region in Time Trials. I'm not sure about the race classes.

One of the fastest Time Trials Evos out here (Warrtalon on this site) used water injection for a while before he jumped to E85. He didn't seem to have any issues and was running 25psi or so all the time on a mostly stock setup - and he beats the hell out of his car. If it worked for him I think it could work for anyone.

I was going to install a variable Engine Runup kit on my car to help keep engine temps a little cooler. It's a pretty cool kit, but I've been planning on just moving to E85 instead due to it becoming widely available out here. Most all of the benefits of running water injection can be had running E85. I'll be selling my $500 water injection kit for almost half the price now... I think if you don't have E85 easily accessible in your area, water injection would be helpful for road racing. You shouldn't have to refill the water more than once or twice per day at a track event I don't think and the benefits are great for road racing.

As always, first check with all of the series/org rules you plan on running in (and even the ones you don't) in your region.

 

[JayRolla]

Actually e85 has ALL the benefits of water injection and a lot more. Meth/water injection is a joke compared.

I dont think injection is good on a road race car. Jack here goes out and spends all day racing and would run have to keep filling that crap up. Thats just too much work. I'd rather just fill the gas tank up.

Luda why have you not switched to e85 yet? Its been readily available here for years now?

 

[Ludachris]

Actually e85 has ALL the benefits of water injection and a lot more. Meth/water injection is a joke compared.

I dont think injection is good on a road race car. Jack here goes out and spends all day racing and would run have to keep filling that crap up. Thats just too much work. I'd rather just fill the gas tank up.

Luda why have you not switched to e85 yet? Its been readily available here for years now?

The one drawback on E85 is that it's not necessarily available at stations right next to all the tracks (or at pumps located inside the track grounds)... which means that you have to bring fuel jugs with you to the track or leave the track and find a close E85 station. I typically have to refuel at least once per track day, twice if I'm trying to keep my fuel level really consistent between runs. Water injection is much easier in that regard - I didn't notice Clayton spending much time at all refilling his water tank at the track. Refueling from a jug is more of a pain than refilling your water injection bottle - especially if you can just drive over to the pumps at the track for fuel.

For cars that are trailered to the track, it's less of an issue, but it's something to keep in mind. That's the main thing that has kept me from converting. Once I'm in a position to trailer my car to all events it won't be an issue. I'll throw some fuel jugs on the trailer. But I know most DSMers drive their cars to events. And having to leave the track to fill up really sucks - you tend to lose out on track time. And I don't know many people that would carry full fuel jugs in their car. If I was driving my car to the track events I don't know that I'd be converting.

Again, we're lucky here in the RM region to have E85 readily available all over. It's not as convenient in many areas like it is here.