Fiesta vs M3 - Tracked

Well the good news is I beat two M3s, among other cars. Porsche, Mclaren, and Bimmer owners were shockingly impressed with the ST. They said things like "never seen a little subcompact put down those kind of lap", "the way it would corner and hold speed was bad ass". That was pretty cool. But I lost to the Blue M3 I was betting against. He was running Direzza Star Specs and I had ZIIs. He pulled me by about 1.5 sec per lap mostly due to the M3s superior tq and ability to just claw out of corners. Our lack of a true LSD, preferably a HSLD held us back a bit. Coming out of the tight stuff the Fiesta would just spin the inside tire. If I was running on stock suspension it would have been worse with more pitch and roll. So to drive this car you have to be aware of when and how much throttle to run otherwise it would just light em , up. Now I do not recommend that anyone drive their Fiesta with this much slip without knowing what you are doing. Some corners I'm nearly pushing 100mph and the car is in a full drift. Please dont try that at home, seriously it bad news people.

The BC Coilovers were ridiculously good. I ran them on the Street Spec valving and spring rates, same as you will get during the group buy - just to see how well it would do. My first couple laps were with the compression/rebound settings at 5 clicks up from full soft (how I drive them everyday) and there was too much delay between my inputs and what the chassis wanted to do. I pulled in, raised them to 25clicks front, 28clicks rear and kept it that way for the entire day. It was just so nice. Planted, secure, no understeer. I could point it where I wanted it and the Fiesta would hold the line. And that was running just 1.2deg of camber! Nice controlled drifts. I loved it.

Bad news - I cooked the BP10 pads the wilwoods came with. Thats my own stupidity. I should have never run a street pad at the track. After two hours the pads were gone and I was running on the backing plates. You'll see what I mean when the camera changes location. Next time Hawk DTC60s. Why I overlooked that is beyond me. Thankfully a pad change with the wilwoods takes all of 30 seconds.

Good news - the fiesta put down lap after lap of abuse without a single complaint. Nearly 30 min of full throttle brought the oil temps to 231deg. Not bad for a turbo car, esp a subcompact one. Water temp was 200-202. Intake air temp was around 94deg. Ambient was 45deg. I ran the car with the 91oct AP map for the first couple sessions with no issue. Then I added 8 gal of 98oct and switched to the 93oct AP map and initially the car did pick up a bit but towards the end of the day tapered back down to 91 map levels or slightly below. There is no doubt the 93 map has issues. I dont think its knock count since we ran high oct.

So there will be a round 2. This one goes to the BMW