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Old 04-14-2026 | 09:46 AM
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joelisenat
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Made some progress the last two nights. Need to be a lot cleaner to match last months times, the cars are all driving better than the results so far. Kind of the norm though for me in the challenge just getting the rhythm down and then chipping away at times. I'm a second behind in box stock but my best run so far was kind of a weird one, felt like the batteries just kind of went flat a third of the way in. Might have been me just trying to stay extra clean and running a slower line but it was very consistent (but slower) so I just kind of finished the run and then was happy with the overall time.

Stock car seems fast but I'm stuck with multiple (sloppy) runs near the same time.

Got the diff rebuilt in my RX28 after dealing with corner exit issues. Just way to squirrely getting back on the power and I didn't get rid of it till I took the diff apart. The coating on the axle is worn off where the inside plate of the thrust bearing sat (the 3 piece kind, not sure how to explain), so I'm not what went wrong (my grease job or the thrust bearing itself. I swapped it out for a normal ball bearing just to try (since that is how my other ball diffs are) and it seemed fixed/back to driving well. Down to a 4:06 so still behind last month but improving. Haven't matched some of the fast laps I had going the other direction but the car might be a touch easier to drive at this point.
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