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Old 05-18-2006 | 12:19 PM
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Josh Cyrul
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jag - Yes, I have been testing at CRF for the past two days. The first day I was really jet lagged so we just broke in one engine and I practiced a bunch just trying to get comfortable with the track and my car. Once my set-up improved, I started working with the gearing and clutch to match the engine for the CRF track. Today, we broke in 2 more engines (these are box stock production engines that Philippe took out of inventory before we went to the track) and did a little more set-up work with the clutch and chassis. We are finished testing for today with a finished car set-up, finished gear ratio and 2-speed setting. The clutch is also very close but we want to test a bit more.

On deck for tommorow is a bit of clutch testing, pipe testing and a few other coming soon options for the engine.

Here is a brief about the engine itself -

Fabrice is amazing and I think everyone will be completely blown away once they see the engine a part and on the track.

Simply put, I had to change my set-up a lot to control this engine. About 1/3 of the way onto the main straight my car would shift gears, spin the tires and I lost control and crashed - 4 TIMES!!!

3 engines, minimum 5 tanks each - All three ran within .05 lap time, no broken plugs, started on first try and run time of over 6:30 each time the engine has been leaned down to racing speed with a head temp right around or just below 200 F.....

If I was not here driving it and testing... I may not believe it myself but it is truely impressive....
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