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Old 03-24-2014, 12:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
Mario_Marques
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Talking Help, get rid of side drafting, ideas?

Hi, used to race my car, the car used to have a monstrous engine, but i detuned it! Now i'm a pray not a hunter.
Today, i was racing at the track and experienced a new thing for me, because my car is now way slower, some guys can run head to head with me, i was racing my golf mk4 tdi in the final lap, and then, a toyota celica 2.0 was pulling side by side with me and my car breaks a lot twice when he was able to put his front wheel in my rear wheel!!!
At first i didnt understand was happening because i used to race with a very beefy version of my car and no one ever pulled by my side, head to head, i was thinking that was my engine breaking or something like that because i was at the limit for a very long time!!! but then i realized that was side drafting(a new thing for me lol).
Does everybody know ideas to get rid of this??? Next week i will race again and i know that celica 2.0 guy will be there to try to kill me because i really humiliated with my diesel crap car.lol

By the way, i have to sets of wheels, the ones i run today was flat, very closed, no air gaps, i have another set, 5 spoke, very wide gaps between the spokes, i dont know if i use the open ones will avoid this, because this is my first time with a detuned engine and using this set of wheels, i never feel that before, this was my first time in about 6 years of racing.lol
I used to run a diesel with a monster torque and about 300hp, now i'm almoust stock and my only way to run against other machines is to have perfect tyres, gearbos, suspension, aero, weight, etc, my engine is very weak now so i need to have everything else at top performance.

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