I took my boy out to Wakefield at the drop of a hat with some of my mates for a couple of roundie roundies at an event organised by the Honda Car Club of NSW.
The boy behaved wonderfully, all of the work I've put into it paid off and I got no complaints from it except when I went out for a second session without letting the engine cool down (it conked out somewhere around turn 6). Still, you can't hold a good mightyboy down! I let it rest for a few minutes and it sprung back to life instantly. (And it also made the trip home flawlessly).
Wakefield is a track made for smaller nimbler cars! Perfect for the likes of us all!
In all seriousness.. 10 laps is pretty impressive for a stock engine. I'm not sure if it was overheating at all.. It just started missing as I came down the straight and then fell to pieces half way around and conked. Might well have been a fuel delivery problem (fogging or boiling fuel) who knows.. I might even have emptied my surge tank.
When it came good I brought it in and I could still put my hand on the radiator cap without any problems.. *shrugs*
I discussed it with a bloke here at work and we came to the conclusion that it may well have been boiling fuel. My surge tank is about 1 litre and that fuel is constantly circulating to the engine and back to the surge tank. If I'm using a lot of fuel then the speed of the fuel traveling through the hoses is very high. If I was to change the fuel system setup so the fuel returns to the fuel tank instead of the surge tank then I'll be looping ~20 litres intead of 1.
A potential solution.
The only down side is that the level of the surge tank will drop if the volume of fuel moved by the pre-pump is less than the engine's usage, which pretty much eliminates it's usefulness.
