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Old 06-21-2002, 05:31 PM
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Lime Rock Track Day

Spent yesterday at Lime Rock with the Corvair club. A very hot (90F in the afternoon) day on the track. A first run for my new brakes, and new track rims/tires.

I went with a set of Hoosier R3S03 245/45/17s on BBS RV rims, they look great, are very light, and cool very well.

The brake/tire combination seem very impressive, with the rims/tires 7lbs per corner lighter than my OEM rims and BF Goodrich slicks. That plus the 10lbs lighter per front corner for my brake upgrade and you have an impressive package.

The event was very well run, with pretty much an "open" track event from 9am-2pm. The club allowed a maximum of 20 cars at any one time on the track, with passing allowed on the main and back straight.

As I ran the event with my trusty sidekick Curcio last year, I was in the big boys club, group A, with a Viper, 911 GT2 (I think)track car, a Lola race car, Audi S4, BMW 330i, plus a load of tricked out Mustangs.

My car ran really well, the tires and brakes were excellent (although a little spongy in the afternoon timed laps), and I was
able to run with pretty much everybody. The Viper was pulling 135mph on the main straight, whereas I was at 125, but I was breaking much later into big bend and would stay with him through the twisties and then he would have the pull on the main straight.

The only car to blow by me was a mustang that went by me (and the Viper) as if we were in a funeral procession.

Nobody outbraked me all day (Thank you Mr Tackman).

I got to run four 20 min sessions, which was great, I could have had 6 or 7 if I chose.

Tire pressures were 42 hot front, 32 hot rear, which really gets understeeer under control.

In the afternoon we had three timed laps, my first was a low 1:07 and my last two were 1:06s, three seconds a lap faster than last year. I was really happy with that.

Shame there were no other MBs there, its great having people unable to believe how well a big sedan can handle.

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Old 06-21-2002, 10:58 PM
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LRP track day

Hi David-
Sounds like you had fun- glad the brakes worked out. You are rewarded for having more patience in getting them rebuilt than I had time for.
For comparison, with street tires, I am at 125 at start/ finish, (but dont know what the end of the straight speed is) and with slicks getting off the downhill turn should be even better- thus poitentially making the Viper history-Im sure that would not make him a happy camper to be out run by a 9 year old 4 dr sedan!

Now for some REAL fun, come to the PDA Glen event in July. You will have a blast as the track is much more suited to our cars than Lime Rock. Not to mention that the level of competition will be much higher than the corvair club! It is serious fun to pass guys in thier dedicated track/race cars!
Later!
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Old 06-22-2002, 12:29 AM
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Impressive, I like your wheels.

Are you the guy that upgraded to huge rotors and had to machine your rims?

Can both of you tell me about your brake set ups because Im pretty interested in doing that? Have you heard of Movit.de, they used to have Porsche brakes they modified for everything, but I heard that they make their own. What do you guys think.

When is the next event around southern california? What was the temperature at lime rock?

Thanks,

Austin
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Old 06-22-2002, 09:17 PM
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What day at the Glen?

Hi Guys,

We had a blast at Lime Rock today. Sorry we missed you yesturday David.

It was myself and Curcio carrying the flag on a very hot Saturday.

The PDA is running 7/22 and 7/23 at the Glen.

http://www.imp-auto.com/pda/pages/schedules.htm

I am signed up for 7/22 only (As well as 7/20 at Pocono).
IS anyone running both days?

Would be cool to get a group of 500E's up there.

Alan, it was a pleasure meeting you.

I really want to do that Pocono long course on 8/10 and head out to Starfest that night. I will start a thread re:Starfest: coming from the NE.

See you in July!

Dave

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