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I may have to be less disappointed in loosing. You beat me by 3.4 seconds at Event 3, and 1.9 seconds today at Event 4. And you are are telling me that you improved a great deal from Event 3 to Event 4. So I am chasing an opponent that is getting faster and faster, and I am whittling the...

Rick, you got lucky on the belt: 3.3.1 Driver Restraints Seat lap belts are required in all cars... ...Installation and use of shoulder belts or harness is highly recommended... Then it gives a sentences about limiting stock class to factory belts unless it is an open car which allows, but...

I still say that if you didn't drive like the car was twice as big wide as it actually is, you'd be beating me by 7 seconds instead of 5... A little exaggeration. Looks like it's going to be fun learning how to aim for a spot inside of the turn and then hammer through the corner with the tire...

Everyone asked where Mike was and expressed concern and sympathy when I explained. I am having a very bad start to the year considering that I have gotten rid of the cold pavement spin problem. The "little" part is really concerning given I feel like I am driving the wheels off the thing. I...

I looked at the results. You beat me by 1.9 seconds! (Cue the guy screaming inside my head). But turning that around a little, about half of the times you beat me last year, it was by less than that. And quite a few over the last couple years were separated by less than half a second. So...

CHEATER! (Had to say it). I set the car up mostly like what I ended up with at the end of the test and tune. A little less toe in on the front and a full turn of dampening on the rear shock. It oversteered pretty nasty on the first run with Mike as a passenger. I'm going to laugh a long...

Mike called and it sounds like he wants to be tomorrow's "Exceptionally talented, but relatively unknown person driving the unreasonably expensive, valueless car". I mentioned the new battery is not installed, the stereo-shop bolt on battery posts are smaller than standard SAE size and the...

I'd guess I drive second heat, then get out of the car, and you drive third heat. Alternately, I could take the keys after second heat and hide with them during third heat... I'll appreciate the chance to tape someone else driving my car, I rarely get any video.

(At the risk of having my car die on me just for making the suggestion)... You can drive my car if you want. Nothing like getting beat by someone driving your own car. I looked up the specs for the U1LUH. It is very similar to the one I ordered. A tiny bit longer. The height difference is...

Looks like Mike signed up early and got third heat. Third was full by the time I signed up, so the good news is that I will be able to video tape Mike. Not sure how the "pick-your-heat" thing is going to work out. I had just gotten used to the old system which seemed to be...

Link: http://drive.jalopnik.com/how-to-turn-a-mustang-gt-into-a-track-day-weapon-1560228698/+travis This was an odd thing to stumble across. 99.9% of all the magazine/automotive journalist stuff out there is pretty much bull, but every once in a while something good surfaces. Short synopsis...

The dents in the left door and left rear quarter panel came with the car. The hood that came with it was pretty badly dented also. Somebody hit something with the front, so it came with the ripped lower bumper and the headlights were cross eyed. I pulled out most of the radiator wall dent, but...

Mike: I saw him walking around and managed to discover those also. There were three of the new muscle car class cars at the event, they were all really shiny show car quality cars, and they were all a couple seconds quicker than me. I can't understand why he would shoot any of an old, rough...

Not sure how, but after setup, I was trying to flag down the roving tech guy to put an annual inspection sticker on my car, and they announced over the intercom that they had run through the four waiting list spots in front of me, and if I was still there (they didn't know) I could be in the...

This is no way to run a railroad. I signed up for the test and tune thing like I usually do, close to the close of signup, mostly to make sure the car has not blown up. I had agreed to do setup last week. Nothing out of the ordinary except they had the list of entrants turned off so I could...

You're right, they will put an annual inspection sticker on it the first time it get's inspected, but I was looking forward to standing around and getting caught up with everyone. And my end of the conversation would not be doom-and-gloom. At the risk of jinxing everything, sales are up (of...

Everybody who thought the 22nd was Sunday raise your hand. Everybody who knows the club never does anything on Saturdays and holds everything on Sundays raise your hand. Everybody who was standing at the locked gate this morning trying to figure out where the hell everyone else was, raise your hand.

I don't know if the engine has to be in the car to pass the inspection, but they might look at you funny when you hand them the throttle body so they can check the return spring.

They announced they will be doing annual tech inspections this Sunday at Gateway. The prerequisite is participation in 5 events in 2012 or 2013. They usually also have annual inspections for road racing and PDX and the drag racing program in the same area, but no mention of those in the email...

At first thought, I was thinking a waste of money and tires, but then I remembered that my problems seem to be related to cold weather lack of rear traction, and that I adjusted the rear alignment last Fall to remedy that problem (and the rear brake bias problem)(halved the camber and reduced...