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Pocono 7/20/07
Well it was my first track day... Most fun I have ever had in my car that included clothing being ON. I learned a LOT about how to drive my car better... I went there with the mentality that I would be applauded for my driving... but man was I wrong... I learned new methods of approching turns and following through them. I also learned a lot about how the car handles at speed and what it can and cannot do. With as much abuse as I was feeding her, the brakes held up ok.... BUT with as much fade as I was dealing with I really need to upgrade before i go bak again... I went through I would say 65% of my set of pads. THe brake light came on on the drive home because of how extended the caliper pistons were. Couple pics...
Drifting an off camber turn on the South course Same turn... less drift This is the NSX that I was eating all day I also had an issue with a c5 supercharged corvette getting in the way but that was all driver... he was moving REALLY slow Tom |
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Tom,
Nice! How long did it take you to get there? Did they do any timed laps? -Bill
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Retired NASA Rocket Scientist Most famous NASA "Child" - OSIRIS-REx delivered samples from asteroid BENNU to Earth in Sept. 2023 Center Network Member #989 '92 Fully caged, 5 speed, waiting for its fully built EG33 '92 "Test Mule", 4:44 Auto, JDM 4:44 Rear Diff with Mech LSD, Tuned headers, Full one-off suspension '92(?) Laguna, 6 spd and other stuff (still at OT's place) My Locker |
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Sweet run. I'd love to head up there at some point, but lots i need to do to my car before then... Did you ever get around hte nsx?
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*No SVX at the moment...* 1987 Winnebago Elandan 35' 2001 Yamaha Roadstar 1600 2004 Ford Excursion Eddie Bauer, 6.0litre Power Stroke Diesel - Daily Driver. Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, scotch in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming HOOOOYA !!!!! |
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Awesome. heavy luxury car dealing with light sports car.... SVX's are great
Next time take off the front license plate so your engine will stay cooler, racing heats up the engine like... a lot, every squared inch of air you can put into your radiator is going to help a lot. Great pics. |
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Nice pictures. Anymore?
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I was there with Tom on Friday and stayed for the Saturday event. Best news is that the power is back. Tom discovered that my timing belt had jumped a notch or two, which is why it had no power. The old beast was back and ready to mix it up with some good cars. Friday was really heavy duty. Each run group, determined by driver experience, Tom was in HPDE 1, I was in HPDE 2, got eight half hour sessions on the track. All three courses at Pocono were in use. See map below:
North circuit runs clockwise, south and east circuits run counter-clockwise. I typically ran only 20-25 minutes each session, because the car would begin to overheat. Had some really great dices with a couple of cars, including a 944 Turbo, and an Integra R. But the best action was with this 964 Porsche below: We were really closely matched. I passed him a couple of times and he returned the favor. Only later did I learn he was running R-compounds. I was also having some pretty good dices with a race-prepped Prelude, right behind me with the SCCA badge in the picture below, also running R-compounds, and the grey M3 with red tape that you can see toward the back of the photo below: The south course is particularly awesome, because it includes the tighter of the two banked curves. I was hitting 110-115 at the end of the straight on the south course. Below is a picture of the banking and my Subie about to be eaten by an Evo: Unfortunately, about halfway into the 8th session, on the south course, I came through the turn that leads from the infield road into the speedway a little too hot. Accelerator on the floor, tires screaming, maybe 85-90 mph and the rear end beings to come around. I try to counter steer, but there is no road left, I'm on the grass. Very very bump ride, hit a small drainage ditch, came to rest in the pit straight. The bead was knocked off the front tire, so it was flat, Rear tire bead was full of grass and dirt. Luckily a wrecker was there, and he said that if I would jack up the car, give him the wheels, he would clean them up overnite, and deliver them back to the track the next morning, and pick me up at the motel on the way. All for 20 bucks. The next day was also really good, although not as intense. Got the wheels back on. No damage, not even any change in the handling. The second day was run on what they call the double infield. It is a single course and uses both the infield road for the north course and the infield road for the south course along with the pit straight, parts of the north and east straights and wide low banked oval at the top of the map and runs clockwise. Because they only were using one course, we only had 4 sessions. I really like that course, though. A lot of really interesting turns. Top speed at the end of the back straight for me is also over 110 mph. In my class session, I asked my instructor about my "off" the day before. Asked him what you should do if you have an all wheel drive car, you're accelerating out of a turn onto a straight, the accelerator is on the floor, and the rear end starts to come around. He said "Go slower." Continued my dicing with the 968, until he blew his engine. Then had a couple of intense sessions with the M3, until she got to driving it a little better. She was so much faster than I on the straights that when she picked up some speed in the corners, I had to "point her around." It was a great weekend. Beautiful weather, great driving, good people. It don't get much better than this:
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Looks like a really fun day!
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Tim 92 Liquid Silver SVX 5MT 2009 BMW Z4 (Gone) 2012 Camry V6 SE |
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Great pictures, love those action shots! Lucky about the wheels, i would have thought you would have ground the tire or rim when you knocked off hte bead. All's well that ends well though
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*No SVX at the moment...* 1987 Winnebago Elandan 35' 2001 Yamaha Roadstar 1600 2004 Ford Excursion Eddie Bauer, 6.0litre Power Stroke Diesel - Daily Driver. Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, scotch in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming HOOOOYA !!!!! |
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Dumb question... what is the bead?
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Tim 92 Liquid Silver SVX 5MT 2009 BMW Z4 (Gone) 2012 Camry V6 SE |
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Its what keeps the tire on the rim
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Yeah... I was passing him all day Must have been the increased drag coef. of the plastic he put ALL over his nose ... He wasn't there to learn anything, he was there to be a sunday driver Tom |
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Couple of questions:
1. Dan/YT - How did YT determine your timing belt had slipped? 2. YT -- so, what was the top speed you saw? 3. Dan - what tires are you running now (still the KDWs?) -Bill
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Retired NASA Rocket Scientist Most famous NASA "Child" - OSIRIS-REx delivered samples from asteroid BENNU to Earth in Sept. 2023 Center Network Member #989 '92 Fully caged, 5 speed, waiting for its fully built EG33 '92 "Test Mule", 4:44 Auto, JDM 4:44 Rear Diff with Mech LSD, Tuned headers, Full one-off suspension '92(?) Laguna, 6 spd and other stuff (still at OT's place) My Locker |
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Nice! How'd the exhaust sound at 115? Did you have to crank the GCs up when you went from the 18" rims to the 16" RX-7 rims to keep the exhaust from scrapping? -Bill p.s. so, how long did it take you to get to Pocono from Philly?
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Retired NASA Rocket Scientist Most famous NASA "Child" - OSIRIS-REx delivered samples from asteroid BENNU to Earth in Sept. 2023 Center Network Member #989 '92 Fully caged, 5 speed, waiting for its fully built EG33 '92 "Test Mule", 4:44 Auto, JDM 4:44 Rear Diff with Mech LSD, Tuned headers, Full one-off suspension '92(?) Laguna, 6 spd and other stuff (still at OT's place) My Locker |
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It took me 2 hrs to get there from here but I was at the garage at 330am to make a new battery tie down because my new battery is taller than the old one and my 300zx bolts were not long enough Tom |
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