mitchntx
12-14-2008, 06:33 PM
I delivered the car to TWS this weekend and the new owners loaded it and drove off Saturday evening after each one had taken it out for a session.
I drove it the first couple sessions just to see how it would perform.
Wow ... just wow!
It still has the factory cluster in it and the speedo worked. I wasn't pushing it really hard, but at one point I looked down at the speedo as I crossed the S/F line and was passing 135 mph and it was still pulling like a freight train! It was a rocket ship.
Glenn and I had decided to think outside the box a little and did a few things completely off the radar from what we have always done and it worked amazingly well. The car would freaking turn!
The new owners drove it and emerged with perma-smiles, even though it had a couple small issues ... oil leak off the timing cover, sluggish starter and a puking PS pump. I was glad they didn't think it was a big deal.
I have yet to see an LT1 NOT leak oil from the timing cover. I had warned them about the sluggish starter, but seemed to get a little better as it was used and we provided them with a LAW MS revalved PS pump.
I had mixed emotions about seeing it go, especially after driving it. It felt a lot faster than my TA.
Other weekend high-lights ...
Steve was breaking in his new bullet. Ran it slow and steady all day Saturday and then put the spurs to it today. Another rocket ship. He said he was seeing the shift light in 5th at the end of the straight and having to go to 5th on the back straight to keep it off the rev limiter. That's not a good sign for the rest of us in CMC2.
Kim Leibbe was showing everyone the fast line, making instructors lose their lunch all the while. With some seat time, she would be an awesome driver!
Jason and David Love were there flogging the the Camaro and Neon. Apparently David was having a few issues instructing a green student who had just purchased a new Z06. So David puts the poor chap in the passenger seat and commences to take the off roading at T7 ... ON PURPOSE! Nothing like negative reinforcement, eh Dave? :wink:
While Jason was driving the camaro, some how, the threads pulled out of the end of the panhard bar and lost a welded on exhaust tip. Just happened ... hmmm. :wink: :wink:
Saw my first Nissan GTR ... one word ... stealth. Never heard a peep from it other than the wind whistling as it moved the air out of the way. It was stoopid fast.
I drove it the first couple sessions just to see how it would perform.
Wow ... just wow!
It still has the factory cluster in it and the speedo worked. I wasn't pushing it really hard, but at one point I looked down at the speedo as I crossed the S/F line and was passing 135 mph and it was still pulling like a freight train! It was a rocket ship.
Glenn and I had decided to think outside the box a little and did a few things completely off the radar from what we have always done and it worked amazingly well. The car would freaking turn!
The new owners drove it and emerged with perma-smiles, even though it had a couple small issues ... oil leak off the timing cover, sluggish starter and a puking PS pump. I was glad they didn't think it was a big deal.
I have yet to see an LT1 NOT leak oil from the timing cover. I had warned them about the sluggish starter, but seemed to get a little better as it was used and we provided them with a LAW MS revalved PS pump.
I had mixed emotions about seeing it go, especially after driving it. It felt a lot faster than my TA.
Other weekend high-lights ...
Steve was breaking in his new bullet. Ran it slow and steady all day Saturday and then put the spurs to it today. Another rocket ship. He said he was seeing the shift light in 5th at the end of the straight and having to go to 5th on the back straight to keep it off the rev limiter. That's not a good sign for the rest of us in CMC2.
Kim Leibbe was showing everyone the fast line, making instructors lose their lunch all the while. With some seat time, she would be an awesome driver!
Jason and David Love were there flogging the the Camaro and Neon. Apparently David was having a few issues instructing a green student who had just purchased a new Z06. So David puts the poor chap in the passenger seat and commences to take the off roading at T7 ... ON PURPOSE! Nothing like negative reinforcement, eh Dave? :wink:
While Jason was driving the camaro, some how, the threads pulled out of the end of the panhard bar and lost a welded on exhaust tip. Just happened ... hmmm. :wink: :wink:
Saw my first Nissan GTR ... one word ... stealth. Never heard a peep from it other than the wind whistling as it moved the air out of the way. It was stoopid fast.