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If you wanted to drive a F1 car... at NOLA.
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Jerry has that much cash in his pocket... He should do it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by marshall_mosty
Not anymore. Those days are long gone! I'm lucky if I have three hundred on me these days. Those were the good old days.Quote:
Originally Posted by AllZWay
I looked at this ad and no way would I spend that but I did pay $450 to do two passes in a Roy Hill dragster at his drag racing school. I think The Sprint car school would be the best bang for the buck. Power to weight ratio is insane.
JJ
Went to TWS last weekend to shake down the car and break-in the motor. I noticed a noise coming from the engine 15 minutes into the first session so I pitted. Hoping for something as simple as a loose rocker both valve covers came off, but everything was tight and oil looked clean. MWF listened to it and confirmed that my day was done. I made arrangements with Wade to drop the car off at his shop until we could dig into it some more. One night during the week he pulled the oil filter and cut it open and surprise, surprise...copper.
Yesterday we pulled the motor and found bigger flakes in the back of the pan. We didn't want to pull any of the rod or main caps until the engine builder could take a look, so we don't know what failed yet. Why can't things just work?
They do work... until they don't. Hate to hear it - but I'm with you, why can't things just work cheaply for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tilton
#becauseracecarQuote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
Forgot to post this as well. Sorry, but I gotta brag like any proud dad would/should......
Morgan (12) played a double header softball game this past weekend. Out of 2 games (like 6 at bats), she hit a 2 RBI triple and 2 Grand Slam Homers for a total of 8 RBI's (10 if you count her). All other at bats were walks and I think she stole those two runs as well.
Karlie (9) broke her wrist, so still waiting to brag about her game wise, but she still goes to all the practices (runs bases for situational drills) and suits up for each game and cheers her team on from the bench.
You are no longer da man, but your girls make us proud. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
That is pretty awesome. Fun stuff for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
They do work cheaply for a long time, after lots of expensive trial and error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
Even my car had a random misfire come back up last week at idle, after it had already dyno-ed and driven some with zero issues. It was the primary coil->opti wire's insulation itself being slightly cracked. I could hear it arching in the engine bay this time. No clue how that happened. Going through and rechecking every plug wire again to be safe.
I know how you feel. I never thought it would be so fun to watch your kids play. Jay was a starting nose tackle for a five A school (Georgetown). The head coach told Kathy and I that you can't do what Jay was doing at 165 lbs. but somehow he did it. Watching Jay play football was more fun than watching him race but I would rather be on a team with him than race by myself. Nothing like bragging on your kids. Have I told you about my grandson?Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
JJ
Just give up like me and keep beating on it. I'm waiting for next year's 245hp dyno pull now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pranav
Maybe I just need to rub some orange on it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pranav
first non-involved car after a three car accordion wreck on the Beltway driving in the morning. Funny how watching Al and Glenn race can teach you to spot an accident in progress; I had enough room front and back and toward the left shoulder. Woman in front of me, car 3, in a Camry was probably 7 months pregnant. Car 2 was an elderly woman and car 1 seemed to be a pretty nice guy that came back to check on people. Blocked the left lane with the truck and waited on the PoPo.
Camry's nose folded up pretty good on the driver's side but no airbags deployed.
Then, almost got rear ended by two cars in the exit ramp off the Beltway coming home, even with the hazards on since the traffic was backed up, though still in the exit only lane.
Man, CMC racing is safe.
Did it feel weird to hit another vehicle and not be inside a caged race car sweating your balls off?
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supercharged111
But it is very clear to me that when I am on track with this group I know everybody else is at least paying attention and trying not to hit me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
Maybe we need to have a cell phone race where eveybody is on a conference call talking trash to each other while we race.
It could be car-to-car radios and you would have to communicate your intentions. For example.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
Al - Hey Glenn, I'm going to pass you on the outside going into turn one
Glenn - OK - If you think you have the balls
Al - Just watch me do it, then I'm gonna brake check you
Dave - Hey guys, settle down
Jerry - Yeah don't wreck Jay's race car
Al/Glenn - shut up you pansies
Glenn - Oh no you didn't!!!
Al - Ha!!!!!!!
Glenn - eat FU black mo-fo
Al - Oof!
Dave - Dammit - you f'ing directors suck
Jerry - don't wreck Jay's race car
Al - I got it, I got it, I got it
Dave - Slide Al slide!!!!!
Al - running out of talent - shit, grass
Glenn - you freaking punks, I'm outta here
;)
Not sure how you knew I said all that. Gotta get some more tin foil for the inside of my helmet.
Too funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Liebbe
Ladies, gentlemen, and Lienart... Mr. Rob Liebbe... he'll be here all week.
I was in the car for this race. I checked up to keep from being involved in the soon to happen Al and Glenn wreck and slammed into David..........then I told him he hit me! Of course David did not even know what corner it happened in so I figure we are even.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
JJ
OK...Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
Jerry - Yeah don't wreck Jay's race car
Fixed it
Maybe... maybe not. Show me on a map the exact demarcation of T1 and T2.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
Now, why were you channeling Jay in that race?
I will give you that one but you said you thought I had put two off in turn two. The only place that would happen is at track out........75 yards from where I jumped sideways into the side of Orange.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
JJ
I had concluded that a driver with the experience, skill, and astute spatial awareness... that Jay has... then I remembered Jerry was driving and was just trying to whittle down the field.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
To Jerry's defense, I thought the only reason he would have come over that hard was coming back on track. Now Jay did try to punt me... but I was in a good mood and waved instead of just spinning off track.
Been in Brunei for a few days for now
-Shell here basically runs/is the focal point of this side of Brunei. It looks like they bought 1000 white entry level toyota/mitsubishi/nissan sedans, stamped some numbers on them, and parked them in the parking lots of every hotel here. We even get a fuel voucher we can present in any Shell station in this city for free fuel. Every day at work I have to read the license plates of every Nissan Sunny SUPER SEDAN in the parking lot until I can find my assigned car; it has no keyless entry so I can't cheat.
-Driving on the wrong side of the road itself isn't bad, but every time i reach for the shifter i keep banging my hand on the door with my right hand. I also keep flipping on the wipers everytime I try to indicate. By the time I get used to this I will have problems readjusting to the good ole american way
-It's a dry country, no booze and everything pretty much shuts down at 9pm.
-People are pretty friendly and at the very basic level everyone can speak at least broken english
-Tried to order the national dish of Brunei, Ambuyat (some bamboo concoction, no clue), but they ran out. Got some really good thai fried rice instead. Trying to eat any form of "western" food here is terrible; they like to put mayonnaise on salads. Looks like I'll be eating a lot more tasty asian food for my remainig 7 days here...
Dude the Asians put mayo on everything. The wife put some on some JDM ramen noodles the other day, was actually pretty good. Of course their mayo tastes a little different too.
MAP plug.
To double check we swapped two, used a little TTS Datamaster to read it all in real time, and the Orange is back.
Which is a shame, it seemed to work ok once we got it turning left again.
Time for the winter break...
The brake pad fairy dropped off some Raybestos pads today. I'm converting from the $350/set PFC01's to sub $100/set Raybestos 47's. I'm also trying four different rear compounds. They are anywhere from $67-127/set...
It is almost too good to be true. If anyone would want a set, please let me know and I can try and work the same deal I received. I worked thru Ed Hunter (AI racer in the great lakes region).
It's crazy that I bought all nine sets of pads for what two and a half sets of PFC01 front pads cost...
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Here's a C5 front pad for right around $100.
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Just wrapped up 30 days of madness:
TWS Race
Brunei Work trip
2 days in Singapore and Tokyo each
ECR Race
3 day conference in San Fran
Cousin's wedding at Lake Conroe
Seeing other cousin's new kid after the wife went into labor during the wedding
Pretty much all back to back. Took tomorrow off work to just decompress from my "vacation"
Makes me feel like such a slacker.
You and me both!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Liebbe
Now that's a reception. Did you say, "don't worry i'm a trained race driver" and offer to help?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pranav
The "trained racing driver" wasn't available. The "dumb kid that drank too much last night and couldn't be more than 300ft away from a toilet" was.
Something tells me if I blew up a clutch in my Z06 on the track I wouldn't get it changed in 3 hours.
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Now to see if I can scrounge up an LS rear main cover alignment tool locally so I don't have to screw with the pan.
Apparently helped get the ECR video thread locked.
I think we need to have the discussion, civilly. We need to find video to use as teaching tools or make demos of what is acceptable behavior. The rules need to be clear and enforced - Glenn stepped up and DQd himself correctly so.
Inverts do currently count in the points - i was suggesting a different way for them to count.
A car that has position can either make the 1 blocking move they're allowed or they can't. And it's not just a CMC issue for AI, Dustin and I had an oblivious AI car racing us at Hallett after we were well into the race.
And yes, I am always up for full field inverts.
Not avoiding this topic. Been waiting until I am a little more cooled off as well as a few others. Behind the scenes, things are getting talked about. We have identified some balls that got dropped and an couple needed changes are being proposed.
look for a new thread in the coming days.
Are contact incidents kept somewhere in digital form? I work as an analytics consultant; I can kick out a bunch of charts and plots using my fancy tool that show different trends on contact info if we have the data...
I'm mostly curious about the correlation between contact incidents and starting format (standing, rolling, invert/noninvert), etc...
We can argue back and forth all day, but if the data exists...
IMO, just adding harsher punishment/more rules for contact doesn't seem like much of a solution by itself. I would think the ideal thing to do would be to educate people on what is/isn't acceptable (as Dave said above) first. If that doesn't work, then start adding more punishment/rules.
Topics that I think would be of interest:
- when to defend a position
- how to defend a position
- when to attempt a pass (examples for/against)
- rules for passing*
*I know the CCR says 3/4 car width, but I really hate this rule. If I establish a position beside someone on a straight, and then they manage to come down and hit me in the middle of the turn and I didn't have two wheels off track (assuming there's no wall, and I'm on the edge of the track), then it's my fault. At least that is my understanding of the rule, so please correct me if I'm wrong. How that constitutes good, clean, and fun racing is beyond me.
And since I'm on the topic of passing. While I understand why it is my fault if I have my nose inside of someone (lets say nose at the rear wheels) and they come down on me in a turn and we have contact, I hate that people actually do this at this level of racing. Isn't it more fun to go two wide in a turn and try to actually race someone to the next corner rather than just shutting the door on them? Maybe people just aren't aware of what's going on around them? Maybe I'm just not an asshole and would rather not hit someone even though it would be their fault?
I never meant to leave that impression if it came across that way - I figure the other thread got locked because the emotions were high.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Yes, but it isn't always intentional. I think I took Mosty wide/off track at TWS. He was working on an outside pass and I couldn't hold it down and he avoided any contact.Quote:
Originally Posted by blk96gt
You hate that people are racing aggressively and trying to get to their apex and keep you behind them? Is it that "we" have contact or that "you" caused contact because you didn't give up the non-position you never had? I did that exact thing to Mitch at Hallett, left a black mark on the new white paint, and it took me some soaking to admit to myself that he was right - I didn't have position and I didn't make enough effort, any actually, to avoid the contact.Quote:
Originally Posted by blk96gt
I'm not trying to beat you up, just supporting your observation that I want to continue to learn and understand the expectations of those racing around me.
Al/Glenn/Marshall - appreciate all the work you guys put in so we can do this thing.