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Cool. I believe it that that was his 2nd and 3rd pass on a BUSA but I don't believe for one second that was his 2nd and 3rd passes ever on a BIKE.
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No, it's a coupe, but the windows are open
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I'm the mustang driver. Later that day the M3 driver and I spent the better part of a 20 minute session playing cat-and-mouse...perfectly evenly matched. He couldn't catch me, and I couldn't leave him behind. We talked afterward and he's got some suspension tweaks but we're both running street tires. Unfortunately I didn't capture that session on video.
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I've never attended Evo, he's an Evo instructor that happens to be local to me.
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FYI, that same car took me to 5 regional autocross championships in street tires and Street Modified a few years ago, and you can see any of the other videos of mine where I'm hanging with Elises and STi's and M3's etc on road courses, still on street tires, so can we keep the "mustangs are straight line only" ignorance to a dull roar this time? kthxbye.
It so happens that my rear upper control arm bushings had migrated out of position and the upper arms were metal-on-metal with the body mounts. Makes for more than the usual amount of oversteer.
As for the GT vs LX, as long as they're 5.0's, the suspensions are identical and the weight difference between the trim types is a fraction of what most people think it is.
As for the Maxumum Motorsports comment...ya think? I finished a torque arm/panhard bar/adjustable LCA project last month, and their K member and coilovers are in the mail as I type.
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I doubt that. For one thing he's carrying more speed OUT of corners, which is critical, and he's going every bit as deep into the braking zones as I was
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I'm sure the owner will chime in but I'm learning that it didn't have R-compounds as I suspected, but it has coilovers and swaybars, meaty brakes and some power mods. The reason I suspected R-compounds on his car was because mine is usually very well-matched with a well-driven stock-ish 350Z (see some of my other vids), and he was clearly and consistently pulling me in corners more than the straights, at least that I could tell. Unfortunately I never strayed far from the shade of my own paddock spot at this event and he was parked all the way on the other side of paddock so I never got the chance to speak to him.
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the mustang is a full-weight nice weather daily driver with what amounts to a 93-95 Cobra engine with a better cam, Cobra type brakes with Carbotech XP8 pads, stiffer springs, Koni Yellows, improved bushings, subframe connectors and a roll bar.
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Global West front springs and Del-a-lum front control arm bushings, Steeda X2 balljoints, Koni Yellows, Global West rear LCA's, FRPP HD UCA's, I guess you could count the Maximum Motorsports subframe connectors, grand total to buy new maybe $1700
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Because we're not ALLOWED to, otherwise it wouldn't have been an issue, and the guy would have been in everybody's dust inside half a lap.
Squealing tires are happy tires being worked hard...something the vette driver may not find out for a while
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It's not about trashing somebody having less experience...I help those people on a regular basis and on a variety of levels. It's about lauging at those who cover for a lack of experience, or a lack of skill, or an overabundance of ego, or whatever it is, by driving a Very Fast Car in a Straight Line while holding everything up everywhere else. As it turns out, mine is one of several people's videos who captured the same behavior throughout the event. It's only mildly forgivable in entry-level groups, it's inexcusable in advanced groups.
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Again, for those whose lips move when they read:
If you don't know the track rules and if you can't drive, you shouldn't be out running with the Advanced group.
Everybody starts somewhere, and they have run groups for those people.
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If it was his first time on the track he shouldn't have been in the ADVANCEG GROUP with 20 other people who actually know what they're doing, which is the whole point: Low-performance drivers in high-performance cars getting put in high-experience groups by virtue of nothing but the car.
As for laughing when the other guy "handed me my ass", actually I was giddy at being able to capture how it's supposed to be done, you just couldn't hear it over the wind noise. Lots of people "hand me my ass" which is just fine because it's not an actual race.
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The suspension is from the age of the dinosaur, but it's the tires more than anything else. I switched to Bridgestone RE-01R's and they howl at a much lower frequency and not as loudly, see the 2nd and 3rd newer vids for evidence
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The Viper driver has only been tracking the car for a year or two. He's making great progress and as you can see, I can't keep up with him anymore.
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It's all stock geometry except the front A-arms are offset forward and the spindles have been moved up with longer balljoints. Other than that it's better bushings, 800-lb front springs with about a 1.5 inch drop, trimmed rear springs, and Koni Yellows all the way around, no coilovers or panhard bar or torque arm.
Have no fear, the people who've never had a car near a track will be along sometime to laugh at the tire squeal without realizing that's the sound of happy tires being worked hard.
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What, can't watch til the end? Also, the "little 328" is a fantastic sleeper with what amounts to an M3 drivetrain on a tweaked suspension, and since it was a limited-passing event, I couldn't pass until pointed by by the other driver.
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He can drive a hell of a lot better than you can write.
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No, it's a 5 speed, but at most autocrosses once you get it in 2nd gear there's no point in shifting anymore.
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