racepar1

doooooooo it!

steve shadows

Might need to pull some boost out of it though for that course, maybe bring it down to 14 psi, instead of 18...not on r-comps yet.

I need pwr steering cooler and oil cooler still...sigh we'll see, I am getting out to the track for sure starting dec/jan, it's been almost a year! wow time flys

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dom.kouki

what class would i be put in with a Porsche 944 turbo? and are minors allowed to run with CA drivers license, and SCCA experience ?

racepar1

Ok, who went? How was it? What times did you run? How pissed should I be that I was too broke to make it?

Giebs

I went on saturday, had a lot of fun. Signed up for 101 as it was my first time on track. Some how I ended up in intermediate/advanced, they said it was ok for me to stay in that group as long as I felt comfortable (I had the slowest car out there, stock sohc w/suspension and brakes). Went on sunday too but just to watch my friend run his corolla. A 370z and gtr were there on saturday. Insanly fast legacy(specs) was running on sunday, and a turbo focus was there passing moded sti's like nothing.

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Red Square

weather was great. lots of drive time.

time: 1:29:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd5nRpj_-zA

my street tires had a little understeering problem and my brakes where a little mushy. i should of change out my old motul before hand. had to do some early braking, but not too bad. i should be about 2 sec faster next time around

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S14Cuhh

unfortunately i left my s13 at homesoo i brought this :]

racepar1

I texted my buddy Kenny and I guess he ran a 1:26.7 in his mr-s! Go kenny! I can't wait to see the full results.

koukikat180sx

hope you guys had fun at this event. round 2 next year!

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swayray

Hey that's a hella good time, what type of tires were you running?

Supposedly my best lap was 1:33.2 with heavy traffic. I had to pass 5 cars to get that time. I'm sure I had a better time than that on my first early runs when I didn't have traffic in front of me but the transponder didn't register it. I was the guy w/ the stock SR & pink seats on direzza z1s w/ megan racing street coilovers but they were too soft for that track since I had bad body roll. It sucks too cuz my pedal felt really spongy when it got so hot so I had to custom rig a heatshield for my BMC. Were you the guy w/ the red s14 on those bling wheels?


But besides that the weather was perfect! Normally I would've been at HTM w/ ASB but I actually had more fun trying to guage my lap time... it was awesome, thanks for the event KAT!

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Red Square

^ i was in the black kouki s14 with gt wing and bridgestone re-01r. that red s14 is shift_nismo. but yah i had trouble with traffic too, but about half the time i got some clean runs. to bad my transponder did read half the time. i had it behind glass, next time im mounting it outside for sure. i should be in the 1:27 mark next time out. but yah, ive never seen that many 240s at grip event ever. it nice to see some 240s out there in a evo/s2000/miata world.

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S14Cuhh

post up some more times anyone? who broke 1:30's..im not there yet :[


btw the green coupe was quick whoever you are . goodshit lol

junkyiv

BIG THANKS to Naoki for hosting this event, not an easy task to say the least. I had a blast. My second time driving Streets and first with timing equipment. My personal best for the day was 1:35:38. I'm pleased with that.
I was driving the black s13 hatch with no interior running a stock n/a ka24de with an AEM intake, HotShot header and STOCK exhaust rolling on 245/40/17 Maxxis DRIFT tires (way too big) with a 280 treadwear rating.
I'm hoping to make some more improvements to the car and roll on better wheels and tires(the correct size with a better treadwear rating) and hopefully be pushing towards the 1:30 mark.
Congratulations to those who topped their class and to those who never made it,
YOU MISSED OUT!!!!!!
Sorry I just couldn't help myself.
I hope that those who wanted to but couldn't make it will be able to come out for the next one as we plan to do this again.

koukikat180sx

^ it's scary seeing Tom coming up behind you fast in your rear view mirror...

that would be jon. he's on here some where...

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[quote=koukikat180sx;2482815]^ it's scary seeing Tom coming up behind you fast in your rear view mirror...



HI KAT!!!!!!!

racepar1

I wanna see a full list of the s-chasis times!

SHIFT_nismo

Not all of us had transponders

racepar1

I'm talking about the time-attack times, I don't care about saturday.

swayray

Besides Tom's, I only have mine, jon's and Masashi's time:

Jon (silsx13)
1:33.426
1:33.138


Built / JWT Tuned KA24DE, Toyo R1R 225/45/15


Ray (SwayRay)
1:33.340
1:33.290


Stock SR20DET, Dunlop Direzza Z1 235/40/17

Masashi (montonagam)
1:36.898
1:36.419


Bone stock KA24DE (KNFilter), Advan Neova AD07 225/45/17, 255/40/17


I'm not a road racer or anything and only drove streets twice before this event on the same car but first on blown JIC coils, then on blown Tein HA coils. This was the first time I actually enjoyed driving streets even if I got stuck on traffic. Naoki was right, I should've been in the same run group as the turbo subies or Taka and Hiro's group I just didn't think the car would handle that well or do I would do well w/o any good experience. It must have been the pink seats or something...

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silsx13

Yea, I'm the guy with the green coupe... Thanks for the compliments and kudos. =)

I think i could've broken into the 1:32s had it not been for a broken front-right swaybar mount that I discovered after the sessions were over! No wonder my car got all loose and oversteery after the 3rd session. When that happened, I lost confidence in pushing myself and the car and felt that it was better I quit while ahead instead of pushing and doing something stupid.

Ray- Dude, you should've been put into the Turbo class with Taka, Hiro etc.- that's why they put all the NAs (240s, Corollas, etc.) into one run group and the Turbos in another! It really helps when you have the power to pass the "speed challenged" cars on the straights because there was no passing in the turns but heck, it was fun running with ya out there on streets even though we weren't next to each other most of the time. I think your car would've passed my car easily in the straights if it came to it anyways.

It was fun driving with the other cars out there despite trying to find clean track to post a quick time for the time attack which I was able to do luckily.

Other than that, I had a great time this weekend and thanks again to Driftday staff and especially Naoki for putting on a great event.

And to add to what Tom said about those who weren't there:

YOU MISSED OUT BIG TIME!!!! haha...

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SHIFT_nismo

Oh pardon me.

junkyiv

So does anyone else have pics or better yet FOOTAGE from this event? I saw a LOT of cameras but have yet to see anything other than what's posted above. I got some in-car footage but I'm still figuring out how to post or edit it(I doubt most of you want to see 20 straight minutes or more of lapping at a time). If you have it, POST IT! PLEASE!!

JohnJohn86

I want to know who won the NA KA time attack and what's his time. Anyone?

racepar1

I heard the winning N/A ka time was a 1:33.2 0r so. That pisses me off because I can run in the low 32's easily with my car, but my broke ass couldn't make it!

swayray

yeah jon (silsx13) would've easily made it into the low 32's possibly even 31's if there wasn't so much traffic and if his swaybar endlink didn't snap...

I should've been able to run 30's on the stock SR i just fell into the wrong run group.

This whole time attack thing is starting to get way too addicting....

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racepar1

I learned my lesson about choosing the right run group a while ago. Traffic sucks! I would rather be the slowest car on the track in the advanced group than the fastest in intermediate. As long as I am not getting in the way I stick with advanced always, I haven't had that problem yet.

silsx13

Thanks for the clarification Ray.

Yes VERY true about the traffic situation out there on track- I think if we all had more clear runs w/o the holdups, we'd all get better times.

BUT, getting through traffic to get that fast lap was the name of the game that day and we all had to play it.

And this time attack thing is niiiiccceeeeee and can get addicting; Just ask any autocrosser why they try to best their own time and be the fastest in their class, myself included (been doing autocross for over 5 years now).....

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junkyiv

TIME-ATTACK................is CRACK for Speed Freaks!!!! (note user name)

But then again I like almost any almost any auto performance discipline that involves speed and pushing it all the way, whether it's sideways or through the twisties for time. Personally for me I think that RALLY would be my single ultimate RUSH because it involves the most extreme of all forms of driving. Someday I hope to do that as well.

Yeah we all had traffic, even me starting up front. But that just makes it a little more interesting even though it hurt lap times. Perhaps we should run a real Time-Attack format next year with a four lap session with only 4-6 cars on the track at a time, the middle two laps being your timed runs. That should decrease traffic interferance and possibly show the most accurate times.

Oh yeah, I had no rear brakes all day.
I really can't wait to do this again. Great group of drivers and just a FUN time.

UNITEDMASTER

Well ,looks like I missed out big time,all the grip peeps were there as It seems. Man I need some play $$$, its all good I will be out fresh for 09,with just about new everything. The drive train will be killa killa. 400 whp or bust . See you all soon!!!!! Time to regroup!!!!

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racepar1

Hit me up when you are planning on going to an event, I'll do the same.