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My fourth track day and new lessons learned. This time out, the new parts are the Watson 4-point bar and 6-point harnesses. That was a worthwhile outlay. No more leaning out of the seat or bracing myself in the car. I actually had to remind myself to not brace my knee against the console a...

My search skills & Google-fu are failing me. I swear at one point someone posted a link to a thread where someone had installed the Watson Racing bar as a bolt-in, bolt-out setup with good pictures of the cutouts he made of the interior panels. I've been searching all around the forum & on...

I did my third track day this weekend, the first with the suspension updates and good weather. The day was a resounding success. I definitely made the right move getting into the intermediate group from the beginners; on the whole the drivers were--as you would expect--a little more experienced...

I almost forgot about this event due to all the family drama going on. Thankfully I checked my calendar and my wonderful wife insisted I go & get my Mustang therapy. :driver: So, that made for a somewhat frantic Saturday afternoon after she got off work. Get the car washed & go grab the race...

I can't believe it's been a year since the last track day. Kids & life take a lot of time. :crazy: I don't plan to allow that to happen again this year. So, I got back on track last weekend with Speed Ventures at Auto Club Speedway. I stayed in the noob group since it was a) my second time...

I tried calling the 800-598-1484 number and am getting a temporarily out of service message. Anyone else able to get through? I've spammed Steve's PM box and the parts email address with my questions regarding the M-3200-EPAS rack. Hoping Steve is monitoring today.

Branching off the AMR 18x10 threads to examine tire choices. Since the wheels have been at an amazing price, I think a bunch of us jumped on a set and now need tires to wrap around them. I am specifically looking for track day/autocross tires for these as they will be my race wheels for a...

I just wanted to say thanks for excellent communication so far. You guys called this Saturday to inform me the Blowfish transmission bracket is on backorder for about a week or so. I was expecting it to go on backorder, but not a phone call to inform me of it (or really for the relatively short...

Late write-up, but I've been busy with family stuff. It was a pretty fun course; little in the way of weird gimmicks and was pretty fast & flowing. The catch was the long slalom at the end with a kink--the last two cones were turned from the rest, so it was pretty much two shorter slaloms with a...

Ok, really mostly bad & ugly. :dead2: Two events to post on since I got behind and had a vacation between. July 6th autocross, El Toro. This was a fairly quick course and I ran into the rev limiter a couple of times. I guess I'm getting quicker now that I am seeing the problem with...

I did a quick search & skim, so may have missed any answers buried in threads. I did run across Whiskey11 asking the same question I am about to here, but saw no answer. (found here: http://s197forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99904&highlight=camber+plate+adjustment&page=2) Some background: I...

I took the Mustang out to the SCCA Solo II at El Toro yesterday for it’s shakedown run on the new suspension. The phrase “I love it when a plan comes together” is appropriate. I ran in the Classic American Muscle class and brought a friend along in his modified 2007 Mustang GT. Along with us was...

It's about time to start a build thread, I guess. This will be a slow-moving, and probably relatively unimpressive build in the context of this forum, but what the heck, I'll make you read/ignore my ramblings all the same. So, to start with the basics. The car is a '13 base GT with the Brembo...

I ran the All American Sunday autocross this weekend at the Goodguys Del Mar show. I went in not taking it seriously as I expected to be non-competitive based on past experience here & my general lack of competitiveness so far in the car. I got a big surprise. As usual, they had the course...

After many years of autocross, and inching my way up to it, I finally tracked the car this weekend. What a blast! I've spent the last 18 months getting myself comfortable with the S197 (coming from 20-ish years in FWD cars with lots less power). After happily sliding around in the misting...

It seems there was a Camaro club at the autocross event I was at this weekend, all pretty new cars. One was an SS with this gem of a licence plate frame: "I'd rather be spanking a Boss 302 Mustang" My first thought amusement at the need for the inflammatory comment. My second thought was...

The new season has started! Well, at least in So Cal--I won't say sunny as the Saturday practice was apparently very wet, and it rained on me heading up to the event & a little during the morning course walk. Fortunately for me, I ran & worked in the afternoon; it was dry but cold & windy...

I finally got my car out dodging cones this weekend; I ran the autocross with the Speed Ventures guys at Auto Club Speedway--what a blast. Attendance was apparently pretty light from what they often see, so we got plenty of runs--this is a different setup than Solo II's 3 runs & you're done...