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Every few months, it seems the "weekly digest" setting gets set back to "subscribed" and I start receiving the "weekly digest". I keep having to set it back to "unsubscribe". How many different ways do I have to tell this site that I DO NOT WANT PERIODIC EMAIL MESSAGES FROM THIS SITE? If I...

After over a year of driving on the stock suspension, with the only change to it being the use of Koni Sport shocks and camber plates, I finally decided to make some changes to it. I had already planned to do this, but the recent experience with noticing the delay in taking a set merely added...

Haven't posted a message such as this in a while, so I thought it might be time to. The latest event I went to was with NASA at Thunderhill, on 8/29 and 8/30. It was a lot of fun and very informative. As you guys know, the tires I've been using are Bridgestone S-04 Pole Positions. For this...

It's been some time since I've written at length here. In the interim, I've gone to several track events and another Evolution driving school. I've now got some 15 days of track time under my belt, including some wet laps. During one of those events at Laguna Seca, I managed to spin the car...

New dampers, and camber plates Recently (last Thursday!) I got Koni Yellows and camber plates installed onto my car. The camber plates are from Maximum Motorsports. I would have installed Vorshlag plates but they simply couldn't get them built in time. The Vorshlag plates are still on order...

So I was going to get Ground Control coilovers and camber plates, custom made to my specifications. Seems they aren't sufficiently interested in doing that. My shop has been working with them since the 90s, and now they're no longer being responsive. Screw it. I'm cancelling the order. So...

Since my experience with Simraceway phase 2 wasn't a whole lot different from stage 1, I thought I'd combine it with my commentary on the Evolution driving school. Simraceway driving school, stage 2 This stage involved a few laps around their "autocross" course, which is really more like a...

So as I mentioned elsewhere, I've signed up for a bunch of different events, including a driving school at Simraceway (previously Jim Russell). For me, this is pretty convenient (much more so than the Ford Racing school at Miller Motorsports Park) and quite a lot less expensive than most, as I...

I'm sure many of you have already read my writeup on my first HPDE. In it and the ensuing discussion, we talk about the problems I had during that HPDE. Now it's time for me to write up the second one. As before, there's good news and there's bad news. First, the good news... The Good News...

Well, I'm back from my very first HPDE in 15 years. This one was put on by NASA at Sonoma Raceway. My goals in HPDE are, firstly, to have enormous amounts of fun; secondly, to learn how to safely and reliably drive the car at its limits; thirdly, to learn how to reliably recover the car when...

So my first track event is coming up next weekend (March 15-16) at Sonoma Raceway. This is the first track event I've been to in 15 years, and I'll be driving what amounts to a brand new car both in terms of time of manufacture and in terms of my familiarity with it. I don't have a trailer or...

I don't understand how this can possibly be accomplished. The proper braking point is a function of your speed and braking strength. Vary either, and your braking point has to change, else you'll either be too slow through the corner (and you'll have to control the resulting line strictly...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but it's more likely to be of interest to the people here than to nearly anyone else. So here goes. I have a 2014 GT Premium with the track package as some of you guys know. I have the Scantool OBDLink MX and the Torque Pro application...

I am. It will be the first time I've been on a track in 20 years, so I'm approaching it as if I don't know a thing, because I probably don't! I'm in HPDE run group 1, which involves instruction 100% of the time. I like it that way. I'm unfamiliar with the track, and would want an instructor...

The spring rate balance on the stock Mustang suspensions is such that there is more rate at the rear than the front, as many here know. For instance, the Brembo brake package has 167 lbs/in rear springs and 131 lbs/in front springs, for a 79% front:rear ratio. The front sway bar is 34.6mm in...

There are three buttons in the button bar at the top of the message editor which have their icons sourced from a system which, from what I've seen so far, is always down/inaccessible. The images in question are: http://05gt.servebeer.com/icon/google.jpg...

Why compression damping? I've been giving the question of springs and dampers a bit of thought, and there's one thing I haven't been able to understand: Why do dampers have any amount of compression damping at all? I can think of some downsides to having it, namely that you wind up with an...

So let's suppose I get a set of Boss 302 springs for my GT. It's pretty darned cheap when you get right down to it, about $160 for all 4 corners, it gets me the ride height I want in the front and the rear (I want to keep the geometry in the rear about the same as stock so as to avoid pinion...

From what I've seen about the brake pads in the 2013/2014 GT track package, they're something of a mystery. There's some indication that they're different than the pads that come with the Brembo brake package, but I've not seen anything terribly specific. Many messages refer to them as...

As I have a 2014 GT that I want to track, it's of great interest to me (and to others, I'm sure!) to prevent oil of any kind from finding its way onto the track. Inasmuch as it seems that earlier cars had problems with diff oil spilling out of the rear axle at track temperatures, I'd like to...

So in the "Centric and Stop Tech Rotors and Rust" thread, we've determined that you're almost certainly better off from a performance standpoint in going with 18" wheels instead of 19" wheels. And 18" seems to be a fairly popular size from what little reading I've done here. All other things...