Sounds like everything on the car is working out well, Howard.
Also seems you're driving very well. Congrats!
Really appreciate you sharing everything in your posts. Lotsa very useful information for me.
I'm still bumping along in FS down here in San Diego.
I went to the EVO Phase 1 school at El Toro in March. Learned a lot. Had Bryan H. for a co-instructor.
He did amazing things with my car, which was pure stock on the stock Pirellis at the time.
Realized the car had a lot of potential I wasn't tapping yet.
Still trying to digest all the new proposals to stock/street.
Looks like I'll probably be unaffected if the new revised proposal passes for next year.
I'll probably just go with FStreet-R if it happens.
With all the new cars coming out soon, (IRS Mustang, Z-28 Camaro, not to mention Corvette);
I'm hesitant to invest in the ESP mods to the Mustang for now.
May just try to find a base '13 GS Vette if they get cheap in the fall.
Meantime, I'll just buy another set of Hoosiers and try to keep learning how to drive.
With -1.5 camber with the camber bolts and careful attention to rotating the tires on the rims, etc.
I can manage about 45 runs per set now.
Seems like they're heat cycling out rather than cording; for me at least..
For FS, are Koni yellows a good place to start for improving over stock?
Except for camber bolts, I haven't modded anything yet.
Best Regards,
John
So which Cobra seats will fit us folks on larger framed bodies? Which of those seats come close to 25lbs with the brackets and what is the damage to my bank account?
So which Cobra seats will fit us folks on larger framed bodies? Which of those seats come close to 25lbs with the brackets and what is the damage to my bank account?
6' 195lb FR500S. What seat will fit that does not cost a gazillian dollers like the Ford Racing seat?
That "tiger tire" or "tire tail" nonsense is absolutely terrifying to me, both as an engineer and as a shock supplier. One time I randomly saw one of our early Miata shock testers driving around town with a "tire tail" loaded with 4 tires and wheels, with his rear suspension clearly bottomed out. It was banging over every bump, and it was destroying his shocks. He did this a few too many times and blew out the rear shocks, then denied using a tire tail and acted all mystified when we charged him to rebuild them.all that said, i sold the trailer to a friend since i didn't have room in to the garage to store it anymore, and am having a tire tail made. it'll have about 200lbs capacity, and look something like this:
it's slightly different design/location on the S197 (over the trunk instead of just hanging off the back); trying to get a friend to forward me a pic of the one he had made. stay tuned.
who said i was putting all 4 wheels/tires on it?For a Mustang you'd be hauling close to 200 pounds of tires and wheels on a hitch mount this way, which is much more than the tongue weight of a fully yet properly loaded 4x4' tire trailer hauling your wheels, tires and tools.
Here's another observation about racing and its costs...
People who LIKE cars drive all sorts of cool cars - sports cars, muscle cars, luxury cars, off-road trucks, vintage cars. The real enthusiasts do car related activities - cruise nights, show-n-shines, club runs through the mountains, off-road driving, touring drives, road trips, track days, etc.
People who REALLY LIKE cars drive cool cars and do car-related competitions with them - autocrosses, Solo I track events, time/speed/distance rallies, run-what-you-brung night at the drag strip, car shows with concours d'elegance, etc.
But people who LOVE cars don't drive cool cars - they drive trucks. They OWN cool cars, but the cool cars are race cars that live in a shop and ride to the track in an enclosed trailer. The truck's job is to serve the race car. The truck is often kind of junky, but as long as it runs, it lets the owner spend money on the only important kind of car - the race car.
My vintage racing friend used to love muscle cars. Since he started racing, he has begun to view street cars as a waste of perfectly good money that could've been spent on racing. His philosophy about nice street cars is as follows: "Is it a race car? Will it at least tow a race car to the race track? Does it have anything at all to do with racing? No? Then f--- it."
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nothing is happening to my suspension - i don't even have the tail yetBoardkat, the terrifying part is what is happening to your suspension. The accelerated wear caused by tire-tails is real. We've seen it. It's fine to hang a bike on the back of an SUV with plenty of suspension movement, but extending that lever arm enough for mounted tires, and then putting it on a sports car (we deal with a LOT more cars than just Mustangs) with limited suspension travel is a bad idea.
i don't have that luxury any more, unfortunately, living in a three level townhome with no outdoor storage space. seriously, i should take a pic of my "garage" since we had to wall in a portion of it over the winter to make a home office for me due to losing a room to the baby!From our experience we urge you to use a 4x4 trailer instead. They can be stored on end in a corner of the garage or backyard, or on a patio if you live in an apartment.