:hail: :bow: :hail:

drift or burn out?

It started as a 4 wheel slide at El Toro and I quickly turned it into a 360 degree smokey burnout back onto the course. :D

Haha.... nice!

how do you keep your cars reflection always looking like glass, other than having a 15k paintjob, do you use like zaino or wax daily, or do like a cut polish every month?

he uses zaino but even before that the car still looked like glass... alot of it has to do with the quality of the paintjob.

exactly. A paintjob that has orange peel (such as an OEM paint job) is much harder to to keep glassy looking (well, black..) because you have microfine scratches in "valley" areas of the orange peel. Paint that has been cut and buffed flat, when you wax it, it easily fills all the scratches because they are not hidden in the texture.. sorry not sure why i went into that.. but im not deleting it now! muahahah

Payback will be running the Silver State Classic in September. The plan is to run the fastest class allowed and the 1/2 mile shootout. I love Big Red as much as the next guy. Those videos get my blood pumping beyond comprehension. The Silver State Classic is on my list of musts. My car was made to run this event. I can't wait to flex my muscle!

Todd,

The Silver State Classic is where you start to test the line between PT and a race car. Unless you get a waiver, you have to run the 110 mph class the first time out (tech to 124 mph). After that, things like window nets (or arm restraints), HANs devices, and five or six point harnesses become manadatory. To get teched to go fast in the upper classes, you run into cage requirements that have specs for things like the number of bends in the front and rear hoops, diagonal brace specifications, etc.. A 1.75 inch / .120 wall full cage (if DOM) is required for cars over 3000 lbs. The complete rule book is available on line. I sleep with the SCCA, NASA and Silver State rule books under my pillow and it results in sleepless nights and a "never quite finished" car. There are a lot of compromises to keep the car streetable and race legal, without even considering comfortable. I just spent two months putting a mandatory metal firewall between the fuel cell and the passenger compartment (last year's rule), and now it reads "metal (steel or aluminum) PREFERRED". Good luck -- I'll come out cheer you on.

Pappy

awesome, toddski! I'd love to come over and see that being it's not terribly far for me. I'll put it on my to-do list. then we can about you building my next camaro! :D