Thanks Ron! Means a lot coming from you. I feel your pain with the trailer woes, One trip I had 3 flat tires! I was very pleased with the car, ran times in the upper middle of the pack and there's plenty more to gain when I figure out how to get the rear end to bite a little harder. I had to pedal it through every turn and couldn't accelerate hard without breaking the rear end loose. I was also braking way early for the corners because I don't have confidence in the brakes yet, but she didn't let me down!

I got Media coverage! I made the front page of DSE's website and three shots on the southern slam recap page! I'm the goofy dude in the grey tee shirt looking the wrong way!

http://www.detroitspeed.com/speednew...recap-pg1.html

That was the first time I had run the full course, that is one track that I don't even try to pedal, lots of drifting and slipping and sliding. I think that is my favorite track so far.

I was spinning so much in 3rd gear down the back straight, that when the clutch started to go away in high gear, I thought I was spinning. Unfortunately NOT!!

Here's some update from the last couple of months. I've done 3 more AutoX days since I came back from CMP. I've been slowly dialing the car in and it's getting faster and I'm learning how to drive a 2900# car with 407HP! I swapped out the front springs to a little beefier 550 pounders and the car was better. So I decided to soften up the rear some by changing out the sway bar. Most people told me to just take it off, but I wanted to see if making it softer made the changes in the right way first. Problem I'm having is that the car is very loose in the corner and corner exit is really hard to put down any power. I'm taking the car to VIR in July for its HPDE3 debut.

I'm softening up the rear sway bar with a smaller one. 26mm down to 21mm. Since I had to pull the gas tank to change the bar, I'm fixing a small pinhole leak by resealing the tank from the inside. Dropped it yesterday and pulled all the pump assembly out and poured in some Eastwood tank sealer. Just pour it in and rotate the tank around and it leaves a nice liner when it drys out. then I painted it before I reinstalled it. after all the paint drys I'll put it all back together.

http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps9f40a1c2.jpg

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Sway bar is in
http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps818642a2.jpg

Tank is back together and in
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Getting the car ready for VIR in July, I went back to the big rear sway bar and went down on the rear springs to 250#s The street trial seems to be much better. Now when I get on it the weight transfer to the rear is much more pronounced. I'm also upping the front bar to control some body roll. I also spent some time today to cross weight the car and realign it with the new ride heights. Cross weight is now an even 50%, perfect. all I need now is a 130 lb passenger and the car will be perfect! In race trim the car weighs in at 3150 with 12 gallons of fuel and me in the seat. I also finished up the brake ducts to tie in the frame rails to just under the bumper. It's pretty stealthy, you can't even see them from the front of the car.

http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...psd410bdfb.jpg

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Also added some new grand sport stripes on the fenders just for effect.

http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps50eb30df.jpg

Looking good Mills. How much longer till you start running time trials?

If all goes well with the car at VIR in July, I'll be ready to go to then next level. If I was still in the WS6 I would have already made the jump. But since I'm in a completly new car to me, I want some seat time in it first. As you know, track weekends don't come cheap, but I'm hoping to get it done by the end of the year as long as the car holds together. I pretty much spent all I had and more getting the car ready for the Southern Slam at Carolina Motorsports park and I'm in financial recovery mode at the moment!:G-Dub:

Well I'm back from a pretty bad weekend. On the first session the car was flying! It seems that I've finally got the suspension dialed it almost perfect. It keep getting faster and faster and I was passing people left and right. It really flys on the back strech too! So the gearing is just about right for VIR. (sucks for autoX though).
However... at the end of the first session I went into turn 10 about 120mph behind a Miata. He Breaked and so did I but the pedal went to the floor! Oh ****! I went to the left off the track to avoid hitting him, I tried to stay off track to the left because turn 10 is a left hand turn. Well turning in the grass at that speed with slicks doesn't work so well so I went back across the track in front of the Miata! (yeah, pass in the grass style) but I clipped his left front with the right rear of my car. No body damage to me though. I went off track on the other side and all the way down the hill to the Oak tree turn (Its a long ways) I finally stopped and still had no brakes. Smoke everywhere! started to hear the motor making valvetrain noises and I looked and had no oil pressure! Oh ****! So I get the motor turned off and gather my senses cause I was shaken pretty good. I'm not allowed to get out of the car until the track is cleared and the wrecker shows up. when I get out I look back and see about 200 yards of tire tracks with a nice oil slick in between all the way down to me! Oh **** number three!

After I got my Haul of Shame back the paddock on the wrecker and went through all the checks because there was contact I was able to figure out what happened to the car. I sheared a bolt on the upper swaybar link on the rear. The link fell forward and when the suspension compressed it Sheared the left rear brake line. Going across the track in front of the miata apparently got the Oil pan. My weekend was done at 10:30 on Sat AM. Oh well...

Heres the pan
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Here's the car that I just blew by that I could have hit.
http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...psff7ca28f.jpg

Glad you and everyone else is ok. Sorry to hear about the damage though.

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

Think its time you step it up a level.....your passing way too many cars :poke: :thumbsup: