Great job Jake! Down on power? Yes....but think what paint and a nice coat of wax would do!! ;) :thumbsup:

Wait I was just sifting threw pics from the weekend....Jake, did you paint your car??

Nice finally meeting you Jake. Jake is a nice guy with a Killer car for those that haven't met him.

As for Jackass..Yes Stielow is a great driver and could have been competitive in his Solstice but what just happened is we ran a brand new car that the only sorting we had done was friday and we were changing rear springs in the rain Friday night in the Hotel parking lot. Anyone that has ever put together a new car knows of all the sorting that has to be done. It absolutely hauls ass. It stops on a dime. It didn't over heat. It didn't starve for fuel in the turns etc. I'm your average open track driver. I don't have a comp license. I think Bill told me I finished third in open track for the Non DSE, air ride etc cars. The car ran and ran. Yes I have a ton of money in it and you could call it a high dollar build but it is a car that is going to get driven. We still have sorting to do. It only has a 7/8" swaybar that we confirmed this weekend is too small. AME was already sending us a larger one but we had to leave for the event before it arrived.

Autocross we are not set up for at all. It was very well run but doing a whole event in first gear is not my cup of tea.

I'm still in Awe of how well the People at Lane Automotive treated all of us. All the sponsors of this event deserve your business. This was a event for the people that frequent Lateral-g.net and Pro-touring.com. I think they will do another one next year and you should go if you can.:cheers:

A first class event for sure. I look forward to doing it next year, only I will be working on the car less and driving more.

Many thanks to Bill Howell, Steve Chryssos, the SCCA group and the folks at Lane for all their hard work. I apologize if I neglected mentioning anyone.

We need pics and video. :cheers: :lateral:

Charlie, that is great to hear how reliable the car is from the git go.

Do you have another track events your planning to run JA in?

Besides what you mentioned, do you have any other mods planned for the car?

I gave you a proper answer... You asked what he built, I gave you the name. Take a moment and use the " SEARCH " button and look for it... Do I need to go in depth for you and explain how to use that feature of these forums?

Jackass will be at the Optima Invitational in Pahrump after SEMA. :thumbsup:

Congrats guys, put her on some " crack tires " and lets see what she can really do.

X2...who's holding out on us?:_paranoid

everyone keeps refering to this car as a Mark S. car, but isn't it a Charlie car that Mark just over saw the build on since it was in MI.

I love the competition, aspect of this. Looks like Penny has some stiff competiton this time.

Yes JA is Charley's car. He asked me to build it and I helped with the build. I project managed it and engineered it. Reiter's did most of the work on the car. They did the body work, paint and assembled it. Stenod did the exhaust and the roll cage. I had help from a lot of people.

I'm very happy with the way JA turned out.

The Motor State deal was great. A very will run event. There were a lot of great guys there with cool cars that we all being driven hard.


Mark

Hell...I'd have a grin ear-to-ear permanent-like too,you should be quite pleased Mark.:thumbsup:

Charley has in-car/on-car video, hopefully once he gets home, he can get some uploaded. :cheers:

Yep, but the car was brand new (since the last road course event) with new springs, sway bars and such.

The valving for the Bilsteins are off now, need some adjustables, also cooked the BP20 street pads since Pozzi and I were both beating on the car.

Penny had the fastest autocross time (with Pozzi) driving and I think I had the fourth fastest with myself driving.

David came in 3rd place overall for the event. If he would have matched his qualifying time in the finals he would have gotten 2nd, but that's the way the cookie crumbles in racing.

We know what we need to do to make her better and that's the most important part.

Oh, I got to drive JACKASS.. Holy crap! that car has INSANE brakes. The power is pretty crazy as well, first class ride!

Congrats to both Mark and Charlie... great job :thumbsup:

Your car is fantastic Steve. You get big props for beating the snot out of it like you do at these events. :thumbsup:

Jody

x2! :thumbsup:

I agree with these guys, plenty of time until the Optima Challenge to get the car sorted back out. There definitely is no loser in an event like this one. I'm hoping to get my car out on Spring Valley raceway prior to the Optima Challenge to sort it out a little as well.

Oh, we lost the road race section.. but that's racing and there's no shame in that.

Mark, Kyle, Jake, and Ryan are great drivers in great cars.

We did do a little redeeming in the autocross. I checked and if you take out the new Corvette on race tires then Penny placed 1st and 3rd.

Sounds like Penny liked the AutoX! It's really hard to get the car setup for both events...but I have faith that it will be TOTALLY dialed by November! Heres to you and David on a job well done!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :cheers:

Congrats to Charlie and Mark.....The both of them worked their *ss off the whole weekend. This really proved itself for the event. When Jackass came around the turn 11, hammered down the backstretch to turn 1, I said to myself he's going way to fast to make it, all the sudden Jackass stopped w/ ease and headed for turn 2. I said to myself HoleySmokes, that car is Bad*ass!!!:hail: I can't wait to see Jackass in Vegas....

I had a blast and was impressed by how hard all the guys ran their cars! Congrats to Mark who just flew around the track in Jackass!

Thanks again Steve, for sharing Penny with me, it would suck to be there and not have something to drive.

I have some video clips I'll work on uploading, they are from the track day. I was just too pooped to do much on Sunday after working course and driving in the heat.

David

Congrats to Charlie and Mark!

It was a great weekend. Doing an event like this allows us to figure out not only our cars, but our own limitations as drivers. I look forward to getting more seat time so I can anticipate rather than react to the track. Boy, it was fun!

Hey, my car is your car... All I ask is that you beat the snot out of it. :)

Thanks for making her look good out there!

Here's a video of some track action

Good video. Man JA is one bad ass looking car and sounds great at WOT.

damn! JA's acceleration is great! looks to be real smooth but really really fast!:yes: