Priceless Dawger! :thumbsup:

Gaetano probably knew. Todd, too.

He!!, just ask 'em. :D

Did you install your B&M Megashifter in there yet? :popcorn2:

No more speed secrets for you

:thumbsup:

Nope, I installed a B&M Rachet shifter :)

I sure am planning on it :rules:

Guys forget about what the actual cost is for me to run a track day weekend in California... that's a roughly 1500 mile round trip in "the rig"... so fuel down and back is $1000 just in truck fuel.

Two cars with two drivers - entry fees another $1000

Race gas = $600ish

Cheeseballs = $5

Ron Sutton = PRICELESS



Tires are just consumables... ditto brakes. While they're not giving these away... they ARE just all part of the fun. Fun, to me, means being able to go out and run @ 80 or 90% and be able to KEEP UP with the pack. I don't have the DNA (anymore) that says I have to lead the pack... I just want to go out and run and keep up, and pass some guys, while others pass me.

These weekends are made SPECIAL by seeing my friends... dishing crap... (that's free).... LEARNING.... which to me is always important. If I hoover (or should this be changed to HOOSIER?) thru an extra set of tires and pads - so be it.

Wouldn't be the same without you buddy. Come out. have some fun, and maybe we'll learn a little something while were at it. :thumbsup:

I reserve the right to change my game plan at any time - in order to be in front of your sorry boat anchor <lest I never live it down>.


Please hurry! I've had 5 more birthdays since your motor was dyno'd... Remember! Change your oil ANNUALLY if letting a motor sit. And rotate it by hand so that the valve springs aren't taking a set. If you plan to let the motor sit for more than a few months (already past due!) back all the rockers off to allow the springs to be free.

Sonoma
 

Ron thanks for the info on the tires
I started in the auto crossing world and changed
over about 12 years ago with Chet's mustang
(My old car) then went to the Pantera

I had custom alignment set the mustang up and
just drove it. Very easy car to run as it would go
anywhere on the track

The Pantera took a little while to dial in and
is not as easy to drive and I am sure could
be better but still not bad for a street car

Pantera racer NorCal Bob

Sounds good

Somebody had to complete the quote: "I unfriend you." There. It's very specifically contextual, so if you don't get it, watch more TV.

LOL. Love that commercial.

I cant think of a better way of spending my 48th bday than wadding up my blue car in turn 3. But seriously, this sounds like a great bday gift to me!!!
Cause I'm hooked, would love to have a cage for the next one though....,

At Sonoma -- there's many more turns than just T3 that can bite a guy. Pete and I have both spun in T7... I leave the paint from the wall on the car as a reminder of how not to go into that turn...

There's the wall on your left at T11 -- pretty high speed and a passing zone for our group -- then the wall on your left at T12 EXIT... it can be good for a scrape... if you're running NASCAR close or just loose it a little... And last time I was there my run group at the time (red) had two cars totaled in two different sessions out of T6 AKA "The Carousel"... one was a modified weird Porsche with a crappy driver (I'd ran with him before and he SUCKED)... and one was a brand spanking new Shelby GT500 that hadn't even gotten his license plate yet!

Show respect - and unlike me - don't think your f'n Parnelli Jones - and you'll L O V E this track... and have a fantastic time.

Peronally - I'm surprised you're not going to Hot August Nights.

I've never been to Hot August nites before, my mother in law live up there and works the event every year and was hopin this year will be the first, but my bday shares with my lil sister and my brothers is three days later. I'm actually supposed to be in Bend that weekend celebrating. I would much rather be driving it at high speed than walking around a parking lot looking at everybody else's trophies. I mean, that's fun too, but I'd rather be behind the wheel,much rather.

Smooth is the word that comes too mind.

Dear Mike,



This might be very appropriate.....

Hahahaha! Or "un".....hey, I think spotted my Trailblazer in the backround, ask me how I noticed the back round lol? Btw, wat was she singing about? Wooof!

Want you guys to watch this video of driving lines for Sonoma....


Watch for T3 spin by the Outlaw car - Blue - This corner is a quick flick from T2 left-hander to a little inside off camber right-hander @ T3. I personally LOVE this corner (never can explain things like that -- some corners you just feel you have dialed in - and others you just never own 'em).


At 3:04 ish pay attention to trying to deep drive into T7.... and watch what happens as he tries to brake while turning into it.

Trust me --- this is EXACTLY what happened to me - when I'd come down out of the Carousel (T6) and got a LATE point by just coming into T6 corner worker station... I jammed down a gear (love that Jerico!) unsettling the rear end - WOT quickly to juice it around the guy and then found myself AT the turn -- needing to turn AND brake from a higher entry speed than "normal".... so you straighten it out because there is plenty of tarmac there ------ but now MARBLE CITY! And around you go! Now looking at the headlights of the ahole you just smartly blew by... while his eyes are big as dinner plates... and you're crapping yourself... feeling like the moron rookie (that you are).

highly doubt my car will be ready but its only 10 min from my house.

Any other ford guys going to run at the ASCS for Hot august nights should make the few hour drive after the ASCS race ends friday in Reno.

Weld, Is there anyway you could talk to the shelby club and see if you could get them to turn the other cheek? let some non-fords come and run? and extend an Invite to Bill Howels caravan that will only be a few hours away? Im sure those guys wouldnt mind taking the quick trip down to run their cars at Sonoma before heading back home.

I would try to talk to them - but this is the MINI NATS - which is a big event for the club - and they didn't even used to allow anything other than Mustangs etc for the event. It will be sold out and packed with cars... So I don't think they're going to want to do anything like that.

I don't want to miss this one so I checked registration and it hasn't opened yet. Looks like a great event.

Where's the "Like" button when you need it! :sieg:

Bringin' the Ugly
 

Okay, so I'm there for Saturday.

Or: First!

Yeah, I'm 12...

I will now go and try to figure out what an apex is by August...

Anyone going to Goodguys in Pleasanton on Saturday, or Marina on Sunday? I'm planning to destroy my tires the rest of the way on the 31st and 1st...

If you don't come over and find us and say hello so we can dump on you in person -- I'll hunt you down and take your bearing grease.

Registration is open now?

I'll be running Goodguys both days even if I don't get to sleep Friday night putting my car back together.

I will make a point of greeting you with a greasy hand, Mr. Weld. I might even let you feel the dents on my car...

Glad to hear it, Craig. I'll make sure and bring along an extra-large coffee on Saturday (and drink it myself). They'll probably make me park off in the boonies between runs, but we'll definitely have to see who has the highest car, and get the photo-op. Unless you got a paint job . . . no, mine will still be the ugly winner...

I'll look forward to being beaten by another Falcon of the very same vintage. That will be a kind of cool normally reserved for legions of Mustang and Camaro owners...

Registration was open last night--I was just hammered enough to immediately register when the link that indicated otherwise turned into a registration link...

And then I told my wife, who registered no surprise...

They still haven't changed the look of the link yet, but it's open. There needs to be at least one Camaro there...

On a side note, I don't understand this icon: :getout: .

Alright -- despite being in a "view point / rest area" somewhere east of Seattle -- in the rig on my way over to SV ---- I registered both cars for both days -- GREEN group -- for Siegmeister and myself.


Yippppppeeeeeeee I can hardly wait! Maybe I should just turn south - go down to Sonoma and just sit and wait??

I'll bring a hammer and dolly -- I used to be a body man. LOL

YEAH BUDDY!!!


And this event sells out!

Sweet!! I'm registered. Bringing my boys. Hope they let me come in half way through the parade laps so I can take them both around the track.

Atta Boy! :thumbsup:

So...if a man were wanting to come out for the weekend and then have the wife fly out on a Monday to spend a few days in wine country and visit a few wineries, where would be a good place to stay and places to go?

I will probably be there. I'll hitch a ride with Kevin Sittner most likely and help out a bit. No seat time for me. I'll mosey around and say hello.

Ron: This is my favorite track, too. However, I have only lapped it on various bikes. I do not have a track worthy car. Well, I do not have a track worthy budget. Fine, fine, it's the budget-disapproving wife! :D

Side note: I find it interesting that you guys refer to T2 as a slight left and T3 as a flat to off camber right at the top of the hill. To us knee-draggers T2 is the dial-a-slide right at the top of the hill and 3a/3 is the left-right that dips then rises to a crest.

Great to hear Carl! :thumbsup:

It's starting to look like a Lat-G Mini-Nationals get together. :D

I'm assuming this is the configuration we'll be running:

http://www.trackpedia.com/mediawiki/...eonRaceway.jpg

Would appreciate input regarding the key collection areas. :drive: