It was great meeting you out there Dale. Hopefully we can still get both of our cars to the same track at the same time yet this Summer :) Maybe at Ridge Motorsports Park in September - fun track and great place to develop skills.

Car's looking great!

Thanks Chris... I look forward to seeing a video of you car when your all done!

My cold air intake is 17" diameter... I fabricated mine from 22 gauge steel. I didn't like the way the rubber tube looked either. I bought the rubber foam tape 3/16" thick x 1-1/4" wide from Auto Zone. Here are some pictures of the packaging and some pictures of the install. They also had the same foam tape 3/4" wide.


This is different than the foam in the previous post... I liked this material better.

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Thanks Scott... that would be great to meet up at the Ridge Motorsports Park in September. I am ready to try a new track :)

Aug 9, 2013 track day video
 

Here is a new video from my track day yesterday at PIR. Last time out my best lap was 1 min 34 sec. This time out I got my best lap time down to 1 min 31 sec. My goal is to get under 1 min 30 sec... so I'm getting close.

Changes from the last track day include... lowering the stance slightly... and installing the new Global West Cat 5 leaf springs with the spherical bearing mounts. I loved the new leafs... this was a major improvement.The car did not squat when accelerating... hooked up better on the corners... and the car felt much more stable on the long high speed sweeping corner at PIR. No more bouncing at high speed.

For this event I kept the Fox shocks on the car. I wanted to see how the Fox shocks would work when paired up with the new GW leafs. I have to eat crow now on what I said about not liking the Fox shocks. The combination of the Fox shocks with the GW Cat 5 springs worked great. No more bouncing on the back straight at high speed... the car felt very stable and handled great with this combo. I am learning as I go... and finding out that the suspension set up is very complicated. The Fox shocks worked great with the heavier leafs... and Iwill not be changing back to the Bilsteins.


Here is the video... the time for the last lap (after passing the blue BMW) was 1 min 31 sec. The speed for that lap was 130 mph on the front straight and 128 mph on the back straight. I was chasing a Z06 Corvette through some traffic at the start... very fun day!



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That looks like a lot of fun. Enjoy. I can't wait for mine to be ready.

Running nicely Dale!


What group put on the track day?? I've never run PIR.... or the new track up here (The Ridge) either. There's enough of us up here that we should try to get a schedule on a couple of different clubs so we can get some time in.

My next scheduled run is Laguna Seca on November 29th... so have lots of open time available!

Dale, I like your fresh air intake mods. Thanks for posting the PIR video for us to all check out. You were mov'n!

Please post when you guys go. My car's a long way from being ready but I'd like to go check it out.

Good stuff Dale, car looks pretty stable in the video. :thumbsup:

I might be copying that simple and functional air intake system. Nicely done.

There are back-to-back HPDE sessions at Ridge on Sept. 12 and 13 (Thu/Fri). The 12th is the NW Porsche Club of America, the 13th is Turn 2 Lapping. I'm eyeing signing up for both - anybody else up for one or both?

FYI: The Porsche Club automatically puts you in Novice with an instructor if you've not run with them before. I've heard you can beg your way out of that if you have an instructor from another club vouch for you, but no guarantees ...

Thanks! Getting out on the track is great... makes all the hard work worth it.

Thanks Greg! I'm lovin the new engine and trans... I had a great time on Friday :D

The track day was put on by Cascade Sports Car Club… they do a lot of events at PIR and are a great club. Their next track day at PIR is September 6th. I would be open to a track day at either PIR or the Ridge in September if some NW guys want to get together. You should run PIR sometime... it is a fun track and very nice facility.

Some day I want to do a trip to California and run Thunderhill or Laguna Seca. It would be great to meet some of the Lat G guys down south :thumbsup:


Thanks… It looks like we have a couple of possibilities for a NW group track day. We'll see what happens... that would be nice to meet you even if your cars not ready yet.

Thanks Sieg... The car did feel way better at high speed than the last time out. I’m sold on the CAT 5 road race springs… what a difference in handling. I think the spherical bearing is the key… the springs are free floating and that is what makes the difference (no twisting or binding… just a consistant spring rate). All I know is they feel way better than what I had before.

I would highly recommend adding the cold air intake on your car… just be sure to allow enough clearance so you can get good airflow into the air filter. I enlarged the opening in my cowl hood to match up with the 17” diameter shroud. It’s a much better set up to draw cooler air from the outside rather than the hot air under the hood.

Please start prepping Norwood for a September track day get together for the NW guys :drive:


So it looks like PIR September 6th or the ridge on September 12-13. I'm open to running the Ridge or PIR.

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