Camaro X at Infineon Raceway - pics and video - Lateral-g Forums

**XcYZ** · #1 07-15-2008, 07:38 AM

Here's some pics and video of Charley wheeling Camaro X at Infineon Raceway. He was running street tires doing his best to keep up with the cars with R compound tires. I'll let Charley give the specifics, but it sure looks like fun.

Here's the video, it's 33mb, so it would probably work best if you first saved it to your computer then viewed it.

And a few cool pics.

James OLC · #2 07-15-2008, 07:57 AM

Very Cool!

Tom Fuehrer · #3 07-15-2008, 08:05 AM

Scott, thanks for posting that vid - I really like how the Camaro X turned out and it's great to see people exercising their cars!

That being said - when can we expect to see YOUR car on the track? BIR's 5200' front straight is calling you......

The BIR School has classes every 2 weeks or so - Heck, you already know a couple of the top instructors there.

Tom

**XcYZ** · #4 07-15-2008, 08:16 AM

Tom, we need to talk again.

Shoot me an e-mail please.

thedugan · #5 07-15-2008, 08:56 AM

Take a look at the wing on the mustang that follows the black vet in the left lane. Big wing..

Tom.A · #6 07-15-2008, 09:36 AM

Cool

**clill** · #7 07-15-2008, 10:14 AM

That white Mustang belongs to my friend Jack. He just added that wing and it actually makes a big difference. He is pretty fast in that car. Has a whipple charger on a stock engine.

byndbad914 · #8 07-16-2008, 06:19 PM

the car looks great!

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Originally Posted by Tom Fuehrer

Scott, thanks for posting that vid - I really like
...BIR's 5200' front straight is calling you......

The BIR School has classes every 2 weeks or so - Heck, you already know a couple of the top instructors there.

Tom

I keep threatening myself to road trip there after I found out it has essentially a mile long straight. I could easily clear 160mph with that much room but diesel fuel is sooo outta whack it would cost a fortune to tow there and back from Denver area (2K round trip at 11 mpg). Would be a blast tho'.

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That white Mustang belongs to my friend Jack. He just added that wing and it actually makes a big difference. He is pretty fast in that car. Has a whipple charger on a stock engine.

I have an 11"x70" wing on my car and it creates approx 350lbs of downforce at 140mph, so yeah, big difference if you have a car like mine with a tendency for high speed oversteer. Also has about 350 lbs of drag at that speed too so it can be hard to pull thru the air, but that just creates a moment arm putting more normal force to my rear tires while lightening the front end (so I added a splitter to balance that out).

So if he picked up speed he must have had oversteer issues before.

Mine with the big wing