Another Kid from Texas and my 57 Chevy, no its not stock

[montessaj]

Russell,

Welcome!

Beautiful '57. I see your from Luling. I am from Lampasas, Tx just north of Austin. I love what you have done with the car. I am doing a PT 1983 Monte Carlo SS. The car looks great and I think its cool that you autocross it.

[XcYZ]

Cool car, welcome aboard.

[Hdesign]

Glad to see you made it over here Russell! No shortage of great people and cool projects here!

[98ssnova]

Cool car looks grea and welcome to the site another texan we are gonna take over

[JamesJ]

Looks good, I love the City Market BBQ!!! and Welcome...

[simbad's68]

Sweet Ride.. Welcome, it's good to see more Texans on the site. I'm just north of you in Leander.

[rat_rod_russell]

Thanks all around for the warm welcome.

Have any of you guys from around Austin been to The Driveway? Bill Dollahite, a retired Ferrari Prototype driver and team owner, built a road race course in south Austin. But it’s not a high end country club design, it’s a school aimed at the more budget racers. 300.00 bucks and you take the L1 class, one day with 2-3 hours of track time and a little class room discussion. After that you can come up any of the open days and get to run on the short course, 25 bucks for a 20 minute session. Most of the instructors are on site and they’ll continue to work with you on lines, technique, and setup ideas. On my first trip after the class I was still screwing up the hairpin corner and after 3 laps Bill gives me the black flag. I’m thinking I broke something I pull in and Bill gets in the car and tells me “your line sucks we need to work on that, now drive.”

So with the autocross guys being shut down for a while I’m trying to spend a bunch of time up there. I ninja’d the front tires for my father’s 57 hardtop and the rear tires for the 57 truck project here in the shop. Now I have 275 at all 4 corners and with 35 profiles on 19’s in the rear and 40 profiles on 18’s up front. Grip ahhhhhhh.

I know that the Maxx Q data loggers are not the most accurate in the world but once the tires heated up and I got the pressures right I spikes 1.37 lateral G’s on my last lap with .98-1.19 being the average through the rest of the laps around the course. I’m still under steering and I had a buddy with me taking photos at that corner. The back’s lifting quite a bit so I’m going to bump the spring rates on the front so I can throw it a little harder.