Auto Club Roval (Fontana, CA) this weekend, anyone going?

[Panteracer]

Chad
Looks like fun
Is there a schedule for these events
for next year. Would be interested
in bringing the Pantera or bird for a spin

What camera system are you using ??
I think Santa wants to get one for me

Thanks for the posting

[Chad-1stGen]

Originally Posted by Panteracer

Chad
Looks like fun
Is there a schedule for these events
for next year. Would be interested
in bringing the Pantera or bird for a spin

What camera system are you using ??
I think Santa wants to get one for me

Thanks for the posting

It was fun!

The two main track day organizers that operate primarily in SoCal that I know of are Speed Ventures and Extreme Speed Track Events. I'm on the mailing list for both and get frequent announcements for upcoming dates. You can also check out their websites.

NorCal racing club (ncracing.org) as the name suggests is mostly a norcal focused group but they run Buttonwillow one or two times a year.

On top of that various other clubs will run an occasional event (Shelby, BMW, Porsche, etc.) and usually let other makes run if they don't get enough of a turn out.

The forward looking video and data are from my Iphone using Harry's Lap Timer and the cockpit view is from my GoPro. I had to merge the two manually using a video editor but if you have one of the newer wifi gopro's the Harry's Lap Timer can communicate with it and control both and do the picture and picture right there on your phone. Helps to have a phone with a big hard drive though.

My car has a good amount of vibration which messes with the phone's picture quality more than my gopro. In smoother cars the phone footage looks just as good as a gopro. I also shoot in 720 on my phone due to limited storage capacity.

[intocarss]

Good stuff!! Where's the rest of your safety gear??

[Chad-1stGen]

Originally Posted by intocarss

Good stuff!! Where's the rest of your safety gear??

Yes I need and want some. Suffering a bit of analysis paralysis on what to do about a roll bar. Trying to figure out if I should get a known PT shop to install a prebuilt one or try and find a race shop to do a custom set up.

Plan is for a 6 point so a roll bar with door bars as I don't want to go full cage. Once I figure that out the roll bar set up and shop I use then I can order up a fixed back seat so we can mock everything up properly.

I'm open to suggestions...

[efs69]

Man it looks like your car is fairly dialed in and you got that Harry's lap timer thing working nicely.

[dale68z]

Nice laps, Chad. Your car sounds awesome.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

Trying to figure out if I should get a known PT shop to install a prebuilt one or try and find a race shop to do a custom set up.

That's always a tough one Chad...

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

Plan is for a 6 point so a roll bar with door bars as I don't want to go full cage.

I think that's the right call based on what you say you want to continue to do with the car.

[califconstruct]

Cool vid... that's a nice track. good run.

What vido editor do you use?

Vid with the girlfriend is hilarious.!

Can't wait to be on that track..

[Chad-1stGen]

Originally Posted by efs69

Man it looks like your car is fairly dialed in and you got that Harry's lap timer thing working nicely.

Thanks Efrain. Harry's Lap Timer has always worked well for me on the road course. Autocross not so much... Its funny because I didn't make any changes to the car from the Hotchkis autocross. I was having too much fun driving and really only messed with tire pressures.

Originally Posted by dale68z

Nice laps, Chad. Your car sounds awesome.

Thanks! My car got to participate in the Super Chevy Handling Challenge a few months back and getting to hear my car as a spectator roaring down the straight of Streets of Willow was the highlight of the experience for me!

Originally Posted by Flash68

That's always a tough one Chad...

You are telling me. Analysis paralysis for sure. Might ask Ron Sutton for a recommendation.

Originally Posted by califconstruct

Cool vid... that's a nice track. good run.

What video editor do you use?

Vid with the girlfriend is hilarious.!

Can't wait to be on that track..

It was fun for sure. Regarding the video editor, everything except the picture in picture view, is/can be done with my Iphone. It recorded the forward video and the speed, track position and g forces using an app called Harry's Lap Timer and an external more accurate GPS sensor. I used VSDC to add the two starting pictures and the picture in picture view of the cockpit. It was my first time using it and it wasn't too tough to figure out but I don't know why the quality of the video was reduced and why the forward facing video size was reduced.

[Panteracer]

Chad thanks for the info
My Viper buddy said he used his Iphone
with an app... will look into it
I have an Autopower half cage for my bird.. bolts in
with a cross bar, dia bar, two bars back... was
going to add low door bars in front.. was roughly $700

Panteracer