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Originally Posted by roundel
1:22 the 1st weekend in a car you made yourself? Amazing.
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It's really an unbelievably exceptional achievement, IMO. It's really hard to explain if you've never had a car laying in pieces in one point in your garage, put it together and then took it straight to the track and drove.
The car Kurt built is, by itself, simply amazing. Everyone keeps saying you need to see it up close to appreciate all the attention to detail, and they're right. I was lucky enough to see a lot of the stuff Kurt did early in the project that can no longer be seen, and the craftsmanship on every part of that car is unbelievable.
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couple years ago I did a major overhaul on my car. This project was not remotely close to the scale of Kurt's build. The first weekend back on track I was an absolute mess. Listening for noises. Checking and rechecking bolts for torque. Trying to figure out new suspension settings. Back on track, in the same car I'd been driving for years, I was much slower.
The scale of Kurt's project is this x100. And aside from a fuel pump and fuel issue, is out in a completely different car turning 1:22s. All without touching the suspension or tweaking settings. Un-f**king-real.
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Originally Posted by Vicegrip
The picture of me behind Jazzbase does not give him proper credit. The white car has gobs of cornering down force and grip but at the cost of not being able to drag race other 3.6 911s, well driven ones like Jazz’s even less so. He would give a point and a needed lift and I was back to the nirvana of T1 to T10.
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That was fun. I knew I couldn't hang with Kurt in the turns with the levels of grip he has in that thing. But, I was curious how the cars would do in a drag race down the front straight. I gave him the pass tracking out so he could jump out and go, and then I buried it
. Kurt and I have very similar engines, but my car is at least 400lbs heavier. By the time I lifted to give him a good line into T1, my headlights were just behind his driver door. It's was good example of how being slipperier is an advantage in this case - my car is narrower, without the big tires and wing.
Then we went into T1 and I got to see first hand the advantage of big tires, flares and a big wing. Despite the fact that I have a LSD and Kurt doesn't, he walked away from me in T1 like I was in his 912.
My personal opinion: This car can hit 20s as-is. 20s are what GT3s on Hoosiers run. This car will do it on Toyos. Throw in a LSD and Hoos, and I think you're looking at 18s.