[Dr K]

Originally Posted by good hands

More gas less brake my friend.

I thought they were electric? Scott, if you're having more gas again, please make another appointment...

[ausgeflippt951]

Hey guys just thought I'd chime in my thanks to all who gave me such a warm welcome. T'was my first DE in about three years and man ... I had forgotten. Those karting events and autoxes I'd been doing in the interim simply pale in comparison.

Had a phenomenal time with SP and given that it was my first time there I really felt like I made the most out of it. My hat is off to my instructor, Ed. He was excellent at really drilling down into the minutia (e.g. "your apex was about six inches too early that time...") and pushing me to get the most out of my car.

As an aside, I HAD been hoping to burn off my set of ancient victoracers but I have to admit I was impressed with them (and there's still a good amount of meat left!). While their max grip level wasn't amazing, they managed the heat really well and I need to focus more on my actual driving skills anyway! :-D

[KIQ350]

Originally Posted by ausgeflippt951

thanks to all who gave me such a warm welcome.

x2

Met a lot of nice folks, had a great time in green and a great instructor. Thanks arob!

[whitecar]

Great weekend... thanks for all who helped and all who participated. Lots of stuff going on, but mostly a really clean weekend. I had a blast. Going back to Eric S.'s post, I agree that the sessions where Jim, Eric and I were running as a pack, and pretty sure all three of us were at our best of nearly best times. Nice Job Jim on the 1:21.8. Think Eric was as close to 21 as you can get. Glad the new trinkets on the blackcar are nearly as fast as you.
The sessions Eric mentioned were about as fun as it gets. When I got back to the paddock, heard rumors that the corner worker radios were commenting something like "there now three wide and heading your way". Think they were watching pretty closely. Don't think we ever missed a signal. (and the unwritten rule is that a pass that is given, is a pass to be taken.. amen..)
I'll remember those sessions for a while for sure... safe but fun. The Red group did a great job as usual, nothing like running with people you can predict witin a few milimeters. Looking forward to Mid Ohio! Congrats to the new instructors.

[Mrs. B-Man]

Originally Posted by Ryan

But you drove that slow car sooo fast this weekend!

I did have fun scooting around the track. Thanks to Justin W. for "going out with me" and giving me some tips through 6-7-8 and much less braking on 4 (Mr. B-man was happy about that - the most dangerous spot on the track). I still need to address the over-revving on 1, 5, 9 and 10, but one step at a time.

I had a few 127's, which is a respectable number for a slow little girlie car.

http://youtu.be/qzls4cLB5rY

http://youtu.be/dUk0VKip0Kg

[arob]

Originally Posted by KIQ350

x2

Met a lot of nice folks, had a great time in green and a great instructor. Thanks arob!

Great to meet you, Howard, and enjoyed riding right seat with you. You did GREAT out there!

[Gunther]

Originally Posted by good hands

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Scott B .....Steve B ....Close enough

Scott so sorry for the brain fart. Note to self stay of chat board when dead dog tired or you will make a fool of yourself!

Of course on the board is better than on the track.

Thanks again for even more patience

[HoodPin]

Originally Posted by KJinDC

It's difficult for me to explain since I'm so non-technical. Here's my attempt though.
The tail light assembly contains 5 bulbs. There's one small bulb that on the outside edge for the running lights, one yellow bulb for turn signal, and three additional bulbs for the brake light, reverse light, and additional running lights i assume. Two of those three bulbs are 1156s meaning they have a single contact point at their base through which they are powered. The bulb furthest to the inside is an 1157 which has 2 contact points. One of the two contact points in the assembly, not the bulb, had broken off and was trapped in the housing the bulb screws into. On the track, this tiny piece of metal would fly around and contact something within the housing thereby shorting the line. On the street the flake of metal would mostly lay dormant in he housing since it wasn't really exposed to the braking or lateral Gs we see on the track.
I only found this piece as I replacing the bulbs (again) so that I would be sure to have new bulbs when I took the car to the dealer to trace the electrical issue. Does that make sense?

Tony, I realized I forgot to thank you, Dr. K, John Sullivan and Joe Lagoia for helping chase this bizarre issue down over the course of the weekend. I'm glad it's resolved (cheaply)!

Nice find! People underestimate the trouble that bulb sockets can cause. Long ago in my 240Z, I had a sorta similar fuse blowing issue affecting the parking lights, particularly after a rain. I finally took a good look inside the sockets, and discovered in some corrosion between the contact points in one of the front fender parking lights. I cleaned it up, and all was good. Apparently, the corrosion would absorb moisture when it rained, and become conductive, shorting the circuit. I've also seen an issue where the wrong bulb was inserted into a socket; IIRC a 2-pin bulb instead of a 1-pin. Somehow, the pins not being dead center were contacting metal in the socket, causing an annoying short.

[antonioconceicao]

Any videos???

21's with a 964

Originally Posted by ausgeflippt951

Hey guys just thought I'd chime in my thanks to all who gave me such a warm welcome. T'was my first DE in about three years and man ... I had forgotten. Those karting events and autoxes I'd been doing in the interim simply pale in comparison.

Had a phenomenal time with SP and given that it was my first time there I really felt like I made the most out of it. My hat is off to my instructor, Ed. He was excellent at really drilling down into the minutia (e.g. "your apex was about six inches too early that time...") and pushing me to get the most out of my car.

As an aside, I HAD been hoping to burn off my set of ancient victoracers but I have to admit I was impressed with them (and there's still a good amount of meat left!). While their max grip level wasn't amazing, they managed the heat really well and I need to focus more on my actual driving skills anyway! :-D

[forklift]

Great weekend as everyone said. Got to ride w/ Arob, Dr. K, Nader and Larry and all are driving very well.

As Bob and Eric pointed out the 3 of us had a few sessions where we would leap-frog in corners...one of the laps on Friday resulted in the best times of the weekend trying to keep up w/ each other (and my PB). It probably looked like NASA comp school to the flaggers and was a blast.

Haven't looked at data yet and only ran video the last session on Sat-Sun (w/ best time on Fri) but I have the G2X screen positioned so I can see the speeds in corners (my cheap trackvision/ smartycam) and it looks like the wing cost me 4-5 mph on the main straight or 132-133 now down from 136-137 even though I can now brake later. Since top speed at the end of long straights is the biggest 964 weakness in H class I'm going to have to test it w/o the wing element and see if that improves top speed w/o hurting cornering speeds....which were slightly higher this weekend in most corners from what I saw but I have more rubber now also. I'm glad the times are decent w/ a lower top speed but probably need to get the top speed up for racing so I don't get passed (as often) under braking.

Anyway, again great weekend and good seeing everyone. Special props (and thanks ) to Vicegrip for his parallel parking skills.

Congrats to the new instructors!