TravisB

Spent my Saturday doing my 2nd DE in this car at the new Ridge Motorsports Park. REALLY fun track! Got a Hero2 camrea to play with and also tried out a mic setup rather than use the camera's. Very happy with the sound I got out of it, and it's a really simple setup (powered mic plugged in to an inexpensive digital voice recorder).

The surface is so grippy, my 95,000 mile suspension and aging bushings make themselves pretty apparent now, even on just the Conti DW's. I'm not setting any records but I certainly improved throughout the day (I feel bad for the others in my 1st run group where I was basically a rolling chicane!). When I was going over the car the car the day before I noticed my LCA bushings have gone from looking old but in tact to looking pretty bad these days so I guess I've got a new project coming up. It has been a little too quiet lately!

brucec59

David Borden

Nice job Travis... Good to see you enjoying the car!

David

TravisB

Thanks David! I'm doing by best to enjoy it to the fullest. Have you torn in to that RMS yet? It's cabriolet weather up here finally, so I'd bet it's about that time there too!

Harold

Congrats on using your car. Track days are the single best way to enjoy your car safely and learn your limits as well as those of the car.

TravisB

It's a great way to get to know the car for sure! I'm looking forward to becoming less slow in it, haha..might make for more entertaining videos as well.

It seems to like it as well, I swear it runs better for a few days after it gets flogged a bit, despite doing by best to stretch its legs on the street a few times a week. The brakes also get quiet for a little while as well (street pads but they're still a touch noisy). Speaking of brakes, they're rather impressive..though I'm tempted to say they're more like an anchor!

01coccobet

what kind of exhaust system do you fit?
sounds sexy!!!

01coccobet

what kind of exhaust do you fit?
it sounds sexy!!!

01coccobet

sorry for the double

TravisB

Thanks!

It's a Dach catted X-pipe through unaltered motor sound mufflers, nothing too crazy but I am very happy with the way it sounds for a daily driver. When I run out of other things to do I may send the mufflers out for a Stage II treatment, but that's a non-priority at the moment.

trophy

Looks great, would love the model numbers of the Mic and Recorder setup, I need to do something like this as I hate the audio out of the go pro.....

TravisB

Whoops, forgot to reply to this..

Voice recorder: Sony ICDPX312

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+D...rder&cp=1&lp=1


Microphone: Audio-Technica PRO24CM

EMBPilot

LOL @ Bruce!

Travis thats music man! you have a great set up there, i enjoyed watching and hearing that

to my untrained ear your current set up, if i had to guess sounds just like my Stage II's.

TravisB

Yeah, I am still slow enough getting around that it would be a pretty un-entertaining video without quality sound; and music is such a subjective thing that it's hard to pick a real crowd-pleasing soundtrack. Only option left is to record that sweet flat six symphony! It does sound a lot like Stage II's now that I've heard it in motion (funny how different these sound free-revving vs. under load!). But that makes sense, with the high flow cats I am basically just feeding the mufflers more volume, and the Motorsound mufflers already have the internal bypass that stage II conversions add (albeit smaller).

JohnCh

Saturday was my first time at The Ridge too. Really is a fun track with a lot of elevation changes that are tough to pick up on the various videos I've seen. A lot harder to learn than Pacific Raceways though. Damn thing kicked my butt most of the day

-John