I hope a few of us can hang out.

 

Austin GT4 Bosses, Unite! We can terrorize the city.

 

ATX guys... i'm planning to do a short-ish Hill Country run early Saturday afternoon (4/23) to get through some more of my break-in period. If anyone is interested, i'll post a meeting site and time later today. Likely to just do some of the usual good roads... 1431/1174/City Park. Figuring about 2 hours.

 

Have a BMW CCA event that day, sorry!

Also, if these two events are actually possibly going to happen, I'd recommend creating a new thread for them.

 

Who wants to be the tour planner/organizer? I would love to make this weekend but will be out of town for work . . .

 

Any Austin owners have DS1.11s installed yet? If so, I'm hoping to "audition" them on the road to see if I could live with whatever amount of noise they generate given that I'm currently DDing my GT4. The track feedback I'm reading relative to PFC 11 has me tempted, and I'm not obsessive about having a silent pad (the occasional squeal from the OEM pads doesn't bother me in the least), but since I'm probably doing more road miles than most in this car, my tolerance may not be quite as high as others' here even in exchange for superior track performance, especially since I figure squeal might get worse after deposits are scraped off, which they would be often in my case. Given that whatever pad I choose will probably last me about a year based on my track schedule, I'd prefer to make the right pad choice for me upfront instead of choosing to either put up with it for that long, dealing with selling used pads to buy something else, or just eating the cost to switch early.

 

I am planning on going to MSR Cresson tomorrow for the morning sessions. The weather is forecast to be great. Anyone else going? They are running the 1.7 CCW.

 

Dang, just missed you. Will be there next weekend!

 

Enjoy!!

 

It was a beautiful and awesome day at the track today! Surprisingly not many people here. This car is so much fun!

 

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TheGhost, that is a great picture!

 

Are there any good driving instructors in Austin? I'd love to take my GT4 to the track but I'm a total noob.

 

Dave Scott is in Austin. He's on these forums too.

 

I'm an instructor in Austin with Edge Addicts. I'm not really one to say whether I'm good, but my students seem to like working with me and go faster by the end of the event. But honestly just sign up for a DE and you'll get assigned an instructor. If the two of you aren't a good match, you can always request someone else, but I think you'll find that most people are at least reasonably satisfied with their instructors pretty much every time, and often more than reasonably satisfied. The only time you should be looking for an instructor directly is if you're solo-qualified and want to work on advanced stuff with someone in particular you know is especially good (and who will come with an appropriate price tag) rather than an instructor affiliated with the DE org, or else if you plan to rent out the track directly with a few other people. But neither of those options are really available to novices. Also, CotA costs $50K/day.

 

What is DE?