katmeho

So...it turns out that after lurking on RL for years, I have been fortunate enough to become a GT4 owner. I've been inspired by the wealth of knowledge that this forum has given to me and I feel like its only fair to try to give a little back.

My goal with the GT4 is to drive it and never stop learning about how to make my skills live up to the performance potential of this car.

Because I believe that my life with my GT4 will be a journey, I want to share what I learn with this community; to prevent others from making my mistakes, to better the GT4 platform and to build a stronger community around the car. It's the posts of OrthoJoe, MayorAdamWest, Nur93 , AccelJunkie and other RL's that have inspired me to document my adventure. Here we go...

What's the Car For?

• Club and private track days, coaching sessions, demo rides
• Time trials
• Driving to work occasionally
• Get tossed around Northern California (no room for a tow vehicle and trailer, so this is my "fun" car and track day toy)

Where

• All over the west coast, Nevada, Utah and Colorado (no snow, no salt, little altitude)
• Home circuit is Sears with most of my time spent at Thunderhill and Laguna

Car Facts

• Sonnen took care of me. They stuck to their commitment to me as a first time customer. Ethical, responsive and great to work with. Thank you to Paul and the team at Sonnen.
• Yes I wanted LWBs. No I couldn't get them, I would have risked the allocation. I wasn't going to risk missing this car. Allocation > LWBs
• Deposit placed on 5/16/14
• Allocation received on 5/15/15
• V200 on 5/19/15
• V300 on 7/23/15
• Car delivered on 9/29/15

Car Build Spec

• U2 - GT Silver Metallic
• 78 - Leather Interior, Black (Stitching in Platinum Grey)
• 085 - Extended Fuel Tank, 16.91 gal
• 498 - Deletion of Model Designation
• 509 - Fire Extinguisher
• 802 - Wing Supports in Black
• EFA - Pedals and Footrest in Aluminum
• XSX - Seat Belts in Guards Red
• Pilot Sports were delivered with the car

Modifications & Parts

• RSS front thrust arm bushings
• Porsche front camber shims
• RSS adjustable rear toe links (RSS 302)
• Endless RF650 brake fluid
• Endless ME20 brake pads
• Motul 300 75W140 Competition diff oil
• AWE Tuning Foiler wind diffuser
• Rennline Race Hooks (E05.38 & E05.39)
• GMG 981 World Challenge Harness/Roll Bar
• GMG Seat Base
• Racetech RT4009 Seats
• Schroth Profi III-6 HANS Harnesses
• Porsche LED Clear Side Markers (SKU991LEDSIDES)
• Autosport Labs Race Capture Pro
• MWorld Plug-and-Play Harness for Direct ECU Connection - AiM Solo DL
• AiM Solo DL
• AiM Smartycam HD
• Optishield Tearoff System For AIM SmartyCam HD
• Full aero (Oct 16, 2015)
• Stock rear sway bar set to stiffest setting (March 12, 2016)

Someone is happy to see me.





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GT Silver with daylight and shadows.

doborder

Hopefully, Sonnen will come through for me too!!!

Spyerx

love it

orthojoe

subscribed

Crazy Eddie

Congrats bud
Beautiful
Regards
Ed

Beantown Kman

Subscribed. Orthojoe's GT3 journal is epic. It will be awesome to have a GT4 version. Good luck with your efforts and your car!

Mr. F1 Fan

Looking forward to the adventure!

katmeho

Car is in the shop. PCM unit totally unresponsive to any input but has power. Tech looking into it. Says there is a new software update for the unit and will try to flash it. They are also going to remove the honk at lock feature.

ChrisF

Congrats and subscribed.

katmeho

PCM is straight dead. Replacement unit coming in overnight for a swap in the morning. No indication of why.

cbdoc

Love GT silver. Can we get more pics plz?

katmeho

Sure. XPEL going on Saturday. Will try to do a pre and post install photo session.

golfnutintib

congrats - subscribed
sonnen is solid
hope u r at mooty's day at thill monday
give the baby a whirl on a circuit!!

xxrockmanxneoxx

i am not a fan of silver cars but that gt silver on this looks very nice and the wheels to compliment it

golfnutintib

but hey katmelo - you're becoming such a fixture on the board... maybe become a MEMBER????