38D

Big fat turbos and twisty track do not mix. The other fast guy in C on the east coast is Chris Castagna. He ran 1:30 flat at Mosport, which is just insanely fast.

DrJupeman

Yeah, I've never been to Summit. Advantage: Larry!

Oh, and in addition to the 295s I have headers on order. Woohoo!

38D

How about just have a set of big reds powder coated black.

Another one would be to replace the stock trailing arms in a C2 Turbo with the NA version so you could run really big tires in the rear (I think you can fit 315s if you do this...without you are limited to 295s).

Larry Herman

Why am I starting to feel turbo envy?

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MJR911

I know of an early turbo running 315s... are you sure you guys can't run them legally? What about with custom offset wheels?

Alan C.

If it can be done it will be done.
I saw an SC get a set of 964 cams, euro pistons and cylinders, ported polished heads along with a ring and pinion installed at a friends shop. This guy went on to dominate his class. I never said anything at the track because the setup came out of a friend's shop. The scrutes never figured out what he was doing. Sad thing is he didn't need to go about winning in that fashion. He has a tremendous amount of talent.

Geoffrey

The C2 turbo trailing arms interfer with a wide wheel and a 315 will not fit. Switching a C2 Turbo to N/A trailing arms will allow a 12" wide wheel. All factory C2 based racecars were built using N/A trailing arms. The early turbos can run a 11.5" rear.

JackOlsen

My RSR-flared car fits 315's with 1-inch spacers.

38D

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Here's another thought. Build a set of custom headers for a turbo with a purposely small/restrictive wastegate circut, which would effectively increase boost over stock on the top end.

Manny Alban

I guess alot depends on who is scrutineering and people in your class looking over cars. I know of two people that ran big blacks and were 'outed' by fellow class competitors.

My favorite memory of 'rules interpretation' was the year that Tom Charlesworth announced at the driver's meeting in Sebring that after lunch, he needed all stock, unprepared, class cars with chips to come and have their chips checked. This was at least a four hour notice. I went to get mine checked (and realized at that point, that I had never looked at the brain to see if the previous owner had put in a chip...it was owned by a doctor and they never modify cars, right?) and asked him if he had caught anybody with an illegal chip (figuring with this much notice, you could switch back to stock). Well, he surprised me when he said that they were batting .500. Needless to say, the next results sheet showed alot of class changes Lesson to be learned-bring you stock chip with you or at least some vinyl tape to change your class lettering.

Dave Parker

All 'G' cars got pulled in for inspection this past year at Putnam Park. They checked things like the intake runners, but their main purpose was to use a bore scope to check pistons and whatever else they could see. I think the primary purpose was to get familiar with the equipment and determine just how much they could see with it. Personally, I'd like to see more of this. I will not 'cheat' and am happy when I do well. I would enjoy a higher level of scrutineering (without actually tearing apart the motor).