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Old 02-15-2010, 05:08 PM
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Yep. Real deal. He's already been offered well over $70k for the car. Gary, will you email me your number at dbryant@clarknexsen.com? I need to ask you a quick question. Racing this weekend.
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Old 02-15-2010, 05:15 PM
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Rookie race Don? Email sent.
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beautiful!

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I wish. That is a friends engine he had built for his 3.0 RSR clone. Going to be a gorgeous Penske/Sunoco look-alike. Those are not carbs. They are high butterflies for MFI. The manifolds cost about $13k. Gorgeous.
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Old 02-15-2010, 06:37 PM
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Nope. Raced with NASA last year and got license. Only two weekends and four races. Hoping to race much more this year.
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Nope. Raced with NASA last year and got license. Only two weekends and four races. Hoping to race much more this year.
will you race PCA at all?
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Old 02-15-2010, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by FredC
will you race PCA at all?
As soon as they remove about 30 ft-lbs of torque from a couple of cars.
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Old 02-15-2010, 07:39 PM
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As soon as they remove about 30 ft-lbs of torque from a couple of cars.
Huh??
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Old 02-15-2010, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by dbryant61
As soon as they remove about 30 ft-lbs of torque from a couple of cars.
Oh come on Don, you want to compete against hot shoes....... don't you?

That is the point of racing for me at the end of the day.........
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As soon as they remove about 30 ft-lbs of torque from a couple of cars.
all you need is to borrow your friend's motor.
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It's always about the motor.
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Nice lap. One small suggestion: you hold 4th gear thru the climbing esses, but being that high in the RPM range forces you to use maintenance throttle for at least the second half of that section. Going to 5th gear will allow you to use a lot more throttle thru there. Could be worth a full second....
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Absolutely agree. There's aprox 1 sec going faster in 5th gear full throttle through the 1st S and carrying 5mph+ through the rest. Its all psychological, I just don't feel comfortable with the low throttle control (low torque at wheels) in that "high speed slalom" in case the car gets slightly out of shape. But I know by comparing the telemetry of some laps I did in my GT2 in lesser rubber (PSCs) that I was going 15mph faster (GT2's 4th gear is almost 20mph longer) at the beginning of the Esses.

Doing the Esses full throttle in 5th is what I need to work on this year's race (If I run I Prepared with the Big Wing that should be easy, the challenge is with no downforce in H Stock trim).
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all you need is to borrow your friend's motor.
I think he has two friends down there....
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Originally Posted by Gary R.
I think he has two friends down there....

today is the 15th Gary... you staying in D?
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Originally Posted by dbryant61
As soon as they remove about 30 ft-lbs of torque from a couple of cars.
Don can go on and on and on and on........with this one issue....for years....before his first DE even....
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Dave & Paolo, The VIR record for G-class then D-class was around 2:18 for a while with the usual suspects. That became my target as I was developing my car and moving up the ranks. In 2008 at the Rumble, it dropped to 2:17 and change, so I figure no big deal - develop the car a little more and the driver a lot more and I can be close to the hunt. Then, at last years Rumble, it dropped to 2:14 and change. Two cars were running these times. Saw them come out of oak tree in a pack, step out of line and pull the field with 8-10 car lengths by the end of the back straight. To me, it is obvious what is going on. These guys are very good drivers, but not 4 seconds faster than the rest of the D- and E-class fields.

Not avoiding hot shoes - there are plenty in NASA MA GTS. I just want a distant hope of eventually being in the hunt. I do not see that happening until PCA fixes things.

Ted, Watch It! You have to sleep with me this weekend.
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