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4 cam tbird

4 cam tbird

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Looks pretty ridiculous with those road race slicks on it but for $200 for the set that's ok.

I didn't paint the wheels, but I should have...

painted them all black :lol: I bought them that way a few years ago with some used tires.

Some pics on track.
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That RX8 had waved me by by the time we got to this point the next lap
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The brakes have cooling ducts on them routed to the lower grill and I'm running Carbotech XP-10 pads on the front which are a couple steps down from their most serious pad. I could probably use more pad now with the tires. The brakes were fine. Last time with no cooling and Hawk HPSes they were literally on fire. I was talking to another guy that has also had HPSes on fire in a 3 series BMW. So, I can't say I would ever recommend those for anything as my stock pads were better and that compound appears to have issues.

As far as lap times, I never timed any laps and never had anyone tell me they did either. I was in group 3 of 4 groups with 1 being the fast group. The 3 series mentioned above, think it was an E30 325 or 328(? is that even possible) was turning laps pretty equal to me. I was faster than most of the other stuff in the group, RX-8, Miata, a couple Minis, newer M3, mid 90's Impala. But I don't know the experience level of any of those guys other than that the older 3 series was also on Hoosiers and the guy had some other track days but it was also his first time on R's.

The closest I got to timing a lap was resetting the nav right before I hit the track and looking at it at the end of the session where it said 21 miles and 19 minutes after the cool down lap so that included a couple warm up laps, the cool down lap and any laps with traffic. So about 11 laps makes an average time of about 1:43 a lap. I don't even have a guess as to where that would put a clear track hot lap though.
 
Appears as if you guys had great weather which allowed you to have a great time. Wish I had been prepared to go to exerience Gingerman. Mid Ohio can't come soon enough for me. Will you be attending that event in May?
 
I ran a 1:36.211 with the white car last year.

I csant see the pictures at work :(

Too much pad on factory suspension and good tires = not always a good idea. It causes the back to dance around reaaaaaaaaal bad.
 
Scooter70 said:
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thats not what I am talking about.

I had DTC-60's on the front of a car with stock suspension.

The weight transfer/nose dive was SOOOOOOO bad that the rears go so light the car moved around and slid the rear while the ABS comp freaked out because the rears were locking.
 
BTW, we have video of Holly driving the truck during lunchtime "parade laps". Rumor has it she was 2 seconds a lap faster than Brad.
 
:lol:

I'll be at Mid Ohio with the truck too. Trying to figure out what I'll drive at the spectator racing event at Gingerman next month.
 
Not bad for a farm truck.... next time put a bail of straw in the bed (just for laughs).


Did you lower the truck at all? If not, consider it. Also, consider adding the kenny brown X-brace underneath. I've heard from a few people that it greatly stiffens the chassis. Lastly, keep the tow hitch installed, as it is designed to help torsionally stiffen the flimsy frame rails on the back of the truck.

Very nice!!!
 
It isn't lowered at all at this point. I'm kind of torn on what to do there. I don't want to sacrifice it being a truck. I had decided on spindles and shackles with the brackets to keep from bottoming the rear shocks out. Then I found out what a hack job the spindles are when you are running 18's. I haven't decided how to lower it now.

I met the lead chassis development engineer for the Lightning at the track Satruday. That was cool. Learned a lot of stuff from him and it made me even more glad I bought the '04 truck instead of an older one used. improved sway bar end links and said they suspension changes really did makie it handle better and he even told me why those changes were made between '02 and '03, which was a pretty funny story. Gave me some back story on all the wheels and what not too. Very good guy to talk to. Totally forgot his name.
 
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