I check in every once in a while. Life has gotten in the way and so not much time for cars... looking to be back full on by next year

Yeah, just a lot less time available these days. Since the "old days", I've got married, bought a house, got a dog, had two boys (well, my wife did ). I was still racing, just less than before. Still have the American Iron car, still fast. I finally got started putting my CMC car together spring 2018. It's probably 30% complete. I ran 4 events last year then work got busy in August and stayed that way through the end of the year.

Then, this spring, we bought a fixer-upper house with enough room for me to build a shop in the back. While fixing it up, found MASSIVE termite damage. Kitchen and bath remodel turned into a complete gut and a bunch of ship-in-a-bottle type wall replacement.

So, my life has been work, work on the house, and family 7 days a week since March. No racing this year and the house is probably going to eat the shop fund and it'll probably be almost summer next year before it's move-in ready. Don't worry though, work has got crazy busy again and I've been 5/10s to 6/12s (might go 7/12s ), 80-120 miles away for about the last 8 weeks. Make hay while the sun shines, I'll sleep when I'm dead, etc.

My uncle passed away last year, but something he told me when I first started doing HPDE still rings true about racing, and this board: "Take time off if you have to. It (racing) might be different than when you left, but it'll always be there."

I will do my best to keep it here. I've been debating buying a new Camaro, or maybe a C7 or eventually a C8....and maybe we can start to expand the tech. We just never really moved on from the 3rd gen/4th gen platforms. And honestly, I like them best.

No AI for me this year either which is depressing. Motor did something weird at the end of last year, and life took some odd turns in the spring. Plus I lived I a Marriott for the first 4 months.

Jeremy and Brad committed to next season. So I backed off C5 hunting and will give it a go.

And yes, FB for car info/tech sucks. I refuse to answer the same question over and over. “So is a BW/Garrett turbo really better than the eBay turbo?”

I'm still here. I'm probably a bit older than the typical member here and my project took a major hit due to heart attack/surgery and other medical issues with no medical insurance so I haven't had any updates to post. I have been slowly working on it though and got a nice used carbon fiber rear wing on a deal this past week.

I’d bet I could challenge that. But no matter how much you ache after an afternoon in the shop (and I am right now), it still beats any day in the office.

I'm lucky in that respect, still quite agile and do a lot of physical activity daily without the aches & pains most over 60 complain about. Heck I'm still the fastest kid in the neighborhood on my 20" BMX bike! ahahaha

Hello everyone,

I am a new guy here. I began my search for information to make my Gen 4 handle best for HPDE events. Hit the big sites but felt left with not finding the information I wanted.
Through a post on LS1 read about this site. I sent the email and was accepted, Thank you.

I helped a friend put together a Gen 4 for HPDE events for 14 years helping and getting the occasional track time in his car. But divorce, dating, 2nd marriage, moving 700 miles south, starting over with work and life in general and 5 years later here we are.

My wife bought me a 1997 z28 because she liked the color and said I needed a fun car as a DD. That has gotten my interest to return to HPDE events with a car of my own.


I visit the site when I have questions or direction to go for suspension information. I don't need to post a question because of such a wealth of information in the threads and posts. I hope it doesn't go away for a long while. I am just getting started with my car.

Jack

Welcome, sounds like you got a good woman there! What's your location/usual tracks?

Thank you for the Welcome.
I am in Bowling Green, Ky. I have yet to get on a track. I do know from talking with friends from Wisconsin I have many tracks within a decent driving distance besides NCM.
I am looking towards next year for myself and the car to be track ready.

Former tracks were Road America and Autobaun.

Welcome to the area, we are not too far apart. I recommend Mid-O, Barber, Memphis isn’t too shabby, and if you’re willing to go a little further, VIR.

Mid-Ohio & VIR are must do’s for me. Am not concerned about the drive for the experience.

I don't check in here often any more. Sometimes there is some random info I'm looking for, but for the most part I find that a lot of the setup information is out of date or not relevant. There is still some good SP info here but now that the car is CP I am finding more valuable things in the drag racing section of the other website. One of my biggest issues with the old info is that it was all focused around really soft spring setups. Running a more normal ride frequency means a lot of that information does not translate well. That and I am not really bound by rules.

In the mean time I'm just screwing around on the street in the RX8 shooting fireballs everywhere and enjoying not thinking about racecars too much. That is of course when the fuel pump isn't dead. And I still need to find time to ride the Speed Triple more. And clean up the M3. And finish fixing and flipping the MDX. So I have enough on my plate.

SVT cobra club puts on a great event coming up in a few weeks.

https://www.svtcobraclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19513

They have one every spring and fall and it's pretty decent price and it's a really good group. I try to hit both events each year.

I'm no longer getting SMTP notifications for my subscriptions, did something change again?

It wasn't supposed to. Let me look at it.

I still love FRRAX, and will for sure!! I have yet my 99 Z28 M6 (bought it since new), and even though I have been thinking seriously about selling it, (mostly, because of me hating big time its breaking capabilities and behavior), then I remember about this site and those guys that are still pushing the boundaries of the F platform... As a miracle, it eases my mind about negative thoughts hahaha!

This a great place, because of the fountain of knowledge it represents for F-Body lovers. I really wish Kevin (aka Track bird) keeps pushing for it to improve every day, as well as the community, which is us.

Saludos desde México City.

Rodolfo LP

It's been awhile since I have been in here. I miss the old days. I still have 98 SS but I just bought a C7 Grand Sport and it's an amazing car. Leaving it stock. Just thought zi would say Hi.

It's good to see you. How do you like the Grand Sport? I've been toying with selling my current 2002 Camaro, but I don't know what I'd buy. I've been considering a 1LE 6th gen or a newer Corvette.

I guess we never moved beyond the 3rd and 4th gen cars here. It was good and bad. But we are mostly an archive now. I'd love to see more web traffic here just for the sake of the board, this place hasn't made money in years. But I'm not willing to let it die yet.

The Grand Sport is an amazing car. Mine is a M7 with a Z07 package. The brakes are insane and the Michelins have a ton of grip. SS is a fun class with some badass cars.

How do you like the 7-speed? Without having driven one, seven gears sounds like too many and too much shifting for me. Do you skip gears often?

I don't have any street time in a C7 GS Z07, but I have autocrossed one quite a bit. I absolutely hate the calibrations on that car, at least on Hoosiers. It can never make up it's damn mind about what it's going to give you. When it works it's great. But that's rare enough to be unenjoyable. Everyone who has driven both are faster in my ESP car than the SSR C7, and have more fun doing it.

...hi...

RANDY!!!! How have you been sir? It's been a while.

I finally wised up, and shut down my FB account at the end of May. Too many arguments from the 1st and 2nd amendments, to WWII aircraft, Chevy Vega engines, world history and covid. It was too hard to sift through the BS to actually have a discussion of any merit. One day whilst debating a Brit regarding the Lend Lease act, I realized I was being as petty as he was. Over and out.

^But seriously, WHO puts an iron head on an aluminum block?

Wow, blast from the past!! Or ghost in the machine?

indeed...

Nice to see some activity here. Finally figured out my password, just a quick hello.

My f-bod had new england rust issues where the rear sub attached to the floor; oved on from it to a C4, to a C5Z, to a C6Z.

Thanks for keeping the lights on!

We're trying.

I've been debating selling the convertible Z28 and moving onto something newer/different. I've already gone through my C4 phase. So I'm looking farther down the road than that I guess. C5's are starting to show their age and have issues. I really dislike the C6 interiors, though I'd probably buy a C6 Z06. I even considered a track package on a new Mustang. But I really don't know what might grab my attention...if anything. lol.

But we're still here. I keep thinking I should buy a new 1LE and start a new tech section. I'm just not sure I have it in me to start wrenching at all hours of the night again.

I'm finding the freedom to change things on the newer cars without really p!ssing the car off are kind of limited, unless you're very skilled with programming, and even then, it's still limited.

On the plus side, though, a 1LE is such an amazing thing, there's not a lot to change, IMHO.

Yeah you go putting on stickier tires and then the car is like "Suspension articulation out of specified range for speed!" and undoes everything.

Dibs on the 1LE when you go to sell it?

They only leave in pieces....

The convertible is for sale whole... and I was trying to be nicer. But, parts or a driver, I won't be picky!

Ha. I've looked at the pile of parts and I could do a lot better if I parted out the convertible. But I really refuse to destroy a completely rust free and solid car. Even if the top comes off. I might return it to stock and sell it off that way, but I'd love someone to find a nice home for it. It's a pretty neat toy as it sits, I just never get time to drive it and we didn't build a house with a 3 car garage, so it's always blocked in the garage and I am too lazy to get it out. Thus, I think it's time for it to go so I can stop paying to insure it since it never leaves. lol.

Our 95 had a LOT of good parts on it, too. Granted, it was an LT* car, but it did have a LT4. We finally sold it to friends who absolutely love it. It took years, unfortunately, but we really weren't pushing the car much.

So, patience, young one! You'll find a buyer. I agree, it's better as a unit with OEM spares. Even though you could get more for the parts, what's your time worth pulling them? You CAN now drive it when you want to with what's on it.

We still need to thin the herd some, too, but haven't been too active doing that, either. Our only F-body is staying, but I really need to lighten the project list some. Our hands are full of the current motorhome project.