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Posted by: trekkor Mar 19 2005, 03:02 PM

Hope you enjoy this footage. Thanks to Mark for the upload.

Watch the speedo climb as I approach the end of the straightaways. Says near 80mph , but it's really 70.

Listen for the Hoosiers picking up the gravel.

Layout is short warm up loop followed by two timed laps.
This stuff pumps me up. Listen for me tickle the rev limiter as it pegs 7k

KT

http://www.914world.com/members/markd/movies/santarosa.mpg


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Posted by: J P Stein Mar 19 2005, 03:33 PM

I hope your passes don't take as long as this vid takes to load...ah, at last.

Ayup, bout 130 hp

Posted by: i love porsche Mar 19 2005, 03:40 PM

wow...big file...better be worth it!

Posted by: rick 918-S Mar 19 2005, 03:41 PM

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 19 2005, 04:25 PM

you're letting off the gas too early. you need to work those brakes more ...

but i'm sure you already know that!
Andy

Posted by: J P Stein Mar 20 2005, 12:41 AM

QUOTE (SirAndy @ Mar 19 2005, 02:25 PM)

you're letting off the gas too early. you need to work those brakes more ... Andy

Wait....lemme write this down.......

Posted by: Howard Mar 20 2005, 08:12 AM

Nice! You and your car are gonna love Willow! You'll get to stretch out the next gear. Please show your video cam mount setup.

http://www.thehowardagency.com/914/willow3.wmv

Posted by: Tom Perso Mar 20 2005, 02:53 PM

I don't care what the V8 guys say (and this is coming from a BIG 4 guy as well).

You can't beat a six conversion once you've got it installed and hear that sucker running up to 7k RPM. Man, does it sound sweet.

Nice work!

Later,
Tom

Posted by: ben1440 Mar 20 2005, 04:32 PM

this is in santa rosa??!! how did i not know this existed. well now i know what i will be doing once i get my 914 done

Posted by: pete-stevers Mar 20 2005, 04:33 PM

mr Trekkor.....Fantastic clip .....the sound of that six.....I can't wait for mine...and the big plus....my wife thinks autoXing looks relatively safe... snicker snicker....
(soon we will all have sixes)

Posted by: trekkor Mar 20 2005, 11:41 PM

Howard, here's the cam mounted.

KT


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Posted by: Howard Mar 21 2005, 12:06 AM

QUOTE (trekkor @ Mar 20 2005, 09:41 PM)

Howard, here's the cam mounted. KT

Thanks. Mine is similar, and a bit concerned that it's kinda close to my head...

Posted by: ! Mar 21 2005, 12:34 AM

Mount it on the side of your helmet.....ya get to see wht YOU see when yer running.....isn't that what duct tape is fer?

I did it...great fun....

Posted by: Joe Ricard Mar 21 2005, 07:35 AM

Nice run. sounded clean. didn't hear no cones. What do you do with the rock chips you will now have after them sticky tires kicked up half the course into the bottom of your car?

Motor sounds COOLL!!!!!

Posted by: mskala Mar 21 2005, 11:11 AM

QUOTE (mikez @ Mar 21 2005, 01:34 AM)

Mount it on the side of your helmet.....ya get to see wht YOU see when yer running.....

Uh, it's a bit easier to do that with a bullet cam. I did that once
last season, it was cool to take a hairpin and see right out the
side (and prove I was looking ahead).

Trekkor try compressing these files, you're going to blow up us
modem guys. I get around 10Mb/minute for web-posting.

Posted by: Brando Mar 21 2005, 11:52 AM

Trekkor, that seemed to be a pretty fast course. Your six sounds SWEET. At some points i was saying to myself "Upshift upshift! Downshift downshift!" Looks like you took it pretty damn fast (hurrah!). Seeing the looks on some of the other driver's faces when you finished... i think they all shared the same thought... "How am I going to beat that time?"

I so want to mount a camera for my next A-X. Maybe remove the passenger's seat and mount it there as if it were the passenger on a tripod, bolted to the floor? You'll see the car tilting horribly, though.

Posted by: Root_Werks Mar 21 2005, 02:30 PM

Gotta love a six. Very nice Trekkor, you rock!

Posted by: rdauenhauer Mar 21 2005, 04:30 PM

QUOTE (Howard @ Mar 20 2005, 10:06 PM)

QUOTE (trekkor @ Mar 20 2005, 09:41 PM) Howard, here's the cam mounted. KT Thanks. Mine is similar, and a bit concerned that it's kinda close to my head...

Howard you need a wide angle lens! Watching you vid. I got a crook in my neck trying to see OUT OF FRAME the next corner

Posted by: Dave_Darling Mar 21 2005, 06:04 PM

Aha--the layout there started you out and sent you aaaaallllllll the way down to the back sweeper. My very first autoX had a similar layout, except I don't think there were any offsets on the way down.

A co-worker of mine was first car on course, and he asked me to ride along in his 911. I'd never even seen an autoX before, but I figured I knew what to expect out of a 3.0 SC. After all, I'd ridden with him on the street.

He got to 3rd gear on that straight, and kept his foot on the floor waaaaaaaaay past where I thought he should have been braking. Scared the living shit outta me!! I really thought we were going to wind up in the ditch.

It was a whole lot more fun when I got to drive my own car... Except for that minor point about the oil light coming on...

--DD

Posted by: airsix Mar 21 2005, 08:03 PM

Trekkor,
Thanks for posting this! It was worth the big download (I prefer a lengthy download of a high-quality video to a short download of a postage-stamp sized video). Car sounds GREAT.

-Ben M.

Posted by: sean_v8_914 Mar 21 2005, 09:00 PM

with sundays AX fresh on the brain, I watched with a grin...twice
how was your time?
was anyone from here at Fontana?
thanks for sharing