some in car vid from an open track day Friday, been awhile, thought I would drop by... Options

[byndbad914]

Took some video of an open track day this last Friday. There are three of my most consistent, fastest laps to date, all in the 1:55s. I ran one 1:55 the last time I went out with consistent 1:57s after I put some old radials I had laying around on the car from a couple years back, so I got the most out of them the last track day. This time they held on for about 4 laps in the morning, and then just got greasier and greasier as the track and the day warmed up.

So I have three clean laps back to back at the beginning, a slightly slower overall time lap as the fourth but there was some neat traffic so I left it in and it was my fastest shot down the bobsled to hell and sliding back up the hill, then some footage of traffic to see some cars, general bloopers and random chaos.

And then I realized upon editing that I left the camera on when I finished, so I got a bunch of footage of various folks coming up and asking questions, talking about the car when they thought I couldn't hear which is always funny, but I threw in one snippet of a corner worker that worked down in that area I would go sliding through and the open wheeler spins.

The springs are getting stiff enough that I know I have to get the right camber set on the car, some new radials, then monkey with tire pressures. I suspect that I am in the "1/2 psi makes a big difference" spring rate range.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg8SkOZVLBs

[byndbad914]

Randal - I know I would love a hillclimb, it would be pretty hair raising and that is a good thing! I have 11 ft ceilings in my garage and I am thinking of gutting the 914 but not cutting anything off - instead I might just hoist the chassis up in the garage and leave it in case I ever get the itch to go back to a full race psycho ride (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif) Dunno, will have to see how it work out with the Nova.

Vid editing is a PITA but I need to get on it for sure. I need to find a good, FREE software (of course) that is easy to use for editing mpeg4 vids the GoPro generates. The free one I have is decent but time consuming and glitchy. This time my uncle and cousin were able to vid the car on the track FROM THE TOWER (too cool) so this time I am trying to splice together in car and line it up with outside shots to get an overall idea of the lap. Problem is GoPro is mpeg4 and the hand held is not so it has been hard mixing those file types thus far.

Andy - I can tell you the tire wear implies I need a LOT more camber. The rears I actually rolled over the sidewall and was scuffing down to the top of the GOODYEAR lettering! I am at -0.7deg now and I am probably going to try -1.5. Fronts are around -1.5deg and I am thinking -2 instead. And that might not be enough, we will see I guess. Front had better wear and more grip so will make less change.

I also ordered some Hawk DTC-60 pads for the rear to match the -70s on the front. They are supposedly the common pairing to reduce rear grip so we will see how that works out. Ordered some superduty pads for the Excursion as well - that thing can't stop on the OE stuff at all. Totally sketchy crap braking on that pig.

[Randal]

Randal - I know I would love a hillclimb, it would be pretty hair raising and that is a good thing! I have 11 ft ceilings in my garage and I am thinking of gutting the 914 but not cutting anything off - instead I might just hoist the chassis up in the garage and leave it in case I ever get the itch to go back to a full race psycho ride (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif) Dunno, will have to see how it work out with the Nova.

Vid editing is a PITA but I need to get on it for sure. I need to find a good, FREE software (of course) that is easy to use for editing mpeg4 vids the GoPro generates. The free one I have is decent but time consuming and glitchy. This time my uncle and cousin were able to vid the car on the track FROM THE TOWER (too cool) so this time I am trying to splice together in car and line it up with outside shots to get an overall idea of the lap. Problem is GoPro is mpeg4 and the hand held is not so it has been hard mixing those file types thus far.

Andy - I can tell you the tire wear implies I need a LOT more camber. The rears I actually rolled over the sidewall and was scuffing down to the top of the GOODYEAR lettering! I am at -0.7deg now and I am probably going to try -1.5. Fronts are around -1.5deg and I am thinking -2 instead. And that might not be enough, we will see I guess. Front had better wear and more grip so will make less change.

I also ordered some Hawk DTC-60 pads for the rear to match the -70s on the front. They are supposedly the common pairing to reduce rear grip so we will see how that works out. Ordered some superduty pads for the Excursion as well - that thing can't stop on the OE stuff at all. Totally sketchy crap braking on that pig.

That chassis is way to good to take apart. Save it or sell it to someone like ME that would campaign it properly.

Come out to Cascade Lakes next year and you can co-drive with me. Not a V-8, but I was only a second off two fast and well driven Z06's. I'd had them if my linkage hadn't gone bonkers. Tough to run up in only first. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Can a 4 actually beat a big fast well driven Vette? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)