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Trekkor
post May 8 2005, 08:49 PM
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The Streets of Willow at the WCC got me all fired up for the Big Track. ( you were right, Bill )
June 24-26, I plan on running the GGR DE and TT at Buttonwillow.

Who else wants to stretch your legs?
What advice can you offer? ( besides brakes )

KT
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nine14cats
post May 8 2005, 09:10 PM
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(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif) I knew it!...Congrats Trekkor...you truly have intered into the "money pit" zone.. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif)

It will be great seeing you at the track....hopefully we can pit together.

Buttonwillow can get hot...Last July 4th weekend we ran there and it was over 102 degrees...tough on the car....keep that oil temp gauge in working order and don't try to overdrive your first time out.

And here's a word of advice....respect your instructors, but don't think they don't make mistakes. GGR and Coastal Driving have great instructors, but if the weekend is run in conjunction with Zone 8 a few of the instructors they got were from the BMW and other clubs.

Here's the horror story. A guy shows up and pits next to us. Had just purchased a track 914-4 2.0. Never driven it other than onto the trailer. On the first drive around the instructor was boasting how he was a quick driver and he'd show him how it was done. Now I'm no stud on the track, but on the warm up lap this guy is all over the place...not following conventional racing lines...seemed to like early apexes and squaring off turns...

Anyway...on the first lap they take off and the guy spins out with smoke coming out of the engine bay....he missed a shift because he had never driven a Porsche before!

In the pits he said that "those 914 don't have a very good gearbox" and walks away. I help the guy push the rubble that is left of his car into his newly acquired trailer and the guy gets ready to leave. I told him to go tear the instructor a new a-hole....he doesn't...

Get an instructor who has been in a Porsche before, preferably a 914. If it's all Zone 7 you will be fine, but if they are short of instructors, talk to folks and find one that has 914 experience...

Just my $9.14.

Bill P.

P.S. Welcome to the "Dark Side"..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/happy11.gif)
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trekkor   DE and Time Trial   May 8 2005, 08:49 PM
nine14cats   http://www.914world.com/bbs2/htm...   May 8 2005, 09:10 PM
drew365   Keep your nose clean. Buttonwillow seems to have a...   May 8 2005, 09:13 PM
Travis Neff   Bring a clean pair of shorts, maybe two.   May 8 2005, 09:35 PM
Dan (Almaden Valley)   Trekkor, You will have a great time. No need to wo...   May 8 2005, 11:31 PM
anthony   You can do Reno next weekend: http://www.coastald...   May 9 2005, 12:16 AM
trekkor   Thanks for the replies. Do I understand this corr...   May 9 2005, 09:29 AM
anthony   My understanding is that the whole group drives a ...   May 9 2005, 09:38 AM
!   Depends on your experience....and the race sanctio...   May 9 2005, 09:38 AM
brant   ditto on what people said above... who drives depe...   May 9 2005, 10:38 AM
Mueller   I'm jealous http://www.914worl...   May 9 2005, 01:26 PM
anthony   Mike, why haven't you used your 911 for DE?   May 9 2005, 02:28 PM
Mueller     May 9 2005, 02:35 PM
anthony   For me it's the reverse. I think my SC is much...   May 9 2005, 02:41 PM
Mueller     May 9 2005, 02:46 PM
Jenny     May 9 2005, 02:49 PM
!     May 9 2005, 03:26 PM
Mueller     May 9 2005, 03:31 PM
trekkor   I need to get the brakes sorted, install the roll ...   May 9 2005, 03:50 PM
anthony   Mike, bring the 911 to the Alameda AX on the 14th....   May 9 2005, 05:05 PM
!     May 9 2005, 07:13 PM
grantsfo     May 9 2005, 07:25 PM
trekkor  
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grantsfo     May 9 2005, 07:35 PM
Howard   KT, apologies for giving you the first taste of th...   May 9 2005, 08:23 PM
Mueller  
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Howard     May 9 2005, 08:45 PM
trekkor  
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sean_v8_914   T, see ya at BW Howard, See ya at Laguna Seca wher...   May 10 2005, 01:03 AM
nine14cats   Hi Trekkor, As a first timer in PCA DE/TT's, ...   May 10 2005, 01:04 PM


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