PCA SDR

The sun was in my eyes
The wind was blowing sand onto the track

The new camera mount acted like a Gurney flap and took away all the air off my wing

I left my best tires on the trailer

That should be enough excuses for now

Greg

Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

ttweed wrote:Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

I think it would be more accurate to say he is getting used to sticker 710's

ttweed wrote:Looks like Mark Rondeau is getting used to the engine being in the wrong end of the car!

TT

He is still trying to get the engine up front

Greg

Jad wrote:I think it would be more accurate to say he is getting used to sticker 710's

Uh-oh. That can become quite an expensive addiction.

TT

Tom, I am getting used to the rear engine car. I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires.

Jad,

Greg, The engine never got in front of both front wheels.

mrondeau wrote:... I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires....

Mark, I meant to ask you at the track - is this a hard decision to switch from Hankooks to Kumhos, i.e. do you think the Kumhos might be a little faster?

Don Middleton wrote:

mrondeau wrote:... I tried out my first set of new tires on the Silver Bullet at Chuckwalla and I have to admit, I liked them.... a lot! I didn't put them on until the session before lunch on Sunday and they immediately brought my time down by 3 seconds. I was able to take another 1.5 seconds off in timed runs. Now I have to work on set up and a way to keep buying sticky tires....

Mark, I meant to ask you at the track - is this a hard decision to switch from Hankooks to Kumhos, i.e. do you think the Kumhos might be a little faster?

The Hankooks I ran on the 911 were 225/245 and were used for for timed runs at Chuckwalla last May (100+ temps!) on the 944S. The 710's are 245/265 and very new and very sticky. Wide with stick trumps narrow with stick. I'll have to see how they hold up. I used to be a lot easier on tires, but I was slower then. I'm planning on staying with the 710's because they come in the optimum size for my car and the Hankooks don't.

Greg Phillips wrote:The sun was in my eyes
The wind was blowing sand onto the track

The new camera mount acted like a Gurney flap and took away all the air off my wing

I left my best tires on the trailer

That should be enough excuses for now

Greg

Greg, you forgot: "I don't have a 3.6L"

Dan,

Even your excuses are cautious, go big with a cup car 3.8l engine, not a wimpy 3.6l. Now if he had 'that' engine then....

Where is the evil wizzard stirring the boiling pot emoticon?