Good luck with that pricing. I know USAA deals don't work on some models. The GT500 might be one of them.
Anyways, back to
my cars.
I went to the track yesterday for a private rental. It was fun but frustrating at the same time. Fun because, well, driving and watching fast cars is fun, but frustrating because I wasn't going to be doing anything special with street tires and warm temperatures. We were at 75-85 degrees for the day with moderate humidity. DA was around 1400-1500 feet.
Best run was a 12.56 @ 113 on a less than stellar 1.98 60'. My best 60' of the day was a 1.93. It was tough. I still spin a lot. Not as much off the line anymore but on the 1-2 the car spins pretty hard and I can still get squirrely on the 2-3 shift. I felt like if I was able to put together the "perfect" run yesterday, it would have been somewhere in the 12.45x range.
Additionally, with my shorter 275/35 tires I feel like I'm running out of 4th gear right at the end of the track, even with the limiter at 7,300 RPM. I think I might need to look at swapping my 3.73 gear out for a 3.55 or 3.31 if I really want to go after these times seriously. The 3.73 overpowers any street tire and puts you in an awkward spot at the top-end. More to think about... more to waste $$$ on in the name of speed, I suppose.
Regardless, this was a new personal best and in more ideal conditions it would have been a low 12 second pass at 114-115. The good news is I was very consistent, with all of my runs save for the first couple falling within the 12.56-12.61 envelope.
I will be back to the track in the fall with a set of ET Streets. Since it will be cooler I'll probably do a pass or two on the street tires just to compare, then I'll switch over to the DRs and we'll be talking easy 11s.
There were some nice cars there, including a 9 second GT-R. And one of the Mercedes guys set the new world record for an E55 AMG, around 10.51 @ 132. Pretty awesome considering his race weight was 4,500 lbs or more. He's going to be super quick in the fall!
Met some cool new people outside of the normal folks that show up for these private rentals. There was a group of diplomat kids that showed up in two e92 M3s and a Porsche 911 Turbo S. To my surprise they were very nice guys... further proof that you should not pass judgement on people until you meet them
. The e92s were on street tires, both had tune + exhaust, and were running mid 12s at anywhere from 110-114. Those DCTs shift quick and the exhausts sound wild. The Turbo S was somewhere in the 11s (or maybe 10s) at ~130 I believe.