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wstar

Nice vids I love that your tires are singing so consistently in the corners

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Thanks! I think I'm going to try a set of R-comps this summer. Need to put my stock wheels up for sale to subsidize a set of 18" wheels.

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love it!

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+1...... LMAO.......sweet

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I only wish I could see out of a mask well enough to drive with one. I had two in the car. :P

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Car's at V2 Motorsports now having a custom seat bracket made and the harness bar I picked up from BTGV8 installed. I may be talked into an AiM Solo while it's there as well.

Hopefully I get it back before my detailing appointment next Thursday at 8AM. Fingers crossed!

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WOO! Seat and harnesses finally in. (click for bigger)



Drivers side is a Status GT-X with Schroth Profi-II 2" 6pt harness (for HANS). Sitting on a custom seat mount made by Ralph Provitz at V2 Motorsports. Ralph also installed the lot of it. SUPER stable. No wobble at all from the seat/mount. Ralph does really great work.

Passenger side is still stock with a G-Force 3" 5pt harness. Sub-belt was run between the back and the seat so it can actually do it's job. Soon I'll get it together and order another GT-X for the passenger or just throw in this OMP TRS-II that I've got laying around.

Harness bar came from Robin Bailey BGTV8 at the370z forums. Many thanks to him for spending the initial cash to build these things. Nice and sturdy!

After ZdayZ I may have to figure out how to re-mount the 3pt belts in the car. I intended to have Ralph keep them in but I didn't communicate that properly. Not sure how much of a pain in the *** it will be to drive with the 6pt all the time... or the legality... or if it's too much trouble to put the 3pt back in anyway.

Picked up an AiM Solo from Ralph also. All these new toys! AND I've got a set of used A6s waiting for me at Mid-Ohio Monday.

Coon-azz

Nice save at the end. Seems like you had good control during the spin.

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hah! We were completely out of control. Lee did the right things though and just put both feet in and kept the wheel straight. Wish I had the cabin video of it.

Man... watching that video now makes me think "Why the hell were we on track in that downpour!" So much standing water!

LakeShow

You shouldn't be driving with a horse in your car.

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Well crap. I had typed up bunch of stuff about how much I enjoyed my trip to Mid-Ohio last month after ZdayZ and how much confidence A6s gave me on the track but my browser crashed and ate it.

Basically I had a ton of new toys on my 4/21 trip to Mid-Ohio including my racing seat/6pt harness + HANS, Used 295/35ZR19 Hoosier A6s, and an AiM Solo data logger. Knocked 5 seconds off of my best time on street tires in March and it was 80F rather than 50F. I think I have a good bit of time I can still pick up with all that rubber too.

I guess I'll just post the video. Has data from my AiM Solo too: 3Balls Racing Mid-Ohio 5/21/2012 on Vimeo This is my last session of the day. I am sure I would have been able to tick off more 1:45s or better had I not boiled my clutch fluid.

Would love to hear critiques/opinions!

Oh yeah.. I found passing in odd places really fun. We did open passing with point and I took some low speed passes over Madness and a couple high speed passes out of Thunder Valley through turn 12 over the weekend. Something oddly satisfying about that.

wstar

Nice laps!

My only peanut gallery comments are about the hands/arms relation to the steering wheel. Seems like your home position is slightly high (more like 10&2, should be more like 9&3), and then your arm seems to be fully extended by the time it reaches the top of the wheel in a corner. It might help to move a smidge closer (like an inch) to free up some arm length, but I donno maybe you can't because you'd bump your knees if you're tall.

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Yep. that's my problem. I'm too tall to move forward. If I ever go the aftermarket wheel route I'll probably get a little extension for it. I don't like hands at 9&3 because of the wheel spokes; they just seems to get in my way.

I'm actually fairly proud of my times. I'm only 4.4s off of my friend Dominic's TTB monster. With another day or so I could probably pick that up I think. I have way more rubber than he's allowed. I'd probably be classed into TTA which means I would need to pick up a lot of time to compete with C6s.