TGPR October 25th

[VroomGrrl]

Yes I did see them, but I didn't see any pics of my car. I'm the one with the white rx-7 (the older one) my car was throwing some flames out too...gotta love the rotaries!

-Vincent.

Let me know when u get them posted up...

Go forth and view my slapdash VIDEO from Saturday's (sorry, crappy) footage! Lemme know if there's anything in there you want me to send you.

[BoostedFD]

Yeah, the flames were probably me. It seems to get worse the hotter the car gets. It really doesn't do it on the street. I think I need to readjust the amount of fuel it adds as the temp increases.

I had a good time, was my first real time to instruct. I'm glad I got talked, well kinda pushed into it when I arrived that morning. My first student was obviously not new to driving on a track, and was very quick, he pretty much just needed someone to show him the line. I hated to see his broke shock knocked him out for the rest of the day, might have just been a bad part because I didn't see anything that should have caused it to happen. My second student had a new car and was new to being on a track. He did have really good car control, probably from AutoXing, and improved greatly from the first to the last session. Once he got the line pretty much down he started pushing the car more and more each session.

Thanks to Evan and all the others who helped put this event on. Looks like we should still be known for more track time than you need at a PDX as most everyone was done by 3-4.

[EWaugh]

Orange smoke was probably Maffey in the instructor group

[VroomGrrl]

Yes I did see them, but I didn't see any pics of my car. I'm the one with the white rx-7 (the older one) my car was throwing some flames out too...gotta love the rotaries!

-Vincent.

Let me know when u get them posted up...

OK I slapped some stills and all the video clips together, and I put some music on it also. It'll take awhile to format into a compressed file, and then another while to upload it to Google (too long for YouTube). When it's uploaded, I'll come back with a link.

You can look at the vid and if you see your car, you can tell me the min/sec markers from the video, and I can send you those clips separately all nice and clean wth no music so you can hear your exhaust loud & clear

[87RX7RACER]

Tell you what, if you were in those trains blowing by me (and I am 100% sure you were) I will slap it together and post it on YouTube. Now remind me which car you were in - there were several Mazdas, and more than 1 red one. There was one red Mazda that I nicknamed THE FLAMETHROWER. Was that you? Or was that one in the other group?

Chuck posted a link to some pictures - did you see that?

Yes I did see them, but I didn't see any pics of my car. I'm the one with the white rx-7 (the older one) my car was throwing some flames out too...gotta love the rotaries!

-Vincent.

Let me know when u get them posted up...

[VroomGrrl]

I hope my rather LOUD exhaust didn't scare you too bad...lol. Hey if you have some video of my car going around the track, I'd love to see it. Can you e-mail it to coker.vincent@recticel.com? Also, if anyone has any still pictures-I'd love to see them!

Thanks!

-Vincent.

Tell you what, if you were in those trains blowing by me (and I am 100% sure you were) I will slap it together and post it on YouTube. Now remind me which car you were in - there were several Mazdas, and more than 1 red one. There was one red Mazda that I nicknamed THE FLAMETHROWER. Was that you? Or was that one in the other group?

Chuck posted a link to some pictures - did you see that?

[87RX7RACER]

You may be a newbie to TGPR but you are no newbie to driving! I have a feeling I may have been the only REAL newbie out there. Mostly I was too busy to notice a whole lot about what other people were doing over the course of the day - except when we were out on track and you all flew by me. And then flew by me again

My husband took a bunch of video at one of the turns where it opens to one of the 3 (novice) passing zone straightaways, and I had to laugh watching it. Over and over, here comes my 911 around the bend, and then zoom! zoom! zoom! as I point the train behind me around one by one. If I put a video together using this footage, it'll have to be a comedy of some sort!

I hope my rather LOUD exhaust didn't scare you too bad...lol. Hey if you have some video of my car going around the track, I'd love to see it. Can you e-mail it to coker.vincent@recticel.com? Also, if anyone has any still pictures-I'd love to see them!

Thanks!

-Vincent.

[VroomGrrl]

You may be a newbie to TGPR but you are no newbie to driving! I have a feeling I may have been the only REAL newbie out there. Mostly I was too busy to notice a whole lot about what other people were doing over the course of the day - except when we were out on track and you all flew by me. And then flew by me again

My husband took a bunch of video at one of the turns where it opens to one of the 3 (novice) passing zone straightaways, and I had to laugh watching it. Over and over, here comes my 911 around the bend, and then zoom! zoom! zoom! as I point the train behind me around one by one. If I put a video together using this footage, it'll have to be a comedy of some sort!

[87RX7RACER]

I had a great day at the track .I rode along with Vincent and Eric and they were both far from newbies .They were straight up ringers posing as newbies .Both of them spun at least once..... not because they were newbies but because they were aggressive .Thats a good thing .Vincent...I was with all day .He only needed some line and braking zone help that was track specific and he was absolutely good to go .Eric was the same way .I regret I was only with Eric for one session because I inherited him late in the afternoon when his instructor departed abruptly for whatever reason.He had an aggressive approach and very good car control techniques .His only flaws will disappear with seat time .

I thrashed my lil junker 240sx to no end ,and I and it are sore today.Kudos to Evan and John for all of their efforts that they put in to pull all of this together .These events arent small things to start ,see through ,and finish .....but they do carry a payoff at the end .Great Job everyone!!!!!


Ricky-

Thanks for the compliments Ricky! I thoroughly enjoyed the day, despite my off and I was alot more tired than I thought after I got home. Hence the reason why I couldn't make it to the AutoX the next day.

My ONLY regret of the day was going on the cheap on brake pads. The stock pads were giving it up by my third session, all because they were stock and I had no ducting going to them either. By the fourth session they were really bad and I started getting fade, so because of that I decided not to go out on the last session, even though I had been written off!

Despite the brake problems, I couldn't believe how flawlessly my car performed. Even with the stock clutch in the car, it was able to take my abusive downshifts all day long! I have worked so hard on getting the car together and to be able to enjoy it finally and be absolutely impressed with it was absolutely wonderful! The only other thing I need to consider is perhaps extending my exhaust a little because I thought that the flames coming out of my exhaust on downshifts had MELTED my bumper. But upon closer inspection it wasn't that big a deal.

Thanks to Evan, John, Chuck B., Ricky R., Paul Balance, and everyone who made this event possible! Now my car must go up on jackstands for some more work to get ready for the next event!

-Vincent.

[VroomGrrl]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I see what tis being refered to .Sorry...Now back to your regularly scheduled banter.May I say also it was refreshing to see the 911 at the autox today ,It made me wish I was at that point in my life where i could afford to say screw it man...I gotta have a 911.

I mistakenly told her(sorry I am terrible with names) that her car classed BSP when in actuality it was BS ....sorry.Come back any time .Beautiful car ....maybe someday I can drive it ....pretty please!!!!!I have always been in love with that exact body style 911.It is truly the most sexy 911 that there ever was .

RR

Well when I found out it was wrong I definitely blamed you, so I'm glad to know it actually was you. I had not really planned ahead to do this thing and just kind of showed up without having read the details on classes, etc.

So you are saying my car is BS? I'm not sure how I feel about that!

This body style caught my eye, too. The later models have the headlights flattened out more, but I love the "bug-eyes"!

I gotta tell you, while you were admiring my car, I was all over Roy's Z. When I'm rich and famous and building my stable of cars, a 70's Z will be my first acquisition. My first love!



Hey I wish yall could have been around to see Bill "try on" the driver's seat in my car (I hope his name was Bill! Sorry I'm awful with names too - big tall guy, awesome tie-dye shirt on yesterday!). Kind of reminded me of my husband's fit...



Notice the knees vs. dashboard situation there, and imagine the steering wheel added. It's not adjustable in any way. TIGHT!

[zukitek]

yeah I know,the clutch is definitely not feeling healthy.I think I got a bum pressure plate .

RR

[Welacey]

Watch out Ricky, you're 240 is listening.

[zukitek]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I see what tis being refered to .Sorry...Now back to your regularly scheduled banter.May I say also it was refreshing to see the 911 at the autox today ,It made me wish I was at that point in my life where i could afford to say screw it man...I gotta have a 911.

I mistakenly told her(sorry I am terrible with names) that her car classed BSP when in actuality it was BS ....sorry.Come back any time .Beautiful car ....maybe someday I can drive it ....pretty please!!!!!I have always been in love with that exact body style 911.It is truly the most sexy 911 that there ever was .

RR

[EWaugh]

Well Ricky, if you'll read the thread or my sig you'll see that the sig quote has your name next to it, and the quote from Pobst is seperate and above somewhere

[zukitek]

I had a great day at the track .I rode along with Vincent and Eric and they were both far from newbies .They were straight up ringers posing as newbies .Both of them spun at least once..... not because they were newbies but because they were aggressive .Thats a good thing .Vincent...I was with all day .He only needed some line and braking zone help that was track specific and he was absolutely good to go .Eric was the same way .I regret I was only with Eric for one session because I inherited him late in the afternoon when his instructor departed abruptly for whatever reason.He had an aggressive approach and very good car control techniques .His only flaws will disappear with seat time .

I thrashed my lil junker 240sx to no end ,and I and it are sore today.Kudos to Evan and John for all of their efforts that they put in to pull all of this together .These events arent small things to start ,see through ,and finish .....but they do carry a payoff at the end .Great Job everyone!!!!!


Ricky-