A bit of the War Goat tooling around. You'll notice I smurfed up a few corners. Particularly toward the end (about 2:40) just after the bridge when I suddenly realized I was going into the turn too hot and had to keep braking in a straight line to avoid spinning off.
Sorry about the sound. The vibration dampening did not quite do its job and I misplaced the windscreen somewhere.
You guys and gals were a blast to hang out with and I enjoyed visiting with each one of you. "Sandu002" has got one of the cleanest, well put together GTO's that I have seen. It is a diff away from being perfect. It was the ultimate sleeper too on the streets.
I had a great time and will be working on a written report about the entire event soon. All of you did a fantastic job at the track. I know it was the first time on a road course for many of you and all of you took your time, learned your turn in points and really improved tremendously throughout the day. No crushed sheet metal and only a few minor things happened period as far as part failures. If each of you treat the corners as a math problem instead of an area of asphault that you need to stay on..........you can apply that to any track you go to and learn it quickly. Then you have a solid foundation to build your driving craft on. Hit your marks properly and avoid turning in too early, avoid over slowing and the speed will come on its own..........thus resulting in lap times dropping.
Hats off to everyone!
Enjoyed ya!
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It was a blast having you guys out and it added a great bit to the event over all !
I was soo busy trying to meet up and talk to everyone I never managed to get a ride n drive
All is well though my car wasn't 100% ( tires and pads ) but it will be for my next trip there.
Chris - I see you are using the Carbotech pads, which compound would you suggest for these heavy cars ( Remeber LX here so think 4300# ish ) I have the SRT Brembos which are not of near the same quality of the GT kits etc.
Thanks Robert. All of you involved did a super job of putting this event together. I was proud to be a part of it.
Here is the deal on pads. The better they are for track use, the harder they are going to be on stock rotors. I would say the 12's. They "bed in" instantly and really stop the big cars well. I race on them and have "NO" complaints. I am personal friends with the owners of Carbotech and was working on a project to build a pad for the State Police Hemi cars. Are those pads different than what the SRT Brembos run? Regardless I can get them custom made if needed and can buy single sets of pads or group rates and save you some money if you want to give them a shot. I have some of the police package Carbo's left and testing showed they were awesome!
Sorry I missed doing a ride with you. I knew I would be busy Monday but I had no idea how busy! haha. Other than the lunch break......I was doing something with someone literally all day.
Well as a bonus I think they have the SRT's as an option now, so they at least have the ability to make them.
Dodge did some weird stuff with the brakes on these cars.
You have the RT package, then they did a police part that was a differnt rear rotor and pad but same caliper.
There have been a few variants on that as well. anic:
The SRT Brembos are on the Jeep, 300c, Charger and Magnum SRTs ( I did the swap to my RT ). The factory pad was real aggressive and if you didn't get them warm they chewed up rotors bad. The POS bendix I have on their now were a winter stop gap.
These would be a track only deal on the Factory Rotors ( The are cheap @ 270 for 4 ) and hold up better than a lot of the after market bits for our cars.
We have this freak out on the west coast that turned one of these land barges into a road racer and he was killing rotors. Now that he has a full season under him he has gotten way easier on parts but he is still using slightly heavier SRT rotors with a Willwood caliper and pad and getting good life out of them.
I appreciate the advice.
People tend to look at you like you have sprouted a second head when you tell them your racing a 4dr Station Wagon the weighs in at 4400#'s
You guys and gals were a blast to hang out with and I enjoyed visiting with each one of you. "Sandu002" has got one of the cleanest, well put together GTO's that I have seen. It is a diff away from being perfect. It was the ultimate sleeper too on the streets.
I had a great time and will be working on a written report about the entire event soon. All of you did a fantastic job at the track. I know it was the first time on a road course for many of you and all of you took your time, learned your turn in points and really improved tremendously throughout the day. No crushed sheet metal and only a few minor things happened period as far as part failures. If each of you treat the corners as a math problem instead of an area of asphault that you need to stay on..........you can apply that to any track you go to and learn it quickly. Then you have a solid foundation to build your driving craft on. Hit your marks properly and avoid turning in too early, avoid over slowing and the speed will come on its own..........thus resulting in lap times dropping.
Hats off to everyone!
Enjoyed ya!
Chris,
Thanks for the compliment on my car. Working on making it "perfect".
2005 GTO Owner
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