Renting Mineral Wells

[Tommy R]

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anyone going to have an air-compressor? Mine just died.

Sure don't. I might have an air tank to bring, but no compressor....

T

[Paul]

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I have a small compressor which I will be bringing.

[McCall]

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Well we just picked up the Crazy German's rental moblie. I can't believe it but we scored a non-turbo Evo!! Fe4r the German!!!!

[Dean!]

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Well we just picked up the Crazy German's rental moblie. I can't believe it but we scored a non-turbo Evo!! Fe4r the German!!!!

You mean you got a rental Mitsubishi Mirage ??? (err, rebadged with "Lancer")

[the german kid]

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no we got this EVO , but i figured out that it would have tractionsproblem in the rain , so i took the turbo out.
IT helped the gas mileage too....

[Fair!]

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The event was a success!

The weather was bad on the morning drive over (which scared away more than a few "fair weather racers"), but the rain had completely stopped by 9:40 am and dried by noon. The rest of the day was sunny and a comfortable 70 degrees. We had FUN in the morning wet nonetheless, with all of the "element" courses (3) and the main timed course a' slippin and slidin.

When it dried out the timed course stayed hot all day - never a dead minute. Our original tear down time of 4 pm ran over a bit - more like 5:30 before we were done. It was SO much fun. There was a LOT of car swapping going on and we all learned a ton of things about each other's cars and driving styles...

Hanchey's friend with the mega digital camera took some awesome pics. Professional looking and huge x huge. They will be uploaded and available soon. Great stuff for the website!

DL1 data (from 5 cars) and all run times to be posted and analyzed soon. Stay tuned. The rain kind of delayed the use of the scales, which was a bummer, but with but 5 hours of dry runs we were all busily driving the timed course as many times as possible.

Dinner at the Hancheys afterwards was GOOD and busier than the event, with lots of barbecue and fixins, beer, soft drinks, and a cake to sort of celebrate B. Hanchey's and B. Howard's birthdays.

Yes, we're going to have to do another event soon. The format & schedule will change a bit based on experiences learned from this event, as will PRE-registration. We need to make some timers like Andy's - so simple yet so very effective. The flying lap timers worked incredibly well for a practice day.

[hancheyb]

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I'm going to start crunching the data soon. What we know so far:

-STI's long. acceleration is 0.8g
-M3 is .5g
-325is is .3g?

Lat. grip:
STI: .94g
M3: 1.04g
325is: 1.06g? I don't remember Tommy's exactly, but that car is hooked up!

[C3]

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Things I know so far:

1) I *really* need new rear tires now
2) 17x9.5" CCWs look GOOD on an E36 M3
3) Forget STIs, Evos, and RX8s - I want a FRC/Z06 Corvette BAD
4) A stock M3 on crappy street tires with Konis on full soft, unknown tire pressures, 3/4 tank of gas, and the spare in the trunk is still an entertaining drive when combined with judicious amounts of trail braking

Thanks to the Vorshlag bunch for putting on great driving and social events. The course was short but really rewarded being early and looking around corners - two things I always need help with. We really need to do this more often! Can't wait to see the times and pictures.

[Tommy R]

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Great event, guys! Thanks for hosting it! I didn't know it was the Brians' birthdays on Sat, though! Happy belated!

How about we start a new "post mortem" thread on the event to discuss it?

T

[hancheyb]

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Things I know so far:

1) I *really* need new rear tires now
2) 17x9.5" CCWs look GOOD on an E36 M3
3) Forget STIs, Evos, and RX8s - I want a FRC/Z06 Corvette BAD
4) A stock M3 on crappy street tires with Konis on full soft, unknown tire pressures, 3/4 tank of gas, and the spare in the trunk is still an entertaining drive when combined with judicious amounts of trail braking

Thanks to the Vorshlag bunch for putting on great driving and social events. The course was short but really rewarded being early and looking around corners - two things I always need help with. We really need to do this more often! Can't wait to see the times and pictures.

2. I dunno, that power is NICE AND 4 doors. I like it.
3. Justin's not using his. He won't even drive it in the rain.

[hancheyb]

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Old school style results....

http://www.vorshlag.com/tamscc/Pract...cticepage1.bmp

http://www.vorshlag.com/tamscc/Pract...cticePage2.bmp

http://www.vorshlag.com/tamscc/Pract...cticePage3.jpg

[the german kid]

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Great Event. I loved it.

I learned that a Non Turbo EVO with Automatic on Street tyres is nice to drive TO the race track but sucks really BAD to drive ON the track.

However I really enjoyed the event.

Enterprise needs to get the car fixed , so I can attend the next event.

I know it is a HUGE amount of work you two invested in this event BUT I would love to have another test and tune event before the 26 th of March.
That would really rock.

Thanks again
Flo
GRRT- German Rental Racing Team

[JT]

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3. Justin's not using his. He won't even drive it in the rain.

[hancheyb]

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www.vorshlag.com/tamscc/PracticeResults/sectortimes.jpg
www.vorshlag.com/tamscc/PracticeResults/jan1.pdf

OK, played with this tonight. Looks like Andy killed us in almost every sector.

Lap 20, Brian
lap 16, Paul
Lap 18, Tommy
Lap 19, Fair in my car

Sector 1-3 is the slalom, 4 is the u turn, 5 is the first pointer going into the transitions, 6-8 is back to the finish.

Terry was frustrated being off my times. Check out the last sectors (the transitions). I put .4 second on him! That's some sweet data. No more guessing where anyone is faster. Also, Terry was getting on the gas in Sector 4, I was just coasting, so he beat me there.

More to come, this was me reading "step 1" in the online help. This thing's very complicated!

[Fair!]

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Let's start a Practice Event Results and DL1 discussion thread... this one is too big!

We'll have the results/times reposted in viewer friendly, adobe format soon.