^^^OK David... how rude! Introductions please? Maybe "Pictured L to R"? I know Trey. I take it that Fritz is the guy at the whiteboard explaining the track, and the only female in the photos must be his wife, correct?

I swear, one of my biggest pet peeves when I go to rotary events is that no one knows who is who. If they made nametags mandatory you wouldn't come away from events going "What? Who was there?" "Daum, wish I had known. I really wanted to meet them."

 

 

 

Hi Dan,
Glad you had fun and sorry I wasn't able to get to know you better hopefully next time we can hang out some

That car was a trip for sure but as mentioned the sound and brakes are SWEET!!!!

Don't let my opinion of this particular car sway you there's a huge coolness factor in how it feels when it's setup. This one just wanted to oversteer like crazy and I was running on street tires and tend to over drive etc... so basically I was driving tail out too much heating up the rear tires and just adding to the problem.

As Pete mentioned you could literally beat it to death with the AC on (I also ran an entire session with the AC on) in hot weather and have no issues. We almost ran out of gas on track because I was so lax I wasn't worried or even thinking about anything mechanical just hopping in turning the key and ripping.

However with all that said the FD is more fun to drive than any car I've ever driven so it's unbeatable IMO BUT as we all know it's a maint and reliability night mare JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TURBO CAR (especially if you want big power) I had to add that



Yep the 997 is supposed to be a little easier to drive but again I think this car is having setup issues and if not it's still fun enough if I just calm down and go slower.



But also it's no problem at all to drive tail out the entire time if you're used to the balance.

 

Oops, wanted to get the pics up in my spare time and now it's too late to go back and edit. Yes, Fritz is the guy at the whiteboard but the female is not Morgan his wife, but Mitsuninja's wife.

Maybe each person in the pics and quote the pic and identify themselves? Gotta please you Tim or whatever your name is

 

Mine is the silver car with the black wheels... I'm only visible faintly as the driver in flat back helmet.

 

I'm the guy in the tan T-shirt and blue VIR cap in the classroom pic. That's also me (now in dark blue long sleeves) belting into the FC about two pics later.

Great pics, David!

 

I thought the FD had a loose rear end on the track also but it's easily counter steered (with one finger). I haven't driven the 911 only the Boxster S which is not the same as a turbo AWD dream machine.

 

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Suhweeeet! That would be like a high speed gokart. Did you get to drive it?

 

I wish my pictures had turned out better; and i had a telephoto lens with me but it wouldn't seem to work. Not a bad thing, but i spent too much time hanging out and didn't get pictures of everybody's car as intended, so i apologize for that as well. Enough talking though......

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[QUOTE=GoRacer;11474914]Suhweeeet! That would be like a high speed gokart. Did you get to drive it?

Wait, what's it like to drive a FD, I can't remember?

 

I wish. That is a racecar that competes so no, we didn't get to drive it. Victor was kind enough to bring it out and drive it on track so we could see it in action. Awesome go kart car.

 

I feel you on that! During Sunday nights dinner, I made a suggestion to David about everyone having a T-shirt made with their avatar and forum name on it.



By the way I'm the black guy wearing the Chive shirt.

Lol David, my parents didn't raise no vegitarian.

 

I'm pissed I missed this event and the 3-day PCA event. My car is back in the shop due to complications from the accident. I hope to have it all sorted out next month.

The GT3 is an amazing machine, but it can't be driven at the track w/ a Fritz Flynn string alignment done a couple min before he packs up the trailer. Also, they need fresh tires or they are a handful. This is true for any 911.

Also, Fritz's GT3 has fancy suspension on it and I'm sure it's not dialed in correctly for his style of driving. I'd be willing to bet the rake on the car is messed up or it's setup for slicks and he's out on O L D *** tires stamped from 2007


Fritz, here's what I run at VIR and find it works best with my Moton setup. In July I bump down the low speed to 1 once the track gets all greasy and this seems to help with understeer.

700lbs in front with a 225 tender.
Front canister set at 150psi (measured in the air)
low speed compression 3 from zero
high speed compression 5 from zero
Rebound 6 from zero

Rear:
900lbs main
250lbs tender
Canister pressure 175psi ( measured in the air)
low speed compression 4
high speed compression 6
Rebound 8

Front alignment specs:
-2.8
1/32 of toe in
stock caster

Rear
-3.0
stock kinematic
1/16 of rear toe-in

Rear wing angle set at 6 degrees.


Happy to hear all the newbies enjoyed the track and hopefully we'll see you all trackside more often! Peter, the Techno's look great.

 

As others have said, I intended on getting much more video/photos over the course of the day; however, being slightly distracted, it didn't work out that way, unfortunately. I have pieced together everything I did get that was worthwhile though.




I wanted to overlay the dyno results for each run, but only had my numbers.


I am the silver '94 LS2 with RPF1s, by the way.

 

Wow nice job on the video, really sums it up nicely. I wish someone could have got Hoi's T10 dance on video!

 

Damn, sucks I missed this. Oh well, glad everyone had a blast.

 

Thats me in the red awesome shirt!
-Andrew

 

I put some pics up on Dropbox :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/penv4vql2wp6dep/wMHYhgi9T7

I have a few more parking lot shots which I'll probably add later. If anyone wants the full-sized copies, PM me.

-bill

 

LOL you know me too well

It was setup for slicks with a really big radius out back so now the rake is jacked up for sure. But it's low in the back which should make it push.

Tires were cheap NT01s. Don't forgot I once had a GT3 and YES they need rubber but you know I'm a cheap *** bastard

The original shock setting were very close to what you have there.

I took out a lot of rebound from the back its now:
C2
R5

Front:
C10
R8

F bar is 1 off stiff
R bar is 1 off soft

Ramon says stiffer springs and fatter bars are must for even hoos?

The above changes helped a lot but it's still a handful.

Is the 16th toe out back total or each side?

I'll go zero toe up front

 

Andrew,
Your bracket is upside down.

-Robin

 

Dang, that 3-rotor turbo is SuWheeeeeTuh! I wish I had a turbo.

 

Haha... If I won the Jack Pot...I would have an FD with a V8 alongside my Rotary. Your car was a blast to ride around in. I appreciate the ride!