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Old 11-21-05, 10:55 AM
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Track video at Roebling Road in GA

I spent the weekend of Nov. 12 at Roebling Road Raceway near Savannah, Geogia, with the Coastal Empire chapter of the Porsche Club of America (PCA).

First off, these guys run a great DE, and everyone was very nice, even with letting my RX7 pass them down the straight.

I had a great instructor who had a NADY helmet system, so I could intimately hear his comments.

I was signed-off for SOLO driving after my first run (four runs per day @ 15-minutes), and periodically asked him to sit with me, just so I don't pick up any bad habits.

The RX7 is a great momentum car, and can really keep with all of them in twisties. I did have intermittant secondary boost problems during the last two sessions of the last day (Sunday), which limited my passing ability IF they kept on the accelerator.

Here's a short video in QuickTime format.

BTW: I run in the "blue" intermediate solo group in a stock motor w/Koni shocks, and Tripoint swaybar.

http://www.silcom.com/~neilv/rx7/roebling-rx7-nov05.mov

Enjoy,

:-) neil
Old 11-21-05, 11:45 AM
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Looks like a lot of fun! Hopefully I get to some lapping days next summer!
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That's cool as hell! I hope some day I can get my car out on the track. looks like fun!!
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I messed up my front main bearing at thier Sept event at roebling road. A bunch of good guys there. Although I wasnt very impressed with the track layout. It was just kind of boring to me. There wasn't enough braking or tight corners for me.
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Roebling Road is a great track to learn on; most of the runoff areas are just sand and grass. At least that's the way it was 20 years ago.
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I've always liked the track, used to be one the Skip Barber school ran at in the winter series, I like that it has a slight elevation change on the backside of the track. I can't imagine my car being any less fun than it was in the formula fords. Glad you had fun Neil.
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Hey guys I just posted a video on the 3rd gen forum of a test and tune day I ran at in Denver, CO. earlier this month. The track was Second creek raceway about 1.7 miles. One of the videos is split screen against a 01' Ford SVT Cobra and I ran over a second faster and he ahs much more done to his car than I have done to mine. Hopefully the video streams well it was alittle slow on my computer but my computer sucks!!
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awesome, did you notice a stiffness improvement with the tripoint bar?
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Originally Posted by jacobcartmill
awesome, did you notice a stiffness improvement with the tripoint bar?
Yes. I have their "medium" bar and it produces very slight understeer when coupled with the STOCK rear bar. The rear can still easily be provoked by lifting on the throttle.

:-) neil
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