I'll be there but i'll be driving my hooptie 2G ITS racecar.

I'm just about ready to start "stacking" my motor. All parts are now prepped for assembly...with quite a few new internal performance mods

Crispy
- sorry for the hi-jack but I just had to jump in and join the fun

 

I LOVE those Cup Cars. Can our FD's be setup to handle as well ?

At the last PCA event, two Porsche Cup Cars where just going like a "bat out of hell" through the corners . . .

:-) neil

 

The Cup cars are fabulous... I've got video where I'm all over one for a lap and a half because he won't let me by, but when I saw tham run by Fritz in the instructor group, you know the guy I'm following has an invisible battlship anchor tied to him.

Crispy's IC (thanks man!) saved my bacon for this event... no way I could've run more than 2-3 laps in that heat w/ the little Farrel. I'd say it's worth about 5-10C in street conditions, and 10-20C on the track. Looks nice too.

 

Please post or link your video!

I'd love to see pics of your IC as well!

:-) neil

 

Pete,
Vid of me following you for a lap is up

DAMN your car is strong and the nut behind the wheel is tight as well

 

The two well driven cup cars were running 2.03s and it was pretty dern hot out.

The handling isn't the problem but if my car had MORE POWER, TORQUE, BETTER GEARING and some SLICKS it would do just fine against a cup car

 

Fritz have you ever considered possibly organizing your video folder into sub-folders for each event or perhaps using a timestamp at the beginning of the filename in order to make finding videos easier? Oh and a link to the stated videos wouldn't hurt either

http://fritz.sysadmin-racing.com/PCA...01st%20Day.mpg

 

I'll work on that asap

Thanks for the putting up the link

 

^^^

For whatever reason, none of your new videos will play for me... on PC or MAC, in the browser or downloaded. :-(

 

For me it uploads on windows media no problem but takes a LONG time

 

It seems like it's just a standard MPEG1 format. I played it fine using VLC. If you haven't already, try it out, it's pretty much the ultimate media player for any platform:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Also, another suggestion for Fritz -- perhaps encoding your videos in a more modern format such as DivX (http://www.divx.com/) would help alleviate the huge file size problem significantly while retaining high quality.

 

^^^

I'd tried Safari, Explorer, Windows Media Player, Quicktime player, and iTunes on MAC, and Windows media on PC and all either say they can't open or it's an invalid file format... whereas everything you've done before this weekend opens in fine.



AAHHHH!

VLC hooked it up. Hey, It looks like I might actually be turning in too late in some places.

 

Pete,
Remember this was day 1 and you were looking much better when I was following you on Sunday. I'm still pissed about messing up on the recording.

T 3 your turning too late out of two and driving back out toward 3. T 4 you're not carrying enough speed in and using enough slip (so brake a little later carry more speed and turn sooner letting the cars slip do most of the turning), through the esses your getting in nice and late but not straightening them out enough once you get in, t10 you're going a little late (turn sooner and skate across the gators), t11/oak tree carry a lot more speed in and use some slip just like t4 only a bit more. I appear to turn early but I'm also using some huge slip angles especially at speed. Remember I've been around this track 100s of times.

 

Thanks to you Mr Flynn I take oak tree like a bat out of hell. I made my last PCA instructor sick. I told him I was aiming for the corner worker- you know what, thanks to Fritz I know that track

This month I need to make a trip to see your family, been a while. Plus, I miss c-ville.

 

I love it......

Come on down, you can see the dynasplint hurricane that hit the house, we can do some wrenching or something and Erin can catch you in the shower again

 

TMI

:-) neil

 

is there any program that could be used to convert these videos into files that could be played on a video ipod? That would sure make waiting in between classes much easier

nice videos!

 

Just out of curiousity, I looked up what those Cup cars run when in the hands of the pros. The Grand Am qualifying time was a 1:55 and change. 7-odd sec quicker than the fastest one at our event!

 

Those GT3s are awesome

I did hear the engines need a rebuild every 50 hours at 30k to 40k a pop though so you definitely have to pay to play in those puppies.

 

*Cough* LS1 *Cough*

I only live 45 minutes away and I've never been to VIR... I want to go soon. What is the next event I can attend? I'll be a beginner. Anyone hook me up with a lesson?

I'll either be in a 220 whp E36 M3 or a 375-425 whp FD. I think I'm about to pick up a GR63 FD and get rid of the M, but I'm not sure. If I do, the FD might have a cammed LS1 by time I hit VIR.

 

The GT3 engine doesn't need a top end rebuild like the Cup cars. I've heard the cost is closer to 25k for a top end re-fresh. OUCH.

See you Friday Fritz!

Crispy, I'll drop by and say hi Saturday

 

I think an LS1 would take alot of the fun out of it.

There's nothing better for my money than hounding a big-bore car for a lap, getting the point-by, go honking on by with something that sounds like a superbike motor and spitting a big ball of flame at them on the upshift... and then having them stop by your pit afterwards to stare into the engine compartment trying to figure out WTF.

 

The current Porsche Cup car is based upon an "all-new" 997 GT3 and was introduced in 2005 (http://www.pistonheads.com/porsche/d...storyId=10540).

The previous Porsche Cup car (1998-2004) was based upon the 996 GT3 (http://www.cupcar.net/cs.asp)

So are you saying that the current 997 GT3 engine doesn't need a top-end rebuild compared to what year Cup car ?

:-) neil

 

^^^^^

I think he was talking about "GT3" (the road car) vs. "GT3 Cup" (the factory-produced racecar) irrespective of model year.

 

Dang, wish I was there with you guys!!!

Andy and I plan on coming out to VIR with Audi club again in November, if we have anything left from the NASA Midwest race season ;-)