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HELP!!! Buttonwillow Friday morning

Old May 13, 2005 | 12:55 AM
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HELP!!! Buttonwillow Friday morning

I'm going to an open test day at Buttonwillow tomorow. I was supposed to get some brakes from a friend today but it didn't happen so..... I've got some year old brakes on the car Anyone going to be at or around Button on Friday. I know it's a long shot.
I hope I don't slam into the wall too fast.
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Old May 13, 2005 | 01:29 AM
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are you looking for brakes...? or... what kind of help are you looking for?
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Old May 13, 2005 | 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Donovan
I hope I don't slam into the wall too fast.
If you hit a wall at Buttonwillow, it wasn't your brakes' fault...

Seriously man, it's pretty hard to tell exactly what you need from your post -- new calipers, new rotors, new pads, what?
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Old May 13, 2005 | 08:00 AM
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Crap, I posted this in a hurry last night and, sorry it really does make no sence
I was looking for some brake pads. I was supposed to get some new ones yesterday but it didn't work out.
I'll try to proof read my posts better... for sos I are make more better sence.
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Old May 13, 2005 | 04:04 PM
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so did everything work out in the end?
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Old May 13, 2005 | 04:38 PM
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Buttonwillow only has one wall. It takes talent to hit that wall.
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Old May 13, 2005 | 11:14 PM
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Hey, Actually I was fine in the pads I had. I've never been to this track before today and in fact ... there are no walls There is however some dirt..... that I found a few times.

There is actually a race shop at the track called 7s only with plenty of RX7 stuff and a bunch of RX race cars. Pretty cool.
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Old May 14, 2005 | 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Donovan
Hey, Actually I was fine in the pads I had. I've never been to this track before today and in fact ... there are no walls There is however some dirt..... that I found a few times.

There is actually a race shop at the track called 7s only with plenty of RX7 stuff and a bunch of RX race cars. Pretty cool.
Oh yes, there is definitely a wall....and I've seen people hit it.

Yeah, I was going to tell you that there is the Sevens Only shop there.
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Old May 14, 2005 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by rynberg
Oh yes, there is definitely a wall....and I've seen people hit it.

Yeah, I was going to tell you that there is the Sevens Only shop there.
It would really be hard to hit the wall I was looking at, perhaps it was the configuration. I did get to go 4X4ing once and I lost half of my front '99 air dam, so if anybody sees one out there pick it up I've also found that a bigheaded 3rd gen driver (me) is no match for a race preped 1st gen with a good driver I got passed so bad I was running with my friend who does the VARA race with his '72 porsche and I was up against all race real race cars so it was pretty hard to keep up with anything realy.
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Old May 17, 2005 | 04:29 PM
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^^ How did you run against your Porsche friend?? Were you passing any others?? If so what other kind of cars???What else was out there??
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