Tom W

Mike: My clutch blew up at the last race last year. My car should get back together with the new clutch and a few other tweaks by Thursday so I can race. It will be interesting as I've converted to a manual steering rack and as a bonus the weight difference is enough to offset the added weight from the air jacks.

earlyapex

Real racers don't use power steering!

mooty

air jax. now you got a REAL race car.
eric, when will you get air jax like tom and behram

JerryW

Dammit - I want air jacks on my 944 but it would double the value of the car just installing them!

jrgordonsenior

So did anyone hear about sound?....

winders

According to the Laguna Seca events calendar, the sound limit is "103DBA".

http://www.mazdaraceway.com/calendar/2012-04

Scott

earlyapex

Mooty,
April is a very difficult month to find time to race or anything else outside of work and family. Justin's birthday and spring break make for a very tight schedule. I am working the SCCA weekend so I'll have to be happy dropping by to say hi to the racers. There are no short term plans on doing anything to my car! It would be like opening the piggy bank. I'm saving my money for track time! The car will get retouched someday but the list so far is very expensive.

jrgordonsenior

103 db was confirmed by SCCA-SFR....

To date there are 41 cars signed up including 8 in GT3R. I think 8 cars from So Cal are heading up just for the opportunity to run 103 instead of our normal 92 db with POC. Can't wait to see if I'm faster with less restriction/muffler.....

winders

Isn't your car louder than 103 db? Or is that the guys with the Cup cars?

Scott

mark kibort

Perfect! its been a long tme since the PCA or the Porsche guys ran with us out there. its an awesome weekend with the porsche guys. I think the last time we might have run with the pirelli cup guys too.

you going to come up JR?

Mark

mark kibort

the question is what run group all the porsche guys will run with , or will the have their own group?
I cant remember what we did last time. I think they ran with us, but it might have only been the contingency of guys from the porsche NW group. that was a fun weekend.

jrgordonsenior

Yep I was 107 at T-hill but with 90 degree elbows and Supertraps I'll be good to go. For 92 db I have to go with stock exhaust at 75 lbs. I think OEM cups can make 103....

Scott you should come out and play....


Mark with 50 cars I'm pretty sure PCA has it's own run group.....

winders

I would love to...but after building the race car, which went way over budget (so what else is new?), money has been real tight and the job situation has been on life support. I'll certainly come down and watch. We should plan on meeting up at some point.

I am heading up to Thunderhill for April 7 and 8 with NCRC. I probably won't race until later in the year and that will be with the PRC.

Scott

mark kibort

I think we had 60+ cars in the combined run group that one special weekend. so i dont think you will get a separate run group, unless two of the SCCA groups are combined or elimintated. I think that did happened one time before, so we will see. If PCA shows up with 50 cars, they probalby will get their own group. I might have to run with them, if they do.

fleadh

PCA has their own run group.

I've signed up for both SCCA (PC) and PCA (GTC5) un groups to get more track time. Should be a fun weekend.. hopefully car doesn't take to long to setup on Michelins. Never ran them on the 2011.

-mike