I roll the window down to listen to the whistle anytime I see one first in line at a red light. >50% of the time, they will be getting on it when they leave the red light. They sound great.

There's a  guy that drives his out here to the rigs in the Permian. No way could I do that to a car.

@pasquale91

LOL! The black one (ATS V)? Might be my son, he drives this one out there quite a bit. He drove my beater (truck) out there this hitch so I'm babysitting

I know he's not the only one though, I have a friend that drives a black CTS V out there too and I'm sure they're many others

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I took my girl out this weekend

Finally finished my ‘31 Vicky a couple of weeks ago. Real estate projects have kept me, and continue to keep me, busy for the last 18 months, so I’ve had little time for my cars. Other than buying more of them . In my defense I have sold four of my cars in the last couple of years.

I had been wanting a Vicky for some time, but it took a while to find one I could work with.

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Nice Vicky. Still got the panel trucks too?

Sold the ‘51, a few weeks ago, to a guy who lives in the east SF Bay Area. This was the day he picked it up.

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That thing is cool AF, details please!

Picked myself up a new work car. Closest thing I’ve ever had to a luxury vehicle, awd, rides nice and fairly cheap. I couldn’t be happier Attached File

DF Kit Car Goblin home build. Donor was a supercharged 2006 Chevy Cobalt SS. Car weighs 1,610 with driver. GM 2.0L LSJ, 5 speed manual with F35 LSD transmission. Winter project is the installation of a Harrop TVS 1320 supercharger, fueling mods, and time on the dyno for additional tuning. Goal is to get to 300whp. The cars are unstable around 110 mph without front aero so that might be one of the next steps. Potential of getting into local autocross but for now a fair weather cars and coffee, car shows, weekend driver.

All of them, rednecker than you!!!!!



We were having the back compound paved, so everything had to be out front.  Two are inside the garage.



It was a two day pour.





I sold the orange one.  Green one is currently for sale. Silver one will get Holley Sniper any day, kit is laid out on my pool table.

I may have duped myself.  Don't even care.

man I want one.  Details on the build?

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Met the buds for a brewski or 2.  Christmas colors

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VERY cool, well done!

The one on the right under the cover looks like a 56 F100.

Or is it one of your older trucks covered up?

So out of curiosity, what are you guys with multiple cars doing for insurance? I have no at faults and no tickets, between my wife and I 5 cars and its a decent car payment just to insure. I know Pennsylvania tends to be higher costs as far as car insurance but it's still a bit ridiculous.

I use State Farm for combining my home and daily drivers. Then Grundy for my classics.

Damn. I got rid of State Farm because it was up to almost 800 for the cars

I ended up running all mine (5 - $350Kish) through Country. I couldn’t do Haggerty or classic because our cars are newer, and we drive them all more than once a month. I have all my liabilities up there so I’m covered if I tag a Ferrari, uninsured, towing, etc….and I’m around $500-$600 month between my wife and I. I have 1 speeding ticket I think. Seems expensive to me, but I dunno, haven’t shopped around, so tag for replies

Never heard of country before, I'll look at them, thanks.

Turns out htey're not in PA

I have a long commute to work, so I got a grandpa highway car. 2021 ES350 CPO with less than 8000 miles.

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Extremely comfortable ride - I’ve had them for loaners when our Lexus’s are in for service. Congrats!

Yup, Ive driven it 1000 miles in the last 10 days or so, and its simply a wonderful highway car.

But man, the CPO Lexus program is great, especially since I will put 25k a year on this car.

Oh, and its full front PPF and tint, from the same place I had my Hellcat done. Thats $2k right there in value.

Those things are insanely comfy. Lexus does that very well.

50ish degree day here on the left coast.  Good day for a beer run with a buddy

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As of tinight I no longer have a stock hood in the group.   Cut wrapped and installed track vents in a spare hpod for my 2015.   Stock hood got stored.

Took about 2 hours with friend to stetch the vinyl and get the wrinkles out.   Would SUCK to do by myself.












Reason for mods to the hood.

@uglygun
I don’t want to critique your driving unless wanted, but I can see a few lines where you can make up time….…you’re as fast as that 350/370Z in the beginning, just have to have confidence in the car at higher speeds- straights and brake a little earlier on a few turns. Turning in a tad earlier will give you a lot more speed on some straights and cut time - especially the turn right before the long straight, at the 4:56 mark…(braked way too late a few of the laps)…brake earlier, turn earlier, gas out earlier and you’ll gain a lot of speed on that straight - which being the longest straight will pay off. The 6:42 corner, if you stay far left - later.., and cut in later, you’ll be even faster through the S’s with more speed…you’re not scared of curbs, which is good - the Mustang eats curbs and you can build even more time through those.
Keep up the good work! You may remember, but my track S550 took a lot of work….your hood mods are exactly what that car needs! The S550’s need to dump as much heat out of the engine compartment as possible. You may have to even cut front fender vents.
As your vids show - the S550 (are you PP1/PP2?) has the braking capability to keep up with almost anything…brakes are awesome…I’d catch many superior cars in high braking zones….just make sure your fluid is race, and pads are race…to avoid fade and keep the confidence. Camber in the S550 helps a shit ton as well, I’d guess you’re running plates? S550 at -2.75 front is no problem for light-street/track…heavy front end needs camber.

I still have a boat load of S550 parts - and I’d offload them to an ARF member at a hell of a deal. I still have a brand new set of GoodYear SuperCar3 285/35/19 X 4…along with brand new Ford pads, and race/track pads, rotors, etc… - almost brand new….if interested, let me know!!
Nice work on getting out there and busting some laps!!!

Also, what suspension are you on? Are you running track specific springs or coil overs? If not, check out Steeda track springs…they shaved 1.5-2 seconds off a 1:30 track for me.

Something to consider.

I only have 12 sessions under my belt in total.   4 of those were in "beginner" grouping where I had to fight for point bys and had very few laps at speed.

Also, first two days on the track I was on 255/275 300tw tires.   The footage in the video was my 2nd day of weekend and I switched to my 305 square setup.  Video is of my 3rd session ever on the 305s that day which were 300tw tires as well.

They took every bit of 3-4 laps to warm up compared to the 200tw guys that warmed up by 2 laps.   The 200tw guys fall off around lap 4 or 5 and I start to hunt them down.

Lastly, I learned that as I got tired I would start to brake too early and turn in too early, the track rewards late braking from everything I have seen.

Did 9 sessions that weekend for around 180 miles.  I was sore for 2 days after the weekend, accelerometer in car showed 1.25g while data logger showed possibly 1.3g.

Mods on the car include vorschlag front camber plates, doing a bushing delete from the rear suspension and cradle lockout to goto sphericals, and steeda 2 piece rotors on all 4 corners with stainless lines and Glok pads.

I knew the car bad rear end problems just from street driving, BMR spherical toe link with FPR bushing, SPR camber arm, BMR poly vertical links.

Camber set to -3 deg and rear camber set to -1.8.

Motion control coil overs with whiteline sways coming after I pay off damage to credit card.   Probably do sway bars between fkrst weekend of march and last weekend of march then judge tire wear/camber settings.   Also will be doing a rear diff cooler, likely MMR with billet cover.   3 pints of gear oil is a fucking joke.

Since I am in Ca I will likely be doing the Ford Power Pack 3 with GT350 intake since it is Ca legal.   More RPM to stretch out to 7k.

Considering I am on stock springs/shocks/sways I feel I have done pretty well with limited time on track.  

200tw tires will happen but not yet.   When I goto 200tw I am going to 305/30 from 305/35 to bump the RPM higher and let me use more of 5th gear, there are three sections of track where I am between gears.

I have a 2:02 in me with these tires but I need to brake a lot later than my tired ass was doing in the video and have 2 to 3 corners I need to do change my line on a little bit.

May hit you up on pads depending in what they are.   I an like R12 front R10 rear.


Have 2 weekends in March I am going back.   Car is a 2015 and had 17500 miles on it as of first track day Jan 7th.


My 66 is being built for the track but I have kinda stalled out on wanting to send it to bodywork.   Getting the 15 out will atleast let me learn the track and hopefully give me a good spot when starting with the 66 which will be much more raw.

Hood looks great and the track looks like a blast!

Excellent! You’re on a the perfect road to success!
I skipped the first lap of the vid cause cold tires.
200TW tires shouldn’t fall off that quick. The GY SC3’s are 200TW and the reason they kick ultimate ass is because they are consistent for 15-20min straight. My 911S is on 80TW GY SuperSportR’s can hold for 30 minutes of abuse.
For such limited track time you’re doing awesome.
You’ve done your homework and the car sounds like it’s setup well, I also had those Steeda 2-pc with Glocs, and that is indeed the setup. I was running Steeda sways as well…once you get dialed on coils and sways you’ll feel a lot more confident. It will be a game changer.
R8 and R12 is what I found for the best combo. I ran R10’s F/R as well.  GS-1’s for street so you keep similar compound on the rotors.

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Likely leaving track pads on for the street.

I dont drive it much, maybe 2-3k miles a year tops.

Gonna pull pads before next track day to see how they are holding up.   3 days and roughly 220-240 miles on them with maybe another 200 street miles.

Everything I did in round one was attacking rotating and unsprung mass and uncontrolled motion.   Attacking rear hubs to install ARP studs made it no brainer  to vet sphericals every place I could while also locking out cradle.

Lotta surprised faces out there from instructors to regulars.   A dude out there with a S550 GT500 running sub 1:55 was similarly surprised at my time drops.

Personally I'm really digging that SN95 Cobra

Will start teching the car this weekend as I prep for first Sat/Sun of March.

This week I added a wicker for the hood vent to help suck air out of the hood.





Also ordered Whiteline adjustable sways tonight so good chance they will come in by this Friday since they are in Ontario.

Will set fronts to medium and rears to soft.   MMR rear sway bracket relocator also enroute to place it in a better spot for future coil overs.

Just got blessing to join crew I want to track with in April for a 25 count no session/open tracking day.    Will be on 200tw tires for that.  Either Falken RT660s 305/30-19 or the new Continental 295/30-19, likely ginna do the Falkens.

Daily is a Ford Fusion. Maybe 100 miles a week. Working from home 3 of 5 days saves a ton on fuel, even at 35 MPG. If I could get closer to an outlet the hybrid's mileage would be better (weekender under a cover is in the way). I might look for a heavy duty extension cord.

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Weekender / Car Clubber is a Shelby GT500. Maybe 150 miles a month, fuel paid for with the savings above at 15 MPG, if I stay out of the go fast pedal, but why then? I will put more than 1200 miles on it in April going to Vegas for the Shelby Bash. She came into my life on Halloween 2023.

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Tons of beauty in the thread guys, keep it up!

Same. Its always been one of my favorites.

Cut another second off my time from last outting.

First session out today I did multiple back to back 2:04s which is a full second faster than where I was last time.   I attribute change to running new sway bars letting me stay flatter.

Rained 2nd session so that was a literal wash.   I upped my tire pressure by 1 PSI on all 4 tires and fought to do better than a 2:07 for my 3rd session.   Removed the 1 PSI and went right back to seeing a 2:05 again.

Added more negative camber to the rear going from -1.7 to now running -2.3.    Will see how she runs when I go back tomorrow.

I am guessing when I throw an actual track day tire on I will be shedding 3-4 seconds again.   Want to see a 2:03 before I switch to RT660s.

Threw my dad in the car on Sunday for 2 different sessions.

Managed a 2:06 with him in the car.   Saw a couple more 2:04s and 2:05s.   As day went on and track warmed up I really had to fight for them.

Roughly 180 miles in track this last weekend.   Got a few spots I am sore, same for 74 year old dad.