Track Day

[-The Stig-]

So last weekend was a Track day for all us Pro-Touring.com/Lateral-G.com

Normally this type of event is held on the East coast and known as Run to the Hill (RTTH). But we got an event put together for us West coasties, and it was known as Run to the Coast held at the old El Toro Marine base.


RTTC was a fun event, it consisted of Three driving events that tested your skillz behind the wheel.

A 2.2 mile road course - FUN & FAST


A nicely laid out Autox course - First half was a bit tight like mid 2nd gear, last half was fast, top of 2nd gear... very drifty too.


A Speed-Stop challenge. The speed-stop challenge was sponsored by Baer Brakes, the goal there was to go from a standing start... go as fast as your vehicle will go in a given distance and try to stop in a 45ft box. The run was timed from start to stop... lowest time won. Much more difficult than you'd expect.

There were a lot of nicely modified cars out there, a lot of them were 500-600+hp. But to qualify for points, all cars had to be running 200 Tread wear or higher tires, no Super sticky R compounds like some of the guys ran. If they had a stickier tire, they were in Exhibition class only and only there for the fun of it.

I slapped on Sumitomo HRTZ-III's 255's on each corner... 300tw. Cheap tire, handles decently... verrry linear grip. You can feel it gripppppppptheennnstarttoooslideee... Very predictable. And they're a Traction AA tire, so... not bad.


The Black Nova is my buddies car... which, used to be my OLD Nova from back in the day... for those of you who have been here for a while might remember it. He spun out on the big course after he accidentally induced braking over steer going into a chicane. weee!

The Carerra GT was the Dad of the guy who runs the race school where we were running at... he did a few Exhibition laps in his car... sounded swweeeett.


Here are some pics.... taken from two different cameras/photographers so they're not in order as the day goes... sorry.

[-The Stig-]

More pics of other peeps can be seen here:
http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67087

More of my pics here:
http://s207.photobucket.com/albums/b...010/?start=all

[VR43000GT]

NICE! Looks like a great time! Looks like it's time for a suspension upgrade though. I need suspension too.

[-The Stig-]

I have a BMR Front strut brace installed, and I have some BMR subframe connectors... didn't have time to get them installed before the event. Just need to get around to putting those on, then some lowering springs to even the car out... bring the rear down.

I don't think I'll do too much to it after that...

Just wanted it to look a bit better, drive a bit nicer... make it a bit more power. It's pretty much there...

Now I just need to concentrate my energies on the '71 Camaro... that'll be the streetable race car.

[TorchedStealth]

Looks like a lot of fun! I actually like your wheels a lot, I know you have caught some shit for them lol. I agree with Alex, time for some suspension!

[CassiesMan]

I'm actually going down the short list on wheels, and those are close to the top. But I'd pick 'em up, have 'em blasted and PC'd dark gold, then dig through our back office here at work and see ifn I could find some Volk stickers. Toss them on and have them cleared over. 90% of the ricers around here wouldn't know the difference anyways.

It always makes me chuckle seeing those old muscle cars go around those tracks. Don't get me wrong, I know they can handle, but I never think of them running like that.

[-The Stig-]

A lot of these cars have more money thrown into their motor/suspension packages than the Haiti relief effort.

Although, one of the fastest cars out there is still a leaf sprung '73 Camaro with a 383 crate motor and 5-speed. lawls. In fact, it won the Autocross competition.