Who says these were only built for driving a straight line?


(Taken this past weekend at the Salt Creek Sports Car Club event at Joliet Junior College, www.scscc.net)


Waiting for the go-ahead (notice the WRX Sti behind me):



Stock springs dip under throttle through turn 1:



Accelerating out of a turn lifts the front end:




I think everyone there got a treat:

1. Only 4700-lb vehicle, and only truck, to run the cones.

2. There was no mistaking I was running - I had the only vehicle where the supercharger whine was louder than the exhaust.

3. I got a little too aggressive coming out of a turn on my last run, and spun the truck entirely around. But I didn't knock over any cones!

 

Great pics! Looks like it was fun!

 

Awesome.. So what are you then, catch-all under stock-G?

 

you should have told me to join you, Looks like you coulda used a little black L backup

 

They put me in FS (big block muscle class) along with a Z28. Since it was only us, we got clumped at the end with the BS people for award purposes. This was my second auto-x, so I didn't do all that bad but my lines and accelleration control still need a lot of work.

I posted that I was going with ShelbyGuy on ChicagoSVT.com. I'll have to remember to pm you next time!

 

I would love to try that, just dont want to wear on my breaks......but I dont know if I would like the cones as much as those tracks that are built for x-cross .... still, I bet its a blast

 

Sweet pics

Anything done to your suspension to help you in thoes curves or were you racing it with the stock suspension?. And overall how well did you do?

 

The only suspension work I have done is 2" drop shackles in the back, and adjustible rear anti-sway bar endlinks to put the bar back into alignment.


Remembering that it was only my second auto-x event, I think I did pretty well. I think my best time was a 62.9 second run, which included one 2-second cone penalty. The Z28 was a second or two faster, and most of the (5 or 6) Vipers that showed up were running 55-ish. Those looked like pretty experienced drivers though. Then there were some Focuses and Civics that were running around 67-68-ish. Results aren't up yet, but I finished somewhere in the middle of the BS/FS class - with M3's, 350Z's, the Z28, and some other cars.

It's more about the driver than the car (at least within a class) and I know where I need to improve now.

Lots of fun though!

 

Nice man...isn't auto-x fun?

 

sup bro, If you ever wanna drop your truck more let me know. I'm gonna do a 3/4(or 5 if I wanna c-notch) soon. Maybe we could help each other out.

 

that is awesome.

i tried to do one around me with the porsche club of america and they would not let me do to "insurance reasons"

nice pics

 

Yehaw another truck racer. Im still in 2nd in the WTR SCCA street tire points standings. This year has been a blast. I love it when the come up laughing about racing a truck then I had them six second fast time. Im racing FS and have been alot of GTs, Cobras, Z28s, and T/As. However I have also been beat by some of them.

 

A guy I work with races his Porsche with the local chapter of that club. They stick mainly to road courses like Road America and Gingerman. He tells me the same thing - "you should come by and check us out, but I can't get you in to race, at least not in that truck - the tracks don't allow trucks" Arrogant BS. I can't wait to see him if I decide to join a non-brand specific club and show up to the road courses to wail on their precious porsches.

Sure. Again though, if I get a raise this year and can afford to start doing the work.

 

I competed much better in F-Stock then I do now in ESP.

The competition in ESP is ROUGH. hehe...my nemesis is a stage-2 ROUSH 'stang. He's like glue on the road. And my one friend with a 996 that shows up now and then is a tough one too.

--Dan

 

Nice pics! By the way yours dips I'm guessing you have a mainly stock suspension also. It also looks like you had the same problems - tire smoke behind you along the entire course! Maybe my differential is malfunctioning, but I swear I there was smoke coming from one of the two rear tires the entire time I was on the throttle.

Good times though!