Winter mods

[erlrich]

Man, this is gonna be a busy winter for me...

wash the race car
charge the battery periodically
grease trailer bearings
wash the truck

let's see...nope, that about covers it

[JeffYoung]

That's what you get for driving a Japanese car Earl. Go British and you'd have some interesting, challenging, and all consuming work to do.

[Ron Earp]

Man, this is gonna be a busy winter for me...

wash the race car
charge the battery periodically
grease trailer bearings
wash the truck

let's see...nope, that about covers it

This is the way it needs to be!

[Ron Earp]

I am taking that pile of parts in my garage and finally combining them into something that resembles a race car. Lots of work, hope it pays off, and helping Ron and Jeff switch from carbs to fuel injection.

Funny how Jeff is switching from carbs to fuel injection but Ron and Jeffrey are also doing the same thing?

Get to work on that 260Z. No more track for you until you come towing that behind you.

[benspeed]

Ok - Haven't said much about my project because this will be a slow-go plan. I've been salivating over building an ITR Porsche. Bought a Boxster last year and ended up liking it so much I sold my Audi and have been driving the piss out of it on the street.

Just bought a 1992 Porsche 968. This car will crush the Boxster based on the seat of the pants estimate, but sometimes that doesn't get validated by the watch. Might have to do a little shootout with these two cars.

Talked to some folks on doing the cage and talked to even more people about the suspension setup. This one ain't for sissys - lotta dough gonna have to be spent. But I do think the 968 will be the class dominant car. For now I put the collector plates on it so it won't have to pass inspection and can drive it around with just about any mods I want short of a 103 db exhaust.

One thing I already have - two sets of control arms with bigger ball joint pins - not looking to get killed by this known problem. I'll rotate regularly and magnaflux to ID cracks.



(Keeping the 2nd Gen RX7 - one of the best race cars to own)

[SLUF]

The Boxter!!!!! You know you want too!

Just an observation from the cheap seats: I drove a student's relatively stock S at Gateway during an HPDE some time ago. It had Yok Neovas and some minor suspension upgrades. HOLY CRAP BATMAN!!!!!!! The car was incredibly balanced and easy to drive fast without any bad habits or tendencies. I was able to turn low 13s (unofficially of course!) with no problems. The current ITR track record here is high 11s so the potential is certainly available. I actually think this is the overdog for ITR. It would not be a cheap proposition by any means but, damn, this car is good!

[arpenn]

Well we are kind of new to all this, as we have only had our car for about 11 months now. We got the body work and paint done and it really turned out better than we expected. We have a list of items for this winter.

1. Remove interior tar mat
2. Re-Do part of the cage and add nascar door bars
3. Paint the interior and cage
4. Install Energy Suspension bushing kit
5. Install new rear springs and move the rear springs to the front
6. Install oil cooler and accusump system
7. New set of tires, probably go with Nitto's
8. Replace broken oil temp. gauge
9. Change the oil and filter
10. Clean the air filter
11. Corner Weight the car
12. Reset allignment

If we can get all this done by spring we will be doing really good. I'm sure I left out a few things also.

[924Guy]

I just got a new winter mod to work on!


Bwaahaahahaha!

[benspeed]

Hey Sluf - the Boxster does drive way nicer than the 968 but on a fast track - power will rule. But the Boxster will get you a faster corner exit. :-)

[SLUF]

The Boxter.........................Just do it!