SoCal Roadcourse?

[ReDevilXR7]

I want to see what these babies can do an a road course. Are there any in the SoCal area?



Jesse

[RonzSC]

You're kidding right?
Willow Springs is about the closest course out in Rosemond. If you look in the LA Times under the various car clubs you will find the various venues for that weekend. I thought I had a hot Porsche and took it to the Autocross at the Rose Bowl. I saw those guys running the whole course in first gear and said "No Way".
After some springs, shocks, new end links and bigger sway bars...a bunch of lightening of the 4,000 pounds of ballast...bigger brakes, tires, tranny cooler and engine oil cooler....MAYBE.
Good luck.

[ReDevilXR7]

I've got a 200k mile car that requires a TOTAL restoration, as far as I'm concerned, so I'm not gonna be one of those chumps getting all the poly bushings, engine mods, brake upgrades and then just show the car. I'm gonna see what all that money I blew can do!! lol

I just wanna know the limits of the MN12

Mind you I'm not gonna campaign the car. It's too rare to pull apart for that...plus a turbocoupe is lighter and more adept for that kind of racing.

J3

[RonzSC]

n/m

[hwycoper]

Too bad bad you didn't up this way, ThunderHill in Willows has a pretty nice road course. They offer an all day class to teach you how to drive your car on a road course. I plan on doing it sometime next year once I get things figured out with my car.
Mark

[Ripvanbl]

Mark,

If you are serious about doing that at Willows, my friend and I are thinking about doing it also. Maybe we could get a group together to do it.

[fast Ed]

Hey guys, Ed from Toronto here just cruizin' your board. Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth on this topic. Before my SC, I had an 87 LX 5.0 Mustang track car that ended up pretty much as a 93 Cobra R clone, big brakes, stiff suspension, plus a 347 stroker. I did about 7 years of Solo I, regional amateur raod racing, and a bit of pro. endurance stuff. So anyway, I've done a bit of open-track stuff with my SC, mostly while instructing at some local tracks here, and also at Watkins Glen. I'll just say that for a 2-ton whale, an SC gets around a road course not too shabbily !! I haven't been out this year with my Cobra brake upgrade, previously when I ran the car I had the following: 95 5-speed, Tokico Illumina 2s, Eibachs, Mark 8 front brake conversion, 3.27 gears, a cat-back exhaust, and an intercooler fan. It was quite pleasant to drive, not the absolute fastest thing on the track obviously, but by no means a slug. For comparison, it was only about 5 or 6 mph slower into the braking zone for the "bus stop" chicane on the back straight at Watkins Glen vs. a stock 1998 SVT Mustang we had down there that time. As one of my racing buddies put it after he drove the car there "I can only describe it as a gentleman", meaning that it displayed no surprises, turned in smoothly and cornered nicely all the time, not much understeer, only oversteers on slow corners if you give it too much throttle on the way out. I even tried it with some Hoosier road-race radials I had schlepped from one of the Motorola Cup Mustang teams, those were fun !!

Anyway, I'll stop babbling now. BTW, for those of you with the frozen preconceptions of Canada, it was about 93 degrees here today in Toronto !! If anybody is seriously considering doing some open-track stuff with their SC, please e-mail or p.m. me, and I'll be happy to offer any tips I can as far as tire pressures, suspension settings, etc.

Yes, I know I'm a long-winded blowhard !! :D

cheers
Ed Nicholson
SCCoO

[35th SC]

Ed,
Thanks for the input. I too was thinking about trying my hand at road racing.

Mike