So no 59 for me today. A lot more people at the track since it was saturday. Traffic and a bunch of people that absolutely should not have been in the advanced group, I never got a clean lap. I did have one lap where the catalyst was showing me +1.5 sec gain on my best, which would have put me in the mid 59's but I caught up to a slow *** old civic in the last corner which ruined my lap.

I did have fun playing with a 992 GT3 cutting through traffic today, so there is that...

 

At my last track day, I let off to do a cool down lap and got passed by a GT3 and C8. I decided to chase them instead I had to peddle the car a bunch to keep from getting too close (they would NOT give me a point by). I kept up pretty decent on the front straight but was much faster the rest of the way. Evo > GT3 and C8 apparently

 

So.....MCS is telling me to go through Vorshlag for springs rates and valving on their coilovers.

 

They didn't mention Racewerks? I also have a supra track buddy that used AR-Motorsports for his MCS and recommends them: https://www.ar-motorsports.com/toyot...-product-wbl43

 

Didn't mean to edit your post. Edit is right next to quote and I have clumsy fingers. .

So: Nope. They even went so far as to CC Vorshlag in the email.

 

Got it. You can use whoever you want, if they sell MCS, they are a distributor with all the same access Vorshlag has.

 

Yep. I was just concerned by the above post re actually having to deal with them. So when MCS sent me their way I was like "greeeeat"
I'll definitely be looking elsewhere. I saved the links above.

 

@razorlab i see what you are saying about the Supra forums. Apparently the Supra is God's gift to the automotive world.

 

I find it pretty annoying that any sizable organized time trials (e.g., Gridlife, SCCA TT, NASA, etc.) are full of competitors with seemingly unlimited funds. I think the pockets are deeper for the frontrunners in TT than most of the w2w crowd actually. I know that you have to "pay to play," but for me that means not playing. Seeing the G&G cars with corporate sponsorship is like salt in the wound to me. I miss the old days when you could be competitive by just being a good driver and having less than $20k in mods. Most of the fast guys around me are easily spending $25-50k a year or more on their car mods and racing budgets.

 

I'm guessing that the new savagegeese video (comparing to the new Z) is probably not playing well in that circle.

 

it would be so fun to do a series of some sort but yeah.... You gotta have deep pockets. Bummer.

Every person there: "How can the Z have better feel when the Supra wins in every category??!!".

 

That whole savagegeese thread is something else...

 

How are you guys keeping your cars in manual mode during track sessions?
I can't think of a way to keep the stick over without semi-permanently attaching something to the interior of the car.

 

I haven't had an issue with it popping out.... aren't you still on stock tires too? Good 200tw tires make it stick way better too.

 

I am. On hard L handers (I'm thinking it was turn 6 - I was at Laguna Seca) the shifter is going back to AT mode. I'm currently working on a way to tie it over so I don't have to keep checking on it. Though, I don't remember many tracks having many turns like that one.