I want to get into road racing mine. Got a few hundred drag passes and a few years of autocross on mine but I want to start doing road courses. Sebring is only an hour and a half away from me and I would love to start getting into HPDE out there. I don't give a single F about the value of mine since I'll NEVER get rid of it. It'll eventually get to the point that it becomes a caged race car but I do want to be able to daily it for a few more years before that happens. Pulling the stock block out for a 2.2 4G64 and will likely build the 4G63 into an all out race engine. And then build another 4G64 as well.

 

yes, for me here in California is so hard, just to keep the car on public road, always go extra miles and extra money for smog. And unwanted attention “cop”, just spent almost $1500 stock ecu from dealer for smog.
with that said I appreciate what you do there Dallas J keep this car competitive and fun. Once I got everything sorted out with car. I will hit you up with some parts

 

depends on the height of the car. Their ad says it goes up 48". Doesn't seem that high, but maybe. Measure your car from rail to roof, then you will know if it fits. My car fits *perfectly* between my rafters. Pure luck. I couldn't have planned it any better.

 

You put a flow controller exhaust on them so they dont come smashing down. That sorta instant retract is only used for pit stops. Besides you can control how quickly it exhausts via the release valve anyway if you lift it slowly. And when they extend the speed is all based on how much pressure you give it. we set our bottles and regs up so its only just enough to bring the car up nice and smoothly. In a pit stop for example youd use double the pressure so its almost instant but this isnt good for the life of your jacks and you only do fast retract and extend during a race pit stop

 

Welp.... here we go. Let the 2021 project begin.

 

I've been warming up to those. I'm curious that you stated it handles as well or better than an Evo. I had heard of lots of weird handling quirks with them. Have they fixed all that or was it just internet BS?

 

Eeeeeek. What the?

Congrats Sean!!!!

 

Congrats on the new car. A90 or 91? I'm curious whether you considered the M2C and why you decided on the Supra?

 

The 2020 models apparently had some weird handing issues. They are supposed to be solved for the 2021s. I have my first race in 2 weeks so ill report more then.

Don't worry Joe I still have the evo! But thanks.

A91. I got too good of a deal on it to consider the m2c. Big price difference.

 

What I like to remember is that the evo is a LOT more forgiving then pretty much anything else out there besides maybe a GTR or a p-car with all the controls turned on. Some of these people get S2k's and Miata's *cough* thinking it'll be "safer" or "cheaper" when in reality they're much more likely to spin due to any number of over/under corrections and it still carries the "Evo-mod-fantasy" and you end up spending the same on it. Then there's the whole YOLO deal lol.

My old home track. You can bairly see it buy my avatar has the Sebring bridge there in the background, back when I had Robi suspension, NT01's, and thats about it lol. Never underestimate the importance of a spare engine

 

I hear you, but, at least for me, I've got more track time in RWD than AWD. I think the newness of a car affects how forgiving it is more than the RWD vs AWD actually. If you've tracked a late model M car or even a gen6 Camaro, they are really really easy to drive and hard to spin on track unless you get it really wrong, even with traction control turned off. They are just really well balanced and predictable.

 

Hahaha yea, they very much are compared to other RWD cars. I used to want an Exige S so bad since I always went to lotus club track days in my Evo. Then I drove one on track and holy F that thing is twitchy as hell. I no longer wanted one. I would have def crashed or killed myself in one.

 

I am with you. 90% of my cars have been RWD so the Supra shouldnt be anything too crazy to get used to. But having come directly from the Evo, I can see many spins in my future. Freakin Evo just felt planted no matter what, can throw it in a turn at any speed and catch it no problem. I am just hoping the Supra isnt like an AP1, which I have a lot (mostly bad) of experience with.

That sounds more like a mid engine problem to me. Every mid engine car I have driven (with the exception of an older Boxster / it was an understeer machine) has been twitchy. My Bug gets scary at times with how fast the back end comes around. When it starts to go, there is no catching it.

 

yea mid engine, short wheel base and the front feels uber light.

However, the Porsche Cayman doesn't have this issue. You can drive those hard as hell.

 

I have not driven one of those yet but from the ones I have seen go around the track, I would agree with you, especially the 718s.