I love those cars....serious

 

the sc400 or the hellaflush sc400?

you never see nice ones anymore. most are poorly maintained rat wagons.

 

Another challenger to the time attack game. These guys supposedly have an ex-F1 engineer helping them with their aero package.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYyuvw_rri4

 

Both...I think the guy who build these Hellaflush cars already know its not going to handle, nor go fast. WOuld I do it, no. Does it look good...yes, when done right

 

i gotta hear this, please share

 

I'd down ... for the shootout and the co-drive. Not sure how to quantify expenses, let me know your thoughts on that. Also, not sure ill make every event, but its possible.

its cool man, I thought of getting an rx-8 for a whole day. Of course that biatch had motons

 

true story. I have the bigger *****

 

Regarding the modern diesels. I am a big fan of the current VW TDI's. Contrary to popular belief, they are not prohibitively slow. The new 'clean diesel' cars make a ton of torque and a decent amount of HP when compared to older models. They are by no means fast, but they are more than capable for everyday driving. I really like the current Golf TDI. It will get 45mpg on the highway, and is very nicely put together. They look good and have a great interior, especially at the price point. The Golf is much more livable than a Prius, and won't have the potential for insanely expensive repairs when they get up there in miles. People routinely run TDI VW's for 250k+ miles.

I'm not as high on the A3 TDI. Not to say that it isn't a nice car, but I really don't care for the look of five doors. I like hatchbacks, but the five doors just don't look right to me. The other thing that doesn't make sense to me is spending that kind of cash on a diesel. Diesels are great if you drive 20k+ miles per year, and you would like go save money on fuel. Paying the Audi premium pretty much negates the fuel savings.

Unfortunately the new Jetta was a step backwards IMO. VW wanted to make a base model that was comparable in price to the Civic and Corolla. By doing so, they replaced the rear disk brakes with drums, got rid of independent rear suspension in favor of torsion bars and they really cheapened up the interior. Bad move, but at least the Jetta sport wagon is still the old design and they are available in TDI form.

If I was shopping for a new daily driver, I would definitely consider a Golf TDI.

 

There's nothing to hear. I just don't care enough to push for it. You guys sure make very valid reasons for wanting a street tire class, thats for sure.

 

My plant mananger here at work just got a new Golf TDI about 5 months ago. He looked at a few other cars and decided it was the way to go. He did say it makes no power what so ever until the turbo kits in, very noticeable lag. Other than that he loves it.

In the end it really doesn't matter to me either. It would be nice to race against guys that don't have the huge advantage of comp tires. In the end, I'm running SM no matter what.

 

Had an absolute blast on the way in today. Left the house around 4:25, a bunch of roads weren't even touched yet. It was fairly slippery, I held the longest "drift" I've ever done. Long up-hill left hander through a neighborhood right by my work, 3rd gear, half throttle. All smiles!

 

Grillo gets off on snow drifts. I get off on ******* shoveling. /sarcasm

 

we can work something out I'm sure.

Is there any truth to that, really? Not the ***** part, but being related?

weak. I thought you were going to come up with some theory as to why it isn't fair or something.

BS. you know you care. wasn't it you at the end of the season B!TCHING about how you came in 3rd (or 4th, I forget) to a bunch of slick tire cars. This levels the playing field and will help us all with driver deveolpment because there will be really close competition between all of us.

nice. I'm jealous as a mo fo.

 

Sorry to let you down Marc. hahahaha. It comes down to car prep, and if one of us is serious enough, we'd be prepping for a proper class, not promote a class around our mods. Like JR posted, it would not be acceptable for DOY (not that anyone is chasing it), nor is it Nationally observed, so what's the point.

 

in other news I've got a weird problem that I'm trying to diag... maybe someone has a clue.

I just recently fixed my air compressor so I went to boost leak test the car last night, but for some reason its not holding any boost. What's weird is that on the road it will boost fine. Logs show I'm getting about the same response as I did sans the s2 cams, so that would lead me to believe if I had a leak, which I believe I do, it's more than likely not that big. however when I go to pressurize the intake system it just bleeds off the air as fast as I'm putting it in... very weird.

with the wifey in the car she saw the boost gauge go to .1 bar and stay there. I had an issue like this several years ago and it turned out that I popped the VAC line off of the ERG valve. But when that happened the boost response was horrible and it was very obvious there was a leak in the system.

I'm going to try more pressure next time and see if that does the trick. maybe the leak is big enough that the 75-100psi I was putting in was able to excape quickly, but that wouldn't explain why the car boosts fine on the street. the other thing I'm thinking is that maybe the overlap of the cams is so great that ALL the valves are partially open, letting the air in and right back out.