Today was practice day. We got 10 runs in with about 60 cars in attendance.



I took out my Mini to get some practice with a FWD car and some Falken Azena's.

I am trying to get into a Mazda-Rev-It-Up mode.



I am taking my TII out tomarrow and blazing with the slicks. I basically try for FTD since there is never anyone in my class. After todays practice I saw 3 cars that will be a handful to beat. One is a Z-06 in SS driven by a multi-time national champ.



The other 2 cars are very interesting one is a 260Z with a 5.0 swap. The other is an F-body Camaro which is basically a Track car with 12" wide slicks and gobs of horsepower.



Some pics from today - I'll take more tomarrow.



This is the Camaro

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0328.sized.jpg



This is the 260Z

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0308.sized.jpg



260Z engine bay - notice the entire front end is tube frame. Car was resuraected from a head on collision - also notice the aluminum front mounting plate.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0307.sized.jpg



I thought this was a cool pic - 3 generations of RX-7's I could never locate the owner of the FD - He was there to watch the FB driver that just got this track car and was looking for a little practice.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0306.sized.jpg



This is PJ's TII conversion - pretty neat job for a guy on a tight budget.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0310.sized.jpg

Engine shot of PJ's car.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0311.sized.jpg



This is the Man! This is JR checking out PJ's car. Too many initials!! He is the guy that fabbed all the parts for my FD swap. I hope to get by his shop soon and take some pics of a FD GT3 car he has been building from scratch. Very talented fabicator I am lucky to have found him.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0312.sized.jpg



Another FC that was there. It was not running he was there watching his friends run. Its a n/a BTW - with a TII hood and other stuff.

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0323.sized.jpg



Last but not least - Mazdadrifters 10th -

http://www.jims5543.com/albums/May20...0324.sized.jpg

That's some nice duckting work on the TII conversion, or is that just a cover.



WHERE THE **** IS YOUR CAR? LOL

I am not sure if I have a pic of the mini or not. Lemme look.

all them pics is broken links, sonny

Hmmmm....



FIXED!!! Sorry I renamed the album after I linked it. I am a dumbass.

nice to see the rx7's represent

uhmm....260Z = japan only?

NICE PICS!!



The 240Z has nothing in that front end, cant say its front heavy anymore now can you!!!



But a rotary would still be better! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif

What's with the roof scoup on that blue FC? I don't think I like that.

Yea was wondering that too, sweet car though. Actually I guy that had a 280z rotary conversion that I used to work with is what got me into rotary's.

Those 10th AEs look damn sexy...nice car Mazdadrifter!



Ahem, GT3 FD? Go there now and take pics!!

That Datsun is cool. Good luck on Sunday.

Yahoo!!!! I took the Fastest time of the day! I even got the fastest PAX time of the day. As usual they left me in my class BP all by myself. So the guy in AP would not miss his 1st place trophy.



Get this - Mazdadrifter took 1st place in SM2 which is a very competative class. Then he was robbed. A mystery cone seems to have appeared out of no where and was added to his official time. Which was total BS. Now the funny part.



Mazdadrifter was in his 10th with a new suspension not dialed in at all and some heavy ass Victoracers on 16" BBS rims weighing 45lbs per corner. He never messed with his tire pressure at all either.



He took 2nd in his class by a tenth of a second after the cone penalty and he wasnt even trying.



Way to go Mazdadrifter!!!



The Z-06 with the National champ at the wheel didnt show but a couple of really fast cobras came. Out I was running 29.25-29.80 all day then one of the Cobras ran a 28.8xx and it looked like I was out of the FTD. BUT low and behold, I realized I was only boosting 8-10 PSI somehow I had set my AVCR to a gradual boost mode. I tweeked it out and got the boost back to 14 PSI and that was all I needed to get a 28.5xx and the FTD. That crushed the Cobra guy my friends said they saw him sneek over and look over my car after the runs while I was working.



He was running 12 wide rims w/ 12" wide hoosiers too and is about 500 lbs lighter than me so I was pretty stoked I took him.



The F-body got a best time of 29.7xx as well as some other vettes out there.



Sorry no vid and no pics it was a busy busy day. I am now a qualified safety stewart for future events as well I took the Safety Sterart class at lunch time when I would normally be snapping pics. I forgot my camcorder at home this morning too. Sorry!! :(

Both the 240Z and 260Z came to the USA, jsut not nearly as many as the 280z.

thanks for saying something jim, I kindof started to wonder if I was totally out of line with that whole argument. I'm going to take my camcoder and have our runs video'd next time.



Guess that's what I get for beating the event coordinator's butt budy https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif



The most aggrivating thing of it all is that I show up totally unprepared but wanting to have fun, didn't touch my tire pressures, didn't touch my shocks, didn't touch my camber/caster plates, just showed up to drive. .... I run a good time, which makes me have more fun, and then they take it away so this guy can have his $10 trophy at the end of the year and put it on his resume, I think is just downright shitty.



I was thinking about just punching all kinds of people until I got to the right one, but later decided that I'd just show up at every local event and beat him from here on out.



******* douche bags. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...O_DIR#>/ar.gif

No vid, no pics, Kris gets robbed. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/sad.png

good job guys

cool good job guys!