Non-related Z news,
Traded in the Miata for 2018 Honda Civic Type-R
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Nice color!

Tires decision has been made
Kumho ECSTA V730 Tires 275/35/18
And it came down to price 1000 vs 1800 for others.
Going to have them heat treated too, see if that make a difference.

New daily driver? Awesome car and color!


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$216/ea on tire rack. That’s a screaming deal. Even cheaper than the federal 595rs-pros.

Curious to see how those stand up to the RT660. I expect they’d be a slower tire but last longer


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Thanks :tiphat:

:iagree:, but I need to cut back on my costs on tracking..
Grassroots Motorsports Mag has a nice review of tires for 2023,
Look at the February 2023 issue

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not sure, if you can see it clearly

I see why you picked that tire! Seems great for the price. I’ll be keeping those in mind for the future.


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First Track event of this year at AMP with Atlanta Driving Society (47 laps were done)
Car has been corner balance, new transmission and clutch, different alignment.
It felt good, but My best was only 1.39.86 off my personal Best by 3.47 seconds. Why I do not know. :(
The track was green since it had rained the past two days. Everyone was saying tires were not gripping.
Or simply that I am a year older I am slower :). Fun yes, learning still.
Did find out that turns 9-11 have a lot of compression on the car, which resulted in some tire rub. (time to roll the front fenders)
New setup felt good, tire wear was even across all 4 tires. Starting pressure for now on will be Front 32 / Rear 29, which
will get me to front 36/ Rear 34. Also simply learn to relax and drive and have fun.

Also since it has been a while, forgot to get gas on my lunch hour to make sure I finished the day.
Just funny with a 19 gallon tank, you need to get gas to finish the day.
Car was getting 8 mpg, when your on it, it eats

Enjoy

Yesterday, feeling the effects of being 70, spent yesterday doing a post track inspection on the brakes and tires. Good news, is tires wore evenly, (YES), brake pad wear was good about 1 mm. There at 7mm have a few hours left in them. Car look over all good from the track days.

I actually did a 20 minute session on 4/19 Wednesday Night. turned a 1.39.64 a bit better

Here is the video


No more track until May 31st, so it will be sim practice time

Got the Type-R back from the Shop
Brakes / brake flush / coolant change to ICE COOL / steel brake lines / lowering springs.
so its all track ready too..

Now just need to get the necessary Garmin Catalyst parts to make it easy to go from one car to another....

All is good

ok, its quiet time, till the end of the month.
then 7 events in 6 weeks, because I can still get it done...
Oh to make it interesting, it will be done in the following cars.
-- 370z of course
-- 2018 Honda Civic Type-R
-- 2015 Porsche Cayman PDK GTS

at the following tracks
-- Atlanta Motorsport Park
-- Road Atlanta
-- Barber Motorsport Park
noted: in the schedule

Here is the schedule for the year
**Event** | **Car** | **Date** | Track
------- | -------- | -------- | --------------
Atlanta Driving society | 370Z | 15-Apr | Atlanta Motorsport Park - done
SCCA Track Night | 370Z | 19-Apr | Atlanta Motorsport Park - done
SCCA Track Night | 370Z | 31-May | Road Atlanta
SCCA Track Night | type R | 7-Jun | Atlanta Motorsport Park
Jzilla + GridLife | type R | 10-Jun | Barber Motorsport Park
SCCA Track Night RA | type R | 23-Jun | Road Atlanta
Atlanta Driving society | Cayman GTS | 26-Jun | Road Atlanta
Atlanta Driving society | 370Z | 8-Jul | Atlanta Motorsport Park
SCCA Track Night | 370Z | 12-Jul | Atlanta Motorsport Park
Atlanta Driving society | 370Z | 6-Aug | Atlanta Motorsport Park
SCCA Track Night | 370Z | 16-Aug | Atlanta Motorsport Park
Mid-Ohio Lapping Day | Type R | 14-Oct | Mid-Ohio

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Hope you have some tires on hand. :icon17:

New set of tires for sometime this year...
275/35/18 KUMHO ECSTA V730
they have been heat treated also...
not sure when they will go on -- Falken's are about half gone..
In Grassroots Motorsport, they compared very favorable to the Falkens, but were 600 dollars cheaper at the time. So I figure I give them a try...

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yes, see new post