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Forum: 370Z For Sale 01-04-2020, 09:44 AM
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Posted By wstar
BUMP - Buy a cheap track car to have fun with (it...

BUMP - Buy a cheap track car to have fun with (it runs!), or spend the time to part this thing out for $$$ to fund your own projects. At 9K (obo as my clock runs out quickly) it's hard not to come...
Forum: 370Z For Sale 01-03-2020, 08:59 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,031
Posted By wstar
My timeline for moving out of this house is...

My timeline for moving out of this house is getting faster, and I really don't want to store this car while waiting for it to sell! Therefore...

Price Reduction to $9K.

(or of course, send me...
Forum: 370Z For Sale 12-29-2019, 04:39 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,031
Posted By wstar
Sunday afternoon bump! Get a dedicated track car...

Sunday afternoon bump! Get a dedicated track car project to go with your DD! If you think you could do it if the price were lower, PM me any offer. One way or another, it will probably be gone in...
Forum: Member's 370Z Gallery 12-27-2019, 01:46 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 146,663
Posted By wstar
Car sale thread posted (!!):...

Car sale thread posted (!!): http://www.the370z.com/370z-sale/132671-wstars-track-only-370z-sale.html



Hi! It is very full speed ahead, sometimes at breakneck speed! :p



Yeah I'll post up...
Forum: 370Z For Sale 12-27-2019, 01:21 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,031
Posted By wstar
wstar's Track-only 370Z for Sale

Track-only 2009 370Z for sale!


Not a show car

Not street-legal or street-drivable by any stretch of the imagination!


Located in the Houston, TX metro area, roughly, and I do have the...
Forum: Member's 370Z Gallery 12-27-2019, 10:30 AM
Replies: 865
Views: 146,663
Posted By wstar
Hi again! :) Blast from the past time,...

Hi again! :)

Blast from the past time, logging in for the first time in a few years and re-upping my premium membership, also cleared out my overfilled PM inbox.

Since my last posts here back...
Forum: Member's 370Z Gallery 02-28-2015, 01:24 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 146,663
Posted By wstar
Holy lack of updates for 5 months or so :) ...

Holy lack of updates for 5 months or so :)

The TL;DR recap is: Back in late October I had a drivetrain failure on-track again. I knew the torque convertor was basically destroyed from how it...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 10-03-2014, 03:14 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 8,849
Posted By wstar
Yeah SCCA's classing system and the politics of...

Yeah SCCA's classing system and the politics of it is what drove me from wanting to put my Z in their road-course classes, ever. I was planning to hit NASA instead and just do their ST[321U] system...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-27-2014, 03:10 AM
Replies: 301
Views: 76,008
Posted By wstar
Stop driving on ice! :p

Stop driving on ice! :p
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-25-2014, 07:05 PM
Replies: 301
Views: 76,008
Posted By wstar
Well we're 16 pages deep now. The original...

Well we're 16 pages deep now. The original belongs in summary bullet points on the first. (BTW, IMHO that front page should recommend Carbotech in XP10+8 rather than 8 all around - that seems to be...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-24-2014, 09:58 PM
Replies: 301
Views: 76,008
Posted By wstar
Speaking of Hawk, I've been pretty impressed with...

Speaking of Hawk, I've been pretty impressed with their DTC-series pads so far. With DTC-70 front and DTC-60 rear, the rear bias is a little high leading to a bit of ice-mode tendency, but it's not...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-22-2014, 12:05 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 5,555
Posted By wstar
I don't know, but I doubt they're on the factory...

I don't know, but I doubt they're on the factory ABS. I think the critical part of that message, that I don't fully understand, is "when it lost the rear brakes the turn before". It's hard to know...
Forum: DIY Section (Do-It-Yourself) 09-15-2014, 08:33 PM
Replies: 307
Views: 132,812
Posted By wstar
Yeah, I wrapped mine in split rubber hoses (e.g....

Yeah, I wrapped mine in split rubber hoses (e.g. old PCV hoses) where they touched anything. But still, as a default position I'd rather have just about anything else on the car cut instead of those...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-15-2014, 08:18 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,181
Posted By wstar
The general idea is you guess a good temperature...

The general idea is you guess a good temperature and then measure after each session to dial it in.

In an ideal world, you pull into the hot pit during a hot lap with the tires fully warmed up and...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-15-2014, 08:13 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,181
Posted By wstar
I never look at used tires with the air out, but...

I never look at used tires with the air out, but if it used to have tread in the middle there and now it doesn't (vs the outer edges), then the tires were over-inflated.
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-15-2014, 02:03 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,181
Posted By wstar
It really depends on the tire (and type of racing...

It really depends on the tire (and type of racing of course, but I'm assuming DE road course stuff?). With steet-ish tires (up through RS3), my car was pretty comfy at cold pressures in the...
Forum: Member's 370Z Gallery 09-14-2014, 10:52 AM
Replies: 865
Views: 146,663
Posted By wstar
Moving that back to this thread where we talked...

Moving that back to this thread where we talked about it before: http://www.the370z.com/track-autocross-drifting-dragstrip/94946-spring-rate-help-9.html#post2964499
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-14-2014, 10:51 AM
Replies: 135
Views: 18,114
Posted By wstar
Moving this over here to this thread instead of...

Moving this over here to this thread instead of my journal:



I don't really know? :) I mean, the car certainly didn't get any worse for it. Both weekends on both swaybars I had fun and the...
Forum: Member's 370Z Gallery 09-13-2014, 03:47 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 146,663
Posted By wstar
Had an incredibly fun weekend w/ Driver's Edge @...

Had an incredibly fun weekend w/ Driver's Edge @ Texas World Speedway (a week ago; I finally got around to uploading video today!). I swapped back to the stock rear sway and tightened up my damper...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-13-2014, 12:41 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 5,674
Posted By wstar
What they said, but I'll add a few points: ...

What they said, but I'll add a few points:



Definite must-haves for serious track usage. You can't possibly overkill on oil cooling for the track, go as big as you can fit. Block things off...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-13-2014, 12:24 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 9,777
Posted By wstar
Do you have the balls to play Russian Roulette...

Do you have the balls to play Russian Roulette with another guy's head lined up next to yours? Does he get a say in the matter? The number of people interested in this topic that will actually only...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-12-2014, 10:39 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 9,777
Posted By wstar
Well obviously the car hits ~155/160, there's no...

Well obviously the car hits ~155/160, there's no point posting those. That's where the stock ECU speed limiter kicks in. The question is mapping out drag limit vs available torque (a function of...
Forum: Track / Autocross / Drifting / Dragstrip 09-11-2014, 11:38 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 9,777
Posted By wstar
Just from switching from the stock Sport setup to...

Just from switching from the stock Sport setup to 275/35 on 18s, I get a ~5-7 mph difference between GPS and the speedometer in the ~80-130-ish mph range (speedo reads high). I'm surprised UpRev...
Forum: DIY Section (Do-It-Yourself) 09-08-2014, 06:50 AM
Replies: 307
Views: 132,812
Posted By wstar
Putting together your own kit is fine, but please...

Putting together your own kit is fine, but please do use steel-braided lines. Things will rub on things, sometimes in ways you don't expect. Braided lines is cheap insurance against a cut hose.
Forum: Forced Induction 09-05-2014, 12:36 AM
Replies: 1,530
Views: 152,763
Posted By wstar
My first thought at the end of the video was...

My first thought at the end of the video was "Don't call it 571. It's 571.9, it deserves to be rounded off to 572 if you're going to approximate" :)

I'm glad you're finally getting on the road to...
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