SCCA STR 370z Progress Thread.... It can be done!

[MIKE_STR]

Originally Posted by Apollo8642

I never said I have some magic Z, or did I say I never had this issue, just never had it happen during autocross. You should go back, and read my posts.

Assume way, I'm 12 hours away from you. Come up to the SCCA National Tour in Packwood Wa. and you can drive my Nismo sense you're such a bada$$, and sense your seem to know my car's setup, and hell everything else.

Seriously though, it's an open invite. If you make it over this way I will be more then happy to let you drive, and maybe there is something both of us can learn in the process. That's happening July 5-6 in Packwood, WA at the former Hampton Mills Lumber Plant. PM me if you're interested.

For the record, I know just about nothing and everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm also not a "badass". I just got humbled so bad in El Toro... Went home with my tail between my legs. I have this problem where I try cars that no one has before.. Over and over. This leads to virtually no success at a national level. I like spending money that I don't have and bitching about getting pounded ... Yet, I keep coming back for more.

If your primary testing ground is Packwood, that might explain why fuel starve hasn't happened. I've been to the Packwood tours twice. Not grippy asphalt at all if I recall. Awesome site though. Very beautiful.

Is your car ASP? Would love to talk shop. I just test fit some 18x11" +20 wheels square yesterday. They fit great. Should be able to stuff 295's front and maybe as much as 315 rear without any fender modification. Are you offering a co-drive for the tour? I'd be flattered.... But I ain't running the car with half a tank. I'll get too pissed when WE do fuel stave.

Btw, if you guys are still compelled to argue please do it somewhere else. I still plan on tooling my car for STR.... For the time being. Just messing around with other stuff as well.

[sixpax]

Originally Posted by MIKE_STR

For the record, I know just about nothing and everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm also not a "badass". I just got humbled so bad in El Toro... Went home with my tail between my legs. I have this problem where I try cars that no one has before.. Over and over. This leads to virtually no success at a national level. I like spending money that I don't have and bitching about getting pounded ... Yet, I keep coming back for more.

If your primary testing ground is Packwood, that might explain why fuel starve hasn't happened. I've been to the Packwood tours twice. Not grippy asphalt at all if I recall. Awesome site though. Very beautiful.

Is your car ASP? Would love to talk shop. I just test fit some 18x11" +20 wheels square yesterday. They fit great. Should be able to stuff 295's front and maybe as much as 315 rear without any fender modification. Are you offering a co-drive for the tour? I'd be flattered.... But I ain't running the car with half a tank. I'll get too pissed when WE do fuel stave.

Btw, if you guys are still compelled to argue please do it somewhere else. I still plan on tooling my car for STR.... For the time being. Just messing around with other stuff as well.

As long as you have fun, or enjoy it to some degree, or find it challenging ... it's all good. Only person that matters is, well, you.

I am slower than dirt on the track, but the thrill I get and the fun I have overcomes worrying about what anybody else thinks.

Going to have a go at some SCCA Solo this year, and have been reading your thread off and on, as well as many others. Sadly I will be classed SSM, I am too lazy to uninstall SPL suspension parts just to do autocross so SSM it is.

I feel that autocross can do nothing but good things for me at learning how to drive the car that would translate well to the track.

Best of luck on your STR project. I'll still be following, though it is a pain to wade through pages of ******** just to get to the stuff I came to read.

[sixpax]

Originally Posted by MIKE_STR

I just test fit some 18x11" +20 wheels square yesterday. They fit great. Should be able to stuff 295's front and maybe as much as 315 rear without any fender modification.

I thought STR had restrictions on tire width ?

[MIKE_STR]

Originally Posted by sixpax

I thought STR had restrictions on tire width ?

Oh, it does. 9" wide maximum with 255' tires max.

I'm just messing around in the hopes that the car gets moved to STU (where it should have been all along).

[Apollo8642]

Originally Posted by MIKE_STR

Is your car ASP? Would love to talk shop. I just test fit some 18x11" +20 wheels square yesterday. They fit great. Should be able to stuff 295's front and maybe as much as 315 rear without any fender modification. Are you offering a co-drive for the tour? I'd be flattered.... But I ain't running the car with half a tank. I'll get too pissed when WE do fuel stave.

Btw, if you guys are still compelled to argue please do it somewhere else. I still plan on tooling my car for STR.... For the time being. Just messing around with other stuff as well.

This is my first year in ASP, but I'm playing catch up when it comes to my setup. So far though I'm 2nd in class just under a EVO 10 which he's averaging 1.5 seconds faster then me.
My setup is on hold while I finish buying more chassis setup equipment. I have scales, and received on Friday my Longacre tow plates, and digital camber/caster gauge with the quick set adapter.

I'm envious of that tire setup. Right now I'm running 17x9 +15 275/40 and Rear 17x10 +12 295/40 w/ Kumho V710, which isn't the best or the brightest setup but it came with the car. I'm looking to go 18x10 to 18x10.5 all the way around and run 295 or 305 all the way around.

As for co-driving, I'll be heading up there regardless if I'm racing, or not. I don't think I'll be very competive at a National tour, but either way you could drive it as a co-driver, or as a solo. A national tour race might not be the best place to really get some fuel starvation testing done, but I'm game just the same.

[MIKE_STR]

Originally Posted by Apollo8642

This is my first year in ASP, but I'm playing catch up when it comes to my setup. So far though I'm 2nd in class just under a EVO 10 which he's averaging 1.5 seconds faster then me.
My setup is on hold while I finish buying more chassis setup equipment. I have scales, and received on Friday my Longacre tow plates, and digital camber/caster gauge with the quick set adapter.

I'm envious of that tire setup. Right now I'm running 17x9 +15 275/40 and Rear 17x10 +12 295/40 w/ Kumho V710, which isn't the best or the brightest setup but it came with the car. I'm looking to go 18x10 to 18x10.5 all the way around and run 295 or 305 all the way around.

As for co-driving, I'll be heading up there regardless if I'm racing, or not. I don't think I'll be very competive at a National tour, but either way you could drive it as a co-driver, or as a solo. A national tour race might not be the best place to really get some fuel starvation testing done, but I'm game just the same.

Woah. Do you mean 19x9 and 19x10? If you got 17's to fit.. What ones are those?

[Masterbeatty]

Originally Posted by Apollo8642

This is my first year in ASP, but I'm playing catch up when it comes to my setup. So far though I'm 2nd in class just under a EVO 10 which he's averaging 1.5 seconds faster then me.

I'm in the same boat. I'm second in ASP in the club I run with. A 06 sti running 23 lbs of boost is about 1 sec faster than me but his driving is inconcistant and he slides around a lot. I just need wider wheels and more meat all around and I would smoke him. But I need to save up alittle more. Def next year I'm going to have new wheels.

[takjak2]

Originally Posted by Masterbeatty

I'm in the same boat. I'm second in ASP in the club I run with. A 06 sti running 23 lbs of boost is about 1 sec faster than me but his driving is inconcistant and he slides around a lot. I just need wider wheels and more meat all around and I would smoke him. But I need to save up alittle more. Def next year I'm going to have new wheels.

In your journal you mentioned SPL rear camber arms. SCCA would have you in SSM.

And that's why I don't like SCCA autocross classing.

[gomer_110]

Originally Posted by takjak2

And that's why I don't like SCCA autocross classing.

That's why, IMHO, the way that NASA does classing is better. Each mod equals a certain point value. Add those together and you determine the class you'd be in.