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ATL would be my first choice. (Alpharetta / Roswell area). NC / VA would be my second choice. Have to live pretty close to a major race track which would mean I'd end up in like Raleigh or Greensboro or Richmond

Exactly why we moved away from that area.

Saw quite a few more people than I thought I would and never even made it up to the suite. Turbo went 11.0 @ 129 with a crap 60' so I'll take it. Possibly the most boring pass I've ever made down the strip. Crazy fast but the car does all the work.

My maybe has turned to a yes I'll be there. Friend with a bike wants to tag along they will be running bikes as well correct?

I don't run them, pay the fine...then run to CR to bitch about front plate laws

hrummm...I've been curious to find out how quick the turbo is.... What's test and tune entry fee?

Since I'm a forum guy I used the forums at Price Scope to educate myself as much as possible and ask questions to people more educated than myself. http://www.pricescope.com/forum/ There also happen to be lots of brokers on those forums to help you get an idea of what's out there beyond the typical chain stores. I believe the diamond search function on their site will search through all of the available stones by supporting vendors and return results for you to cross shop all of them. (it's been awhile but that's how I remember it). I purchased my wife's stone through a broker in NY, was very happy with it and it's appraisal after I got it. Got the setting through Diamond Cellar so that I've always got a local source to go to in the event it needs serviced. When it's all said and done yes, insure the ring. Ask your agent what your personal articles coverage limits are and buy additional coverage for the ring if needed to insure that it's covered. Also, have it appraised every 3-5 years and update the value on your policy. Diamond prices continue to go up and up and keeping up with the value is important should anything ever happen to it.

I'll have to look for the video. It was the American Sedan race. Dude stopped and waited for the leader and then intentionally took him out. Leader spun and got back on the track and had a big enough lead that he still won the race. Offending driver was suspended indefinitely yesterday

I'd ping Tim he really knows his stuff. Not sure he's officially detailing but never hurts to ask. Tough to tel without at least pictures how much it can be saved. What kind of car is it are you sure it's really cleared or is it single stage that's oxidizing. You'd be amazed how recently JDM white and red cars were still single stage.

It is but it isn't. You hit on it in the second statement. He's basically created a brand for himself as a crazy chain smoking artist that is commissioned all around the world to create "bespoke" 1 of 1 exclusive Porsche's that cannot be duplicated.

If you're building the car you can use that as an opportunity to over-engineer the systems capacities to stand up to what a turbo car needs for a 20-30 min track session and stay healthy and alive. Seems like a great sales opportunity backed up by R&D at the track.

I'm usually a traditionalist as far as the way I want to see Porsche's built but I really really like the RWB cars. There are 2 of them for sale on Rennlist currently if anyone is in the market :-) http://rennlist.com/forums/vehicle-marketplace/948525-fs-1995-rwb-993-guard-red-with-ton-of-goodies.html http://rennlist.com/forums/vehicle-marketplace/940553-1987-porsche-911-rwb-period-correct-long-hood-conversion.html

Tinman's RX-7 is what you should do here. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125679 I know you want to build a car here...but take this one and learn the craft of driving then use it as an amazing platform for V8 swap and move it to that next level.

If any of you are considering getting into track days this is a PERFECT car. Front engine, rear drive, light weight and fully developed. You cannot go this quick for this cheap in anything else and to top it off consumables and parts costs are really low too. Win /win.

Not to be a stickler but what you are talking about is not a HANS device, it's just a neck collar

This....but it sounds like you already sent it back. Though the 720P I got from AT&T (as it was claimed) sucked compared to the same 720P I got from Time Warner. 720 shouldn't look bad unless you're on the most modern high tech 70+ inch screen. 55" or under 720 should still be pretty darn good. Sounds like an issue with whatever that equipment is to be honest which it sounds like you've already rectified by sending back and figuring out a different solution.

'Bout time...swear this was originally supposed to be in May. Glad to see it finally happening

our DI car leaves suit deposits on the tail pipes with little to no driving. Drives me crazy. IDK why though I just clean it and thankfully it cleans up rather easily as long as you don't let it sit long and get wet (that's what she said). it also makes around 570hp currently so I"ll let it slide. Will let you know how obnoxious it gets when I take the cats off of it next year and really start to make some power.

I can pretty much remember my whole day that day which is pretty incredible considering I couldn't recount last week in the same amount of detail.

I'll be out of the country at the same wedding as Smokey. As such I won't be able to Make it which sucks since it's awesome to see the runoffs back at Mid Ohio Matt, Yasmin and I send out best. We will be rooting for you to Land on the top of that podium!!! -Andy

I know ...I think I'm on the rag today or something!

There were 3 2-hour episodes. I also enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would. It was well put together.

I've thought about cheaper cars a few times...but "I wanna go fast" As was stated earlier you gotta pay to play at a certain level. For the money there's nothing faster, more developed and more reliable than the car I'm driving...it was designed for this stuff. Sure you can build an RX-7 or corvette to be just as quick for cheaper but they're constantly going through parts to do it. Ask Chandler his vette with the right setup was probably quicker than my car but he saw the light of what it could possibly cost to keep running that pace in that car and decided it as for the best to go another direction. My 12 year old car is as fast as anything out there except maybe the most modern GT3's at 2x as much money. ...oh and the icing on the cake is it's worth 20k more than I paid for it. So yeah I'm going to protect my investment to insure it's covered in the event of a worst case scenario and then I'm going to continue to use as I enjoy using it. I drove it to work the other day and to cars and coffee the other weekend...BUT that's not what I bought it for and that's not what it's good at. It's enjoyable for about the first half of the drive to work then it wears off. I've got a smile on my face every second I'm on the track with it though. Shit I can send you videos of me laughing in the car because sometimes it just fucking amazes me at what it can do. I don't have any other crazy hobbies...track driving and instructing is my thing, it's my passion and if I could make a living at it I'd be doing it on a professional basis...alas that's just a pipe dream. I don't buy anything without the intent of taking it to the track. Turbo is going to the track next month with Yasmin behind the wheel. Did the bike thing before cars..it's great fun and cheap and bikes are fast but it hurts when you fall off. I'm too old and fat for bikes now plus I'm just as fast as all but the fastest bike guys anyhow with the safety net of a cage protecting me.

Like anything else...the more you buy the cheaper it gets. I think Locton was $2400 for 6 events (full weekends not individual days) for the GT3 at stated value of $70k. Locton only covers certain events though. There are a couple others that will cover any track event and with unlimited participation and the pricing I got through them was around $3500 / year Most of these policies have a 10% deductible (of stated value) for any claim. Locton and on-track insurance will also do individual days and or events but obviously the price is a good bit higher in this situation.

IDK who you are with but there's no harm in filing a claim here, just be honest and up front about what you were doing, where you were and the setting for the environment (HPDE). Assume the claim will be denied as most all insurance companies have written exclusion clauses into their policy language now that will exclude anything on a race track at all even if it's a school. Ultimately it's going to come down to the adjuster you get and their interpretation of the policy. No harm in trying though. The instructor in me wants to break down what went wrong. Do you know what happened and do you know how to avoid it next time. "going slower" isn't necessarily the answer. It sucks to dwell on an incident after the fact but it can be part of the learning curve. I spun there last year and thankfully kept it off of the wall. At the time I didn't think I did anything wrong. I went back and broke down the video and I was late on entry and wide of apex and I lifted just enough to make sure I was going to make the corner and that's when the car swapped ends. Funny how video doesn't lie and I had a completely different perspective of my spin until I really looked at the video and data.