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Mornin joo fools!!!

Dave_B wrote:Mornin joo fools!!!

Happy Monday.... great....

lulz... yeah happy monday.

Where are the pics of your WRX?

Dave_B wrote:lulz... yeah happy monday.

Where are the pics of your WRX?

Here are a few from a NASA weekend at Putnam. This is how the car sat as of last year:





There is a video of a lap around Mid-Ohio some where in here http://www.youtube.com/user/JC8587... Tires are squeeky becuase I am broke and ran RE01rs last year


Here are some good pics of some of my friends coming up from Kentucky to instruct or hang out:











I wish the last picture was what I was really driving!

Fogs removed for air flow?

Dave_B wrote:Fogs removed for air flow?

Updated post with more pics,

And the fogs were removed for brake ducts

Still don't have them installed yet, just waiting to buy the brackets for the rotors. More important prep work came first, Radiator, water pump, timing belt, tarrrrs, ect.

I hear ya. Those things that heavy you need brake cooling?

Noice!
Ugh, can't wait til first track day of season...maybe early June.

Dave_B wrote:I hear ya. Those things that heavy you need brake cooling?

Oh yeah. ~3200lbs with me is what I estimate.

I typically replace them mid season or at least turn them if they are ruined by the heat cycles.

Lucky they are just $30 a rotor.

Doespike wrote:Noice!
Ugh, can't wait til first track day of season...maybe early June.

I KNOW.

I'm going to Putnum on March 27th with 100-speed !

Damn, that is a pig.

I think I'm down around just shy of 2400 with cage in it.

Dave_B wrote:Damn, that is a pig.

I think I'm down around just shy of 2400 with cage in it.

I haz power. And bigger bumpers and fenders to plow you off the road

Maybe... but you'd have to play catch up first... that is until I see you out in front of me.

Let me just remind you... the ITR can nevaR lose.

Dave_B wrote:Maybe... but you'd have to play catch up first... that is until I see you out in front of me.

I beleive it.

I could barely hang with Mike Alsip last year around Putnam, and his is reletively stock.

How is your ITR prepped, besides a cage?

It's a fully dedicated track car. Puts down 218 WHP (Dynojet) on stock bore.

Mugen intake
SMSP header
SMSP race exhaust
12/14k coilovers
Gutted with cage (weld in fully chromoly)
AC/PS removed
Stage 2 P&P head with nice lumpy Skunk 2 Pro 1 cams
JDM P30 pistons
and on
and on
and on

I was originally building to Honda Challenge specs and got carried away, then next though was Time Attack. Now, it just sits.

Oh it is pretty modded



I have a roll bar




lol,

and a few other things I guess... but its not a dedicated track car.

Yeah, she's just a wee bit mod'd. lulz.

I bought the car after it was wrecked on the way to E5. Wasn't bad at all IMO, replace bumper, rad support and headlights and I was good to go. I knew when I purchased it, it was destined to be a dedicated track car.

Dave_B wrote:Yeah, she's just a wee bit mod'd. lulz.

I bought the car after it was wrecked on the way to E5. Wasn't bad at all IMO, replace bumper, rad support and headlights and I was good to go. I knew when I purchased it, it was destined to be a dedicated track car.

This is the way I will go one day...

Try to find a gently abused or mangled spec miata, gts, or other track duty car and fixer up myself.

That was my thought, though looking back I should have purchased one already done on the cheap. I enjoy wrenching myself, but in the long run it's cheaper to buy one already built.

lots of talk here today that I missed. Whats up guys? Putnam is really fun. Been there many times though not in a few years

Putnam is on my list of tracks to hit eventually. Lot of tracks I'd like to give a try..

Doespike wrote:Putnam is on my list of tracks to hit eventually. Lot of tracks I'd like to give a try..

It was my first track and still a "home track" that a lot of us Kentucky guys head to frequently.

It is a really great palce to push the boundaries a litttle, as there is plently of run-off. Albiet, you don'y have to venture off track to find your cars limits, but if you do happen to go rallying, you won't kill your car or worse.

haha, "When asphalt gets boring.." Yeah, safe tracks to really learn are great. One reason I really liked Gingerman.

My first track was VIR...but Watkins Glen is my "home".

Ah "home" tracks... I'd love to do Sebring again one of these days.

Mornin' duder

GOOOOOOOOOO JOE!!!! /Gi Joe.