[s-cars] Watkins Glen report
TM
t44tq at mindspring.com
Thu Oct 17 17:13:57 EDT 2002
Keith-
Forgot to mention a couple things-
I was running Sumitomo HTR-ZII 255/40R17 street tires,
Hawk HPS pads with Ate Super Blue fluid.
My point about the 951 was simply that it was amazing to
see a UrS4 lapping similar times to the 951. The 951 is a
clearly more capable car, the guy behind the wheel was simply
not good enough to smoke the UrS.
I really don't like running my daily driver at the track mainly
because if something bad happens, I won't have a car to drive.
If I have a primarily-track car, I'd probably still keep it
street-legal (at least for a while) but if something broke in that
car, I could still drive around in my daily driver.
I'm either going to get a 951/951S, turbo Miata or a fully prepped
E30 BMW- leaning toward the 951 because it allows me to run with
all PCA regions, doesn't need a ton of prep to be track-capable
(for driver's ed, not racing) and the turbo motor allows for relatively
inexpensive power tweaks compared to a BMW 6 cylinder or building up
a turbo Miata motor from the ground up.
Taka
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