1ashchuckton
Autocross Champion
My girlfriend got me a track day at mid-ohio
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You will love it. It's a great track. :thumbsup:
My girlfriend got me a track day at mid-ohio
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Being on a hiatus from reaching the limit on stock brakes a few years ago, I saved up for some mods that will do the job. Out of Thunderhill, Laguna Seca and Sonoma, I enjoy Laguna Seca the most so far. Sonoma is interesting but too crowded for the group I went with. At least I had an awesome instructor that day and try out the big brake kit for the first time. Laguna Seca is the most fun because of its interesting blend of turns, but more importantly I found out the difference between stock and some bolt on suspension mods with different tires is more significant than initially expected. Haven't went back to Thunderhill yet, but I feel like I need more power to make it a more fun drive as it has lots of straights. Probably won't head home with a soft pedal if I do go there again.
I'm just starting to get involved in the autox/track day scene.
Really loving autox right now. My local club does 3-4 track days a season but I don't think i'll run my car on the track this season. I feel like I should do a full season of autox first. I am going to try to volunteer as race control for some of the track days this season though. Hopefully get a ride along with someone and just learn all about the track.
Think next year I'll look to get my car on the track. Hoping to be K04 by then too.
Think the tracks they are looking to do are Thompson Speedway, Poncono Raceway, and Palmer Motorsport Park this year.
I'm just starting to get involved in the autox/track day scene.
Really loving autox right now. My local club does 3-4 track days a season but I don't think i'll run my car on the track this season. I feel like I should do a full season of autox first. I am going to try to volunteer as race control for some of the track days this season though. Hopefully get a ride along with someone and just learn all about the track.
Think next year I'll look to get my car on the track. Hoping to be K04 by then too.
Think the tracks they are looking to do are Thompson Speedway, Poncono Raceway, and Palmer Motorsport Park this year.
Awesome! Autox is a great way to get started. You can really learn how the car handles and push it to the limits on autox whereas on a track you want to dial it back if youre new. I did two seasons of autox before starting to track and think that's a great path.
Being at the track and talking to corner workers is also a great way to get a leg up advantage being new. Learn subtle tips from them. I was fortunate enough to have a driving instructor the first few times I went on the track. Learning things right away that a rookie might overlook such as "Look at the tire marks on the track, if the tire marks are going into a wall you might want to give that corner a bit more respect than others" There's so much to take in it's very easy to overlook stuff like that until someone points it out to you.
I'm just starting to get involved in the autox/track day scene.
Really loving autox right now. My local club does 3-4 track days a season but I don't think i'll run my car on the track this season. I feel like I should do a full season of autox first. I am going to try to volunteer as race control for some of the track days this season though. Hopefully get a ride along with someone and just learn all about the track.
Think next year I'll look to get my car on the track. Hoping to be K04 by then too.
Think the tracks they are looking to do are Thompson Speedway, Poncono Raceway, and Palmer Motorsport Park this year.
I definitely would hold off on the k04 until you at least try out a few hpde track days. There's a misconception you need more power to get on track, and I'd argue that power is the last thing a novice track enthusiast needs. Invest the money in seat time, an LSD, and some sticky tires instead, because power without traction coming out of a turn is so frustrating. :laugh:
The goal of this car isn’t to be a track monster or to be the fastest out there for autox. It’s simply just to have some fun in and tide me over until I can get another car that I will turn into a track car.
Definitely some food for thought here though. LSD, big brake kit, baffled deeper oil pan are all solid takeaways. I’ll have to really think things over when it comes time. I won’t be doing any of these big mods this season but next season is when I’ll have to make that decision. To go k04 or to go big brake kit + lsd.
Going k04 has always been a long term goal for me and I really want to get that done before moving on to my track car.
I want to also visit the good ol drag strip and break into the 12’s, that’s a personal goal of mine.
Maybe priorities will change as I get more seat time. I’m not sure if I see myself doing k04 and lsd and big brakes with this car. Already got a lot into it and almost at 100k miles. I should get a carbon cleaning done and in the next year or so get the timing chain done so that’s a lot of cash right there lol.
I don’t see myself selling this car and will eventually retire it from daily driving duty and then turn it into a full fledged track car. I may just have 2 track cars... fwd and rwd lol but now we are talking like 5 years down the line, I digress...