A friend's new track car..
01-15-2013, 09:51 AM
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Melting Slicks
Martin Snow brings his Flying Lizards RSR out to a couple of races at Miller, it's always treat to see it rip
01-15-2013, 10:41 AM
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Burning Brakes
01-15-2013, 07:27 PM
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01-15-2013, 08:26 PM
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Drifting
Beautiful car. I've ran on tracks with some 996 cup cars and they are devastatingly fast. At the last (and first for me) PCA event I went to a guy had a brand new 4.0 RS. Very sick.
01-15-2013, 10:16 PM
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Just Sayin': A good used Tony Ave Trans Am Corvette can be bought for 150 K.
Capable of a 2:01 lap at Sebring and 1:18 at Road Atlanta. About the same performance range as a ALMS Porsche. Of course you'll need Tony Ave to accomplish that lap. You will need someone like Patrick Long to accomplish the same feat in the Porsche.
The SB2.2 Chevy motors make 840 plus HP, can be bought for less than 20K, The Hewland tranny's cost about 15K and are pretty stout and obviously rebuilds don't cost 30K like the Porsche tranny's do.
The Nascar 9" Ford rear ends are near bullet proof and cost a couple grand.
Brembo and PFC 6 piston Calipers can be bought used/rebuilt from Cup teams for about 25 cents on the dollars.
Examples of good TA cars that are just 2-3 seconds a lap slower at a Sebring or Road Atlanta can be bought at nearly half the AVE car price.
ie: Dave Machavern's three time Crane Cams V8 StockCar GT-1 champ Tommy Riggins built Corvette that sold for about 85 K. This car has done a 2:04 at Sebring.
The Porsche is cool but for me, even if cost were not a factor.....I'll take the TA Corvette.
Also, isn't LG's ALMS GT2 Corvette still available?
Love that American Iron.
Capable of a 2:01 lap at Sebring and 1:18 at Road Atlanta. About the same performance range as a ALMS Porsche. Of course you'll need Tony Ave to accomplish that lap. You will need someone like Patrick Long to accomplish the same feat in the Porsche.
The SB2.2 Chevy motors make 840 plus HP, can be bought for less than 20K, The Hewland tranny's cost about 15K and are pretty stout and obviously rebuilds don't cost 30K like the Porsche tranny's do.
The Nascar 9" Ford rear ends are near bullet proof and cost a couple grand.
Brembo and PFC 6 piston Calipers can be bought used/rebuilt from Cup teams for about 25 cents on the dollars.
Examples of good TA cars that are just 2-3 seconds a lap slower at a Sebring or Road Atlanta can be bought at nearly half the AVE car price.
ie: Dave Machavern's three time Crane Cams V8 StockCar GT-1 champ Tommy Riggins built Corvette that sold for about 85 K. This car has done a 2:04 at Sebring.
The Porsche is cool but for me, even if cost were not a factor.....I'll take the TA Corvette.
Also, isn't LG's ALMS GT2 Corvette still available?
Love that American Iron.
I would love to drive an RSR, the closest I've come is a Rolex GT3 Cup in the 24 a few years back. They are terrific cars!
Joey
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