Yep, Vette blew oiled the track.

Some notable runs by other cars:

Sean Ivey 8.96@166 GTR
DJ 9.5@155mph GTR
Two bone stock 2013 GTR 11.0 another went 10.8
Awesome GTR ran 9.1@159mph
Eddie Bello Porsche 159mph unsure of the ET

I've heard nothing from the Vettes except the oiling of the track.

 

Not sure why anyone would want to race there car on a cold track this late in the year.

 

It was a fun day with a ton of powerful cars. Props to Seth from ExoticsRally. However, track prep SUCKED (can't even call it prep). Oh, and I confirmed I can't drive for ****, but seat time is the answer. I haven't driven my set up in 6 speed at the track in a long while.

I'm about to go into a quasi-rant. Ignore it by not reading it. I don't want to take away from what was, for me, a fun day.

As for the oil down, supposedly that was my car. Let's start with this - prior to the supposed oil down, if was 3:50 p.m. (rental ends at 4 pm), cold and the track crew were visibly antsy to leave. That said, we and others asked if we could get in another run to which they said hurry, only one run. Well, everyone heard that and a bunch of cars started lining up.

Tommy from ECS lined up and was taking this last run. He came off the line hard, car went into reduced engine power mode. As a result, car back fired, Tommy got out of it, lugged the car down the track, and brought the car back around to run again. In the meantime, guy at the line said my car spit out all sorts of metal that he swept off to the side. Made me and the rest of the guys suspicious.

Tommy comes back to make another run; the track crew calls the race at 3:59ish because of the "oil down". We tell Tommy that the line guy said the car spit metal - he looks at us like we're nuts. Pop the hood to look around - nothing. We get under the car - nothing (no drips, no nothing). We go to line and ask where the metal is. First, there was no oil or any other fluid on the line. The metal swept to the side looks like its aluminium, is cold cold to the touch (picked it up only shortly after the supposed break) and is bone dry (not even the look or smell of oil, coolant - nothing).

Let the car sit for a bit to see if any slow leaks were happening - NADA.

So that's my story. Drama aside, I really enjoyed hanging with friends and relearning how drive my car. I will say this, the GTR's are amazingly consistent and make the runs look simply easy. Kudos to technology.

 

Not accurate - see above

 

F*ck Etown! It was an absolute disgrace for RWD cars! the only prep was a 5 foot patch off the line! I pissed away 400 bucks for that! i get better traction on the street...serousily.

 

Yeah they just wanted us to leave! The wasnt a single drop of fluid from ur car!

 

So how fast did you guys run?

 

now you see why a made my prior post on the track prep

 

Spin, spin, reduced power, spin. Never got a clean run.

Words of wisdom I'll certainly pay closer attention to in the future!

 

man u were not kidding! from now on i will listen to u.
i knew it was going to bad when i walked the first bit of track. there was zero stickyness on my sneakers. zero

 

Was this a "roll-race" or regular racing from a dig ?

 

i had a bad day also. trailered my car to atco for t/t
only to find out i left keys home, 5hr round trip
might try it again tomarrow

 

At least you remembered your car.

A few years ago I drove 4hrs to hunting camp and forgot my rifle.

 

Both - on the roll-races, some the RWD Porsches were getting super squirrely when boost came on. I was ice-skating all the way down (couldn't do a burn out before the run, so 15" slicks were not ideal..)

 

Sorry to hear about that. Track prep in Houston is non existant with 20 jacked 4x4 trucks usually running in front of you. However, I'd be pissed if it was a rental.

We pay 300+ a car, no discount if we bring more cars, so we never do track rentals(once in my life). Our track could care less as well about your prep, unless you are a heavy hitter like LMR in Houston(sorry Steven) and get the track re sprayed for your runs.

With the money in your car Nick, rent "an east coast" track out and dial that beast in.

 

Nick and I were just discussing this....

 

I thought you had the Haltech?

 

Problem this time of year is getting the sun to come out. You really need a combination of some big tire cars to put some "heat" into the track and VHT.

The negative D/A is great but keeping the car shiny side up is better.

 

I do - factory ECU is still in and controls some functions. Beyond my ability to tell you how the stock ECU is intruding, but Doug and I are going to sort it out over the cold weather break.

Arun, for benchmark purposes, what's the fastest / quickest you ran your car as a 6 speed? I've got sooo much friggin on-track work to do, but would like to get an idea of how fast / quick vette's in the same power zone have gone 6 speed. Thanks

 

thats priceless...