Morning Y'all. I think I hate my job, I'll let ya know later

I was lost for a min an some young wench said its over there and that's where I went. She was right, it was over there. She was nice.....

Don't know which is worse Work or Job.

Next time you have that much air to pump into your tires just swing by my house. I have a real air compressor. We can fill em up in seconds.

Good Morning folks.

I will be ordering a scissor lift real soon. It will only raise the car 48 inches or so but that will put the roof of the car up to the ceiling. The big disadvantage of a scissor lift is getting to the middle of the car where the reverse light switch is so it would not help much for that. For th most part there is very little to do on the bottom middle of my cars.

Morning everyone.

So I looked into PlastiDip vs. Vinyl Wrapping. I think I am going to go with my original thought of vinyl wrapping. Also, while I have the sun roof out, I am going to replace the seals. My car is a dark red, so I am going to go with dark red for the body and carbon fiber for the hood, deck lid and possibly mirrors.

Carbon Fiber sounds cool, but is much more difficult to install, if you don't get it straight or stretch it, then it looks really bad.

Maybe I will just do the deck lid then in carbon fiber. Less chances of error.

I also have a turbo style whale tail that came with the car from another SC hanging on the wall. I am split between installing it or not.

I like wings and tails

Morning all. Off to go play nice at work. Yesterday for lunch we had a fire alarm. No one in our office left.

DO IT!!! I love whale tails.

Plastidip looks great....on wheels. I just did a test on the spare for my Series Land Rover and I'm pretty dang happy with the results. It used a whole can, but it was pretty painless. Took the wheel off, wiped it down with soap and water to get all the crap off then doused it in alcohol, let it dry. First coat is supposed to be very light.

As for vinyl......I give, I don't have the patience for that crap. I'm gonna have the car detailed professionally and see where that leaves me. Pretty sure a good wet sand, clay, etc. will take care of my issues

And security should be coming around any minute....
Got some food stuffs shipped to me, came in dry ice.....I'm apparently still 12 at heart, first thing I did was make a dry ice bomb.....there are little bits of plastic bottle almost 100ft away...

For Glen...SmileWavy

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What a waste of money. Oh well as long as I don't have to pay for it, have fun.

I don't understand drifting and burnouts at all. I guess if I was selling tires I would think it is the best "sport" ever. Since I don't it I think it is just stupid looking.

There is a guy on El Camino Central that for all intents and purposes has a bad ass race Corvette with a El Camino body on it. He has some great videos of racing at the track and passing sports cars and running away from them. He has some 700 HP monster engine and race slicks and some huge brakes.

Whatever.

My idea of drifting on pavement is when ALL FOUR tires are at a 8° to 15° slip angle, if you lift off the throttle the car rotates more instead of straightening out, if you increase throttle the car pushes to go straighter, and steering input is minimal unless you mess up then it is turning into the skid to keep from spinning out.

The only time I've really ever tried to do the rear end drifting is when the autocross course does a 180° turn around a single cone where the turning radius is so small you are doing more of a bootlegger turn (changing direction of travel 180° within the width of a 2 lane road) than going around a curve.

Costs the 928 guys about $1600 USD to get a 928 wrapped, wrap and labor including carbon fiber on hood. Say it takes about 3 days.

I just can't abuse my drive-train and tires like that. My Elky does not have near enough HP to drift and the suspension is a way to soft.

The 911 will certainly hang the tail out but it is a open diff and one tire would spin and peg to red-line in a heartbeat. I just can't abuse my cars like that. It for sure is not the fast way around a track.

I know the guys on Top Gear all love to do J turns but they are not using their own personal car.

I could change the heads and intake on the Elky and get plenty of power to do drifting but I could set my hair on fire and call myself a redhead as well. Both are equally as likely.

In Ilford's book on Perfomance Driving were it talks about slip angles and going around corners the fastest he uses ice racing as the example where a super high slip angle is the fastest way around the corner due to the slick surface. When he asked a famous Scandinavian racer how he learned to hang the rear out so far, the racer said, "Much practice, and many many cars."

Watch some show on drifting where a team prepped a late model 996 for drifting. They said power was NOT the issue, but re-designing the front suspension to turn the wheels far enough when counter-steering to keep the car from spinning out was the most difficult part of car prep. I remember the big honking b rear brake level coming up from the back seat area between the front seats to just behind the gear shift.

On a slick surface like dirt or ice lots of slip angle is fast. I try HARD to avoid going fast in those conditions. On good dry pavement it is NOT the fast way. The day the drivers at Le Mans start drifting all the corners is when real racing as come to an end. The F1 drivers on occasion 4 wheel drift a corner but they don't want do it on purpose.