Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

you had better keep an eye on that 911 he might hide it from you.

[Outback Porsche]

Morning Gents.

I’m about to hit the fart sack and this is what I’m confronted with. It’s certainly a dogs life...

[GH85Carrera]

It is a good thing yer dog ain't spoiled. ^^^

I have the 911 mostly packed. I have to have everything in bags so I can take it inside the motel with me, and then empty the 911 at the track and not have crap in piles everywhere. It is amazing to me how much stuff I carry all the time. The tools to change a tire or a fan belt, and tire plugs, and air compressor, oil and rags. The stuff in the glove box is fuses, and phone charging cables, and insurance and registration, and the manual.

My wife went to visit her mom today 90 miles away. She understood I did mot want to ride for 1.5 hours up there, 1.5 hours back, and then drive to Texas for 2.5 hours on the same day. So I stayed home from her day trip. She has to cut it short just to get back in time for me to leave.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Off to the mines to work. ok ok the dining room table.

[GH85Carrera]

I hope the traffic is not too heavy on your commute.

[Porsche-poor]

Approx 30lbs. One cat and one dog.

[flipper35]

Jeff, looks like you have your pup trained to pre-warm the bed for you. Good job!

[GH85Carrera]

My wife made it back home long enough for us to say hello, and then goodby. I made it to the hotel in TX with no issues. Tonight the drivers get together to eat some Texas steaks and do some bench racing. Tomorrow is up early, and head to the track.

[GH85Carrera]

Well I had a nice shower douche this morning. (See the center dispenser description of contents).

About to take off to the track and start unloading all the stuff and be ready for a day of FUN.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Except Glen he is off playing.

[flipper35]

With the boss' car no less!

[Porsche-poor]

he will have some explaining to do later.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Glen is to busy smiling to tell us about his track time.

[GH85Carrera]

This is one fantastic track. Lots a fun, and harder than Laguna Secca. Turn 3 is really just a double apex long turn. You really want to exit it right, or you are on the wrong side of the track for turn 4 winch is off camber, downhill, 8 story drop down into the canyon. I found staying in second gear and running to redline down the hill and braking hard to make turn 5 worked best for me. The 7 8 9 10 complex of curves is very technical and again you really need to nail the apex to setup for the .7 mile uphill straight. Turn 11 is again a downhill thru 12 and 13 is another double apex really long turn. It was one of my favorites as I could clearly see the turn, and screaming thru at 50 to 60 MPH is fun, and then a blind uphill very long turn 14 that to do it best for me meant nailing the throttle when I could just see the top of a clubhouse building, and drift to the left. Then down the back straight. Turns 15 A&B are another double apex one long curve.

It made me really happy to have a dry sump oil system. My 914 would never survive there with the oil sloshing away from the oil pickup.

I got to have just over 130 miles of track time. 25 minute sessions is forever. Twice I was thinking I will just come in on the next lap and they were waving the checkered flag.

The track is super smooth and unlike ordinary roads does not have a crown. It has a slope to one side or the other for drainage. Most of the slope is not really noticeable and the turns are positive camber. The downhill off camber turn is really hard to do it right and I scared myself a few times when I got too far away from the proper line.

It is a very safe track. No tire walls, no concrete barriers or guardrails at all. Mostly grass run-off area. Highly recommended. My face still hurts from all the grinning.

[Porsche-poor]

looks like fun.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

looks like fun.

THE most fun a guy can have in a car with his clothes on.

One of the guys that works at the track mentioned he had always been a BMW fan and bought into the “ultimate driving” theme. He said they never see older BMWs form the 80s or 90s on track, and rarely any Beemer older than a few years. Then there Porsches, and guys like me with pretty street cars out there flogging them and they just run and run. One other guy was there with an 85 9
911, but it is gutted, roll cage, twin carbs, modified 3.2 no heat or air, no sound insulation and so on.

Lots of newer Porsches. One corvette threw a serpentine belt and works on it all day so he could drive home.

[Porsche-poor]

I'm sure there is some rule about keeping your pants on while on the track.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

I'm sure there is some rule about keeping your pants on while on the track.

Yea, they require cotton long pants (jeans) and long sleeved cotton shirts, or a driving suit.

They had us do one entire session where we practiced passing with a point by. All the fast cars went out in front of me and there was no way in hell I could catch them to pass even when they were all supposed to slow down. Finally one of the other instructors went out in the Porsche GT4 and drove slow enough for me to pass him and then point for him to pass him. They want us to first point at your rear view mirror, to acknowledge you see the faster car, and then stick your hand all the way out pointing left, or all the way out and point over the car to the right.

The instructors were mostly driving new BMWs that were factory prepared as competition models, and have automatic transmission, but they can shift with the paddles. Either way a shift is milliseconds for them. I explained I have a 915 transmission, a clutch, and long throw so a fast shift is a full second at least. With all the shifting, my right had was busy shifting and my left had is steering, and I have no extra hand to point with.

One guy was in a new Cayman 718 and I stayed with him for 20 minutes. He could not leave me behind. In the pits I told him the reason I can stay with him is he does not trust his brakes. I told him he was braking where I was and even soon that I was, and I have analog brakes in a 36 year old car. He can go way deeper into a corner.

He too my advice and the next session I lined up behind him, and he too dissipated.

No doubt I had the slowest car there, but it is comfortable summer or winter. I turned 178,000 miles on the way to the track from the hotel that morning.

[Porsche-poor]

Damn modern cars and all their bells and whistles.

[flipper35]

Sure makes them nice on the highway though.

We have a brick house so we bought a new Generac pressure washer with electric start since my wife was tired of trying to get the one we borrow from dad to start properly. We aren't quite sure which century it is from but he paid $10 for it and likes it. We paid a little more. It also has a soap dispenser with a low pressure tip to apply soap to a car. I might have to put a manifold on the spigot to have a hose to the washer and another hose to rinse with if the low pressure nozzle doesn't disconnect from the soap.