Great race, probably the most fun I've had yet.

 

Found the cause of my network issues late last night, my server froze(stupid pos) causing the dns to go down. wish i could have made it.

Anyways wednesday Andymonster said he wanted to setup this weeks, so he should be posting the race hopefully soon.

 

That was a fun race. After the Japanese touring car race, I was too afraid in my passes and when I let people by, lost a lot of time. But I finished the race! As usual, my qualifying didn't reflect my practice times and then I took forever to get up to pace during the race.

We still have work on the qualifying setup, here's a few suggestions:

1. make us ghosts, so we can't get dirty laps from drafting, that killed me
1b. as an alternative, make it known that dirty laps count. I sacrificed a few hot laps to try and get a clean next lap, when I should have just kept going.
2. Someone should take a cell pic of the qualifying results and be the marshal for the line up, way too much confusion.
3. For the line up, NO ONE ------- MOVE. So many people were trying to get in place with half the pack still moving 30-40mph. With all the confusion, we were half way to the chicane before we gave up and went with the order we had.
4. Said marshal with said cell pic should be the only one to talk, calling out car by car who needs to be in front. They and the person moving to the front should be the ONLY ones moving.

 

Why are you guys so worried about qualifying? As long as the faster guys go to the back, who cares? If you really want to get serious about qualifying, you should consider how anyone can easily sand-bag and start at the front.

 

Yeah I'll make everyone a ghost for qualifying. Then have the lobby setup post-qualifying to put us in order of our times, fastest to slowest. Then I'll snap a cell phone pic just in case and tell people where to go.

It is hard to cordinate 14-16 people to get in their spots, especially if they've never raced with us before. I usually have to yell over everyone, lol. It would probably help if two or three of the regulars reminds everyone to STFU when we I'm trying to say something productive. It's amazing the difference between one person saying STFU and 3 people saying STFU, lol.

Although I don't want it to seem like we can't BS whenever. I think that's some of the appeal of it all. I enjoy picking hustler's head about AST's randomly, I'm sure other enjoy the same type of thing. I don't want it to seem like I'm the raid leader and we're going 40 deep into Blackwing Lair in WoW, lawlz.


On another note, I played around with some of the AI cars last night. I think I've decided on Sebring Club Circuit for the track. Laps times around 1:11-1:13 un-tuned in a few cars. I know some don't like short tracks, but it keeps the racing so much closer when it is shorter. There's so much 'Merica in these cars!

 

Liberty:

 

Zomg I suddenly want to be fat, own a gun and watch NASCAR.

In other news, we need our Wednesday spec Andy!!

 

Pics of Taurus coupe driving in circles?

You cannot deny American Iron. When there's 30+ cars on the grid, screaming, sliding a lot...you are required to respect it. Its pretty much the most manly thing I've seen in my life.

 

I'll cobble a slow POS together this afternoon. Which car/track combo for wednesday?

 

We don't know yet, Andymonster (not sure if that's his mt.net sn) is supposedly making one.

 

Curly do some of the autocross events, get faster.

 

Sounds like you guys had a good race, sucks I slept though it. oh well next time. Can't let flier take the wins now.

 

Is that what I need to do? Bah, I hate those things. I can never build a good car.

 

we can always resort to spec miatas if andy doesnt post anytime soon

 

Spec Miatas at or under 140whp. If you build to the NASA SM mod regs, it will make 180hp and that is not a legal SM. I can share the formula when I get home later tonight, after the gym.

 

I've got a pretty decent D class miata. Is that spec enough or is SM faster?

 

American Iron times at Sebring Club, all parts based off what hustler posted up, all cars are un-tuned, and this is a 5-6 hot-lap session:

02' Camaro - 1:11.218
95' Mustang - 1:12.785 f*cking thing flipped.....
87' Trans Am - 1:11.378
02' Trans Am - 1:11.282
93' Mustang - 1:12.009
90' Camaro - 1:10.646(lol)
05' Mustang - 1:11.434

For ***** I ran the Spec Z, my B500 00' S281 Saleen , and the B500 MR2 we did earlier, same track......

Saleen - 1:14.950
MR2 - 1:14:122
Spec Z - 1:13.970

 

American Iron Series

'Merica


//Sebring Club Circuit

Sunday March 4th 9:00PM Eastern

This Sunday we will be racing Nasa's American Iron series. Enough power and light enough to have some fun!

-31 lap race, first lap will be a flying start!
-Any wheel is allowed
-Tire width can not exceed 275mm front or rear.
-Qualifying will be ghosted, fastest in the back, slowest in the front, post-qualifying.

AI Mod lists:

95 Cobra R
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Race
Intake and Throttle - Race
Fuel System - Stock
Ignition - Race
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Street
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Stock
Oil and Cooling - Race
Flywheel - Sport
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A

'93 Mustang
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Race
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Race
Ignition - Stock
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Stock
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Stock
Oil and Cooling - Race
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A

'05 Mustang
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Race
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Street
Ignition - Race
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Stock
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Stock
Oil and Cooling - Race
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A

'02 Trans-Am
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Stock
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Stock
Ignition - Race
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Sport
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Stock
Oil and Cooling - Stock
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A

'87 Trans-Am
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Stock
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Stock
Ignition - Street
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Sport
Valves - Race
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Sport
Oil and Cooling - Race
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A


'90 Camaro
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Race
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Sport
Ignition - Race
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Stock
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Street
Oil and Cooling - Race
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A


'02 Camaro
Engine and Power:
Air Filter - Stock
Intake and Throttle - Stock
Fuel System - Stock
Ignition - Stock
Ehxaust - Race
Camshaft - Stock
Valves - Stock
Displacement - Stock
Pistons - Stock
Oil and Cooling - Sport
Flywheel - Race
Platform and Handling:
Brakes - Race
Springs and Dampers - Race
FARB - Race
RARB - Race
Chassis - Race Cage
Weight Reduction - Race
Drivetrain:
Clutch - Sport
Transmission - Race
Driveline - Stock
Differential - Race
Tires and Wheels:
Tire Compound - Race
Width - 275mm max all the way around
Aero:
Splitter and wing only
Conversion:
N/A

 

Hell yes, my neighbor finally paid his Comcast bill. I've got home internet again.

 

Glad to have you back, lol