Abide

what are your mods?

Edit: if your mods only include your signature then you could have been placed in F prepared due to your final drive gear change. Its barely better pax than ssm and will be even less so next year.

Edit edit: non-oem hood kicks you straight to SM or SSM or SMF depending on your car. regardless of other mods. solo2 rules are fun like that.

Ch0pper

Glad to hear you guys had a good time! When we do the HPDE (The Driver's Edge) event in the spring at the Motorsports Ranch in Texas, you guys should think about joining us. Hopefully they'll have us on the big 3.1 Mile track.

ans2k

how does the HPDE work?

and yes those are my mods. i might just put my stock hood back on next time.

icemans2k02

Basically Al you will have an instructor sit with you. It will be like that until they approve you solo. However, this is best since it will help you learn the track. its 4 a sessions a day and about 30 minute sessions. I have a video ill have to upload. its rather large.

fadiss2k

How much does that cost?

icemans2k02

If we get a group down its about 250 a person. Which for 4 hours of "track time" is pretty good

SLracer

So got the S up on a lift on base today and all is fine, dismounted the tire and cleaned up the rim and checked over the tire and its fine as well, didn't even need a rebalance! Got really lucky I am on 16" wheels and have tires with some decent sidewalls. Also got it aligned and that revealed why I felt like the car was on skates out there. 3 corners were +0.5 camber with the front right at +1.5 (corner that hit the curb). Had it reset to -1.25 in the front, -2 in the rear with 1/8" toe in. Car feels much much more planted than it did on Sunday.

When do you guys usually do the HPDE? I will definitely be down for some of that as long as its before JI leave in July

ans2k

Dang that cost quite a bit. But I that sounds hella fun. We should roll up with a bunch of s2ks.

SL, that's good that nothing went bad. Those are good chamber numbers. But if u don't mind me asking, why did u set your toe to 1/8?

icemans2k02

eh I agree and disagree. In one hand its ALOT of change to just spend on driving your car. At the same time you can really experience your car and drive it like it should be. You learn alot as the instructors normally drive a car either just like yours or with the same characteristics. Unfortunately this year had me hostage and i was unable to go but I am slowly putting money aside to make it next year. With that being said to make sure its a fun event get your stuff together... tires, fluids, alignment, etc. The tires I ran last time were horrible on rain and made for a drift event for the first two sessions for me. I almost went home I was so mad. However, when it cleared up the S drove better but the tires still sucked. Either way I recommened people to go. Rick and the guys are awesome and very welcoming. Its a place wherea guy with a 250k and a guy with 10k car see eye to eye while at the same time the guy with the 10k car pounds the guy driving the 250k car.

SLracer

When you think of the amount of driving time $250 really isn't bad tho. Ans2k, after reading up on the typical autox alignments it sounds like most people run anything from a 1/8 to 1/4 and people said even driving daily with 1/8 it didn't make a horribly noticeable difference on wear so I went with it. The toe in should help balance the car from what I have been reading, takes out a lil oversteer