Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by gnat » Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:16 pm

Show up unannounced and make sure it is locked!

Some dealers are worse than others in protecting your car from the lookey loos.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 32wildbilly » Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:55 pm

gnat wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:16 pm Show up unannounced and make sure it is locked!

Some dealers are worse than others in protecting your car from the lookey loos.
I'll do that. This operation seems pretty solid. The Asst Sales Manager that I dealt with is a friend of the divorced side of the wife's family. Her Ex-husband was an ASM there are one time. We are friends. This guy worked with him in the past. He knows all the step kids...etc. Still I'll sneak out there "just to sit in it again" and I'll let you know.
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Post by DTMiller » Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:02 pm

Buddy just got one in white and he's coming to the track with me in May.
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Post by 32wildbilly » Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:25 pm

DTMiller wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:02 pm Buddy just got one in white and he's coming to the track with me in May.
They are supposed to be pretty quick on a track. Let me know how it does.
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Post by DTMiller » Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:29 pm

32wildbilly wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:25 pm
DTMiller wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:02 pm Buddy just got one in white and he's coming to the track with me in May.
They are supposed to be pretty quick on a track. Let me know how it does.
I can't wait. A little concerned. He's in that elite group of motorcycle owners who owned a functioning motorcycle for less than 24 hours.....
2002 Guards Red Targa, Fister exhaust, H&R Sport Springs, semisolid motor mounts
1997 MX-5 track car
Friday at the Track, Chin Trackdays, SCCA WDCR Novice Classroom Instructor, SCDA, Audi Club Potomac, TrackDaze HPDE Instructor
June 16, 2017 Funland GoKart Champion (6:13 p.m. main event)
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by Cuda911 » Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:47 pm

32wildbilly wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:47 pm
Cuda911 wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:28 am I found a great shortcut to improve lap times!
At least you kept the shiny side up! That's a good job in my book. Any damage?
Prolly some dings down below, but nothing obvious or important. Haven't had a chance to inspect it in detail. The pic is just before the spin... car ended up facing the other way. Got a good rock chip on the hood. It's a bad track to have off- track excursions. The track is at the foothills of some mountains, so rain erodes the edges and forms big holes and drop-offs. At least I fared much better than my buddy's GT3, which had all wheel bolts on left rear shear off.

Like DT's track car, I'm sure someone was very proud to bring it home shiny new from the dealership, but now it's just a track slut to be abused.

Nice new wheels ya got... congrats!
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 32wildbilly » Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:34 am

DTMiller wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:29 pm
32wildbilly wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:25 pm

They are supposed to be pretty quick on a track. Let me know how it does.
I can't wait. A little concerned. He's in that elite group of motorcycle owners who owned a functioning motorcycle for less than 24 hours.....
So you fear he might have no fear or understand his own mortality? Could be a dangerous combination. Are you going to sit in the right hand seat?
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 32wildbilly » Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:37 am

Cuda911 wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:47 pm
32wildbilly wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:47 pm

At least you kept the shiny side up! That's a good job in my book. Any damage?
Prolly some dings down below, but nothing obvious or important. Haven't had a chance to inspect it in detail. The pic is just before the spin... car ended up facing the other way. Got a good rock chip on the hood. It's a bad track to have off- track excursions. The track is at the foothills of some mountains, so rain erodes the edges and forms big holes and drop-offs. At least I fared much better than my buddy's GT3, which had all wheel bolts on left rear shear off.

Like DT's track car, I'm sure someone was very proud to bring it home shiny new from the dealership, but now it's just a track slut to be abused.

Nice new wheels ya got... congrats!
So you spun it after you left the track. The pic makes it look like you just over-cooked the corner. On the GT3...that's going to be expensive. Thanks on the new car. Just wished I could get it home.
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by DTMiller » Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:44 am

32wildbilly wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:34 am
DTMiller wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:29 pm

I can't wait. A little concerned. He's in that elite group of motorcycle owners who owned a functioning motorcycle for less than 24 hours.....
So you fear he might have no fear or understand his own mortality? Could be a dangerous combination. Are you going to sit in the right hand seat?
Yeah, I think he learned a lesson from it. He wasn't dumb enough to buy another motorcycle so there's that. He's my kids' karate instructor for the past 6 (holy shit, 6!) years and we've become pretty friendly. He could literally kill all of us in about 12 seconds if so inspired so I know he has the discipline necessary to be very very good so long as he understands what he doesn't know. He also got a ticket a few years ago for jumping off a bridge in Austin (this is apparently a thing) so he does have some risk taking tendencies.
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by TheDeckMan » Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:47 am

Cuda911 wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:28 am I found a great shortcut to improve lap times!
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