That Was a Great Time.

Hotter than hell though.

I like the fact that there is stiff competition. JIC, GMB, MWorks, and more. Too bad few showed up for unlimited though.

Yet, the more show up - Just Makes us have to work harder.

Next time I hope my car will have more than 48.5 miles on a new motor so I can get her tuned properly and bring home some trophy

Great job on the Win Mike and Scott, regardless how many competitors. You guys were changing tires all day so any trophy makes you smile.

M

 

Yep, that is the best so far in this car. My "Hot Lap" transponder had me at a 1.58.127 on Saturday though. The quickest I have been there in a Z ever was a 1.57.3xx. (that was two years ago) I have NO DOUBT that this car will be at least a couple seconds quicker the next time it sees Buttonwillow.

 

Wow! Under 2:00:00 for a lap that's outstanding. Wish I could have come out to watch but had other commitments.

 

Eagle1 great write up of the event. I always thought your car was stripped somehow. I was wrong. you posted some good times.. shed 2 seconds off your best time too thats a great job@! congrats!

Good luck to Scott and sincity350z hope you guys post some 1:54 or less! that car for sure will be crazy fast!

How did the VRT Bumblebee do?

 

Nice driving this weekend, I was there with the Z32 crew. What tires were you running this weekend compared to when you ran 1.57.3xx? I love the heat.

 

Congratulations to team Relentless! I only wish my trailer wouldn't have broken down on me so i could have been out there to share in the swealtering heat! I even had my 10x20 tent with me
I am still going thru the images from my photographer Big Dave. That has been extremely helpfull for us to see how the car is reacting in the turns. This is a serious group of guys (and girls) that have dedicated themselves to learning from what goes on out there on the track. And i am proud to be a small part of that team. Each event teaches you more and that's what it is all about.
The Relentless Team takes home a 2nd Place $300 contingency award from Kognition for running canards and splitter setup. Congrats to all of you!
I will have a new gallery added to our website tonite.
Mike Mishler

 

Thanks everybody for the kind words.

I don't know if we will ever win that Overall Time Attack Champion trophy and although it would be absolutely fantastic, thats not what we are after. There are much cheaper, lighter, and faster cars out there than the 350Z to build to try and win that trophy. Our ultimate goal is to be the fastest 350Z at the event because after all, thats our real competition. Lets be realistic, a $30k Nissan 350Z with off the shelf parts will probably never be at the same level as cars like full race Porsche GT3 Cup cars, Ferrari 360 Challenge race cars, or anything of that nature. The 350Z was designed to be a mass market consumer car with 287 crank horsepower, skinny street tires, and middle aged drivers going to work and back in traffic.

Thats perhaps maybe why we aren't putting a lot of emphasis on the 2nd place trophy we got. I think we would be more excited if 3rd place was the M-Workz 350Z or the VRT Rumble Bee 350Z instead of an '88 Mustang. Don't get me wrong, I am very proud and excited about the 2nd place. What we, and everybody else, had gotten these cars to do is incredible.

 

Hey, be careful, Mike..........I resemble that remark!

 

Ok, I change my previous statement to this...

The 350Z was designed to be a mass market consumer car with 287 crank horsepower, skinny street tires, and business savy drivers going to work and back in traffic.

 

There are lots of pix and vids from the event here, follow the multiple links on the thread from other members too. If you have more pix of the event, please share them with us.
Clicky

 

^^^Hahaha, of course you had to find a picture of us getting towed in lol. Turbo pipe blew off lol.

Anyways, here is a few more pics I got from the track photographer in the mail today.

This is the excessive body roll we were experiencing with the new cage stiffening the chassis. This was on Ed's street tires too. Time to get stiffer springs & sways!...



Scott getting a little crazy lol...


Use those curbs!


Notice both inside tires starting to lift off the ground. Thats one stiff chassis !

 

haha Just teasing with the tow pic. Was one of your crew (pretty big guy)driving a black SUV? If so, I met him at the gas station on the way back and chated a bit with him. I was in the Yellow Lotus.
What an awesome Weekend. I'm still feelin the high.

 

Nope, nobody with us was in a black SUV. So you were the driver of the Yellow Track HQ Lotus? You placed in Street RWD correct? Congrats if that was you! Was that your first Time Attack? They are tons of fun. Hopefully I can make it out to the east coast for one or two. I don't want to have to wait until November for Laguna Seca to do another one . Thanks for posting the link to the pics by the way.

 

Those are some great pix they took of your car Mike , so are you bringing the Z to play out in Pahrump?

 

Yep, I was the driver in the trackHQ lotus . Its my first time trying out TA and it was my 2nd time to Buttonwillow. So, I'm extremely happy with 3rd place finish. Luck was on my side , even with a broken shifter on my first TA run.
Thanks

 

You didn't miss a whole lot Mike. Just a lot of heat, and some blown tires and some turbo pipe couplers blowing off, hahahaha.

These are descent pictures of the car, but a terrible picture of me by the way

 

Scott.........do you ever sleep?

And that is not a bad picture of you at all. Who is the guy standing next to you?

 

 

Vid from the record-setting S15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjieeb1gGso

 

Congrats to all - looks like you guys had a lot of fun...

Here's a vid riding with Nils (crazy fast RobiSpec street tire Evo) and I think there's some footage of the Relentless Autosports car around 5:30...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMTRY_0a4zU