Lol

M

 

Congrats on the wedding Ed. I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to walk down that road again, lol.

Ty

 

Again...

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I read through that thread on viperalley.com. They are swinging because it's not your car, not your times, etc. They are reaching for sure, however, I am going to I can get down to BigWillow [I use BW for Buttonwillow ] this weekend to drive yet an OLDER Z. Same owner, same driver - just to play. ;-)

EDIT: So wait - VRT and Co. is NOT going? No fun...

SS

 

My car is torn apart preparing for the upcoming time trials. Other cars are being used for a Drift Event. Perhaps some of my clients are going, not sure, check the sign-ups.

M

 

TORN APART MIKE???

NOW what are you doing? Anywho, I wish I got hear soon enough to comment on Ed's G. That thing is wicked fast. Oh well, hopefully I can lock down this job and get the funding up to start going with yall to track days. I feel like Im going through withdrawl since the last one.

See you around Scott, Mike, Ed.


J

 

What thread have you been reading????Didnt you notice the venom just after I offered the Z as an alternative to the Cayman S???....Thats what got them off.....Not the fact that I dont own a track ready Z..I didnt mention VRT till the last page...Soon as I posted about the Z thats when it started..... ....Read the first 5 pages bro....Didnt you see the "too weak to race parts"????Nothing about VRT Z then....They made general statements about the Z from the get go....Im not even remotely mad at these fools because I know how they think....Been lurking there for years....I just get a kick out of how willing they are to showcase their arrogance and pompousity....One told me that I had no right to butt in on their private conversation with my initial post...ON A PUBLIC FORUM...lol...Pompous with a capital P...

The part about me not owning the VRT Z was just another reason for them to nit pick and hide the fact that they were dead wrong bout the Z....

 

Where are you Bro...Haven't talked and hope your car is still kick ***.

SnakeBitten
All good, if they could learn to drive their cars instead of talking, they would be crazy fast. Seems as if these types like to spend the money and just brag, yet not get thier tires hot...

M

 

1:25 is sick-**** fast at the Streets of Willow. Very nice driving, Ed!!!

 

Ah, give credit where it is due, we must. It was Scott Bush driving that time.

Mike, Brent and Scott finished putting the car together on Thursday, did a little straight line city street shakedown to make sure it would run, then Scott threw it on a trailer and brought it up from San Diego to me about 10:30 at night up in Altadena. We jumped up at the crack of dawn on Friday, and hauled it up to the Mojave, unloaded it, met Jay Chen for the first time, put the GPS transponder in it, and got on the track. Scott got to warm it up for about two laps, then did three laps..maybe four, and that was it. That was our time for the car. The front left damper servo motor was fritzed so we had no ability to set the suspension damping with the Tein Flex EDFC the way we wanted to, and on a "handling" course like that, in a clockwise configuration, to lose the left front is a SERIOUS handicap. Nevertheless, Scott ran a clean 1:25, and after that lap pulled in and said "that is it". With that suspension that is the best I can do. For a guy to have a half dozen laps experience on a track, in a new car set up..........what is that phrase we always hear about drivers making the difference???? Now, there are three parts to this experience that give it power. The first of course is that it is totally independently timed by very experience car magazine gents. Jay Chen as editor of SCCM knows the equipment and what he is doing. (The fact they could not keep the thing strapped down on the dyno jet and we had to dial down the boost and put weight in the trunk etc just to get a reading is another issue for another thread). The second is that we had a driver who is not experienced on Streets of Willow. The third is that Mike Cronin Jr., an acknowdged pilot from the Performance Nissan Grand Am Cup team was there in a Unitech Racing prepared 350Z. He is the KING of Streets of Willow, with self admitted experience of more than 5,000 laps, and his best time on the track right then and there with us.......was a full second slower than Scott Bush in a VRT prepared G35 and a limp suspension setting, on a newly set up car. In addition the sway bar set up was wrong and we adjusted that the following weekend because we had understeer. So yes 1:25 is fast....but there was a lot more in it.

My time? First time ever on SOW and first time ever in the TT (after running supercharger for two years in the beast) was only 1:30. I am pretty sure I can do at least two seconds better in the car now.........but I am also pretty sure Scott could do better than that in the car now. Never going to catch that lad....something to do with.....skill and talent!

 

Hi Ed,

From the sound of it, once you have it dialed in, Mike Cronin Jr. will be begging a ride to get top track status back.

Cheers Amy -

 

Thanks for the kind words again, Ed.

There was a good two or more seconds left on the table that day as far as potiental for a quicker lap time in your car for me that day. Your car is so awesome, best compramise between a quick and comfortabley stable track car, yet still very comfortable and streetablel. This is still the reason that it is one of my favorite cars we have ever built.
Love this car, I would not pass up a chance to ring it out (so to speak) again for you, anytime anywhere.

 

Scott:
I promise you will get the keys to give her a try on tracks up and down the state this season. (I don't want the p[otential of thte machine to be wasted with me!).
But seriously, there is as we all know so much that depends on the driver skills to know what a car can really do. I am not sure what the benchmark for that is, other than that it clearly is a level of ability that is above what I have, or ever will have. And that is ok. Just the reality of it.
As for Mike Cronin Jr., he was and has been the consummate gentleman and nice guy to me in our time at the track together, and several phone calls after that day. He is an outstanding driver and knows the 350Z platform about as well as anyone can. His driving line at Streets of Willow is just beautiful and consistent.....and consistently fast! Given a choice, I will always choose to drive rather than watch. But if I have to watch, I would certainly pick Mike Jr. out to follow around the circuit. He is good and there are good things to learn by watching his technique.

 

+1

I tried to stay with his line in (Mike P's) Red Z and struggled.

Hope you are well Ed. The Irwindale crowd loved her in the show booth.

M

 

I think the gorgeous gal getting her picture taken in front of the car is what the Irwindale crowd was loving. How about sharing one of those pics for the adoring public?

 

Have to hype the Calendar coming out...

Your Girl is beautiful ED...