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05-24-2005 | 10:47 AM

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Hey guys, I just wanted to thank all the guys for making it a great weekend. I am glad that no one got hurt and we all came back in one piece...Sorry about the side skirt Kelly but congrats on your 2 awzzzom awards! Mike, Jess and Brett It was a pleasure riding the tail with you guys and I hope to see you guys at more events. Hopefully when I get a break from work I can post some of my pics. MIke PM me the info for that guy we talked about. For everyone that didnt go, start making plans for next year...this is the best driving you will evr do!

Thanks for coming Hugo! I'm glad you made it down ok, with only 1 hour of sleep. This event must have been pretty special to you, with the 350 being your third Z and all. It was probably cool to see the Z's you previously owned. Oh, I can't wait to see your kit when it comes in, it's going to be hot.

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05-24-2005 | 10:53 AM

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Thanks Jess Its actually my 4th Z... and yes this trip was very special to me, I had been waiting to go for a long time... Thanks to all you guys it was a a safe and fun trip that I will never forget. No sleep and more than a 1000 miles worth of driving was worth it..Oh and by the way the next day I noticed I got a bulge in my front passenger tire ...oh well great excuse to get those new Toyo tires ive been thinking about.

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05-24-2005 | 10:53 AM

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Hey....I drove too!!!

Have you guys seen any of the vids in the main thread yet? In one of them, the guys' tires squealed on every sharp turn. We pushed the limits WAY harder than the guys in the vids were pushing and I never heard mine squeal once. I heard some scrubbing, but that's to be expected. How about you guys...any squealing?

I didn't squeal my tires once

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05-24-2005 | 10:56 AM

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I didn't squeal my tires once

Not while traveling in a straight line anyways.

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05-24-2005 | 10:59 AM

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yeah well trying to keep up with you and hugo was the absolute hardest driving I have ever done. I am getting those hotchkiss sways and (possibly) springs.

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05-24-2005 | 10:59 AM

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Hey....I drove too!!!

Yeah, I saw both vids that Bini2 posted, and it looked and sounded like they were flying, but I could be wrong. But then again, he was following Doug from Crawford, and they say no one can keep up with him on the Dragon, that's why he was hardly in the video (in the blue Z). Mines didn't squeal, but they did scrub towards the ends of our last 2 runs.

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05-24-2005 | 11:07 AM

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yeah well trying to keep up with you and hugo was the absolute hardest driving I have ever done. I am getting those hotchkiss sways and (possibly) springs.

Same here, I've never been so focused while driving. I got more confident, the more driving we did. I know I can push it a little harder next time, but that fear of flying into a ditch or off a cliff was a b!tch to overcome

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05-24-2005 | 11:12 AM

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yeah the flying off a cliff sure did make concentrating the curve a bit easier, I am definitely in for some drving school though...that will help make the dragon a bit easier to contend with.

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05-24-2005 | 11:16 AM

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I'm also up for a HPDE sometime in the future.

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05-24-2005 | 11:44 AM

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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone we had a blast. We should try to get together again soon. We should get a repository some where to dump all of or pictures on. I have about 100+ megs of pretty good quality shots of everyones car. I posted a few on the capital350zclub.com.

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05-24-2005 | 11:48 AM

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Mike, you put those sways on yet?

Concept Z Performance has those and springs from Hotchkiss that I am thinking about ordering...but I want to hear what you think of them.

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05-24-2005 | 01:04 PM

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Hey Mike,
I need to get the "How-to" done for the gallery, but when you get done adding photos to your album, you have to publish it. Go into the Gallery, select your album, then click on Edit. From there, click on "publish album" and check the radio box for "everybody can view the album". Leave all the other items alone, and then click confirm. Right now, nobody but you and the site admin can see it.

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