[quote=“SE-R Racer”]
It’s the hair 
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Be nice now. It’s the in thing these days. :lol:
Adam was a trend setter 
Doesn’t bench racing ever get tiring?
For the amount of shit that gets bounced around this forum, anyone ever notice that the people that actually make it out to the track are the same people that have been doing so all along?
Crying about who has sponsorship and who doesn’t is weak.
Racing is expensive. But face facts, it’s a privelege and not a right. If people can afford to go racing, they can. If they can’t afford it, they become “experts” or “afficionados”
Just because you can afford to go racing doesn’t make you a good driver. Spend a few weeks watching and you’ll see. There’s guys that have been out time and time again, with full sponsorship (drift, drag, grip, solo I, solo II solo Han) for years that still suck. That’s what amazes me more. Seeing guys behind the wheels of majorly sponsored cars, with all the fancy bits, that are useless behind the wheel.
Whether your sponsorship is commercial or paternal, you’re still getting money.
I know guys in Regional that aren’t “factory-backed” that are very fast. I’m not going to name drop (I wouldn’t want to speak for him) but he told me Sasha blew past him in his Civic. His comments “Dude is fast. He’s got some learning to do, but the boy is fast.”
And don’t take this as hating, it was the only event I made it out to so far this year(Mosport), but there was a silver 200sx that could have been a pace car it was so slow.
You want to talk about Sasha being a menace? How about buddy in the blue turbo VW? He was all over the place … and FWD.
Sasha seemed pretty composed to me. Yes, there was an incident when he finished a race with only a handbrake. Maybe not the smartest thing, but this is a points series. When there’s only 5 cars in the field a DNF will hurt.
I’m not going to hum on his nuts for 5 pages, but face facts. Sasha is the best driver produced by/through/rubbed up against SON.
Until you can beat him, you shouldn’t trash him.
All this lap time posting, and none from the SER. I’m not trying to be an ass, I’m just curious.
Hating on what someone enjoys doing, is lame. Especially if you’re not good at it.
I don’t find cone-dodging fun. Usually because it feels nothing like a race track to me. But that’s my problem. It’s the same reason I get lost in gymkhana. My brain can’t process cones as a course marker. But to me, that tells me I suck.
I wasn’t there for “240-gate” at HADA, but I’ve been to enough events with SON members, and other 240 owners, and I’d side with HADA.
99% of the time, the guys are JDM twinkle-toe posing, lipping off, strutting about like they own the place, foul mouthed with no respect for what’s going on. They hate on anything non-240sx, and tend to not be able to back up any of their claims.
When you are a dedicated group that takes cone avoidance very seriously, that’s the last kind of attitude they want. Especially when you’re pushing 50, and this is the only thing that lets you feel non-midlife crisis-y.
Did anyone stop to think that maybe attitude outside of the car had something to do with it?
Heh. Ed, were you drifting in sandals? 
Maybe that was their problem.
There’s a reason drifting can’t buy space to hold their events, yet Solo stuff has been going on for years. It’s not the tire marks.
i watched him back in the day right from when he first got the cars… BAD ASS is an understatment.
GT
Actuall the Se-R lap times are there with everything else, click the links, and yes we were slow the first weekend, it was a shakedown for the car.
For the record, the first day I drove the car, we were in the mid 55’'s and got down to a 1:49, the second day out we were down to a 1:47.7. We made a tire pressure error prior to the race and the car was sliding everywhere, understeer into turn two, followed by lift throttle oversteer trying to correct is not a fun way to go, but we held it on the track pulling 1:53’s, I pulled it into the pits losing a lap, because I considered the car a menace to others out on track, it was very hard to predict what it was going to do. Took two pounds out of the rear tires and I went back out and cut 3 sec off, for a time in the 1:50’s it still wasn’t good, but it wasn’t dangerous.
Last weekend with some adjustments made we ran in the 1:43s, about 7 sec faster than we had run, and got a best lap of 1:42.6 and placed 3rd, got a cool trophy on the podium and sprayed some champagne.
i watched him back in the day right from when he first got the cars… BAD ASS is an understatment.
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There were some impressive flames coming out the back of that car!
Wasn’t blaize doing 21’s last weekend in his trans-am corvette?
Those porsches look NICE.
Matt thanks for the kind words, i’m gonna be honest i didn’t expect it from the “at least its a silvia” dude 
Adam, yea i’m on the D2s still, but i just purchased some new springs 550s for the fronts and 450s for the rear, and also got a REAL alignment done. The car felt awesome at TMP when i went to test.
I got the following alignment:
Front
4 degrees camber
0.5 degree toe out
Rear
2.7 degrees camber
0.2 degree toe in (couldn’t get them to toe out anymore with the setup)
I’ve ordered a wing (APR GTC-300) and built a splitter - err built a “bumper” (sentra dude will know what im talking about )
So hopefully some downforce will make me a little quicker as well. The problem is i’m just about out of tires now, i actually don’t know if my rears will last this event or not. I hope they do.
Then its the speed weekend at mosport so i should be able to get a few decent sets.
[edited] - decided to start a new thread since its likely going to take this discussion in a new direction…
[quote=“SE-R Racer”]
It’s the hair [/quote]
What hair :lol:
just wondering what caster you are running? i’m guessing in the 7.5-9s if u like a nice response with steering.
and hows the .5 toe out in the front? is it stable going at speeds of 140km/hr + in a straight line?
Yeah, but the lap records have changed every year becuase the series has changed the rules every year. The first year, there was T, GT and SGT, major difference was SGT could run on any tires. Last year, there was T, GT and SGT, all had to run on Toyo’s but SGT had no weight restrictions, now we have T1, T2, and GT with GT having no weight restrictions. There were many other differences but those are sort of the big items…oh and areo was unlimited up 'til this year…which explains your ‘bumper’
Want to borrow some 205’s? 
Oh, and by the looks of the weather, it’s changed every day I’ve checked it, you might want to have your rains tires ready…Perry must be doing his rain dance. Make sure you wave when his Sentra passes you
Do bald Toyo’s qualify as rain tires?
If they don’t Sasha is in trouble 
ya ive only got the dries.
it wont rain. not all weekend anyway
guess you will see how long the D2’s can handle those spring rates…
your camber looks about right if you are running on RA1’s… I have experimented on hoosiers with camber up to 7 degrees in the front and found anything past 5 degrees seems to be a waste…
Yeah, the weather network has changed it’s forecast 4 times in 3 days, but it’s Mosport…it could snow
Hopefully the D2’s will last the rest of the season, and then next season i’ll upgrade to something a bit better.
I was hoping for Tein N1 but they don’t make for S14, I would have to talk to them about something custom.
I’ve been told that Megan Racing Streets w/ 10/8 springs prove to be amazing track coilovers. (They come with 12/10 stock which i guess on anything less than a perfect surface could skip). They sell replacement springs now so it’s an easy combo to get and you would still be lower in price than anything of comparable quality.
Just something to consider
I’ve been told that Megan Racing Streets w/ 10/8 springs prove to be amazing track coilovers. (They come with 12/10 stock which i guess on anything less than a perfect surface could skip). They sell replacement springs now so it’s an easy combo to get and you would still be lower in price than anything of comparable quality.
Just something to consider :D[/quote]
It’s not so much the rates but how well the dampening is setup. Sasha needs higher rates with the loads the sticky tire puts onto his car.
Have yuo called Ground Control?
Or maybe Truechoice if you are thinking of going custom?
Depends on how much you want to spend…