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Originally Posted by King Tut
Well spoken, and it will be nice to have another NASA guy in North Florida. I don't know if I have ever met you or not, but I have run with Southeast, Florida, NOLA, and mostly Mid South the last couple years. I agree with you that I don't really see a nationally run Spec series for these cars coming until the entry price gets much lower. I see it working similarily to the SpecZ series where you can get great examples for under $10k. Let me know when I can get a great example of a BRZ/FR-S for under $10k.
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Chris - Your name has popped up once or twice on registration and T&S, but we haven't met. I run race control and corner workers, so always cooped up in the tower or running around getting something sorted out. I rush down to the car and get out on track whenever I feel there's no mayhem to deal with or just to get some laps in the race for points. I'll be at Road Atlanta on 6/14 weekend and at Sebring on 6/21 weekend. Car should be fully caged by then, but still doing shakedowns and testing new suspension from Godspeed Project... so won't be in PTD. Will run a few laps in TTD just to collect points though.
The day they get down to $10K, I'm buying 2 and building rental race cars out of both to create a spec series if there isn't one by then.
My testing is actually related to SPEC racing anyway, so I guess I can elaborate. To be competitive in PTD/TTD, at high horsepower tracks like Rd ATL, the lack of torque hurts. The goal is to find out how to make the most power using the least amount of points while keeping costs low. Cannot exceed 199hp at 2885lbs to stay in PTD. I have all the parts, just need dyno time and testing time. Here are the parameters I'm playing around with since I own these and can use E-85 and tune for 0 points.
E-85, OFT, OFH, Cat delete, Borla catback, Crawford BPB, Pulley kit, Aluminum Driveshaft.
The cheapest combination that provides the most competitive car in PTD(power+torque) would be my proposed rules set for SPEC86. It'll be more fun having 2 other 86s that take a podium sweep in PTD using the same parts ("spec"), while racing against themselves, than racing by yourself in an "uncompetitive" car when the other 2 cars in your region have an emergency.
Chris - FYI, SpecE30s supersize to PTD in Southeast, so we can duke it out in PTD after running in our respective SE30 and S86 races.