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05-06-2014, 06:55 PM | #1 |
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Tail of the Dragon Trip
Here is my review to my Trip for the Tail of the Dragon
So i have a good friend who has a mini cooper and every year they have this big event called Mini's on the Dragon. Basically 600+ mini's and 300+ other cars get together for a lot of fun events. I will concentrate on the experience over all Lets start with the road there, from my area and back including miles traveled around fontana village down to Bryson City and Robinsonville over the period of 5 days I put 1650 Miles on the car. Out of those 1650 miles I did about 160 of those miles on the dragon and roads near by at WOT shifting most shifts around the 7 to 8k rpm range. Top Oil temps according to data logs were 129c My first run on the dragon was at 11pm at night so it was definitely trial by fire, good thing the only thing that was on fire by the end were my brakes. I tackled it the first time at night with out any course knowledge so I was happy about that at least. On the way back I did slow things down a little bit just to be sure I made it back to base in 1 piece. Over the next few days my buddy and I (who I trust and I know will not crash the car haha) tackled it a total of 8 times (Each time is a back and fourth trip so a total of 16 single runs). 0 Hiccups on the car and the turbo kit. I did find it hard to manage the hairpin turns as 2nd gear is a bit short while 3rd gear was a bit to sluggish for spooling up on those switchbacks that go right up hill but I did manage after a few laps of practice. All in all I kept traction control on because this was a grip run and I wanted to stay in my lane and not swing anything out in order to avoid accidents. Traction came on about 3 to 4 times at the most thru out the whole trip so I definitely was staying within the lanes and technical grip I had which was immense. I did manage to meet and see a few other FRS's and brz's there and got a chance to talk to one of the folks who is on the forum. While I am bad at names and forgot his he was definitely a cool person to talk with and I hope to meet more folks next time I go down. The scenery out there is insanely gorgeous so in addition to driving the tail a few times I did want to enjoy the surroundings so on my last day there before tackling the dragon one last time I took it easy and drove around for some nice photo ops. Other than that the dragon is extremely technical and over the few days I was there there were several accidents from people not staying in their lane. One of them happened to my good friend with the mini who originally invited me where he was driving at a very slow/normal pace outside of the dragon on the hell bender and a car came into his lane and side swiped him. The danger is real but so is the reward. All in all it was a great experience and I will be making my way back to the area when ever I can. Big Thanks to @ptuning @Mrc@ptuning for helping me track down a vacuum leak before the trip happened. Video of some runs of the dragon put together: [ame]http://youtu.be/E4NfLquZopA[/ame]
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What roads did you take while you were there?? Was up there with a S2ki about a month ago such a fun place to go
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Took 28 and a few other roads that would go to robinsonville and the cherhalla way etc. Its a total blast up there
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Yeah friend of mine was telling me about the back of the dragon Def gonna check that out when I'm down there next time..Also gotta hit up skyway on the way down there
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What brakes are you running? Looks like you definitely put them to the test.
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Thanks! Stock Everything except for HPS Pads. I will be switching to HP Plus this week for a track event this weekend.
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Is this road side fenced? Asking as all videos I see of this pass I never have seen an animal is all.
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No fence really it is mountainess region so any animals that are there either get run over or probably eaten by bobcats lol
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We saw you . The blue frs you posted a pic of is James. I was in my raven and my buddy was in a silver frs. What kind of turbo kit you have? It sounded MEAN leaving the store at the bottom of the tail
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Hey! Yes I talked to james, I am not sure his username here but I wanted to tag him. Sorry we missed each other and by Saturday when james and I were both driving together I was driving for an emergency and didn't want to drive fast. My buddy had just gotten hit by an on coming car.
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Sorry to hear about your friend, is he ok? On a side note, I thoroughly enjoyed the dragon in the frs. Mines still stock - an axle back. And it held up perfectly. Brakes definitely took a beating though. Had so much brake dust on the rotors it was almost scary.
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In terms of Turbo kit I am running the Ptuning Turbo Kit. Its Center Low Mount keeps all the heat out of the engine bay. It ran flawlessly! I did manage to set my brakes a little on fire (saw a small flame that quickly went out) lol as well as they were smoking for 20 minutes after my first run on the dragon which was at midnight! Only stock brakes with HPS pads haha
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And yea, all 3 of us were up at the BBQ truck and heard you pull out of the gas station. Turbo sounded amazing headed up to the gate at the bottom. We also saw another blue brz with a cf hood and trunk. He stopped and talked with us a bit at one of the pull offs.
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