Zax63

Sweet runs! You are the man to beat!

JAYCL600

nice runs man what did the Black Series run?

rflow306

Great runs you have a very fast car.

sack5000

Awesome!!!!!!

Did anyone ask you to post the name of the German that built your engine. We all need to check and see if we have a match, lol.

anthony d

you are the man rob!!! sorry i couldn't be there today brother, but you know i gotta make that money.

MACHC5

My CLK63 BS went a best 12.115 at 117.36 mph 1/4 mile with a 7.863 at 92.18 mph 1/8 mile on that run. Had a total of six runs in the 12.1's and that's with the stock Corsa tires and letting the trans shift by itself in sport.
And the 60' time on that run was 1.897 most times the 60' times were 1.90's, it's only a set of drag radial away from 11 second runs.

ItalianStallion

Ok, its a guarantee I'll be to the one in March lol.

Looks like I missed an awesome event (what else is new). Congratulations to everyone. It just proves the East coast has more skilled drivers than the West

But seriously, what a great event. Since it was so cold and I'm sure it was hard to get the tires to hook up hard I bet Gixxer could get under 12.1

JAYCL600

extremely impressive, congrats id love to see that thing run sometime.

juicee63

Enzoms 55 is simply AWE INSPIRING, Rob least you represented and looks like you gave the 55 some good comp..Great runs all of you , M5 at Sac was similar to this M5 both very fast and great trap speeds.

Jim , HUGE kudos for running the Black down a cold track.. You East Coast guys definately are better drivers!! We are learning and hopefully we can duplicate some of this, wel maybe not the running outta gas part , LOL.

I have done that as well , OG next time do not let the gas light come on, your car will go into LIMP mode and you are very lucky it was cold out. We had this happen several times. The car goes into a "pre safe" mode to prevent you from high revs..Then boom it will not go past 3k


THANKS ENZOM!!!!!

oldgixxer

No limp mode,but at least 7 runs in the 12.2-12-3 range were done on 92 octane as thats all they had down the street..
I think I'm going to upgrade to Michelin PS2s come spring time

ProjectC55

Is this Bob who was at Sergio's restaurant? It's Carl,great job there bro! I think those are some of the best times I've seen an M5 run.

RoydRage

Those Are The BEST Buddy!

I love mine, The Ride is the Best, The handling Best. They are quiet...

Don't know about traction though... Never tracked the car, but on the street my with my 295's if I punch it from a dead stop with ESP off... It Smokes the Tires Till When ever I let off

And that's not even full throttle either

Best, Ohh! And Rob.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

RoydRage

enzom

I brought my brand new, never used, Sony High Definition video camcorder to the event. I only took it out to show Oldgixxer. Too busy running to tape anything.

enzom

Nah, thanks to the guys that showed up. It was a very nice event. I only wish it hadn't rained the night before. The launching surface was crappy.

In March, with the new surface, I am hoping that we can all dead hook and see what our cars are really capable of running without any traction issues.

BTW - for all the traction issues, I did manage to run an 11.833 or 11.853 (slip is hard to read) @ 118.26 mph on a 1.737 60' time. I also had either an 11.854 or 11.834 @ 117.96, with a 1.732 60' time. I managed only 4 1.7 60' times the entire day. And I lined up at least 30 times.

Jim mentioned the wind moving the car around. I experienced the same involuntary directional changes, but I thought it may have been that I was running with tire pressures that were too low in the rear and the tires were squirming. But if Jim was running with normal pressure and his car was moving, the wind was much worse than I realized at the top end.

To be continued . . .

enzom

Thanks, man. I was actually very, very surprised that I was able to gain ground on the top end. I thought that with better gearing and slightly more hp, the 63 would keep its advantage.

We should compare slips to see where my 55 and your 63 differ generally on our better runs. You can tell a great deal about how the cars perform from the data on the timeslip, e.g., how much speed was gained in the last 1/8th, the time it took to run the last 1/8th, etc. I have about 15 slips I brought home, but for some reason, I do not have any of the slips for our runs together. So I have no idea what we ran and how close we finished, but I could see it was close. Did you get them?

oldgixxer

Yeah,I have the slips.I thought I posted thembut I will post em again.When I ran against Bobs M5 I went to the chronodek to get the slip but nothing came out.I'm pretty sure the M5 wanted to run again as he pulled right back to the staging lanes but I was running on fumes at that point.Then,well,the rest is history as I ran out of gas on the side of the road

Edit: Check the third pic from left in my #25 post above ^^

enzom

Ahh. Thanks.

ProjectC55

Lorenzo there is no way they would allow more than 15 cars to participate when they offer track rental?

Just asking?

enzom

The official rule is 15 cars. Unofficially, if they know you and know that you are bringing guys who are not going to blow up all over the track, you can exceed that amount. I had told the track that we could have as many as 20, and they were OK with that. As long as they get their money, they are OK.

From the perspective of organizing a rental, I would want to keep it smaller. Less to worry about. And when you add guys who you do not know, you don't know if some 10 second honda civic is going to show up and spew fluid all the way up and down the track. Nothing like sitting around for an hour doing nothing.

MB_Forever

I understand exactly what you mean. Over here in California, to get the track prices down to what you guys paid, we need 70 to 100 cars. And in that case, we are almost garaunteed to see a car or too blow up and start spilling crap all over the track. It then usually takes around 2 hours to clean and re-prep that track............

oldgixxer

ProjectC55

Well the event at MIR was pretty successful in Maryland. We had the track from morning 9am till evening 5 or 6pm . Out of all the cars that attended(somewhere around 50 cars) one car had a problem(E30 BMW 325 turbo) and the weather was also 90 degrees plus.

Just start a thread like SleeperX and Blackbenz did while listing the names of the folks/type of cars that they will be entering. PS There were no Honda's there racing

Many of us had multiple runs and the runs were only done by the guys who signed up! It was a success!

PS Anycar is prown to destroy something,look what happened to Stephans rear diff in his S600.

ProjectC55

Well we had 50 cars and thankfully we never had that problem. You can have 10 cars and one of them blows up and you'll still wait for that 1hr. Just that the chances are greater depending on the # of cars invited.

90 degree weather,multiple runs by many cars and one break down I'd say is pretty damn good!

The track stressed the rule that if you have a mechanical failure pull over to the right immediately and don't drive the car down the track.

Multiowner

Thanks Carl,
Turned out to be a good day.
Hats off to Lorrenzo for putting it together.
Check out the videos on the M5 board.

oldgixxer

Can u post a link?