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Welcome 665, and do consider getting in one of your HPDEs by going to the Mustang Roundup in August at Motorsport Park Hastings! The fun part is there is a Class for everyone and you do get your runs timed. Check it out at racemph.com and you will meet plenty of TMO members there.

Bill Pemberton

Can’t wait to see it. Love Gen1 S197s. Will own another soon.

Bill Pemberton said:

Welcome 665, and do consider getting in one of your HPDEs by going to the Mustang Roundup in August at Motorsport Park Hastings! The fun part is there is a Class for everyone and you do get your runs timed. Check it out at racemph.com and you will meet plenty of TMO members there.

Bill Pemberton

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I have a coworker who was just up there this weekend. I do plan to make it up there this year, but I won't be able to make it to the Mustang Roundup. I already have other plans for that weekend. I will be at the Mid America Ford and Shelby Nationals in June. Not sure if I will be participating in any on track activities or just spectating.

Well change those other plans ,ha! Best place to get some track time and the track is quite safe!

I took advantage of Apex’s tax day sale and picked up some CSM legal EC-7’s.

Congrats, they are a very good quality wheel and there are plenty of us on here that have purchase a set , or two, or three, or eleven!!

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Congrats, they are a very good quality wheel and there are plenty of us on here that have purchase a set , or two, or three, or eleven!!

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Or....just five. Also shopping for wheel for wife's Mustang

I attended my first autocross this weekend. It was a 2 day event here in town. Right now the car is all stock the way I bought it, except for the wheels and I but a set of Falken RT-615k+ 275/35-18's on it.

The first day was good, trying to not get lost on course, and learn the basics. I ended the day about 5-6 seconds slower than the average time of the group. The second day was much better. There were 3 of us in my class. I ended up with the fastest raw time, but hit 1 cone on each of my fastest runs. The 2 second penalty bumped me from 1st to 3rd place. On my last run I could feel the car moving around more that it had before. I initially thought the tires might have been getting greasy, but I also didn't check tire pressure all day. I set them at 32psi cold in the morning and didn't look at them again. By the end of my 6th run, they may have been well over 40psi.

Tonight I'm going to start putting all the parts on to be legalish for CSM.

Heh, nice lesson to learn early , the tire pressure gauge is your friend. Sounds like you had a good time and CSM is a growing Class , but still fairly new, so great time to get into the Class!

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Heh, nice lesson to learn early , the tire pressure gauge is your friend. Sounds like you had a good time and CSM is a growing Class , but still fairly new, so great time to get into the Class!

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Since it was my first ever autocross, I was trying to take everything in. I was there to have fun and not take it to seriously. I will definitely be paying attention to tire pressure next time.

Oh, we all did the same thing and learned the same lesson. Heck , my first Autocross 45 years ago I hit cones every single run and ended up DFL,ha!!

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hit cones every single run

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Somebody forgot to tell Bill NOT to hit those cones...........He must have thought He was doing great!!!!..............................just kidding.................

Over the weekend I installed all the CSM suspension and brake parts I had accumulated before I bought the car. Also replaced the leaking steering rack with a re-man from Rock Auto. Did a rough alignment so I can take it get aligned in a couple days.

I'm looking for a stock H-pipe/cats and a set of mufflers.

There are local autocross events the next 2 weekends. I'll likely run in CAM-C for the foreseeable future.

When you are noting cats are you looking specifically for a hi-flow set?

To be legal for CSM, I have to have stock cats. Right now the car has some aftermarket cats that are very poorly welded into the OEM piping.

Good to know , I would sure check around as the price of Ford stock cats can vary widely. The danger is buying an old set hoping they flow right and then finding out they are plugged. Usually the old ones are unobtainium anyway as they have already had all the valuable metals harvested out.

Yeah, I found one guy locally selling some off of a wrecked car, he wanted $750. That's a little rich for my blood.

Part of the concern for you is that old cats do get plugged and because of the metals used they still go for new prices. You likely will be better off buying new ones though they will be pricey also - tough situation.

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Over the weekend I installed all the CSM suspension and brake parts I had accumulated before I bought the car. Also replaced the leaking steering rack with a re-man from Rock Auto. Did a rough alignment so I can take it get aligned in a couple days.

I'm looking for a stock H-pipe/cats and a set of mufflers.

There are local autocross events the next 2 weekends. I'll likely run in CAM-C for the foreseeable future.

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How do you find the CSM spec tire compared to other options?