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S550 mavisky's "LOUDCAR" Build Thread Profile - S550 Mustangs
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2018 GT350
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6 titanium splitter skids. Our lot is anything but flat and there are a number of areas where they protect rhe splitter and rest of the chassis.
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Father's day event was another Win for us in class and overall PAX. Attendance was down a bit (93 drivers vs the usual 130) so our local reigning national champion Christian (see post above) was at home for the weekend.
Course was a tight course with big offsets on the elements. It was definitely a course that required you to be calm and not overdrive the car as blown apexes would lead to you being well out of position for the next element. It's almost like the esses around Suzuka in that regards to any Sim racers (or real racers who may have had a chance to drive there. We ran in the 3rd of 3 heats with a generally clean course and some good heat in the surface.
Our local class is a combined CAM class with T, C, and S and scored off of PAX so I was initially trailing Juan in his CAM-S Z06 and my longtime competitor Brent in his CAMC 2014 Mustang GT. Brent was about a half second up on my raw times through the first 5 runs as I just couldn't get out of the 40.1 -40.8 range. The car was behaving perfectly neutral with a little lift to tuck the nose or a little more throttle to add some understeer or alot of throttle to add some oversteer. Every time I tried to drive harder the I would go slower though and I just couldn't break into the 39's.
On my final run I decided to just try and drive tight lines and be smooth instead of "fast". The biggest change was a shift in my braking point for a tight downhill then off-camber tight left turn. By braking sooner, staying tighter, and waiting to get on throttle a bit longer I ended up getting through it and the rest of the course much faster and found 0.8 seconds to bring home not only the class win, but top PAX run for the event as well.
Course was a tight course with big offsets on the elements. It was definitely a course that required you to be calm and not overdrive the car as blown apexes would lead to you being well out of position for the next element. It's almost like the esses around Suzuka in that regards to any Sim racers (or real racers who may have had a chance to drive there. We ran in the 3rd of 3 heats with a generally clean course and some good heat in the surface.
Our local class is a combined CAM class with T, C, and S and scored off of PAX so I was initially trailing Juan in his CAM-S Z06 and my longtime competitor Brent in his CAMC 2014 Mustang GT. Brent was about a half second up on my raw times through the first 5 runs as I just couldn't get out of the 40.1 -40.8 range. The car was behaving perfectly neutral with a little lift to tuck the nose or a little more throttle to add some understeer or alot of throttle to add some oversteer. Every time I tried to drive harder the I would go slower though and I just couldn't break into the 39's.
On my final run I decided to just try and drive tight lines and be smooth instead of "fast". The biggest change was a shift in my braking point for a tight downhill then off-camber tight left turn. By braking sooner, staying tighter, and waiting to get on throttle a bit longer I ended up getting through it and the rest of the course much faster and found 0.8 seconds to bring home not only the class win, but top PAX run for the event as well.
blacksheep-1
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Still lovin' the Loudcar
Congrats on your win! On that first photo, it looks like the passenger side of your front splitter is about to scrape the parking lot!
Where was the parking lot? As soon as I saw the photo, I thought, "That's Georgia." Then I saw you are located in Georgia.
Where was the parking lot? As soon as I saw the photo, I thought, "That's Georgia." Then I saw you are located in Georgia.
It really looks great
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It scrapes the parking lot all the time, it's not the flattest parking lot ever built. We run down at the Echo Park Speedway parking lot (formerly Atlanta Speedway) on the south side of town. Unfortunately this is the only area we have to race and have to share with the PCA and BMW CCA as well as other events put on by KIA and when they use part of it for parking for other stuff besides the Nascar race. It seems like every lot in Atlanta that's big enough to host us is either littered with landscaped islands we'd have to work to avoid, has 10+ access points we'd have to monitor for onsite security, or doesn't want anything to do with motorsports so we are kind of stuck here.
These sparks are from the multiple titanium skids i have mounted to the underside of the splitter due to it making contact so frequently. Wears the skids down and not the splitter. Right behind the bumper you can see the transition between two surfaces that was created when they resurfaced part of the lot but not the entire lot at once. There are actually far worse dips out there that we usually try our best to avoid with our course layout. In the video you can hear them just kiss the asphalt at the 43 second mark.
