★★★★LINCOLN 2014★★★★

[Scoob]

I'll reserve final judgment until I walk them, but East looks crazy fast and the West does not. That West finish should be interesting.

[MARKP]

Brian, if you leave Saturday morning, how are you going to get there by late morning or lunchtime? If you make it by then pulling your car, you have set a record.... LOL

I was thinkin.. Mark, you might want to close your eyes for this!

It's not the speed that kills, it's the sudden stop.

[ConeEater]

I fixed my post... dam you southern folk... can't read between the lines? Lol


I printed the courses out... have to check it out later. But I agree.. walking the courses vs looking them without a sense of true scale is tough. I'll wait to comment more after Monday... next Monday, that is.

[jdpeterson21]

Those courses both look pretty fast to me. Rife and I will be driving precisely 56.6 MPH for most of it.

[racersd2]

Flanagan, Scotty, Wendy and myself are leaving out Saturday night, be there sometime Sunday afternoon.

[jcox07]

Dam Jed, why you and Rife gonna be going so SLOW?

[TedV]

There's a 3rd gear in that transmission, right?

[steverife]

At Wilmington, we were in the limiter for about half the course, but it was just in between 2nd and 3rd for us. We were turning the car on the limiter in 2nd. We would have benefited from a few more mph's in 2nd, but there wasn't anywhere to get in the powerband and really take advantage of 3rd.

[dewittpayne]

Assuming cost were no object (hah), could you put larger diameter wheels on the car? With the same section width and profile, the large wheel would give you a little higher speed at the same rpm. Brian Burdette went the opposite way in his Mustang at Blytheville. He had a 3.73 rear axle ratio and 18 inch wheels compared to the usual 3.31 and 19 inch wheels. That put him in third gear before the end of the slalom. You do not want to hit the rev limiter in a Mustang.

[steverife]

Even if tire options and fitment weren't an issue, I'm not sure you'd want a taller tire on a car with such a peaky powerband.

If the course doesn't work in your favor, you just try to hit your marks and be in the throttle as much as possible and see how it plays out. If the courses drive a little slower than they look, they might serve the car really well.

[thrdeye]

Vtak sucks.

[Scoob]

Hitting the road tomorrow. See some of you this weekend!

[jcox07]

It looks like I will like Vtak course very well if it drives as good as it looks on paper.

[jdpeterson21]

Assuming cost were no object (hah), could you put larger diameter wheels on the car? With the same section width and profile, the large wheel would give you a little higher speed at the same rpm. Brian Burdette went the opposite way in his Mustang at Blytheville. He had a 3.73 rear axle ratio and 18 inch wheels compared to the usual 3.31 and 19 inch wheels. That put him in third gear before the end of the slalom. You do not want to hit the rev limiter in a Mustang.

Yeah I have thought about it. Like you said though that's a pricey experiment.

If the Z06 stays in AS, I'm pretty sure I'd just be throwing bricks in the grand canyon anyway.

[ConeEater]

Trailer fiasco is maybe resolved. Had to end up renting a u-haul one.
I'll know for sure in a few hours how that will work.