"perryair52" (perryair52)
11/01/2020 at 00:10 • Filed to: None
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went on my very first autocross event today at ncm motorsports in bowling green. it wasn’t a points event so no numbers and no leader board but also no working the track and you get to go round as many times as you can handle, which meant that in 5 and a half hours of driving i got 14 runs in.
what. a. blast.
good people, good times, lots of fun. i took more than 3 seconds off from my first run (45.9) to my best one (41.7), which was just off the pace from all the professional autocross folks out there who were pushing 40 and below, so i was super happy and felt good about my first try at it. also, tires still have tread, brakes still look good and no squishy pedal, no spin outs and only took down about 6 cones all day. hurrah!
but that’s not actually the reason for this post.
the reason for this post is that i was looking down the track after my first run and lo and behold, i saw not a miata, not a corvette, not a mustang, not a toyobaru twin (there were a ton of examples of all of those) but a lincoln. town. car. i introduced myself IMMEDIATELY after he queued up for his next run. dude has done a decent amount of suspension work to his town car and progressively got his times down through the course of the day to where it was on par with a lot of cars MUCH faster than his. his last run when i left was a shade faster than my first one, and i’ve got some bavarian b58 muscle and a very modern suspension on my ride. for all that, he is my hero of the day. bravo, town car dude.
(pic taken with his permission)
Chariotoflove
> perryair52
11/01/2020 at 00:22 |
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One of us took one round the Nurburgring, I believe. Heroes all.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> perryair52
11/01/2020 at 00:23 |
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Woah, that is really impressive. Must be a great driver to pull great times in even a modified one.
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perryair52
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/01/2020 at 00:26 |
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yeah i was impressed to say the least. i’m not sure i could get within 10 seconds of what he was doing if
we swapped rides.
shop-teacher
> perryair52
11/01/2020 at 04:54 |
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That’s awesome!
When I was in college, the school's SAE chapter put on some autocrosses with the local SCCA chapter. There was a dude there from Japan, who had a white early 90's Caprice (sadly, with a 305, not a 350). That guy hauled ass around the course in that beast! It was the damnedest thing to watch that white whale do things it should have never been able to do. To this days, watching him run autocross is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Speed
> perryair52
11/01/2020 at 12:19 |
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Amazing!
The Panther platform had some really excellent innovations throughout the production run, including a Watts link rear end straight from the factory. IIRC there was even a period where the front control arms were aluminum. They’re killer platforms.
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perryair52
> shop-teacher
11/01/2020 at 17:01 |
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was the caprice stock or were there some secret mods in it ya think?
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perryair52
> Speed
11/01/2020 at 17:01 |
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i will definitely say that it was a hoot seeing it blast around the autocross track. he’d done some lower control arms and sway bar that i saw, i think perhaps some other stuff as well.
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shop-teacher
> perryair52
11/01/2020 at 22:33 |
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It was stock when I saw him run it. Last I talked to him, he had blown up the stock diff, and was working on installing an LSD.
Danny Korecki
> perryair52
11/02/2020 at 00:17 |
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I want to be that guys friend.