[Shotimes] OT: Ebay discount coupons

[Mark Nunnally]

> I wish that there was a venue similar to auto-x, but on a road course.
> Meaning not wheel-to-wheel, but single-car times runs around a track, and
> times tracked like an auto-x. Maybe I haven't been following things closely
> enough and there is such a series, but that would be something that would
> interest me a lot.

Ron, that's what I did with the black 89 with EMRA when I was in NY.
Basically Solo 1.  Where it's you against the clock on a track.  We'd run
practice and hot laps (just like a track event) although they'd let you pass
just about anywhere (which is a hoot!).  Do this all day, start getting a
rough idea of where your lap times are falling, fiddle with the car, keep
trying stuff through the day till you find the fastest line/set-up.  Then at
the end of the day it's just you running a balls to the wall, hanging it on
the line "qualifying" lap, or laps, on the track by yourself, just you and
the track and the clock.  It's a blast!  Then they've give out awards and
trophies and points and crap for the first few positions of each class.
They have a season long points series.

With EMRA, the SHO was a great car to run, since they classed it in like ST2
(like it was a slow turd or something). A 5.0L mustang, E36 M3, were ST1 or
STGT, etc Things like the quaife were "free" and the 3.2L backdate was
"free", etc.  pick your mods and stuff carefully to get the most speed, but
stay out of the next class.  I ended up running in ST1 due to the 12.2"
wilwoods (brake upgrade class bump) but I cleaned house.  They had the SHO
classed wrong IMHO, but due to no real knowledge of how capable they are
(who really races them?).  I had guys pissing and moaning all season about
my car, and how it should be bumped up.  Seems whatever class they put me
in, those guys were complaining about it to.

Www.emraracing.org

Run anything, probably find a class for your wagon.  Some of the western
events (watkins glen, etc) would be worth the drive, it's a hoot!  Just
throw on some high temp pads and fluid, and race rubber, and hammer down.

mark