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| Planimetric Track Geometry | Arial View |
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| Planimetric Track Geometry | Arial View |
Roebling Road is a 2 mile, 7 turn course laid out in Pooler, Geogia. There is not much elevation change. From the tower at the straight, you can see 5 of the 7 turns! Roebling offers plenty of runoff for the most part - there is no sand pits because, hell, most of the ground is sandy with grass covering. Wide spanses of this sandy top usually run into a berm along the tree line - mostly lined with tirewall. Several cars spun out into the dirt (I saw 3 of the spins - 1 on a Firechicken's tape) - with no rolls. The Firechicken actually spun to the inside of turn 6, where there was little space before a berm and trees. The car slid sideways across the berm - from right to left with no more than some sand in the air filters. 1 other was an Integra spinning in a VERY fast corner losing almost all it's speed in the dirt. One was a Porsche 996 (methinks) losing it out of turn 2. Overall, I rate the track as very safe, but very fast. Most turns are high 3rd gear - which is around 80mph in the 240. They're all pretty late apex sweepers. Our laptimes indicate just under 80mph average speed (and remember, we had a 115mph speed limiter).
Short list of modifications: Custom intake, custom exhaust, headers, electric fans, KYB AGX shocks, Suspension Techniques springs, Toyo Proxies RA1 sized 225x50r15 on 15x7 rims. For the second day, we had a Whiteline strut tower bar too.
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As a test, we wanted to see if we were right about the strut bar being in tension only. String was used, and was expected to stretch or break. A slight stretch was noted. |
In order to capture our best moments on tape, we had to rig up a camera mount. The car doesn't have a rollbar (YET, right Jim?! :-) so we had to do something! I brought several pieces of aluminum stock (Home Depot Specials). The strongest piece was a 2"x2"x1/4" angle piece. We removed the rear seatbelts and drilled the holes (in the hotel parking lot - that 18v coordless drill is coming in handy!). The IO port mount actually mounted nice and solid to the angle. The safety strap was then run and tied into the straps that hold down the sunroof when stored.
Of course we actually made it on the track. Here's pics of the car at speed.
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T3 with Porsche and Viper in chase | Closeup in T3 |
Viper and Porsche lose ground |
Straight from T3-T4 Don't Jump!!! | ||||
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| Coming out of T5 | Closeup entering T6 |
Following Boxster through T6 | Braking for T6 | ||||
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Closeup into T6
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Thru T3 with lean
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On the straight - most | likely at the speed limiter
T3 in traffic
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A lot of cool cars came out. A good number of nicely modified Acura NSXs, several real race cars (DSR, FM, crazy Radical).
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Nice brake setup. Brembos for real stopping, custom single piston for ebrake. |
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| 300Z brakes on 280Z! |
Best sounding car on the straight had to be this FD3S. As with all 3rd gens (don't flame me!), it was in pieces at least once during the weekend. A bolt for the water pump pully loosened and sheared off. He got it back together and was running fine later.
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Neat intercooler (BEHIND the radiator - as it should be) with elec pull fan. |
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What appeared to be a Hyundai factory backed team running (most likely) Speedvision Cup or Motorola Cup was there building and testing. At the end of Sunday, a nice trailer pulled in - Formula Atlantic cars, anyone???
A nice Ford Ranger - originally, we thought it would be the 4cyl skinny tired one. Luckily, we got the V6 "EDGE" package. Nice, comfortable truck. Even had a hitch - just in case. Tom was in awe of Ford's spelling of gauge.
