one day at laguna seca in my FFR cobra and i said its WAY too scary for me.
i havent driven one with the 3 link, which is apparently MUCH better than
the 4 link i had at the time. talk about roll steer!
the spec racers are about 2200 lbs+driver, with donor mustang motors (stock)
and 2.73 gears. the problem is, there is no one with much road racing
experience driving one yet, so we dont really know how fast they can go.
some of those poor guys had a total of exactly 3 license days on the track
and then started racing. yikes.
ill email you privately about the accident at buttonwillow, as im interested
in an eyewitness account.
-james c
----- Original Message -----
From: "pkincy P KINCY" <pkincy@msn.com>
To: <james@thevenom.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Factory Five Racing and The Bondurant School of High
Performance Driving
> I really liked the FactoryFive class in NASA. We run with it quite a lot
> with very similar lap times. (CMC is Camaro Mustang Challenge and is
stock
> motored, 3200 lb +, hard tired <Toyos> with 8 inch rims). I believe the
> Factory Fives must be about 2800+ lbs with a crate 5 liter Ford motor.
>
> Unfortunately I decided I didn't like the car much after one hit the wall
in
> front of me at Buttonwillow and basically came apart after the front right
> suspension deposited itself in the passengers lap (Friday Open Testing day
> and passengers allowed).
>
> They seem to handle nicely and have fair (remember the crate motor) power
> but can't really rub paint the way lots of our normal run group can
> (American Iron, American Iron Extreme, ASC, CMC and NUTS trucks). so they
> tend (with one normal exception who is quite fast and most likely far from
> stock motored) to motor around quietly and stay out of the way while
looking
> darned nice!
>
>
>
> Perry Kincy
> pkincy@msn.com
>
>
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