Sam Strano

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Relevant here for a couple reasons. It's LS powered. It has suspension and brake parts on it.

SIK02SS

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Awesome Sam, you're going to be having some fun! Do the rules allow you to upgrade the dry sump at all? the factory "dry-ish" sump isn't that great, Aviaid and i think lingenfelter have a bigger tank and something else that helps the sump perform as it should

3.8redbird

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What tires on the Zoh? Seems to hook well.

Ironhead

When I saw you were signed up for Nashville as a single driver, I was seriously considering calling you up to work out (and beg) a co-drive.

Then I just decided to sack up and haul my own heap out there. *shrug* Probably for the best. I'd never be able to get back in my car.

See you Friday.

Sam Strano

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You mean the "damp-sump" system? No I can't touch it since I'm in Super Stock.

But I'll keep Redline in there so I have the best oil film I can get. And a friend of mine has been beating the tar out of a stock oiling system LS7 for 6 years now in an ASP setup car without any issue. 2009 cars and later got bigger tanks too, but I can't use it until/unless GM supersedes the old one.

Sam Strano

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Well, Snyder has been pissing around. I still don't know if he's coming out there or not yet. Looks like you guys have a class in ESP now!

SIK02SS

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Gotcha. That's good, I was thinking they had issues in auto-x too, but it doesn't sound like it then. Have fun..and enjoy it

wrencher

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That's exactly the GM car you needed.
Love these cars for tracking, they are alot of fun.

Have seen some have oiling issues also. Others totally stock & never a problem.
Driven real hard too, no problems. Seems like a hit or miss thing?

Sam Strano

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Not really a hit and miss thing. Oil is EXTREMELY important, more correctly the oil film strength and not all oils are great at that... and one really popular one we've had trouble with a lot of spun rod bearings, which is why I run Redline.

LS14EVR

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Congrats Sam!

z28bryan

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Hope it wasn't German Castrol. That's what I use

wrencher

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Nope M1 I bet. Seen them blow with all the above in them though.
Big difference from street driving compaired to racing the car though.
Meaning if it's not primarily raced you likely wont see an issue.

Sam Strano

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The only ones we've had issues with were on Mobil1, I won't use it, I refuse. I'll use standard oil first.

Anyway... The weekend didn't go as well as I hoped. The course was slippery which made it hard to get any power down most of the time (even the Elise's were power oversteering so you can imagine what my Z06 was trying.... I'll try and post some video later). Then I had major cone issues. In fact I coned out, but in a class of 17 still finished 5th carrying dirty runs and 4 seconds of penalties that came with those damn coned runs. Also, there was a section of course on the banking that made you drop off onto the flat and slick asphalt apron, then turn back up to the banking while on throttle---I didn't like it to start with, less so when an S2000 slammed the wall (the one you see behind my car in the picture below). As competitive as I am, balling up my new to me car that wasn't $500 wasn't in the plans. The times I ran weren't bad, and I was the fastest Corvette there---but a little caution and a lot of cones did me in.



BTW, I'm not afraid of tracks. If we had just run up that banking in a straight line I'd have been fine. In fact another Z06 ended up in a tire wall out of another corner, and that didn't phase me at all and I continued to be crossed up out of that corner. But the pavement change + camber change + proximity to the wall + my being 38 and not 18 = a little discretion.