What a fun day.. I went to the 6th annual Hotchkis open track day at Buttonwillow with the SS..

The car did great and really performed well.. I pushed it had but not so hard as to go off track (didnt want to spend 3 weeks cleaning out the dirt).. Suspension felt good and I was hitting 115 in the straight!

Fun moments.. following the Centerforce blown C5.. kept up pretty good and he barely pulled me in the straightaway..


Sharing the track with a brand new Lambo..


Note: car was BRAND new so driver was taking it easy.. cost was around $350,000!! V12 engine

Passing a blown silverado truck in the straights.. and shooting through the Esses!

It was funny since a lot of people recognized the car from the previous weekends Super Chevy show and the magazine.. the comment was usually "are you going to take that on the track?" I guess people dont expect that I actually use the car as it was intended.. trailers are from broken cars!

Oh, a guy approched me and said he shoots for Hot Rod magazine.. thought my car would look great on the cover (or inside) and gave me his card.. only problem would be if his editor didnt want it cause it was in Super Chevy but he felt confident since a lot of changes had been made since then!!.. Cover of Hot Rod would be the ULTIMATE.. either way it was quite a compliment

Other cars there included Vipers, BMW's (M's & M3's), a lotus, lots of vettes, mustangs galore (including one that f'd up his engine trying to race me on the way to the track.. a litteral KILL story)

Here is one of the many "race cars" that showed up


This stang competes in the silver state and other open road events.. FAST!


At the end of the day I was BEAT!!.. now to go swap back in my street brake pads..

 

All show and no go makes Jack a dull boy.

Glad to see you use it for what it was meant to.
Go Fast!

 

Sweet! Glad you had fun and brought the SS home in one peice.

 

Sounds like a lot of fun Steve! Good luck with that Hotrod mag. possibility.

 

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Nice pics...

 

hey i was there at the track on saturday i spoke with steve his car is bad *** i have a white ss, yes the vet was fast but not to much faster in the staight than his ss, it was a cool experience i would like to go out there next time though

 

Noah,

Yea, run that thing out there next time.. there was a basicly stock red SS on the track and he did pretty darn good..

Yea, felt good keeping up with the blown vette on straight

my wheels were almost black from the brake dust..

 

Steve, that is really cool taking your car to the track, I am not sure if I could do that, lol.

 

What kind of lap times are you running; and what track configuration. When I run in the AFM with my GSXR 600 I am running a 1:53 minute lap. We run clockwise. We go over the hill and take the small decreasing sweeper that spits you right into the esses. I am curious to see what kind of times cars are running.I know guys are running in the 1:48's on bikes. I would love to get my car out there.

 

Sounds like the same config we ran.. we used the bus stop, hill and the same sweep into the esses

It was a non-timed event.. if I had know it would be an issue I would have had someone time me.. I feel that I was running pretty good.. Next track day I will bring a stopwatch

 

Can you pm me with the date of the next track day. I need to put my car on the track.