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No, nothing for sale. We just pulled the headlights, but I'm gonna keep them for now.
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I'm gonna be back out there next weekend Feb. 15/16 for SuperLap Battle. I'm hoping I can take it under 2:20. Come out and say hi at SuperLap! (I'm sure everyone in Texas is just 5 minutes from COTA right?)
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What front bumper-to-fender clips are those? Do you have a link to them?
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The bumper/fender latches are AeroCatch 3 latches. https://www.aerocatch.com/aerocatch-3/
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02-09-2020, 10:57 PM | #1591 | |
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Will probably be at MSR Cresson that Saturday to do some shake-down on the car, unfortunately. I will be at COTA the following weekend for Lone Star LeMans -- will you be spectating? And yeah, I saw the photo of the oil dry bag on Facebook, lol!
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I dunno, I'm just sharing my perspective based on some the [vague] data other Corvette owners have shared. Maybe one of these times I'm out there I'll remove the rear spoiler and see how the car feels -- and look at the PDR data. Chin runs good events but they are usually packed. I'm sure the COTA event was particularly bad since it just reopened after the repaving. Good luck at SLB!
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Do these latches offer any sort of theft-deterring features...say you park the car somewhere (for example), couldn't someone simply just on latch it and leave?
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You are sub 2:20 if the conditions & traffic work out - no doubt. If it stays dry your great approach at working up to the limits will definitely get you there. And since I won't be there none of the car gremlins that travel with me should not be there too!
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But the latches are not the only things holding the bumper on. The four screws at the top of the bumper under the hood are the main supports. And there are several screws on the splitter that are screwed in on the bottom of the car. (On a regular street going car with fender liners, there are a bunch of screws that attach the fender liners to the bumper as well.) These latches were added because the front aero was generating too much downforce for the thin little hangar clips that connected the fender to the bumper. The thin clips were getting bent and were poking into the fat front tire on track and grinding the tire. These AeroCatch latches allowed us to make more room under the fender for fat wheels/tires and remove that thin hangar clip.
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They do have a wet weather Yokohama slick spec'd out. I haven't bought any yet.
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I'm ready to pick your brain about aero. We have time now to address the front before the next race in March (and can actually run front aero this time which is nice). I also have to address my hooptie doors - but that is a whole separate issue. We did cut the triangle out for the oem mirror mount area and put on GT mirrors - the visibility was much better.
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I was eager to see the COTA pix from the Chin event, but for whatever reason, the the pix from Lightspeed Images took a week to upload. At first, they uploaded some very high quality preview images without any kind of watermarks on them. That's not great for business.......Soon after, they pulled them all down and new thumbnails emerged with small watermarks.
Anyway, they took nice pictures, so I bought them. The bag that the transport guy left in CA not only had my helmet and neck restraint, it also had a new set of vinyl numbers for my new doors. Since that bag didn't make it, I had to tape on crappy tape numbers.....yuck. So yeah, every shot I post, I'm photoshopping out the crappy numbers...... Anyway, thanks to Lightspeed Images for the cool pictures: I never drive with my visor down, but the morning sun going up the front straight hill was insane. Anyway, the light in this shot really shows the carbon doors. Never had white Yokohama logo swirls before. That's new. Are you even allowed to leave COTA without the Tower-In-The-Background Pic? Which turn is that? Interesting side shot angle. Ah yes, the old plastic bag on the splitter trick......at least now we know what they clean the spills with! Lightspeed actually put that photo on their Facebook page and invited funny captions.......there's just no love in the world..... I still think I should be paid for my trash pickup work.....fastest trash truck in history.
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I think the pic with the tower in it is from a spot between 10 & 11. Looks like they got you right before you cut that 10 dogleg left.
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Ah. Yeah, that's it. Thanks!
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No - that was my buddy Will. I was too busy over driving my car trying to keep up with you
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Will----of course. Just one more thing for the tech guy to do. "So, uh Will.....I have sort of a weird task for you......"
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