Well after two days of romping around town for a bit, the 97 TA is now officially parked for awhile as there is snow and ice outside. Sucks. I feel for those there F-body is a daily driver. Been there, done that... now have an 01 Tahoe to get dirty instead.

Well I have to go find some more Xmas lights...

 

I hear ya' Ron

It'll be awhile before the SS "see's the light of day". I washed her a week ago and wiped her down with Zaino last week, and was going to get in one more ride yesterday. Too late.

Ah well, 4-wheeling in the snow w/ the Jeep now for awhile I guess

 

i tucked mine away for hibernation yesterday. with promises of some goodies for xmas.

hey ron, i got my friends 27' trailer. i am planning on taking the racing thing seriously now.(starting in spring anyway) my buddy will follow us if you are still interested in having me tag along. its loaded with tools and everything. inthe event one of us blow a rear or anything, ride it home in the trailer.

 

I just picked up my 97 z28 3 weks ago..now I got 2 leave it in the garage til April 1st.. On the other hand, snowmobiling and ice fishing is right around the corner..

 

I like to snowmobile, but there's no open spaces around anymore.

Scott... trailer or no trailer, I be more than honored and welcome anyone willing to accompany me to the track. Keep the perspective though, I'm always learning from those with more experience... so it will be cool to be part of the filter down effect.

 

Myslow, which track are you going and are you going to run points in the Sumitt ET Series? I'm gona get very serious the 2006 season.

 

i have a lot of reading to do to figure out what im doing. chances are englishtown, although i get better times at atco. i really dont know anyone at atco, and ron is very helpful at e-town.

how frequent are the meets for points? should i/ is there a non points route i can start out with? what do you guys do?

 

Englishtown, ATCO, Maple Grove, Cecil all run a Sumitt ET Points program. It's about $50 to sign up and they keep track of the points. You don't have to sign up for points to run at the events, just show up. Each track has slightly different rules and number of races. I think Etown runs 12 races on sunday. ATCO runs about 21 on Saturdays, Maple runs 24 races on Saturday and 1 Sunday of the month. The classes are street, heavy, and super. I would recemment the street class. Maple also has a entry street class called Trophy. Each track will put a schedule of the races (will be listed as Summit ET Brackets or just bracket races). It depends how committed your are. If you sign up you feel you have to make most races. Signing up also give you the chance to get some bonus money and Maple has a quick tech card. I want to warn you the brackets at any track are brutal. Don't be discuraged. Bracket racing is not about going fast, its cutting the tree and running on your numbers. I'm running Super Comp this year at Maple. If you want I can give you some help. Ron is doing a lot better after I told him how to use the break pedal just before the line. Bracket racing takes a ton of knowledge and skill. I'm still learning after 5 years and it seams the more I learn the more there is to learn.

 

Same here, the Z went Friday for state inspection. Lots of fun trying to drive on cold nitto and roads.

So now it's put away until spring. It's up on jack stands waiting for the winter moods to begin!

 

John, those "winters moods", are they what bring on winter mods.? If so, next time you're in a "winter mood" and you're done with your car, wanna do mine??

 

Yeah, I had the same problem with regular cold stock tires. I had traction problems all day long on Saturday. Bahahahahaha.

 

i am dreading this winter already, i need to get my sisters Subaru back on the road. Drove my car through 2 winters already with 3:42's. Was out yesterday to change my wheels back to stock and with the 4:11's FORGET ABOUT GOING ANYWHERE

i need this trans fixed in that damn Subaru

 

I felt like John Force, just frying the baloney!!! Anything over 1/2 throttle and the car was a wheel spinning demon!!!

damn, spelling police got me again! ( ops, guess we shouldn't mention police around the moderator he he he )

yah, I'm in the MOOD for some MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure, it Ron has any beer left after the Cam install and my forehead isn't crusted in from smashing into the lift!

how about we do a nice 500HP nitris fogger system?

 

Ron's getting a Cam I'll go "easy" and only ask for a heads & cam pkg.!

Seriously, I've thought about visiting 'Tom Henry Chevrolet' and seeing about getting an engine pkg. for the SS. I saw Tom at Carlisle this past summer and talked to him a bit about it. But money, and not being sure I'm keeping the car for a good long time have me unsure.

 

I'm not the LSx expert, but PAGregSS is. He's on here from time to time, best bet is to get him on the PA Board www.motorcityforums.com

Greg can tell you what can and such will work best for you.

JB