And of course, it was awesome.
I took my 1988 300zx turbo, and just went up with the local Z club. I thought I was underprepared with allseasons and stock brakes, but I was thankfully wrong. I do have a 3in cat back/test pipe, fmic, MBC running 9-12psi, tokico front, koni rear shocks, eibach front and some black rear lowering springs. Plus starion wheels, and some other little stuff. Mostly a stock Z31T though.
We met at a rest stop at 6:30 in the morning, and took off around 7 and cruised up to the track. There was 2 350z's (one nismo edition), 2 300zxTT's (both pretty well modded), me in my 300zxT, and 2 240'zs. One was my friend gordon with a rb26dett and wantanabe's and coils, and another with a l28et with a t3/t4 making about 320whp. It was a fun trip up.
So we get there, and all the first timers to nelson ledges get put in a mini school and get some pointers and then we do our parade laps. after 2, its open track. And by my 4th lap I was breaking into the triple digits. FUN! Ive never been to a grip event other then an autocross, so it was a new level of speed. And the grip and g forces my car generated for being on all seasons was ridiculous.
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I had trouble with my turbo intake falling off, but thats all previous owner BS so I'm not too worried about it. I do have some VW radiator in it, so I was running a solid 200-210 deg most of the time on track, and when I was chasing and trying to pass a RSX for about 6-8minuets, It got up to about 240deg, but then I backed off and slowed down. I did pass an ITA civic. In my daily driver.
Thats packing up at the end of the day. It was a blast. My car is just unbelievably fast for being on all seasons, I got up to about 125ish on the back straight, and I passed a lot of people. Oh and once I over cooked the braking zone going into 12/13, and started drifting in 3rd gear. Since thats what Ive been doing the past 5 years, I just rode it out and pulled 3rd gear on to the straight and got a thumbs up from the guy in the tower. That was fun
So, up next I'm putting a stock radiator in it, and getting some hawk or carbotech pads. And I want to go to mid ohio next. I'll mount up the V700's (245/45/16) that came with the car, and have some real crazy fun :D
~Alex
