Last weekend...

[Chuck Miller]

CanAm on the BIG track...

[ttweed]

Yeah at SOW a fast/fresh 911, the white and red #44 (wide body 2100lb with driver and 300hp 3.6) was in the 1.24 range Saturday.

Mike-

Was that Bob Erhman's new car that he built w/ John Simone ('74 tub w/ 993 bodywork?)

TT

[Homemade 911]

Thanks for swinging by our event at the big track @ Willow Spgs.
The VARA Big Bore Bash was a great finale to our season - glad you could come out and enjoy...

Our next season starts at Cal Speedway - 28-30 Jan...mark those calendars. I hope to have the Homemade 911 back in the hunt by then.

cheers - and happy holidays to all
Thom Kuby

PS - anybody even remotely considering a new 05 Mustang GT?? I had the opportunity to run a bunch of laps in one (fitted w/5 spd on Sunday) It's an order of magnitude better than the previous gen car...very nice, ain't a 911, but for a ford it's pretty impressive. Good track manners.

[Gburner]

Mike-

Was that Bob Erhman's new car that he built w/ John Simone ('74 tub w/ 993 bodywork?)

TT

It was, and on Saturday he was TTOD by 2 seconds. Roland, Grosskemper and Dawson were running low 26 to 28s but Bob was running 24s.
I imagine Bob would want to try racing with that car too? That is a big effort for a TT car.

[ttweed]

I imagine Bob would want to try racing with that car too? That is a big effort for a TT car.

If he was going to go club racing, I think he would have built it for a certain PCA/POC class rule, but he didn't. He said he never even considered where it would run when he built it, he just wanted a fast, light, safe, reliable track car and spec'ed it out accordingly. He got to the limits of his street-legal Carrera and realized he was going WAY too fast for the level of safety prep the car had. I think the banking at Ca. Speedway gave him some sort of an epiphany, with the wall right there @ 140+, etc.

AFAIK, like me, he has no aspirations to go W2W racing, he just likes a good track driving day/TT/DE/Autox now and then. He's a really good driver and a heckuva nice guy. This had to be the first event for the car and I'm kinda surprised it was so quick right out of the box. He must have hit the setup right on to have had no "teething pains" at all....

TT