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I'm not too worried about it, the car has plenty of motor in 3rd. We also have the option to run 18s and make 3rd work even better to pretty much match 1LE gearing. Every car has it downsides, and there is always going to be some kind of course dependency.

2015 GT PP with on Konis with Bridgestones. Not my car but very similar other than rear tire size.

Thanks! So relieved after last year. The 16th place trophy in STX is probably a collectors item, but that can happen when your RX8 is down on power. #rotard

I talked to Sam, John, and Andrew about their test. Andrew pulled his back out of wack before he did much driving and didnt get any Mustang time at all. Sam did use 3rd as I had suggested and did myself quite a bit on the East course. Basically the Mustang was the slowest by .3 on a ~38 second...

Yeah I agree they have a broad operating range but they are also interesting in that 1-2 PSI in them change them more so than any other street tire I've run. I ran 32f/29r for my competition runs. This does promote harder than desired shoulder wear but it seemed fastest.

I guess I've been on enough sloppy tires the Bridgestones even pretty low pressures felt responsive enough to me even on the stock front struts. I tried from low 20s to mid 30s and it came down to the clock that I ended up where I did in a very unscientific test.

My Day 1 East course run 3 in the drying conditions: [ame]

That should be very interesting Steve. I think you'll find what I did. Also, if you haven't already, put in a passenger. That was surprising as well, at least in my car.

My west course run: [ame]

I'm going to try a bigger front bar too. I wanted to run more front rebound since the car points a bit lazy but doing that really hurts traction (I have more front rebound already than the stock PP shocks) so time to get creative.

I used a dremel carbide bit to get close then a dremel drum sander to get closer to the 1.9mm line we etched and to make it the right radius. http://www.lowes.com/pd_73390-353-9901-03___?productId=1209475&pl=1&Ntt=dremel+carbide It cuts kinda fast and sloppy so go slow and be careful.

No. Full tank of gas for traction purposes.

I'll give you one guess how much gas I ran both days. ;)

Thanks guys. Been a crazy month leading up to this. Bought the car the end of July and this weekend was my 4th event in it and my first with the new front struts and on concrete. The car just suits me and was a blast to drive, giving me my first podium and my 5th trophy at Nats. It helps to be...

275 RE71Rs all around on stock PP wheels, rear sway bar, rear shocks, all the rest stock.

Pilotis or something like Puma Drift Cats.

Building the front struts has not been fun. A lot of care to get it all right and not waste time or materials. Hopefully the end result is worth it next week: If you want to build your own set, contact Sam Strano for parts/details. I'll be building him an FAQ to provide to future buyers.

I didn't see a thread for this, with just a week to go before the first TNT in Lincoln - I figured it's time. I skipped Pros this year so no Finale for me, getting onsite Sunday morning for some Evo School TNT and some more TNT on Monday. Despite living in the SW, I have a lot of friends in...

Ah cool Shawn. You're right next to Chris (Whiskey11) but you probably already knew that. Since my normal number was taken, I took 86 to be next to Doug since I'd been saying to him I'd run FS for nearly 18 months.

I'm sure you're not giving yourself enough credit though that is a tougher car to win in for sure. Be sure to say hi in grid. What # are you?