CASTRO wrote:i take my car out to the track all the time (6-8 times a year) and it hasnt failed on me yet. Just recently supercharged @ 145,000 miles and currently passing 152,000 miles.
yeah, but track is different. Your not holding a hard turn for that long. Me i am taking a turn where everything in the car is going to one side and it can last for 30 seconds to a minute depending on where i am doing it. Going to replace the bearings on the motor and baby it for a bit. Just gotta figure this part out.
As for the getting a bike, no way i would be dead. If there is one thing about the solara is that it really can hold up to a ton of abuse and it's heavy. On a track that hurts it some. At long drawn out turns at really high speeds, it can do wonders. Couldn't take the s2000 on a track but on the highway there is no contest over 100mph. Even on crappy mxv4e+ tires I can go nuts. Sad part is that i will no longer be racing the s2000 on the highway. Them days are done after he lost it around 120. slid in reverse to a wall spun around and then went to another and then spun out in the middle of the highway. Even after me and his brother in law had a chat about all the crap. Oh well.
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=39.78440 ... 010064&t=k
Thats where he spun out, to the west from the street with the one round onramp to the exit sign at the next road.
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=39.77938 ... 010064&t=k
The exit on the bottom that goes right across the N/S highway. I have taken that at around 128 without any sliding (Thank god). The one that goes from eastbound to north bound I did around 110 thru it. So that may give an idea about how were thinking i am oil starving the motor. That speed at that degree of turn for that amount of time there is no oil to be picked up. Gotta get some system to keep the oil in the pan for the motor or install some oilbox on top of the motor.